Bloomberg President Donald Trump on Wednesday plans to announce a framework for bilateral trade talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, three people familiar with the matter said. The negotiations are likely to focus on the trade in automobiles, according to one the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity about private deliberations. Both leaders are in New York this ...

Bloomberg Alphabet’s Google, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and other tech and advertising companies have committed to implementing new measures and investing in new technologies to fight the spread of hoax news online in Europe, according to a draft of the agreement. The group, an ad-hoc alliance that includes Mozilla Corp. and advertising business organisations, is set to present its code ...

Bloomberg A global tariff tit-for-tat could boost China’s $12 trillion economy and hurt the US expansion, according to European Central Bank research. The conclusions challenge President Donald Trump’s assertions that trade wars are “good, and easy to win.” They also counter the argument that China has more to lose from a spat with its main trading partner because of its ...