3M chanced on certain funding and marketing related efforts in business groups in China, in its own internal investigation. It is cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. In a significant development, 3M Co… Read More ›
Regulations & Legal
Trump target China’s ‘developing nation’ at the WTO
How can China be a developing nation when its GDP is the second largest in the world ? In a development that will have major repercussions on the Chinese economy, U.S. President Donald Trump has pressed the World Trade Organization… Read More ›
U.S. Justice Department approves T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint
T-Mobile’s $26 billion bid to acquire rival Sprint Corp has been approved by the U.S. Justice Department. The breakthrough comes after the deal was caught for more than a year in regulatory limbo. In a significant development, the U.S. Justice… Read More ›
U.S. regulators increases oversight on resolution plans for foreign banks
Resolution plans, also known as living wills, require large banks to detail how they could be unwound in cases of bankruptcy with minimal disruption to the financial system. In a significant development, U.S. bank regulators stated they have not found… Read More ›
Vodafone Will Spin Off Its Pan-European Mobile Mast Business TowerCo
With the aim of launching an initial public offering at the stock exchange within the next 18 months for a potential worth of as much as €20 billion, Vodafone plans to spin off its pan-European mobile mast business. There was… Read More ›
Signals Of Future Rate Cut Given By ECB And Hints And More Monetary Easing
Hints about implementing more easing measures for the economy was dropped by the European Central Bank (ECB) especially targeted for the markets on Thursday which resulted in the euro dropping to a two year low against the dollar for a… Read More ›
737 Max Production Could Be Stopped If Impasse With Regulators Continue, Warns Boeing
If the global grounding of its 737 Max jet planes continues for much longer, Boeing would be forced to halt production of the planes, the United States airplane maker has warned. The troubles caused by the grounding of the planes… Read More ›
Climate Action Rebate Act could generate $2.5 trillion in 10 years
Plans are afoot to get bipartisan backing for this bill. On Thursday, two Democratic U.S. senators are set to unveil a bill which aims to reduce climate change by slapping a fee on oil, natural gas and coal; the bulk… Read More ›
A Sluggish Global Economy Could Get Even Worse Due To Trade Conflicts, IMF Says
The latest outlook from the International Monetary Fund about the prospect of the global economy states that growth in the world economy is still sluggish and a bouncing back of it is not assured even in 2020. That forecast was… Read More ›
EU will retaliate if US slaps tariffs on EU car exports
The EU has made it lucidly clear that it will retaliate with $39.1 billion of U.S. goods if Washington was to go ahead with its threat to impose tariffs on EU car exports. In a warning to Washington, the European… Read More ›