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Global shares were mixed Monday, following a reassuring report on U.S. jobs, while investors cautiously awaited the outcome of trade talks between the U.S. and China. France’s CAC 40 lost 0.3% to 5,475.29 in early trading, while Germany’s DAX lost 0.1% to 11,997.30. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.2% to 7,140.04. U.S. futures pointed to early […]

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency on Monday ordered 80 people and groups to pay fines totaling about $100 million for allegedly receiving funds from the 1MDB state investment fund. Former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s brother Nazir Razak, who heads the country’s second-largest bank, was among those listed. So was a former deputy minister, Ahmad Maslan, and the

Asian shares were mixed Monday, following a reassuring report on U.S. jobs, while investors cautiously awaited the upcoming trade talks between the U.S. and China. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 shed 0.2% to 21,358.56. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.5% to 6,551.40, while South Korea’s Kospi edged 0.1% higher to 2,021.89. Markets in China were closed for

The latest on Portugal’s election (all times local): 11:55 p.m. Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party has collected the most votes in Sunday’s general election, leaving it poised to continue in government for another four years. With 208 seats in the 230-seat parliament awarded in the official count, the Socialists reached 99 seats, compared with 74 for

As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump‘s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic. Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to

The center-left Socialist Party collected the most votes in Portugal’s general election Sunday, an exit poll indicated, leaving it poised to continue in government for another four years. However, with the exit poll predicting they would get between 36-40% of the vote, the Socialists could fall short of a majority in parliament. That could mean

Tunisia’s moderate Islamist party appeared to be heading for victory in parliamentary elections, according to polling agencies, though the rival party of a jailed populist tycoon also claimed to come out on top of Sunday’s voting. The election is seen as important for the country’s economic and social stability — and as a bellwether for

DETROIT (Reuters) – Talks for a new four-year labor contract between General Motors Co (GM.N) and its striking workers took a “turn for the worse” on Sunday after the United Auto Workers rejected the largest U.S. automaker’s latest offer but the two sides were still talking. GM made an offer to the union that basically

Contract talks aimed at ending a 21-day strike by the United Auto Workers against General Motors have taken a turn for the worse, hitting a big snag over product commitments for U.S. factories, a union official wrote in an email to members. The letter from UAW Vice President Terry Dittes casts doubt on whether there

British Prime Minister on Sunday renewed his vow to take the country out of the European Union by the Brexit deadline, in an apparent contradiction of a government pledge in court days earlier to ask for an extension if there’s no withdrawal deal. “We will be packing our bags and walking out on” Oct. 31,