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Mar 26, 2019
The Chinese e-commerce giant has become the majority owner of affiliate Cainiao and plans to invest around $15 billion over five years to build its logistics network.
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Mar 26, 2019
An investor group that includes TPG Capital is looking to sell its controlling stake in one of Indonesia's oldest finance companies, in a deal that could value the company at about $1 billion.
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Mar 26, 2019
U.S. officials emphasized the urgency of attempts at diplomacy to ease tensions with North Korea on Tuesday, while the U.S. stepped up sanctions amid an escalating war of words between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Mar 26, 2019
In a trade standoff with the West, China is indifferent to complaints over chronic imbalances. It's the behavior of a government that feels confident it has the upper hand.
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Mar 26, 2019
North Korea can better target nearby U.S. aircraft with a new missile system, military analysts said, raising the stakes of any confrontation after Pyongyang warned it might shoot down American bombers in international airspace.
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Mar 04, 2019
China lowered its economic growth target this year to between 6% and 6.5%, bowing to a deepening slowdown that can't be quickly arrested without aggravating debt levels that are already high.
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Mar 04, 2019
Stocks fell, erasing early gains as investors continued to track trade negotiations between the U.S. and China as the two nations appear to inch closer to a pact.
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Mar 04, 2019
Democrats intensified their investigations into President Trump and his associates, with House committees demanding records related to his business dealings, interactions with the Justice Department and communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Mar 04, 2019
The Commerce Department will look into potential national-security risks in imports of the metal at the request of domestic producer Timet.
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Mar 04, 2019
China accused two detained Canadians of working together to steal Chinese state secrets, moving ahead with a politically charged investigation seen as retribution for Canada's arrest of a senior Huawei executive.
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Mar 04, 2019
North Korea is still using a uranium-enrichment facility at the heart of last week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the United Nations atomic agency said.
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Mar 04, 2019
Purdue Pharma is working with advisers on a possible bankruptcy filing as it seeks to contain liability from suits alleging it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic.
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Mar 03, 2019
China and the U.S. are in the final stage of completing a trade deal, with Beijing offering to lower tariffs and other restrictions on American farm, chemical, auto and other products and Washington considering removing most, if not all, sanctions levied against Chinese products since last year.
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Mar 03, 2019
Samsung has long made good hardware, and the Galaxy S10 is its best yet. But for the first time, the company also nailed the software.
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Mar 03, 2019
Newer wells drilled close to older wells are generally pumping less oil and gas and could permanently hurt output, leading frackers to cut back on the number of sites planned and forecasts on overall production to be trimmed.
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Mar 03, 2019
Meng Wanzhou claims her legal rights were violated when she was detained at Vancouver International Airport in December following an extradition arrest request from the U.S.
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Mar 03, 2019
President Xi Jinping, battling a persistent downturn in China's economy, is trying to gird his rule by demanding absolute loyalty from the Communist Party in an effort to stifle simmering dissent.
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Mar 02, 2019
President Trump lamented his "horrible position" of negotiating with North Korea following the death of Otto Warmbier, after the president drew criticism for saying that he accepted Kim Jong Un's word that he didn't know about Mr. Warmbier's abuse in Pyongyang's captivity.
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Mar 02, 2019
Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Crew Dragon capsule on its maiden voyage into orbit without people on board, but technical challenges could delay for months the first trip carrying astronauts.
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Mar 02, 2019
Canada said the U.S. had presented enough evidence to proceed with the extradition hearing for a Huawei Technologies top executive, clearing the way for a case at the center of tensions between the U.S., China and Canada.
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Mar 01, 2019
A U.S. team working ahead of the nuclear talks in Hanoi found North Korea wasn't willing to budge, expecting far more than they were prepared to give.
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Mar 01, 2019
Pakistan released a captured Indian fighter pilot on Friday, aiming to end a cycle of retaliatory attacks that brought the nuclear-armed foes close to war and could set a precedent for future clashes.
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Mar 01, 2019
Lyft made its IPO documentation public, a move that fires the starting gun on what's expected to be one of the biggest years for tech IPOs ever.
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Mar 01, 2019
Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores in several major U.S. cities as the retail giant looks to broaden its reach in the food business and touch more aspects of consumers' lives.
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Feb 28, 2019
HBO Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Plepler said he is stepping down, a move that comes as new owner AT&T Inc. is looking to put its own stamp on the premium cable channel that was part of its $80 billion acquisition of Time Warner.
