Led by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, the meetings have been a source of anxiety for investors. Although some media reports suggested both sides are con...
Japan's Nikkei slid 0.7 per cent, its biggest decline in a week. Indeed, US-China relations seem to have deteriorated further, with the US now citing Chinese human rights abuses, in addition to the ...
He pointed to HSBC's appointment last month of banking veteran Philip Lee as its Singapore-based vice-chairman of global banking for South-east Asia - a newly created role. The bank has already el...
Commenting on the ranking , the Hungarian finance ministry said the score is an acknowledgement of Hungarian economic policy which aims to further improve competitiveness while maintaining macroeco...
White House denies it, this from a few minutes ago. "We are not aware of a change in the vice premier's travel plans at this time", a White House spokesman told CNBC. Any trade deal with China has t...
Thomas Cook collapsed on September 23, leaving around 150,000 passengers stranded overseas. Hays has agreed to buy the entire high street portfolio of the broken travel firm from accountants managin...
On Oct. 9, Congresswoman Maxine Waters officially announced that Zuckerberg will attend a congressional hearing entitled "An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Hous...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced that in the future Apple and other companies will have to pay taxes in each country they sell products and services in (via ...
We didn't respond to this unprovoked attack. "The Turkish military, together with the Free Syrian Army, will cross the Turkish-Syrian border shortly", Altun said in a tweet extracted from a colu...
Varadkar was keen to stress, however, that while he would "certainly work until the very last moment" to secure a deal, it would not be at "any cost" to Ireland, Northern Ireland or the rest of Europ...
In 2015, Murray had won $680,000 in compensatory damages over his claims. Murray's lawyers, Tom Kline and Jason Itkin said in a statement the "jury told Johnson & Johnson that its actions were del...
Worldwide same-store sales were up 1.7%, but also missed forecasts of 2.9% growth. Argus dropped their price target on shares of Domino's Pizza from $310.00 to $280.00 and set a buy rating for the c...
The global economy is now in a synchronized slowdown. "Global trade growth has come to a near standstill", she said. In her first speech , Georgieva referred to new research by the International...
US wholesale prices unexpectedly sank in September. Producer prices were up 1.4% from September 2018, the smallest 12-month gain in nearly three years. Gasoline accounted for three quarters of the 0...
The company issued a statement saying that the misuse of that information was a "mistake" and was "inadvertent". Twitter says it mistakenly used the phone numbers and email addresses people prov...
Gold finding support ahead of US - China trade talks. US gold futures settled mostly unchanged at $1,503.9 an ounce. The White House confirmed U.S. They are now the world's biggest purchasers of t...
Elaborating on why he eliminated the weapons that he elected not to sell, Stack added: "I said, 'You know what?" America's close ties with the right to bear arms has proven a hot topic for citizens ...
Britain has been trying for more than three years to find a way to deliver on the result of a 2016 referendum and end its nearly five-decade involvement in the European project. Johnson, who took over...
The United States has added eight Chinese technology companies to its Entity list , effectively banning them from trading with USA companies, for their alleged involvement in the repression of Uyghur...
We speak with retired US Brigadier General Mark Kimmit , who says PKK militants will likely wait for Turkish soldiers to settle in northern Syria before launching attacks on Turkish forces. provi...
In the earnings report Samsung state that operating profit will more than halve to £5.2 billion for the quarter, down from £11.9 billion in Q3 2018. The current US-China trade war is seen as somethi...
The National Lottery is still waiting to hear from the lucky ticket-holder and has issued a fresh appeal to players in North County Dublin to check their tickets. The jackpot has rolled to a maximum f...
According to the, Tether minted 2.8 billion USDT from 2017 to 2018 and used the token to "flood the Bitfinex exchange and purchase other cryptocurrencies". Their liability to the putative class ...
Industry group Dairy UK said the government is not doing enough to recognise the "real and imminent danger" of a no-deal to the sector. "A no-deal Brexit would likely require a fiscal short-term s...
Riding a wave of British frustrations with the saga, Mr Johnson is threatening to leave at any cost - with or without a withdrawal deal - on October 31. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson spea...
The consumer goods giant expects to deliver a virgin plastic packaging footprint of no more than 350,000 tonnes by 2025 through this initiative. Procter & Gamble for instance announced in April to...
The news sent the company's stock price up 2.6 percent. GE will not use any of its cash to fund the lump-sum payments, instead, using assets from the company's pension trust. A potential ruling will r...
HSBC declined to comment on the FT report . According to them, the result will be a significant cut in HSBC staff, now numbering 238,000 employees. He pointed to HSBC's appointment last month of ban...
GM has had to halt work at some of its other plants in Canada and Mexico due to the strike, idling almost 10,000 additional GM workers who are not part of the UAW. "These negotiations have taken a tu...
The spokesperson says stores will stop selling e-cigarettes after selling through current inventory. The transfer comes because the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention investigat...
Bitcoin's price is now down by 1.83% on the day, trading at around $7,959, according to Coin360. Although Bitcoin is now forming a bullish reversal formation on its 12-hour candle chart, other analy...
The pizza chain is reportedly seeking financial advice as it prepares for crisis talks over a large amount of debt. Bondholders have also reportedly hired advisers to assist them in the discussions. O...
The British automaker and 100-year-old Italian coachbuilder and design house unveiled the second part of their most recent partnership-the DBS GT Zagato . Performance figures have not been disclosed....
It's after someone in the capital won two and a half million in last night's Euromillions draw. The overall jackpot of 190 million euro still hasn't been won. Those numbers were 15, 43, 44, 46, an...
In the same week a year ago, there were 861 active rigs. Brent crude was trading up on the day as well, by $0.58 (+1.01 percent) at $58.29 down roughly $2.50 per barrel for the week. Year-to-date, the...
