Insight: China’s multi-story hog hotels elevate industrial farms to new levels
YAJI MOUNTAIN, China (Reuters) – On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows a thousand head…
Walmart to buy controlling stake in India’s Flipkart for $16 bln
MUMBAI/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) will pay $16 billion for a roughly 77 percent stake in Indian e-commerce…
Vodafone challenges Deutsche Telekom with $21.8 billion Liberty deal
LONDON (Reuters) – Vodafone (VOD.L) has agreed to pay $21.8 billion to buy Liberty Global’s (LBTYA.O) assets in Germany and…
Seventeen deaths reported in Congo as Ebola outbreak confirmed
KINSHASA (Reuters) – At least 17 people have died in an area of northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo where health…
Exclusive: Emirates facing cabin crew shortages – sources
DUBAI (Reuters) – Emirates is facing a cabin crew shortage and is struggling to fully staff some flights following a…
Wall St lower, Trump’s Iran decision awaited
(Reuters) – Wall Street edged lower on Tuesday, weighed down by technology and consumer discretionary stocks, while investors awaited President…
Exclusive: Hudson’s Bay seeks to revive Lord & Taylor’s fortunes
(Reuters) – Hudson’s Bay Co (HBC.TO) is working with investment bankers and consultants to identify deals and new measures to…
Victims of Japan’s forced sterilizations demand justice after decades of silence
TOKYO (Reuters) – One day when Saburo Kita was 14, he was taken from an institution for troubled children to…
Exclusive: Qatar Petroleum CEO says pushing ahead with expansion despite Gulf embargo
DOHA (Reuters) – State energy giant Qatar Petroleum will push ahead with its production expansion and foreign asset acquisition strategy…
Exclusive: Comcast prepares all-cash bid to gate-crash Disney-Fox deal – sources
(Reuters) – U.S. cable operator Comcast Corp is asking investment banks to increase a bridge financing facility by as much…
Wall Street climbs on oil rally, tech gains
(Reuters) – Wall Street rose on Monday as energy stocks were boosted by U.S. crude hitting $70 per barrel for…
ANZ scraps sales bonuses for financial planners as inquiry shakes up sector
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ANZ.AX) said it would stop paying financial planners bonuses for…
Conoco moves to take over Venezuelan PDVSA’s Caribbean assets: sources
HOUSTON/CARACAS (Reuters) – U.S. oil firm ConocoPhillips (COP.N) has moved to take Caribbean assets of Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA to enforce…
ZTE says asked U.S. Commerce Department to suspend business ban
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ZTE Corp (0763.HK) (000063.SZ) has submitted an application to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry…
Buffett craves more Apple shares, endorses its buybacks
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett has been buying a boatload of Apple Inc shares and on Saturday suggested…
Buffett says U.S., China will avoid acting ‘extremely foolish’ on trade
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday said it is unlikely that the United States and China will…
Take Five: World markets themes for the week ahead
LONDON (Reuters) – Following are five big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders in the coming…
Buffett’s Berkshire swings to rare loss but performs better
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Warren Buffett lost money but had a pretty good quarter. A shareholder takes a picture of…
Exclusive: Redstone makes concessions on Viacom CEO to clinch CBS merger – sources
(Reuters) – Shari Redstone, the media heiress whose family controls CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Viacom Inc (VIAB.O), has offered CBS…
Four found guilty in insider trading case linked to U.S. health agency
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two partners at the hedge fund Deerfield Management and two others were found guilty on Thursday…
Ex-Volkswagen CEO Winterkorn charged in U.S. over diesel scandal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday disclosed the filing of criminal charges against former Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE)…
World shares hemmed in by dollar and Fed rate expectations
LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the…
Marathon to become top U.S. refiner with $23 billion Andeavor buy
(Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC.N) agreed to buy rival Andeavor (ANDV.N) for more than $23 billion in the largest-ever…
Exclusive: U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn’s oil refinery – sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned…
Global sales, U.S. spending serve McDonald’s results beat
(Reuters) – McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) blew past analysts’ forecasts for profit and sales on Monday, helped by strength in overseas…
OPEC April oil output hits year low on Venezuela slide: Reuters survey
LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC oil output fell in April to a one-year low due to declining production in Venezuela and…
Britain’s Sainsbury’s and Asda agree 13.3-billion-pound merger
LONDON (Reuters) – Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) and Asda, the UK arm of Walmart (WMT.N), confirmed on Monday they had agreed a…
Asian shares edge higher as tensions ease, earnings rise
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares rose again on Monday as tensions in the Korean Peninsula eased and first-quarter earnings shone,…
Canadian exchange operator TMX blames hardware failure for outage
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s largest stock exchange operator said on Saturday that the failure of data storage equipment caused an…
