MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a “rapacious” elite in a country struggling with corruption, chronic poverty and gang violence on the doorstep of the United States. Backed by a gigantic Mexican flag, the 65-year-old took the oath of…
Image caption Mr Gyimah said he would be voting against Mrs May's Breit deal A UK minister has resigned saying a row over involvement in the EU's Galileo satellite-navigation system exposes Theresa May's Brexit deal as "naive".The UK had wanted to stay part of Galileo after Brexit, but the EU said it would be banned…
Enlarge / A pick-up truck makes its way out of the Mountain Pass open pit mine in California in 2009. Photo by Jacob Kepler/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPresident Trump's tariffs on rare-earth metals from China should have been a boon to the only US rare-earth minerals mine in California. But a recent Wall Street Journal article illustrates…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street rose on Friday as investors hoped for progress on trade in a critical U.S.-China meeting over the weekend, and the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted their biggest weekly percentage gains in nearly seven years. Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSo how does a G20 summit work? World leaders are gathering in Argentina for their annual G20 summit amid new tension with Russia over Ukraine and a US trade row with China.US President Donald Trump has cancelled a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in protest…
Enlarge / Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, in May 2018. Seven members of the House of Representatives and one United States senator have now sent a second letter to Amazon's CEO, asking for more clarification about the company's use of facial-recognition technology. Although two House members in the group sent a similar…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street closed slightly lower on Thursday as tech and financial shares slumped, erasing earlier gains stemming from Federal Reserve minutes showing the central bank opened the debate on when to pause further interest rate hikes. Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York…
Image copyright AFP Image caption The UN has called the Yemen war the world's worst humanitarian crisis The US Senate has advanced a measure to withdraw American support for a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, in a blow to President Donald Trump.Many senators are unhappy with Mr Trump's response to the murder of Saudi journalist…
The Switch has had a pretty successful first 20 months in the US, all things considered. Normalized to average monthly data (for varying data periods), the Switch still performs pretty well. This morning, Nintendo sent out one of its periodic brag-heavy business press releases, this time focusing on a strong start to the US holiday…
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks suffering an even bigger hit to its economy than during the global financial crisis 10 years ago if it leaves the European Union in a worst-case Brexit scenario in four months’ time, the Bank of England said on Wednesday. Hours after the government issued its own stark warning about a…
