Bloomberg An 18-month labour dispute at an aluminum smelter in Quebec controlled by Alcoa Corp ended after workers accepted a deal, defying the recommendation of their union’s leadership. About 80 percent of workers at the Becancour plant voted to ratify the offer after a meeting of the United Steelworkers in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, the union said. Alcoa said it expects the ...

Is there any method to Donald Trump’s madness on trade? Politicians and investors are all struggling to make sense of the US president’s tendency to stop, go, and reverse course in his dealings with China and Europe. Financial traders went to sleep basking in the glow of a trade truce with Beijing. They woke up to the news that the ...

Members of Congress are finally getting serious about protecting privacy online. If only they had some better ideas on how to do so. The latest entrant is a bill sponsored by Senators Josh Hawley and Mark Warner. Among other things, it would require big tech platforms such as Facebook and Google to tell users how much money their personal information ...