DETROIT/LONDON/SHANGHAI  – Automakers are scrambling to ship vehicles to the United States to pre-empt possible higher tariffs, according to port data, port officials and logistics companies. Data from a number of U.S. ports showed a surge in vehicle exports and imports in May, as U.S. President Donald Trump ratcheted up pressure on China and Europe […]

President Trump has an early opponent emerging for the 2020 presidential election: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti. Avenatti, who’s risen to national fame as the porn star’s attorney amid the tempest of legal claims she’s made against the president, tweeted Wednesday that he will run if there is no other candidate “that has a real […]

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has launched an international taskforce together with tax enforcement authorities from four other countries to take on cryptocurrency-enabled crimes, according to a press release published Monday, July 2. The new coalition, dubbed ‘The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement,’ or ‘J5,’ comprises tax enforcement agencies from five countries in total –– Australia, Canada, […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was battling to save her coalition Monday after Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced his intention to resign over a controversial migration policy, according to German media reports. Seehofer offered to quit as interior minister and as leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democrats […]

Rather than military, political or economic might, it’s the culture of these countries that most strongly impacts the wider world. Global influence is often measured by military, political or economic might, but for some countries, it’s the strength of the culture – its food, fashion or entertainment – that most strongly impacts the wider world. […]

    Last year, Amazon launched a program called “Pivot,” designed to help underperforming employees improve their work. It’s been 18 months since Pivot was introduced and, as Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper and Business Insider’s Prachi Bhardwaj reported, some employees are protesting that the hearing process isn’t fair. Under the Pivot program, employees who are put on a performance-improvement plan have three options, […]

133 deputies from the Spanish ruling party, Partido Popular, have proposed a bill to use blockchain in the public administration of Spain, CriptoNoticias reports Saturday, June 30. The bill was introduced to the Spanish Congress on June 22 and published on the official website of the legislative branch on June 26. It hasn’t been reviewed by other deputies yet. […]

Losses in shares of technology and industrial companies dragged Wall Street lower on the first trading day of the second half of this year, as risk of an escalating tariff war between Washington and its trading partners continued to weigh on sentiment. Shares of trade-sensitive U.S. companies slipped, with Boeing (BA.N) and Caterpillar (CAT.N) down […]

The left-wing anti-establishment candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will make tackling corruption his top priority after winning Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday. Official projections give him more than 53% of the vote but it is unclear whether his party will secure an outright majority in parliament. US President Donald Trump has said he looks forward […]

UK-based crypto data supplier and cryptocurrency wallet Blockchain.com has recently launched a comprehensive institutional platform Blockchain Principal Strategies (BPS), according to a blog post today, June 28. Blockchain.com claims the new platform will provide secure and “unparalleled” access to markets, services, and research for institutions, family businesses, and retail investors. Blockchain.com co-founder Peter Smith commented that the new institutional grade platform aims to provide […]