Bloomberg Panasonic Corp has hired a former Tesla Inc battery guru to a senior role at the so-called gigafactory the two companies share in the US. Celina Mikolajczak, who left Tesla in early 2018 for short stint at Uber Technologies Inc, joined Panasonic this month as vice president of battery technology. She’ll be based in Reno, Nevada, where Tesla and ...

Bloomberg US farmers and agribusinesses face a rising threat of long-term losses in export sales as President Donald Trump’s trade war with China continues, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warned in a report. The finding by a blue-chip management consulting firm could feed mounting fears among major US agricultural players that the damage done from a tariff war that has already ...

Bloomberg The US dropped from the top spot in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual competitiveness report, losing out to Singapore. Hong Kong, the Netherlands and Switzerland made up the rest of the top five, according to the WEF survey published on Wednesday. On the US, it noted growing uncertainty among business leaders. The forum focussed its report on continued ...