Google teams up with China’s Tencent
Alphabet's Google signed a patent licensing deal with Tencent as it looks to expand in China where many of its products are blocked by regulators. Aleksandra Michalska reports.
Industrials drag Wall Street lower
The sizzling rally on Wall Street paused Thursday, pulled lower by interest-rate sensitive sectors like utilities and real estate. Fred Katayama reports.
Luxury brands surge in China
Domestic sales of Gucci handbags and Chanel cosmetics, sluggish in China for years, rose at the fastest pace in over half a decade last year and are poised to consolidate the gains in 2018, according ...
End of chip boom? Price drop spooks investors
Electronics firm Samsung spook investors with profit outlook while concerns linger that the memory chip boom could grind to a halt. Francis Maguire reports.
Week ahead: spotlight on earnings, China growth
Markets were upbeat ahead of a bumper week of corporate earnings in the US. But as David Pollard reports, oil, the euro and China could also shift sentiment.
Call center jobs await deported Salvadorans
Salvadorans who are forced to return home from the United States next year could receive a warm welcome from El Salvador's growing call center industry, eager to boost its ranks with English speakers. ...