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China offers path to end US trade imbalance

Bloomberg China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the US, in a move that would reconfigure the relationship between the world’s two largest economies, according to officials familiar with the negotiations. By increasing goods imports from the US by a combined value of more than $1 trillion over that period, China would ...

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Nissan cutting 700 workers at US plant

Bloomberg Nissan Motor Co plans to cut as many as 700 workers at one of its US factories, adding slower truck and van sales to the list of woes for a company reeling from a leadership crisis. The Nissan assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi, will eliminate one shift of Titan and Frontier pickup production, and drop one shift building the ...

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Foxconn may delay hiring for new plant

Bloomberg Foxconn Technology Group may delay its timeline for hiring workers at its new Wisconsin plant, adding to mounting gloom over the state of the technology industry and global trade. The biggest assembler of Apple Inc’s iPhones, known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. in Taiwan and Asia, said it has “adjusted” the timeframe for recruitment and hiring at its ...

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