DAVOS, Switzerland: US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday (Jan 24) that he expects to begin negotiations with China on a so-called Phase 2 trade deal soon, with Washington and Beijing on the same page. "My guess is they (China) will consider waiving other tariffs as part of their...
Popular mobile video app TikTok said on Friday it has hired attorney Erich Andersen from Microsoft to serve as the company's global general counsel, reporting to president Alex Zhu.
Intel Corp's shares hit their highest in nearly two decades on Friday after cloud computing demand fired up the chipmaker's data center business and allayed concerns of market share loss to rival AMD, lifting stocks across the sector.
The United States wants India to buy at least another US$5-6 billion worth of American poultry and farm goods if New Delhi wants to win reinstatement of a key U.S. trade concession, four sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.
Long accused of being too soft, a U.S. bank regulator has surprised its critics with tough treatment of scandal-ridden lender Wells Fargo , culminating on Thursday in more thanUS$58 million in fines against eight former executives at the bank.
The US Commerce Department has put on hold a rule aimed at further reducing sales to China’s Huawei Technologies amid pushback from the Defense Department, people familiar with the matter said.
Wells Fargo & Co and its officials have racked up well over US$4 billion (3 billion pounds) in penalties since a sales practices scandal erupted in 2016, and continues to face headwinds.
U.S. stocks fell on Friday amid renewed concerns over the spreading of a coronavirus outbreak from China, offsetting strong gains for Intel.
Tesla Inc touted safeguards to its driver assistance system "Autopilot" after a Democratic U.S. senator on Friday urged the automaker to rebrand the system because it has "an inherently misleading name."
The trillion-dollar market cap club expanded last week to a third U.S. company, with Google parent Alphabet Inc topping the lofty valuation mark. Adding the next member, however, is likely to take a while.
