TOKYO – Japan’s central bank pledged to keep its massive stimulus in place but made tweaks to reduce adverse effects of its policies on markets and commercial banks, reflecting its view it would take longer for inflation to hit its target. At a two-day rate review that ended on Tuesday, the Bank of Japan kept […]

LONDON – T-Mobile US (TMUS.O) named Nokia (NOKIA.HE) to supply it with $3.5 billion in next-generation 5G network gear, the firms said on Monday, marking the world’s largest 5G deal so far and concrete evidence of a new wireless upgrade cycle taking root. No.3 U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile – which in April agreed to a […]

BEIJING  – German carmaker BMW (BMWG.DE) said it will raise the prices of two U.S.-made crossover sport-utility vehicles in China to cope with the additional cost of tariffs on U.S. car imports into the world’s biggest auto market. In a move due to take effect on Monday, BMW said in a statement to Reuters over […]

NEW YORK  – The ability of the U.S. stock market to keep an edge this year over equities elsewhere in the world hinges on the United States maintaining its economic and earnings growth advantage, the strength of the dollar and how global trade tensions resolve, investors said. Spurred by fiscal policy benefits including a corporate […]

Hint: It’s not about the money. I often meet entrepreneurs who say something along the lines of “Once I get to six figures, I’ll be happy.” But then they get there, and guess what? They’re as stressed and burnt out as ever. I call this getting stuck in the “six-figure hamster wheel,” and it’s a vicious cycle I’ve lost myself […]

The New York State Public Service Commission said on Friday it revoked its approval of the 2016 merger agreement between Charter Communications Inc (CHTR.O) and Time Warner Cable, saying Charter failed to build out its network for enough homes and that the company must end its operations in the state. The commission said the U.S. […]

Black entrepreneurs talk candidly about the lack of representation and what they’re doing about it. In the fight to legalize cannabis, one of the most compelling arguments has been the social justice argument–that legalizing cannabis will stop the disproportionate enforcement of cannabis laws on the on the African-American community. Although 16 percent of African Americans […]

Amazon remains unstoppable. The company accounts for nearly half of all online retail sales in the United States. It continues expanding its brick-and-mortar retail footprint through Whole Foods, Amazon bookstores and new checkout-free convenience locations. And every new venture, from advertising to cloud computing to, perhaps soon, healthcare, almost invariably becomes a billion-dollar business. Wall Street expects that dominance to continue […]

WASHINGTON, July 24  – President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the Federal Communications Commission for not approving Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc’s$3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media, calling it “disgraceful” compared with the FCC’s approval several years ago of a deal involving the NBC television network. “So sad and unfair that the FCC wouldn’t approve the […]

Canadian company aims make the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis as country prepares to legalise drug in October Scientists in a small laboratory in Ontario, Canada, are testing enzymes and experimenting with fermentation. Their techniques are not new, but their focus is a first. They are developing what is being described as the world’s first beer […]