 | | | | SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump often tweets from his iPhone about pressuring China to address its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. But a closer look at the Apple smartphone reveals how the headline figure is distorted. | | | | | | (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were little changed on Wednesday, ahead of an expected Federal Reserve interest rate hike, as weakness in Facebook's shares for a third day were countered by gains in energy stocks. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - The consultancy at the center of a storm over Facebook data greatly exaggerated its role in Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential victory and would not have been able to sway an election result, the academic who provided the data said. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Cloud storage firm Dropbox Inc [DBX.O] raised the price range for its initial public offering by $2 on Wednesday as investors bid strongly for the first big tech IPO this year ahead of final pricing expected on Thursday. | | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German conglomerate Bayer won EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $62.5 billion buy of U.S. peer Monsanto, the latest in a trio of mega mergers that will reshape the agrochemicals industry. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates at its first policy meeting under Chairman Jerome Powell and may signal more hikes are coming in response to tax cuts and government spending that could further stoke a robust U.S. economy. | | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed rules on Wednesday to make digital companies pay their fair share of tax, with U.S. tech giants such as Google , Facebook and Amazon set to foot a large chunk of the bill. | | | | | | (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department will hold the largest lease sale in American history in the offshore Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, in a major test of the oil industry's appetite for federal acreage offered by the Trump administration. | | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A strong euro and higher funding costs would have a 450 million euro ($553 million) impact on Deutsche Bank in the first quarter of the year, the German lender's finance chief warned on Wednesday. | | | | | | FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's financial markets watchdog is investigating whether Deutsche Boerse should have provided more information to investors during its search for a new chief executive, with a ruling against the company potentially leading to a fine. | | | | | |