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Feb 28, 2019
A summit that might have led to North Korea's first tangible disarmament steps faltered because Pyongyang wouldn't freeze all of its weapons programs and sought billions of dollars in sanctions relief, a senior State Department official said.
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Feb 28, 2019
Tesla is shifting all its global sales online to cut costs as it begins taking orders for the $35,000 version of its Model 3 compact car.
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Feb 28, 2019
MSCI said it would more than quadruple the contribution of mainland Chinese shares to an influential global benchmark, a move that will make shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen much more important to global investors.
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Feb 28, 2019
The economy completed one of the best years of a nearly decadelong expansion, growing at a modest pace despite turbulent markets, uncertainties about trade with China and a government shutdown in late December.
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Feb 28, 2019
Israel's attorney general said he would charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, a move that could imperil the leader's April election bid.
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Feb 28, 2019
Pakistan said it would soon release an Indian pilot captured after his jet fighter was shot down near the border, a gesture that appeared to dial back confrontations between the nuclear-armed states.
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Feb 28, 2019
Activity in China's critical manufacturing sector fell to its lowest level in three years in February, weighed on by weak global demand and the long Lunar New Year holiday.
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Feb 27, 2019
Pakistan and India clashed over their disputed border, with each side saying it had downed a warplane belonging to the other, in a sharp escalation of hostilities.
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Feb 27, 2019
President Trump and his company's chief financial officer coordinated with Michael Cohen to pay for the silence of a porn star and conceal Mr. Trump's role in the deal, using sham invoices to cover it up, Mr. Cohen alleged in testimony to the House Oversight Committee.
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Feb 27, 2019
A Senate panel recommended abolishing more than 600 China-funded cultural and language programs in the U.S. unless Beijing provides equal access for American public diplomacy efforts in China.
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Feb 27, 2019
A building splurge in an impoverished pocket of rural China ended in half-finished projects and a trail of angry investors from some of the country's wealthiest areas.
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Feb 27, 2019
In the strongest sign yet that an accord is near, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the U.S. was abandoning for now its threat to raise tariffs to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
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Feb 27, 2019
Prosecutors sought a lengthy prison term for the Vatican's former finance chief, Cardinal George Pell, who was found guilty of sexually abusing two choirboys in Australia decades ago.
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Feb 27, 2019
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term at the helm of Africa's largest economy and top oil producer, the country's electoral commission said, after a fractious poll marred by delays and accusations of fraud.
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Feb 27, 2019
Foreign investors have piled into shares of technology-focused companies and other smaller stocks in China, encouraged by their likely inclusion in MSCI's global benchmarks.
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Feb 26, 2019
When President Trump sits down this week for a second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, he will face a young dictator who has grown in outward confidence as a negotiator since their last meeting.
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Feb 26, 2019
U.S. officials came to the world's largest telecom trade fair to press allies to exclude Huawei equipment from next-generation cellular networks, calling the Chinese company's gear a security risk.
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Feb 26, 2019
Exchange operator CME Group said electronic trading across its futures markets was halted late Tuesday evening due to "technical issues" and that it is trying to fix the problem.
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Feb 26, 2019
The House voted to block the White House from redirecting federal funds toward building a border wall, and the Senate inched closer to doing the same, raising the specter of President Trump exercising his veto power for the first time.
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Feb 26, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.'s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
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Feb 26, 2019
Indian aircraft crossed into Pakistan and dropped bombs but caused no damage, Pakistan's military said Tuesday, amid tensions between the two countries about a recent militant attack in India-controlled Kashmir.
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Feb 26, 2019
Farmers around the globe are struggling to keep up with an increasing global appetite for fats that are perceived as healthy, leading to long-term disruptions in food prices.
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Feb 26, 2019
The most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
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Feb 25, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission says in a court filing that a Feb. 19 tweet regarding projected production volumes in 2019 violated terms of a prior settlement.
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Feb 25, 2019
Iran's top diplomat, an architect of the landmark nuclear deal, resigned on Monday, hobbling the relatively moderate government of Hassan Rouhani and its chances of keeping the pact alive.
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Feb 25, 2019
Indicators show day-to-day commerce in the country has remained resilient, rice prices are stable and gasoline prices have eased. There are even signs of growing entrepreneurialism in markets that carry domestically made goods.