T-Mobile, Sprint say $26 billion deal would give U.S. tech lead over China
(Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) said on Sunday they had agreed to a $26 billion…
Sainsbury’s, Walmart’s Asda to create UK supermarket powerhouse
LONDON (Reuters) – Sainsbury’s and Walmart’s Asda are in talks to create Britain’s biggest supermarket group, a combination which would…
Saudi Aramco appoints first woman to the board
DUBAI (Reuters) – State run Saudi Aramco, the world’s top oil company, said on Sunday it has appointed five new…
Ninety-eight now sick from romaine lettuce-linked E. coli: CDC
(Reuters) – Fourteen more people fell ill from an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, U.S. health officials said…
Fourteen more fall sick from E. coli linked to romaine lettuce: CDC
(Reuters) – Fourteen more sick people from eight U.S. states were added to an investigation of an E. coli outbreak…
Whirlpool to sell Embraco compressor business to Japan’s Nidec
(Reuters) – Whirlpool Corp (WHR.N) said on Tuesday it agreed to sell its Embraco compressor business to Japan’s Nidec Corp…
U.S debt deluge lifts bond yields to four-year high, Asia stocks down
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks slipped and the U.S. dollar advanced on Tuesday, as a deluge of U.S. government debt…
Wall Street set to open higher despite rising U.S. yields
(Reuters) – Wall Street was set for gains on Monday as optimism about the strong earnings season helped ease concerns…
Asia stocks struggle with rising yields; oil stays high
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks dipped on Monday as investors braced for a bevy of earnings from the world’s largest…
Japan may soften trade stance as U.S. keeps up pressure
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Despite calls to resist protectionism and for the United States to rejoin a multilateral trans-Pacific trade pact,…
China’s ZTE seeks resolution of U.S. export ban
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s ZTE (0763.HK) (000063.SZ) is seeking a resolution to a U.S. ban on selling it parts and…
Treasury chief may visit China as trade tensions simmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday he may travel to China, a move that could…
World Bank says shareholders endorse capital increase
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Saturday its shareholders had endorsed a $13 billion paid-in capital increase, a…
Trump rails against high oil prices, OPEC pushes back
WASHINGTON/JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused OPEC on Friday of “artificially” boosting oil prices, drawing rebukes…
Wall Street falls on investor nerves about interest rates, tech
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major indexes declined on Friday as investors worried about a jump in U.S.…
U.S., European regulators mandate checks on some 737 engines
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) – European and U.S. airline regulators on Friday ordered mandatory inspections within 20 days of aircraft engines similar…
U.S. said to investigate AT&T, Verizon over wireless collusion claim: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. has opened a probe into alleged coordination by AT&T Inc (T.N), Verizon Communications (VZ.N) and…
China’s ZTE slams U.S. ban on sales, says company’s survival at risk
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s ZTE Corp (0763.HK) (000063.SZ) said on Friday that a U.S. ban on the sale of…
Starbucks to close 8,000 U.S. stores for one afternoon for racial-bias training
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) will close 8,000 company-owned U.S. cafes for the afternoon on May 29 so 175,000 employees…
Asian shares edge ahead with Wall Street, but China lags
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares crept ahead on Wednesday after Wall Street took heart from upbeat corporate earnings, though nagging…
Carl Icahn buys stake in software provider VMware: CNBC
(Reuters) – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has acquired a stake in cloud computing platform VMware Inc (VMW.N), CNBC reported on…
Australia government says banking executives responsible for misconduct could face jail
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison warned on Wednesday that financial sector executives responsible for widespread breaches of corporate…
Wall Street rises on earnings hopes, Netflix soars
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes rallied on Tuesday on broad-based gains while Netflix and UnitedHealth earnings impressed investors…
U.S. bans American companies from selling to Chinese phone maker ZTE
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Commerce has banned American companies from selling components to Chinese telecom equipment…
China tariffs on U.S. business jets no clear boost to rivals: aviation executives
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s planned tariffs on U.S. business jets may do little to buoy rivals despite concerns the moves…
U.S., Mexico and Canada hasten NAFTA talks as elections loom: Pena Nieto
LIMA/MEXICO (Reuters) – The United States, Mexico and Canada will expedite NAFTA talks in a push to reach a deal…
‘Boiled frog syndrome’: Germany’s China problem
SCHROBENHAUSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Bauer, a big producer of construction equipment, is better placed than many German companies that invested…
South Dakota e-commerce sale tax fight reaches U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A high-stakes showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will determine whether states can force out-of-state…