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Japan’s automakers can’t escape US car sales woes

Automakers in the US just had a bad month. Buckle up: It’s going to get worse. Sales cratered in September. Toyota Motor Corp.’s dropped 10 percent, Honda Motor Co.’s were down 7 percent, Ford Motor Co. posted a decline of about 11 percent and Nissan Motor Co. saw deliveries fall 12 percent. A worsening US auto market should be no ...

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Nafta is dead. What comes next looks awfully familiar

On Monday President Donald Trump announced the end of Nafta, the trade agreement he’s repeatedly called a “disaster” for US workers, and hailed its successor, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as the greatest trade deal ever seen. As you might therefore expect, the new agreement is just a lightly tweaked version of the old. Despite the president’s theatrics, Nafta lives on. ...

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Europe teaches Uber to do business better

On Monday, Uber returned to Dusseldorf, Germany, a city it was forced to abandon in 2015. This is a victory both for German regulators and for Uber, or rather, for its new version under Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi. It shows that the San Francisco-based company can actually function as a tech platform, rather than as a taxi business that pretends ...

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