WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss their joint dispute with China over Huawei Technologies Co Ltd during a meeting in Ottawa on Thursday, a senior U.S. administration official said. Pence, known for taking a hard line against China, will travel to the Canadian capital to […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closing just above key support levels, as worries that a lengthy U.S.-China trade war would crimp global growth pushed investors into the safety of government bonds. Trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world showed little signs of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fears that an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China will slash global economic growth pulled world stock markets down to near two-and-a-half-month lows on Wednesday and continued to feed a rally in safe-haven government bonds. German bond yields fell deeper into negative territory and inched toward record lows around […]

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Good Wednesday morning. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.) The next trade battle: China’s access to Wall Street? Both inside and outside the White House, there are growing calls for a weakening of China’s links to U.S. financial markets, Keith Bradsher and Ana Swanson of the NYT report. • “Some trade experts […]

Irish business leaders need better technology and an agile approach if they want to retain talented employees, new research has warned. The survey shows that more than half of Irish office workers believe a four day week will become a reality, while two-in-five believe their roles will be automated in the next five years. The […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China is ready to use rare earths to strike back in a trade war with the United States, Chinese newspapers warned on Wednesday in strongly worded commentaries on a move that would escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies. President Xi Jinping’s visit to a rare earths plant last week had […]

NUR-SULTAN (Reuters) – Russia will carefully consider extending its oil output reduction agreement with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday. Moscow will weigh, in particular, the deal’s positive effect on oil prices against losses in market share to United […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – Less than a week after Huawei Technologies was blacklisted by the United States, more than a hundred South Korean politicians and business leaders toured the Chinese tech giant’s headquarters and its lavish new campus outside Shenzhen. Executives from firms such as Samsung Electronics watched demonstrations of high-speed robotics and smart city simulations […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities raided the home of the former chief executive officer of state oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, on Tuesday night when he was not home, his lawyer Javier Coello said in an interview with Milenio Television. Source: Read Full Article