Bloomberg The US, Canada and Mexico remain at odds over metals tariffs, with Donald Trump’s envoy to Canada saying the president is reviewing them. Trump’s ambassador, Kelly Craft, argued the levies on steel and aluminum imports were designed to prevent overseas metal from entering America via its neighbors. “That is not something that is against Canada,” Craft said at an ...

Bloomberg Consumers drove the US economy to better-than-expected growth in the third quarter, but a steep slowdown in business spending raised concerns about whether the strength in the expansion is sustainable. The 3.5 percent annualised gain in gross domestic product, following 4.2 percent, marked the best back-to-back quarters since 2014, according to Commerce Department report. The rise in consumer spending, ...

Bloomberg Three former British traders were found not guilty of using an online chatroom to fix prices in the $5.1 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market. A federal jury in New York rejected the government’s claim that Richard Usher, Rohan Ramchandani and Christopher Ashton, a group known as “The Cartel,” rigged the market from 2007 to 2013 by coordinating trades and manipulating ...