US trade negotiators return to China this week for a fresh round of talks in a new city, but experts warn a change of air is unlikely to quickly solve an impasse between the world's two biggest economies. The meetings in Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday will be the first face-to-face...

A row over taxing tech giants is set to dominate a meeting of G-7 finance ministers near Paris this week, with the world’s leading industrialized nations already riven by disruptive U.S. trade policies. During the meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Chantilly, ministers are set to discuss...

Iraq's oil exports from its southern ports have reached 3.42 million barrels per day (bpd) so far in July, two oil officials told Reuters Monday. Exports from its southern Basra terminals fell to 3.39 million bpd in June from 3.441 million bpd in the previous month. Officials...

U.S. regulators have approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social network's privacy and data protection lapses, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The newspaper said the Federal Trade Commission approved the settlement in a 3-2 vote,...