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French Trade Deficit Widens In May

Merchandise trade surplus of Canada with the USA narrowed in May as imports rose 1 percent and exports fell 0.2 percent. Imports rose 1.7 per cent in May, aft...

Jobs Report Beat Could Mean July Rate Hike

The federal agency said this was despite a net drop of 1,200 jobs from May to June. The central bank also pays close attention to income growth. The local lab...

Fed monitoring risk of rate hikes slowing economy

America's escalating trade war is already hurting investment and threatens to undermine an otherwise strong business outlook, the Federal Reserve said, citing...

Windsor's Labour Participation Rate Lowest In Canada

In recent quarters, the total private level has been growing faster than production and non-supervisory wages only, but those wages have begun to catch up over ...

Starbucks Fires Employee Who Mocked Customer With Stutter

In a Facebook post that gained national media attention, Philadelphia resident Tan Lekwijit said his friend Sam stuttered on his name when ordering a bev...

Bank of England's Mark Carney says confident UK slowdown was temporary

The governor added, in remarks during a Q&A session at the Boiler Shop venue, that England winning the World Cup would be an "unalloyed, unadulterated absolute ...

Sydney Airport, Qantas start facial recognition trial

Sydney Airport is facing the future in more ways than one as it begins a trial of sophisticated biometrics aimed at improving the way passengers move through i...

Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than Warren Buffett

The ranking list is still being lead by a wide margin by CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos - approximately $48 billion worth more than Bill Gates , who is now ranked...

Sonos files for IPO with plans to raise $100 million

Should Amazon see a threat from Sonos, the tech giant could disable Alexa on the Sonos One and Beam with little notice, leaving the speakers without voice c...

Donald Trump's Tweets Increased Oil Prices By $10, Iran's OPEC Chief Says

Oil prices edged up on Wednesday, lifted by a report of declining USA fuel inventories amid the ongoing crude supply outage at Syncrude Canada in Alberta, whi...

U.S. tariffs take effect, China warns of 'counterattack'

US carmaker Ford Motor Co (F.N) said on Thursday it has no plans to hike retail prices of its imported Ford and Lincoln models in China, despite the steep addit...

Confusion Hits Chinese Ports As Trump's Tariffs Go Into Effect

The official newspaper China Daily accused the Trump administration of "behaving like a gang of hoodlums " who could do damage to the global economy unless o...

China blames USA for ‘largest-scale trade war’ as tariffs kick in

The tariffs would mark a significant escalation in the trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies. One ship laden with US soybeans steaming towar...

Hispanic Unemployment Falls to LOWEST LEVEL in US HISTORY — RECORD SMASHED

Before December 2017, the unemployment rate in the region never dipped below six per cent since comparable statistics started being recorded. On the same day ...

Trump threatens China with more than $500bn in United States trade tariffs

It is the first time the U.S. has imposed tariffs directly aimed at Chinese goods, following months in which Trump has accused Beijing of stealing American in...

Micron Rallies as It Says Injunction in China Won't Affect Its Quarter

The firm's estimate that the ban imposed by a Chinese court in a patent infringement lawsuit would weaken quarterly revenue by just 1 percent drove its shares a...

ZTE appoints new management to comply with its United States deal

The Journal reported that the swift change indicates ZTE is hurrying to meet requirements laid out by the U.S. Commerce Department as part of a deal to allow ...

Business hiring forges ahead in June, with 213,000 jobs added

Those projections turned out to be correct. The U.S. economy added 213,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate rose to 4%, according to the latest figure...

Remaining half of bourbon warehouse comes down

No injuries were reported in either collapse, he said. 'It's just a mountain of barrels, it's hard to describe, ' Spalding said of the scene. Drainage pools...

Man assaults teen wearing MAGA hat

The victim, 16-year-old Hunter Richard , told a local NBC affiliate that the man, who has yet to be identified , pulled his hair during the assault. News 4 ...

Singapore watchdog says Grab-Uber deal hurts competition, proposes fines

While proposed remedies offered by CCCS may open a window of opportunity to other ride-hailing apps such as Go-Jek, DBS analyst Andy Sim believes that this coul...

Amazon's new idea: toy catalogues

Amazon intends to print and distribute a holiday toy catalog, Bloomberg reported July 4, citing people familiar with the matter. Citing people familiar with...

Elon Musk sends engineers to help Thai cave rescue mission

Elon Musk has said he is " happy to help " with the rescue of the Thai soccer team now stuck in a cave. Musk, founder of the Boring Company , as well as...

Tesla Q2 2018 Vehicle Production and Deliveries

GA4, our new General Assembly line for Model 3 , was responsible for roughly 20% of Model 3s produced last week, with quality from that line being as good as o...

Boeing strikes aircraft deal with Brazil's Embraer

Under the terms of the deal, Boeing will hold an 80 percent stake valued at United States dollars 3.8 billion, the companies said in a release Thursday, while E...

China's Internet giant Baidu rolls out 14 seater self-driving buses

Baidu founder and CEO Robin Li hosted a live stream for the 6,000 people in attendance at the conference of the 100th Apolong rolling off the assembly line. "T...

Trump envoy says U.S.-Canada friendship will endure

That effort is expected to intensify following Monday's election win by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has already said he supports the continued renegotiatio...

China cenbank blames yuan moves on dollar rise, external uncertainty

The question is how much further, and how quickly, the yuan might fall. "It generates a degree of instability in the market simply by virtue of its scale". Ener...

California gets tough with new digital privacy law

A consumer, defined as a "a natural person who is a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations", and w...

Woman devours 37 hot dogs to win Independence Day eating contest

The competitors eat hot dogs during the women's competition of the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, Wednesday, July 4, 2018, in New Yor...