PARIS (Reuters) — The French government is moving to dismiss Renault’s scandal-hit Chairman and Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn and has requested a board meeting to consider candidates to replace hi...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Core machinery orders slowed sharply in November in a sign corporate capital expenditure could lose momentum as a bruising U.S.-China trade war spills into the global economy. Th...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is raising its U.S. prices by 13 to 18 percent, its biggest increase since the company launched its video streaming service 12 years ago. Its most popular plan will see...

DETROIT (Jiji Press) — James Lentz, chief executive officer of Toyota Motor North America Inc., said Tuesday that consumers “still resist” electric vehicles due chiefly to range anxiety and cost...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s central bank on Wednesday made its biggest daily net cash injection via reverse repo operations on record, more evidence that authorities are shifting to policy easin...

CHICAGO (AP) — United Airlines reported Tuesday that its fourth-quarter profit slipped 20 percent due to higher fuel and labor costs, but its profit and revenue both beat analysts’ expectations. ...

PARIS (Reuters) — The French government is moving to dismiss Renault’s scandal-hit Chairman and Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn and has requested a board meeting to consider candidates to replace him...

DUBAI (Bloomberg) — The United States plans to grant no new waivers to buyers of Iranian oil as it intensifies efforts to eliminate the Middle Eastern producer’s exports of crude, a senior officia...

DETROIT (Reuters) — Auto executives gathered in Detroit on Monday called on the Trump administration and Congress to resolve trade disputes, and end the government shutdown, saying political uncert...

MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — Overseas investors are selling India’s government bonds, but they still have faith in the nation’s corporate debt. Global funds cut holdings of the nation’s sovereign se...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China has approved construction of one of its tallest dams, a 239-meter hydroelectric structure on the upstream section of its longest river, the Yangtze, the state planning ag...

OPEC and its allies plan to hold a meeting in March to assess their oil-production accord in Azerbaijan, and then ministers will gather to set policy in April, according to the organization’s top of...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AFP-Jiji) — She is turning 60 this year and still doesn’t have a single wrinkle. Blonde or brunette, slender or curvy, black or white, princess or president, Barbie is a forev...

LONDON (Reuters) — Uncertainty over Brexit and the economy have led demand for Britain’s financial services to shrink for the first time in five years, with no immediate sign of an improvement, a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — PG&E Corp. Chief Executive Geisha Williams has stepped down, the company said Sunday, as pressure from potentially crushing liabilities linked to catastrophic wildfires have pus...

SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) — Sign up for China Rising, a new weekly dispatch on where China stands now and where it’s going next. China doubled the limit of one of the main foreign investment channels ...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Fund managers are warming to the idea of the yen strengthening as far as ¥100 per dollar, but only if there’s a global economic downturn. The yen started the year with a ba...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Europe is giving U.S.-led calls for a boycott of Huawei 5G telecommunications equipment a mixed reception, with some governments untroubled by spy suspicions against the Chinese g...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — The inclusion of Chinese A-shares in global stock indexes could see foreign inflows into China’s stock market double in 2019, the Shanghai Securities News quoted a top Chines...

VIENNA (Reuters) — It is unclear if Germany’s recent economic setbacks are a one-off or a more lasting phenomenon caused by structural problems, particularly in its car industry, European Central...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Ride-hailing giant Uber said Friday that it would appeal a fresh legal setback in Europe after a French court ruled a former driver who sued the firm effectively had a work contr...

LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s economy grew at its weakest pace in half a year in the three months to November as factories suffered from tough global trade conditions and the approach of Brexit, o...

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will reduce its workforce by about 10 percent of the company’s more than 6,000 employees, the company said Friday. The company said it will “part ways” with...

One of Nissan Motor Co.’s top executives has resigned, further rattling the Japanese automaker’s management team as it broadens an investigation into ousted Chairman Carlos Ghosn’s alleged fina...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) — Qualcomm sought to become the sole supplier of modem chips for Apple’s iPhone to recoup a $1-billion “incentive payment” that Apple insisted on, not to block rival...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Bank of Japan plans to extend a key loan support program designed to help expand bank lending by one year beyond its currently scheduled expiration at the end of March, Jij...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks bounced back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, aided by U.S. equities’ continued advance and a pause in the yen’s appreciation against the dollar. The 225-issue N...

Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn had about $100 million (about ¥11 billion at the current exchange rate) paid from the automaker’s confidential funds to agents and other entities in f...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — An error in the method used by the Japanese labor ministry for conducting its monthly labor survey in 2004-2017 has led to underpayments totaling ¥56.75 billion in employment a...

