Asian shares inched up on Tuesday as traders awaited U.S. retail sales data and more corporate earnings to gauge the health of the world's biggest economy, with markets remaining focused on a likely U.S. rate cut by the end of the month.
Canada is likely to postpone a decision on whether to allow China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to supply 5G network equipment until after the October federal election, given increasingly strained relations with Beijing, say three well-placed sources.
A Republican lawmaker on Monday introduced legislation to boost the presence of U.S. firms in global industry standards bodies to combat China's rising influence in next-generation 5G cellular network technology.
An attorney for the state attorneys general who filed a lawsuit in hopes of stopping T-Mobile's US$26 billion merger with Sprint told the judge on Monday that an Oct. 7 trial may not be possible.
Most big companies are failing to report the damage their operations are doing to forests despite committing to lighten their footprint under wider efforts to tackle climate change, according to a report published on Tuesday.
U.S. payments company PayPal is expanding further in Europe by launching its international money transfers service Xoom in Britain and 31 other countries across the continent.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and his top advisers on Monday stepped up their drive to win congressional passage of a trade deal with Canada and Mexico, as the administration's top trade official prepared to meet with Democratic lawmakers again this week. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and ...
Pearson, the world's biggest education company, will release all its titles for the United States college market in digital form first, in a break from the traditional and more expensive textbook publishing model.
Brazilian mining company Vale SA said on Monday it would pay 400 million reais (US$106.52 million) to compensate workers affected by the deadly rupture of a tailings dam in January that killed at least 240 people.
WASHINGTON: IKEA said it will close its only US factory at the end of the year, cutting 300 jobs, as it will be more cost effective to make the products in Europe and import them. The global big-box furniture store, known for its Swedish meatballs and sometimes incomprehensible assembly ......
