By all rights, it's Germany's turn for one of the biggest political plums in Europe: the chance to name the next president of the European Central Bank. Chancellor Angela Merkel may be prepared to trade that for other items on her agenda. Merkel's political partners say they're potentially willing to
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Long-suffering Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. shareholders got some overdue good news with annual results Wednesday: A surge back to profit in the second half. There's a cloud on the horizon, though, in the form of President Donald Trump's escalating war on Chinese exports. One way of thinking about
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As the public grows more concerned about the heaps of harmful or misleading videos on YouTube, the company is looking for ways to clean itself up.
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U.S. retail sales unexpectedly fell in February for a third month, adding to signs that consumer spending will cool this quarter from the previous period's hot pace, according to Commerce Department figures released Wednesday.
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Rex Tillerson was the former chief executive of energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. before he was the former secretary of state. Big jobs, both, and Tillerson looked and sounded every bit the corporate titan, with a leonine head framed by thinning white hair, chevron eyebrows, a soothing, basso Texas drawl,
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