 | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday that it still holds the threat of imposing tariffs on $50 billion of imports from China and will use it unless Beijing addresses the issue of theft of American intellectual property. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday as political turmoil in Italy sparked concerns about the stability of the euro zone. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock markets tumbled on Tuesday, on downbeat trading guidance from JP Morgan and worries over Italy putting the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average on track for their biggest one-day drops in seven weeks. | | | | | | OTTAWA/WINNIPEG (Reuters) - Canada will buy Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd's Trans Mountain pipeline for C$4.5 billion ($3.5 billion), the government said on Tuesday, hoping to save a project that faces formidable political and environmental opposition. | | | | | | BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German labour leaders on Tuesday agreed with PSA Group's Opel unit on an investment plan and job guarantees for German factories in return for wage concessions. | | | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's city attorney has subpoenaed Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] and Lyft Inc to turn over records relating to how the ride-hailing firms classify drivers, as well as driver wages, health care and other benefits in the latest probe in the city's year-long investigation into the companies. | | | | | | LOS ANGELES/MIAMI (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp appealed to customers for forgiveness in a controversy over alleged racial profiling on Tuesday, saying its behavior toward two black men last month had been reprehensible as it closed 8,000 U.S. stores for anti-bias training. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A spiralling Italian political crisis provoked a global stock market sell-off on Tuesday, cut the euro to a 10-month low and spiked borrowing costs for the government in Rome. | | | | | | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday it would increase its investments in Argentina over the next three years, giving embattled President Mauricio Macri's government a boost at a difficult time. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver a revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) he promised for this year and people involved in the talks say the crunch is largely of his administration's own making. | | | | | |