TOKYO (Jiji Press)— The current account surplus in November shrank 43.5 percent from a year before due to increased imports amid higher oil prices, the Finance Ministry said Friday. Japan ran a sur...

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — U.S. officials expect China’s top trade negotiator may visit Washington this month, signaling that higher-level discussions are likely to follow this week’s talks...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Olympus Corp. said it would propose to give top shareholder U.S. hedge fund ValueAct Capital a seat at its board, a rare move in the country where activists are still viewed by co...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Cadillac is expected to become General Motors Co.’s lead electric vehicle brand as the largest U.S. automaker gears up to introduce a new model under that luxury marquee to...

NEW DELHI (Bloomberg) — India has approached steelmakers such as Posco and Hyundai Steel Co. to partner its state-owned mills, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to stoke local production of high...

HAMBURG/DETROIT (Reuters) — Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co. will unveil a deeper alliance next week that goes beyond cooperating in commercial vehicles in a move meant to save the automakers billio...

LONDON (AP) — Unemployment across the 19-country eurozone fell in November to a decade-low rate, official figures showed Wednesday, but worries over the economic outlook have stoked concerns it may...

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) — South Korean oil buyers are expected to restart Iranian oil imports in late January or early February, the head of South Korea’s SK Innovation, which owns South Korea’s bi...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — The growth engine for the world’s car industry has been thrown into reverse, with China recording the first annual slump in auto sales in more than two decades — though pr...

RIVERWOODS, Ill./CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) — U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers say they will wait to deliver more interest rate hikes until they have a better handle on whether slowing global gro...

BERLIN (Reuters) — China’s Alibaba Group Holding has acquired German data analysis firm Data Artisans, the Berlin-based start-up said, in a deal reported to be worth around €90 million ($103 mil...

LONDON (Reuters) — Carmaker Rolls-Royce called on the British government to avoid a disorderly Brexit and said it was building up some stock, expanding warehouse capacity and training suppliers for ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s foreign exchange reserves expanded $12,711 million from a month earlier to $1,270,975 million at the end of December, up for the second straight month, the Finance Mi...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The average retail price of regular gasoline in Japan as of Monday fell ¥2.7 from a week before to ¥143.9 per liter, down for the 10th consecutive week, the government said W...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Industry ministry will cut the purchase price of electricity generated with solar energy by 22 percent from the previous year in fiscal 2019, officials said Wednesday. Th...

LONDON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to urge British counterpart Theresa May on Thursday to do everything she can to avoid a disorderly Brexit, which some of Japan’s leading comp...

LONDON (Jiji Press) — Japan and Britain will invest £30 million (¥ 4.13 billion)together on a new program to develop cutting-edge technologies as part of an effort to forge a new alliance to shap...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — Japanese, U.S. and European Union trade ministers agreed at a meeting Wednesday to seek negotiations at the World Trade Organization to set international e-commerce rules. ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Cabinet Office on Tuesday launched Japan’s first demonstration test to run a large fixed-route driverless bus on public roads, aiming to put the service into practical us...

BEIJING (AP) — The United States says talks in Beijing on ending a bruising trade war focused on Chinese promises to buy more American goods. But it gave no indication of progress on resolving di...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Chinese inventors received a record number of U.S. patents in 2018 and are on pace to overtake Germany in the No. 4 position of top recipients, according to an analysis of f...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Nomura Holdings Inc. will introduce a merit-based pay system at its domestic securities unit next year, moving away from the long-standing Japanese practice of rewarding staff mo...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc., the country’s biggest beverage maker, said Tuesday it will raise the prices of Coca-Cola and other drinks for the first time in 27 years due to...

What’s in a name? For MasterCard, not enough to keep it in the logo. The company is removing the word Mastercard from the pair of interlocking red and yellow circles where it has resided for more ...

LONDON (AP) — New vehicle sales in the U.K. fell in 2018 by their biggest rate since the global financial crisis a decade ago due to a weaker economy and a raft of regulatory changes, an industry l...

Intel Corp. said on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it is working with Facebook Inc. to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year. The chips...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amazon has eclipsed Microsoft as the most valuable publicly traded company in the U.S. as a see-sawing stock market continues to reshuffle corporate America’s pecking order. ...

SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Tuesday estimated a 29 percent drop in quarterly operating profit, its first decline in two years, as it flagged tough memory chip ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the attorney general of Massachusetts to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp. to probe whether the oil company for decades ...

Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman rearrested on suspicion of aggravated breach of trust under the Companies Law, denied the suspicions in a court hearing held Tuesday to disclose the ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A system to divert funds sleeping in bank accounts for 10 years or longer for use in public-interest activities such as assistance to families in poverty started on a full scal...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The travel industry is pinning its hopes on the departure tax that Japan introduced Monday, while some passengers leaving the country voiced unhappiness with the new levy. Ja...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese business leaders on Monday stressed the importance of securing diversity before the country launches new visa categories in April to accept more foreign workers. It i...

TOKYO (AFP-Jiji) — Nissan’s alliance with France’s Renault is not in danger “at all,” the Japanese automaker’s CEO told AFP on Monday, despite tensions exposed by the arrest of the partne...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government introduced a departure tax Monday, collecting ¥1,000 per head from people who leave the country by aircraft or ship, regardless of nationality. The levy, colle...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China has the “good faith” to work with the United States to resolve trade frictions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday, as the world’s two largest economies resu...

HONG KONG (Reuters) — Huawei Technologies Co. on Monday launched a new chipset for use in servers, at a time when China is pushing to enhance its chip-making capabilities and reduce its heavy relia...

Seven Bank Ltd. will allow customers to open accounts through ATMs at convenience stores and other places as early as autumn 2019, it has been learned. The bank will equip ATMs with new functions su...

TOKYO (Reuters) — A senior executive of Nissan Motor Co., Jose Munoz, has taken a leave of absence in a sudden management shake-up as the automaker deals with the aftermath of the arrest of former ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Tokyo stocks are expected to remain unstable this week, with persistent concerns over a slowdown in the global economy likely to continue to grip the market, market watchers sa...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Marriott International Inc. said on Friday that fewer than 383 million customer records were stolen in a massive cyber-attack disclosed last month, down from its initial estima...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers went on a hiring spree in December, adding a surprising 312,000 jobs and providing a dose of reassurance about the economy after a turbulent few months on Wall Stre...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — New York-based pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb on Thursday announced it would buy U.S. biotech firm Celgene in a $74 billion cash-and-stock deal, creating a rival to ...

Qualcomm Inc. on Thursday took steps to enforce a court order banning the sale of some iPhone models in Germany, a move that will likely see Apple Inc. pull those iPhone models from its German store...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates fell this week, starting the year with an inducement to prospective homebuyers. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate on the be...

DETROIT (AP) — Tesla made about 9,300 more vehicles than it delivered last year, raising concerns among industry analysts that inventory is growing as demand for the company’s electric cars may b...

OSLO (Reuters) — Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fueled vehicles by 2025. In a bid to cut c...

SYDNEY (Reuters) — Chinese construction company Jangho Group Co. has proposed to acquire medical center operator Healius Ltd. for 1.7 billion Australian dollars ($1.2 billion), marking what would be...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday it will launch production of fully remodeled next-generation SUVs at a domestic plant. Mazda President Akira Marumoto unveiled the plan in his Ne...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Japanese government bond yields fell to their lowest levels since late 2016 on Friday as risk aversion gripped the broader markets and boosted investor demand for safe-haven debt....

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s economy is expected by many economists to face tests this year, after its ongoing expansion becomes the longest in postwar history later this month. The expansionar...

The dollar was weaker below ¥107.90 in Tokyo trading late Friday, after heavy short covering of the dollar ran its course in midafternoon trading. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥107.84-85, down f...

JXTG Holdings Inc., the largest of the country’s major oil wholesalers, is planning to begin selling city gas by March, company President Tsutomu Sugimori said. In an interview with The Yomiuri Sh...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — JFE Steel Corp. and Chugoku Electric Power Co. abandoned plans to develop a coal-fired power plant near Tokyo that had drawn scrutiny from a government official. The companies ...

HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — The international wing of the world’s largest cigarette maker — a Chinese state-owned tobacco monopoly — plans to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange, filing documents ...

ROME/FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) — The European Central Bank took the unprecedented step of placing the cash-strapped Italian lender Banca Carige SpA in temporary administration, a move that could be a pr...

HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Most Asian markets extended the previous day’s sharp losses Thursday with technology firms tumbling after Apple slashed its revenue forecasts blaming slowing China sales. ...

MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — Jet Airways India Ltd. has missed a payment to Indian lenders in the latest sign of mounting strains at the country’s second-largest airline by passengers, after losses worsen...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Before its agreement to cut oil supplies even started, OPEC’s production plunged by the most in almost two years last month. In a sign of the urgency felt by the cartel amid ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — Apple Inc. on Wednesday took the rare step of cutting its quarterly sales forecast, with Chief Executive Tim Cook blaming slowing iPhone sales in China, whose economy has b...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit won approval from U.S. regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as Project Soli. The Federal Communications Commission (F...