Bloomberg General Motors Co will cut more than 14,000 salaried staff and factory workers and close seven factories worldwide by the end of next year, part of a sweeping realignment to prepare for a future of electric and self-driving vehicles. Four factories in the US and one in Canada could be shuttered by the end of 2019 if the automaker ...

Bloomberg The UK economy could get a 40 billion-pound ($51 billion) boost every year by creating more jobs for young people. That would be the benefit of reducing the percentage of the young not in employment, education or training to a level similar to Germany, a report by PwC said on Tuesday. The UK ranks 19th among the 35 Organization ...

The behaviour of Chinese officials at last weekend’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Papua New Guinea, reportedly barging into the foreign minister’s office to try to cut mildly critical language on trade from a final communique, seemed intended to signal that China won’t budge an inch on US demands. Commerce Minister Zhong Shan has declared that those who assume ...