China eyes eastern Europe investment as US trade war sizzlesAs a trade war rages between China and the US, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is meeting leaders from central and eastern Europe in Bulgaria on Saturday to discuss investment opportunities. Road and rail...
Duelling tariffs raise fears of long US-China trade battleThe United States and China exchanged the first salvos in what could become a protracted trade war on Friday, slapping tariffs on $34 billion worth of each others’ goods and giving no sign of willingn...
EPA’s new boss unlikely to change Trump environmental policyDifferent administrator, same policies. Andrew Wheeler, the former coal lobbyist who takes over Monday as acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't have the high profile of Scott Pru...
Trade worries fester, even as Wall Street shrugs off latest tariffsWall Street has taken the China-US tariffs enacted on Friday in stride so far, but investors are on alert for a ramp-up in the trade conflict. Stock investors had been bracing for weeks for Washington...
‘Twitter suspends over 70 million accounts in two months’Twitter Inc suspended more than one million accounts a day in recent months to reduce the flow of misinformation on the platform, the Washington Post reported. Twitter and other social media platforms...
For airlines, flexibility key to coping with US-China trade war — Emirates executiveAirlines must be "flexible" to deal with the consequences of a trade war between the United States and China, a senior Emirates executive told Reuters in Santiago on Friday. Earlier in the day, the Un...
BP in lead to acquire BHP’s US onshore shale assets: sourcesBP Plc is in the lead to acquire the US onshore shale oil and gas assets of BHP Billiton Ltd after submitting an offer worth well in excess of $10 billion (£7.6 billion), people familiar with the matt...