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According to the annual Global Traffic Scorecard by transportation-analytics firm INRIX, traffic congestion cost Los Angeles commuters an average of $1,788 in...

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrived in China a few days ahead of his high-level meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing , . sounding optimistic...

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Oil rises 2% on Saudi Arabia, OPEC cuts

Nigeria's oil production was to be cut by 53,000 barrels to arrive at a new quota of 1.685 million bpd down from Nigeria reference production figure of 1.79...

Airbus to end production of A380 superjumbo jet

The A380 was also complicated and expensive to build, with final assembly and finishing split between Toulouse and Hamburg - a product of the political wranglin...

European Union blacklists Nigeria over weak rules on money laundering, terrorism financing

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Jeans maker Levi Strauss files for IPO to return to public markets

The final size of the IPO could be different. The San Francisco-based company said Wednesday that it plans to use the proceeds from the IPO for general corpor...

Former Apple lawyer charged with insider trading

That executive is Gene Levoff , who was until a year ago Apple's Senior Director of Corporate Law and Corporate Secretary. Apple's stock dropped more than four...

Mobile, Sprint execs defending merger to lawmakers

The deal, which must win approval from federal regulators, would combine the nation's third- and fourth-largest wireless companies, creating a new behemoth roug...

Ford uses driver-assist tech to keep bed hogs on their side

The bed then goes about correcting the encroachment by nudging the intruder back to their side. These sensors work in a way similar to the radar and camera sens...

David Eby announces cap on expert witnesses to address losses at ICBC

Attorney General David Eby said the changes, which take effect immediately, will help curb the increasing legal costs that are contributing to ICBC's massive an...

Trudeau faces critics inside and outside party as Wilson-Raybould scandal swirls

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he was surprised and disappointed by Jody Wilson-Raybould's resignation Tuesday. While some Liberals have anonymously acc...

United States national debt tops $22 trillion for the first time

The steep trade tariffs President Donald Trump imposed last year brought an additional $9 billion into the government's coffers from October to December but t...

Venezuelan Government starting the regulation of crypto settlements

The regulator has set a hard limit on the volume of transactions and will charge a commission of up to 15% of the amount of the transaction in cryptocurrency. T...

JLR's latest engine to be built at £1bn Wolves base

Rover says that the supercharger can spool fully in 0.5 seconds. Initially available exclusively on the HST special edition model and priced from £81,250, th...

Aurora Cannabis loses $238M in second quarter even as revenues surge

Cannabis seedlings at the Aurora Cannabis facilty in Montreal on November 24, 2017. But the company's average selling price of dried cannabis dropped by 26 pe...

Google to invest $13B in real estate across the US

The company is also doubling its workforce in Virginia, providing greater access to Washington, D.C., with a new office and more data center space, and expandin...

Record number of Americans 'seriously delinquent' on vehicle payments in 2018

The number of Americans who are more than three months behind on their auto payments reached 7 million this year, a new record that surpasses the 6 million cons...

NZD: Relief provided by RBNZ? - Rabobank

However, the chances of a rate reduction haven't increased, he said. Although recent statements have hinted at the possibility of a future interest rate cut...

Morgan Stanley To Buy Solium Capital For C$1.1 Billion

Morgan Stanley wants Solium to complement its workplace wealth management business, helping it to capture millennials on the plans that have a good chance of ge...

Bill and Melinda Gates get asked whether billionaires should exist

They were clear that the wealthy should be taxed more than they now are, but less sure about a specific upper tax rate. He continued, explaining: "They have i...

More than $400,000 in QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency disappears into 'cold wallet'

If you know anything about the QuadrigaCX saga, then you know that the exchange can not now access an excess of $180 million in cryptocurrency (it says) it ...

Apple takes heat over Saudi app that tracks women

Before apps became such a huge part of our daily lives, Saudi women had to present a signed yellow form whenever they travelled overseas unaccompanied by their ...

Ford Recalls Almost 1.5M F-150 Pickups for Transmission Issue

The company says there's glitch in sending a signal from the transmission speed sensor. Ford said it was aware of five accidents, including one case of "whipl...

Electric pickup truck maker Rivian tipped in investment talks with GM, Amazon

Negotiations are reportedly still taking place, but the sources claim we may hear an official announcement some time this month. There is always a chance that...

Ford could move production out of United Kingdom due to Brexit

Ford is the top-selling automotive brand in Britain, which is its third-largest market and the destination for roughly one in three cars made at its plant in Co...

Bezos probe concludes mistress’s brother leaked intimate text messages

Though AMI has resisted revealing the source of the texts - which include some hot one-liners, like, "I want to hold you tight" - the Daily Beast notes that...

Lloyds Bank customers left without online banking services

Current account holders at the UK's biggest bank have been left without access to online banking throughout the day. Rachel said on Twitter she was having iss...

E.ON customers will see energy costs increase from April 1

A spokeswoman for E.ON said, "Ofgem's energy market price cap review set out that price cap levels would increase, driven by rising wholesale and other costs". ...