WTO members reach digital trade deal to ban tariffs on data
TOKYO -- World Trade Organization members negotiating rules on e-commerce agreed Friday to permanently ban tariffs on cross-border data transmissions.
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TOKYO -- World Trade Organization members negotiating rules on e-commerce agreed Friday to permanently ban tariffs on cross-border data transmissions.
(Reuters) -- The European Union's drugs regulator has rejected Eisai and Biogen's Leqembi treatment for early Alzheimer's disease, saying the risk of serious brain swelling did not outweigh its small impact on slowing cognitive decline.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is postponing the highly scrutinized listing of Pershing Square's U.S. closed-end fund, according to a notice on the New York Stock Exchange's website.
NEW YORK -- U.S. state-level officials on both sides of the political spectrum have taken an increasingly confrontational stance against China through actions that tighten trade and economic restrictions, complicating Washington's diplomacy with China.
NEW DELHI -- India and the U.K. are working toward concluding a free trade agreement soon with the new British Foreign Secretary David Lammy describing ongoing negotiations as "the floor not the ceiling" of shared ambitions to unlock their bilateral potential and deliver growth.
Stock futures rose on Friday morning as the major averages head for weekly losses and investors anticipated a reading of the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge.
North Korea’s economy roared back to life as arms transfers with Russia provided support for Kim Jong-un’s regime, allowing the leader to shun diplomacy as he ramped up his threats against the United States and South Korea.
SINGAPORE -- Singapore's central bank on Friday kept its monetary policy unchanged for a fifth consecutive meeting, even as the latest inflation figures came in lower than expected.