Oil dips amid stock market slide, traders await OPEC meetingOil prices dipped on Thursday as stock markets slid and as traders eyed an OPEC meeting expected to result in a supply cut aimed at draining a glut that has pulled down crude by 30 percent since Octob...
French government yields on fuel price hikes after weeks of protestThe French government, under pressure from weeks of "yellow vest" protests over rising living costs, on Wednesday scrapped all planned fuel tax hikes for 2019 and appealed for calm. An increase schedu...
One part of the US yield curve just inverted; what does that mean?Part of the US Treasury yield curve "inverted" this week, setting off debate over whether it is delivering a classic signal of oncoming recession or it has just developed a short-term kink that can be...
China’s vow to curb fentanyl won’t end US opioid crisis: expertsThe US-China trade war truce includes a pledge by Beijing to tackle another lucrative -- and deadly -- export: fentanyl, a potent opioid ravaging US communities. The United States has pressed Beijing...
Tesla, smarting from trade war, seeks bids for China Gigafactory constructionTesla Inc has opened a tender process to build its Shanghai Gigafactory and at least one contractor has started buying materials, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, the clearest i...
WTO chief warns of economic danger of trade warAll countries will lose in a global trade war, the head of the world's trade referee warned in a speech on Wednesday. Under attack from US President Donald Trump, the head of the World Trade Organizat...
UK economy risks severe damage without orderly Brexit — CBIBritain will struggle to achieve even modest economic growth next year unless the government secures an orderly Brexit in March, the Confederation of British Industry said on Thursday. The CBI said th...