It’s been the better part of a year sinceDonald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un stood face to face for the first time at their unprecedented summit in Singapore. Here is a breakdown of what Trump and Kim have agreed to, what has - and hasn’t - happened since they last shook hands, and what may be on the negotiating table.
What's at stake in U.S.-China trade talks?The governments of the world’s two largest economies have been locked in a tit-for-tat tariff battle for months as Washington presses Beijing to address long-standing concerns over Chinese practices and policies around industrial subsidies, market access and intellectual property rights protections. Here is a look at the key issues in the talks and their implications.
Through the Brexit Looking Glass - What happens next? With just six weeks until the United Kingdom is due by law to leave the EU, the options include a disorderly Brexit, a delay to Brexit or no Brexit at all. British Prime Minister Theresa May's hope of presenting a united front to convince Brussels to make changes to the deal suffered a heavy blow on Thursday when both eurosceptic and pro-EU lawmakers in her party refused to endorse her approach, condemning her to defeat in parliament.
More than a year of work to bring Amazon’s headquarters and tens of thousands of jobs to New York City ended with a couple of phone calls. Jay Carney, the company’s top policy executive, told New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that the world’s biggest online retailer would not go ahead with plans to invest $2.5 billion to build a second head office in the New York City borough of Queens.
Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone have won over Scout24 after raising their offer for the online classifieds group to 5.7 billion euros ($6.4 billion) including debt, setting up the biggest takeover of a listed German company by private equity.
