TRADE WARS - BIO FUEL DAILY

With eye on China, Germany shields strategic firms against takeovers

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

The new rules allow the government greater review powers in the defence, high-tech and infrastructure sectors, including utilities and telecoms providers, for m...

US and China spar at WTO policy forum

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

The world's top two economies exchanged harsh words at the US Trade Policy Review, where the WTO's 164-members are given the chance to scrutinise the practices ...

FedEx shares dive on weak China, Europe outlook

Dec 19, 2018 (AFP)

Executives listed a panoply of vulnerable markets: China, which has been hit by its trade fight with the United States; Britain, which has slowed sharply since ...

China's economic miracle: 40-year rise in numbers

Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)

Here we break down the transformation in numbers. - 42 - The factor by which the size of China's economy multiplied between 1980 and 2017, expanding from $305 b...

British companies in China optimistic despite Brexit

Dec 18, 2018 (AFP)

Nearly half of 212 British companies that took part in the survey, or 47 percent, think Brexit could have a positive impact on business if London and Beijing st...

US takes fire at WTO trade policy forum

Dec 17, 2018 (AFP)

Every WTO member faces a trade policy review, but the latest US audit turned especially hostile, with nations blasting a raft of tariffs and other measures impl...

Report aims at untapped workforce for Israel's growing high-tech sector

Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)

Israel's high-tech sector -- an industry that has earned it the nickname "start-up nation" -- is seen as a global leader. Its 7,000 local high-tech firms and do...

Trade war: Signs of progress in US-China talks

Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)

The whole world is watching the talks between Washington and Beijing, hoping a 90-day tariff truce will hold and the sides can end a dispute that threatens hund...

Shenzhen, China's reform pioneer, leads tech revolution

Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)

Today Shenzhen is again at the heart of a new policy aimed at turning China into a hi-tech innovator and shed its reputation as an assembly line for foreign com...

Germany to tighten rules on foreign takeovers: report

Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)

Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet plans to approve the law change on Wednesday and send it to parliament, the Handelsblatt business daily said, without citing ...

China economy shows weakness as consumers ease up on spending

Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)

The figures come just as Beijing and Washington engage in a painful trade row, while Chinese leaders are also struggling to kickstart demand at home as part of ...

China to suspend extra tariffs on US cars, parts

Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)

The move is another sign that the ceasefire has not been derailed by the recent arrest in Canada of a top Chinese telecom executive at the behest of the United ...

Former Canadian diplomat held in China a 'pawn': experts

Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)

Friends and experts say former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who was detained in Beijing on Monday, may have become a "hostage" and "pawn" in a three-nation...

Global economy in 2019: Growth beginning to fray

Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)

Surveys of US business and consumer sentiment continued to show economic optimism going into next year but cracks are beginning to form -- in the United States ...

Beijing offers to cut auto tariffs, buy soy: US official

Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)

Ross told CNBC the moves by Beijing will "prove that President (Donald) Trump was right when he announced his summary of the talks" held recently with China's P...

Chinese, US negotiators discuss trade talks timetable

Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)

Vice Premier Liu He spoke with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer 10 days after presidents Donald Trump and Xi J...

Trading blows: Canada next in China's crosshairs?

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

China's foreign ministry issued the warning after it summoned Canada's ambassador on Saturday and called for the release of Huawei's chief financial officer, Me...

Curitiba: Brazil's once model city, now frozen in the past

Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)

But that was 20 years ago. Today, although it features ample green spaces and a public transport system replicated in many other parts of the world, "Curitiba h...

China's factory gate inflation eases

Dec 09, 2018 (AFP)

The producer price index -- an important barometer of the industrial sector that measures the cost of goods at the factory gate -- climbed 2.7% on-year in Novem...

US sees 'hard deadline' for China trade negotiations

Dec 09, 2018 (AFP)

"As far as I'm concerned it's a hard deadline," US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "When I talk to the president of the ...