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Feb 25, 2019
U.S. companies are planning their lowest rate of expansion in China since 2016 in response to growing uncertainty about U.S.-China relations and a slowing Chinese economy.
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Feb 25, 2019
For months, signs of danger raised worries among inspectors about the safety of a giant mine-dam perched over a town in Brazil. And yet the safety firm, worried about losing business, blessed the structure. Prosecutors are now looking into collusion between Vale and the contract inspector.
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Feb 24, 2019
President Trump said Sunday he would delay an increase in tariffs on Chinese goods, citing what he called substantial progress on issues including intellectual property and technology transfer.
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Feb 24, 2019
At President Trump and Kim Jong Un's second summit in Hanoi, U.S. goals include getting North Korea to agree to freeze weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and settling on a definition of denuclearization.
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Feb 24, 2019
All passengers and crew aboard a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight to Dubai were safely evacuated after military commandos killed a man who attempted to hijack the plane.
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Feb 24, 2019
Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users' weight and menstrual cycles.
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Feb 24, 2019
Venezuela's opposition called for the first time on the international community to consider the use of military force against President Nicolás Maduro, escalating a standoff after a weekend showdown over humanitarian aid ended in violence.
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Feb 24, 2019
Just days after Samsung Electronics launched the industry's first mainstream foldable-screen smartphone, China's Huawei Technologies upped the ante with a competing device with an even more stratospheric price tag.
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Feb 23, 2019
A high-stakes effort to deliver aid into Venezuela despite a military blockade descended into violence Saturday, with hundreds injured and more than 60 National Guard forces defecting to Colombia.
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Feb 23, 2019
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway swung to a $25.4 billion loss in the fourth quarter due to an unexpected write-down at Kraft Heinz and unrealized investment losses.
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Feb 23, 2019
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Trump in Hanoi, the venue itself will carry a message for the dictator: Cooperate with the U.S. and you will open the door to an economic transformation like Vietnam's.
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Feb 23, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors endorsed a stiff punishment for the former Trump campaign chairman, in a memo unsealed Saturday.
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Feb 23, 2019
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets President Trump in Hanoi, the venue itself will carry a message for the dictator: Cooperate with the U.S. and you will open the door to an economic transformation like Vietnam's.
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Feb 22, 2019
Health clinics that provide on-site abortions, or refer women for the procedure, are set to lose millions of dollars in federal family-planning funds, according to a new Trump administration rule.
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Feb 22, 2019
A large delegation of U.S. officials is heading to Spain for the world's largest telecommunications trade show, planning to ratchet up a monthslong offensive against Huawei that has produced mixed results.
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Feb 22, 2019
U.S. stocks extended their winning streak to nine consecutive weeks and are on track for their biggest early-year advance in three decades, a dramatic turnaround that has given investors renewed faith in the nearly 10-year bull market.
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Feb 22, 2019
President Trump, citing progress in U.S.-China trade talks, said he is looking at extending a deadline to raise tariffs and hoping to meet next month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to complete a broad trade agreement.
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Feb 22, 2019
The Brazilian investment firm burst onto the scene a decade ago with a string of acquisitions, and then cut costs using a hard-nosed budgeting tactic to create efficient production machines. Now, after transforming the American consumer landscape, its strategy appears to be running out of juice.
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Feb 22, 2019
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including personal health information. Unbeknown to most people, in many cases that data is being shared with someone else: Facebook.
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Feb 21, 2019
A fire swept through a mixed residential and commercial area of Dhaka, leaving dozens dead and renewing concerns over industrial safety in one of the world's most densely populated cities.
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Feb 21, 2019
As U.S.-China trade talks reach a pivotal point, the Trump administration is counting on the Chinese leader's special envoy, Liu He, to get Beijing to accept tough new strictures that are increasingly controversial in Beijing.
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Feb 21, 2019
The Chinese company's low prices outweigh spying concerns for many countries ramping up 5G spending, in particular the pivotal internet economy of India. "The perception here is that the U.S. action is more a matter of foreign policy."
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Feb 21, 2019
The companies hope to lure cardholders by offering them extra features on Apple's Wallet app, which will let them set spending goals, track their rewards and manage their balances.
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Feb 21, 2019
Paul Stadlen, a British national who worked for former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, is facing money-laundering charges over $3.5 million that was allegedly linked to his former boss, a government prosecutor said.
