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EU leader Tusk queried about tax policies as Poland's PM

Lawmakers in Poland questioned EU Council president Donald Tusk on Monday for an investigation of tax evasion by private ...

Shell fined for explosions, gas leak at Dutch chemical plant

A Dutch court has fined oil giant Shell 2.5 million euros ($2.8 million) for breaching Dutch labor and environmental laws in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron, French Defence Minister Florence Parly and Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, attend the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget

Boeing apologizes for Max crashes as Airbus rakes in sales

Boeing executives apologized Monday to airlines and families of victims of 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as the ...

33 Russians face new doping allegations

Thirty-three Russian athletes from a range of sports face doping cases for using banned treatments from a doctor, the Russian ...

German prosecutors bring charges in tax loophole case

German prosecutors have charged two British citizens with participating in tax evasion allegedly involving 440 million euros ...

Global shares mixed as investors look ahead to Fed rates

Global stock markets traded in fairly narrow ranges Monday as investors awaited a run of interest rate decisions, notably ...

This Week: Housing starts, Fed policy update, Slack IPO

A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: HOUSING BELLWETHER The government's ...

Crew members of targeted Norwegian-owned tanker now in Dubai

Crew members from a Norwegian-owned oil tanker apparently attacked in the Gulf of Oman landed Saturday in Dubai after two ...

Anthony Rinaldi, Fred DeMarco

Stocks post small losses; investors look ahead to Fed

Stocks ended a choppy week of trading with modest losses Friday as investors look forward to getting more clues about the ...

Jerome Powell

Stocks don't always get a boost when the Fed cuts rates

When the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, or even hints that it's about to, investors cheer. That's because lowering ...

Serb leader urges Trump to bring Kosovo back to negotiating

Serbia's leader hailed Donald Trump's unorthodox ways of dealing with political problems, urging the U.S. president on Friday ...

Gynecologists in Germany fined for abortion advertising

A German court has fined two gynecologists for violating a ban on advertising abortions, the first such case to be tried ...

German court says Catholic Church can keep billions secret

A court in the western city of Cologne has ruled that Germany's richest Catholic archdiocese doesn't have to reveal what it ...

EU finance ministers urge Italy to respect debt pledges

European Union finance ministers urged Italy Thursday to respect its pledges to bring its blown-out deficit back into line ...

Japan premier warns US, Iran 'accidental conflict' possible

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe traveled to Tehran on Wednesday to warn that an "accidental conflict" could be sparked ...

France pledges to reform economy, boost competitiveness

France's prime minister said Wednesday that the government of President Emmanuel Macron plans to keep reforming the economy ...

John Romolo

Investors should guard against tunnel vision on trade wars

Once this trade-war cloud gets lifted, investors should have little to worry about, right? Monday's market action makes it ...

Nizar Zakka

US resident released from Iran custody says it eases tension

A Lebanese man with permanent U.S. residency who had been imprisoned in Iran for years on charges of espionage said Tuesday ...

Hassan Rouhani, Shinzo Abe

Japan premier hopes to ease US-Iran tensions in Tehran visit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Tehran represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between ...

China mum on Trump-Xi meeting as Huawei says sales slowing

Attention is turning to a possible meeting of President Donald Trump with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a summit in Japan ...