Boxing with giants: Italy's packing robots are not just cardboard cutouts
Amazon's new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes...
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Oil prices hold near $67 a barrel ahead of G20 talks, OPEC
Brent crude oil held near $67 a barrel on Friday ahead of talks over the trade dispute between the U.S. and Chinese presidents this weekend and...
[Survey Deadline Sep 20, 2019]: ASC consults on Energizing Alberta’s Capital Market
ASC Denise Weeres June 27, 2019 CALGARY – June 27, 2019 – The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) today published ASC Consultation Paper 11-701 Energizing Alberta’s Capital...
Shares in big banks climb as Fed approves capital plans
Shares in the S&P 500 bank index rose 2.6% on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve approved the capital plans of the biggest U.S. banks, giving...
Wall St. modestly higher with G20 summit underway
U.S. stocks rose on Friday as shares of big banks gained after clearing the Federal Reserve's stress test, with investors closely tracking the G20 summit where...
Deutsche Bank considering up to 20,000 job cuts, WSJ reports
Deutsche Bank AG is considering cutting 15,000 to 20,000 jobs, or more than one in six full-time positions globally, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,...
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...