Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

As Trump's tariffs bite the Commerce Department has been flooded with almost 19,000 requests so far to have products excluded from Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs. Companies are resorting to unconventional means to persuade the administration that the duties will hurt U.S. production and jobs.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Europe will implement counter measures against US tariffs on steel and aluminium.

With its fleet of ageing ferries, age-expired locomotives and the need for replacement wagons, KiwiRail is building its case for a large taxpayer investment. David Williams reports for Newsroom.

Bayer now the sole owner of Monsanto Company, but the two will operate separately until divestments to BASF completed.

Upon learning about the suicide of chef, author, and media personality Anthony Bourdain, I remembered that he and I had spoken for an interview sometime in 2009 prior to a Bay Area appearance.

Hundreds of fledgling New Zealand tech companies will feel the pinch if stimulating research and development grants are replaced with tax credits, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says.

The digital revolution that has begun will change, redefine and disrupt almost every sector across the country, New Zealand Techleaders chair David Kennedy says.

Britain's Rolls-Royce said a costly compressor problem that had grounded Boeing planes had now been found in a different type of engine, compounding pressures on a group that is due to cut more than 4,000 jobs this week.

The 2018 selloff in cryptocurrencies deepened, wiping out about US$42 billion (NZ$60 billion) of market value over the weekend and extending this year's slump in Bitcoin to more than 50 percent.

WorkSafe says a Southland factory where a worker's arm was trapped in heavy machinery did not have a proper guard rail.