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Feb 21, 2019
The World Health Organization established a new committee to set guidelines for scientists editing human DNA, just months after the controversial births of the world's first gene-edited babies in China.
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Feb 21, 2019
The focus and pattern of the attack this month is compatible with the activity of an Iranian state actor, a U.S. cyber research company alleged.
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Feb 20, 2019
Companies have rushed to sell new bonds in China this year, as Beijing loosens financial conditions to shore up businesses in a weakening economy.
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Feb 20, 2019
A devastating fire tore through at least five buildings in an old section of Dhaka and killed at least 69 people, an official and witnesses said.
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Feb 20, 2019
The world's largest smartphone maker unveiled the industry's first mainstream foldable-screen smartphone, in a radical design change that sends the industry's pricing model soaring to new heights.
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Feb 20, 2019
Michael Cohen agreed to go before the House Oversight Committee in what is expected to be an explosive hearing about his decade working for Donald Trump, and why he has implicated the president in federal crimes.
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Feb 20, 2019
Despite their sharp differences in style, background and policies, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Trump share a common problem: growing concerns on the home front that they are going to cave in to the other side.
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Feb 20, 2019
A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant and white nationalist was arrested after authorities said they found more than a dozen firearms, ammunition and a hit list of Democratic lawmakers, activists and media personalities in his Maryland home.
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Feb 20, 2019
One of the banking industry's biggest soured bets since the financial crisis involved a complex municipal-bond investment. Warren Buffett was enmeshed in the deal.
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Feb 19, 2019
President Trump gave his firmest indication yet that the U.S. may not increase tariffs on Chinese goods on March 1, as scheduled, despite statements by his top trade official that the U.S. should stick to a firm deadline.
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Feb 19, 2019
Germany is leaning toward letting the Chinese tech giant participate in building its high-speed internet infrastructure despite U.S. warnings.
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Feb 19, 2019
German designer Karl Lagerfeld, who dominated high fashion for decades and reinvigorated French couture house Chanel as creative director, has died.
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Feb 19, 2019
Stocks and bonds are rising on bets the Fed has ended its interest-rate increases, worrying investors who believe the central bank could upend those expectations later this year.
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Feb 19, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exiled, imprisoned or executed some 50 to 70 people and seized assets as he eliminates critics of his outreach to the U.S. and the South and targets the moneyed elite, says a report.
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Feb 19, 2019
Sixteen states on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump's national-emergency declaration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting up a showdown with the administration that could go to the Supreme Court and last through the 2020 election.
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Feb 19, 2019
HSBC's full-year profit fell short of analysts' expectations, despite higher deposit revenue from Asia.
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Feb 18, 2019
As trade negotiations with China resume, the Trump administration is racing to strike a deal that will result in long-term reforms—and prove that tariffs are an effective battering ram to open markets around the world.
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Feb 18, 2019
Two big outside investors in the Vision Fund, the $100 billion tech-investment fund managed by SoftBank, are worried transfers of stakes between SoftBank and the fund at high valuations could set up future losses.
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Feb 18, 2019
Alarmed by the erosion of the post-Cold War order, Europeans are grasping at ways to influence a world in which Russia, China and the U.S. under President Trump are all fighting for predominance.
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Feb 18, 2019
Apple is shaking up leadership and reordering priorities across its services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail divisions as it works to reduce the company's reliance on iPhone sales.
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Feb 17, 2019
Those who bet on metals used in electric cars and smartphones are feeling the pain as cobalt and lithium prices keep dropping.
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Feb 17, 2019
Democrats signaled they are gearing up to challenge President Trump's use of his emergency powers to fund construction of a wall along the southern U.S. border, which would likely tie up implementation of one of his core campaign promises.
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Feb 17, 2019
A spate of anti-Semitic incidents has accompanied France's yellow-vest protests in recent weeks, raising fears that the movement is stirring up hatred in the nation that is home to Europe's largest Jewish population.
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Feb 17, 2019
Self-taught coder Colin Kroll shot to startup fame, allowing him to live life in a fast lane. Friends saw him as a gentle, endearingly awkward soul, but he also fought with colleagues, attracted negative press for his behavior at work and struggled with drugs and alcohol.
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Feb 16, 2019
Amazon's sudden move to abandon plans for a new campus in New York ends the protests in the city but doesn't remove the national scrutiny being placed on the company.
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