Trump prepares for 'productive' talks with Xi on trade war
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he hoped for productive talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a trade war that is casting a shadow...
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Tesla says single battery module caused car fire in Shanghai, has changed vehicle settings
Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla Inc said on Friday a single battery module caused a car to catch fire in Shanghai and it had revised its...
Oil prices hold near $67 per barrel ahead of G20 talks, OPEC
Oil prices held near $67 per barrel on Friday ahead of talks over the trade dispute between the U.S. and Chinese presidents over the weekend and...
France's Orange raises $616 million with sale of its BT stake
French telecom giant Orange said it had sold its remaining 2.5% stake in BT , raising net proceeds of 486 million pounds ($616 million) as the...
Trump says no tariff reprieve for China, expects productive talks with Xi
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had not promised Chinese President Xi Jinping a reprieve from escalating tariffs in a trade war that is...
Nissan ex-chief Ghosn cancels hastily arranged Tokyo press conference
Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn abruptly canceled on Friday plans for what would have been his first press conference since his arrest in November after journalists...
Tesla said single battery module caused car fire in Shanghai
Electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla Inc said on Friday that it has found no systematic flaws in its vehicles following the investigation of a vehicle that...
Merlin to go private in $7.5 billion deal with Lego family and Blackstone
Madame Tussauds owner Merlin said on Friday it had agreed to be acquired by the investment vehicle of Lego's founding family and private equity firm Blackstone...
Deutsche lifted by Fed stress test pass in boost to Wall Street operation
Deutsche Bank's shares rose as much as 4.8% on Friday after Germany's biggest bank passed an annual health check by the U.S. Federal Reserve, in a...
Former Nissan Chairman Ghosn cancels news conference in Tokyo: FCCJ official
Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn on Friday canceled plans to hold his first press conference since his arrest after journalists were notified earlier in the day...
Trade uncertainty stops world stocks in tracks
World shares were steady on Friday as uncertainty ahead of a meeting on trade between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping deterred traders...
Japan, U.S. agree to accelerate trade talks from July
Japan and the United States agreed on Friday to hold working-level meetings intensively from early next month to accelerate progress towards a two-way trade agreement, Economy...
Asian shares slip, gold gains as Trump-Xi trade jitters build
Asian shares stumbled on Friday and gold jumped amid rising doubts that a highly anticipated meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Russian official: G20 disagreements focus at WTO reform, climate change
Work on the final G20 documents is not going easy, the group's Russia sherpa Svetlana Lukash said on Friday, naming World Trade Organisation reform, information security,...
Ivory Coast and Ghana team up for greater share of chocolate wealth
Kouakou Kinimo is a pretty typical Ivory Coast cocoa farmer. He works a small holding. At 52, he's roughly the mean age for a West African...