US president repeatedly mentioned his company’s properties during the G7 closing conference, after skipping meeting dedicating funds to Amazon firesSign up to the US briefing and get a new perspective 4.47pm BST Trump has concluded his press conference to close out the G7 summit in Biarritz, France. He spoke to reporters for about half an hour after appearing alongside the French president, Emmanuel Macron, for roughly 35 minutes.The last question Trump took had to do with the climate crisis....

Fast-food chain picks up on meat-free trend with test product made from pea proteinKFC is to deviate from Colonel Sanders’ original “finger lickin’ good” recipe by offering nuggets made from peas as well as chickens.The fast-food chain said it was working with the rapidly growing meat substitute company Beyond Meat on a one-day trial that if successful would lead to plant-based chicken nuggets and wings appearing on its US menu. KFC, which is owned by the New York stock exchange-listed Yum! B...

Capital controls imposed on depositors in 2015 will end, says new PM Kyriakos MitsotakisCapital controls imposed on depositors at the height of Greece’s debt crisis are being lifted after four years.The policy change will finally remove restrictions on companies and individuals sending money abroad, which were introduced to prevent bank runs during the 2015 Grexit crisis. Continue reading...

Deal would merge the Marlboro maker with the parent company that sold it off a decade agoTobacco companies Philip Morris and Altria are discussing a merger that would reunite the Marlboro maker with the parent company that sold it off a decade ago.The two companies confirmed on Tuesday that they are discussing an all-stock merger but said there was no guarantee a deal would be reached adding they will “make no further comment regarding the discussions unless and until it is appropriate to do ...

U.S. money market fund assets fell this week, retreating from their highest level since October 2009, suggesting a pause in investors piling into these low-risk products amid trade and economic...

Two potential payouts from Johnson & Johnson and Purdue Pharma have provoked varied responsesEfforts to get compensation for the US opioid crisis with two multimillion-dollar drug manufacturer payouts have been met by leading activists and addiction experts with a range of responses from incredulity to cautious optimism.On Tuesday, the wealthy Sackler family and their embattled drugmaker, Purdue Pharma, makers of two opioids that triggered the crisis, Oxycontin and MSContin, reportedly backed...

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Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will be grilled by lawmakers over the company's plan to launch a digital currency and efforts to prevent foreign election interference when he appears before a Congressional panel on Wednesday. Libra, Facebook's digital currency project, has faltered in recent weeks amid sustained criticism from lawmakers and regulators over fears it may aid money laundering and upend the global financial system. Zuckerberg will try to reassure skeptical lawmake...

Disappointing results from Texas Instruments and the latest Brexit drama weigh on sharesIntroduction: Disappointment in the marketsPound drops as Brexit faces another delayTexas Instruments sales forecasts disappoints 8.55am BST The weaker pound is propping up the FTSE 100 this morning, but shares in some UK-focused companies are dropping.Housebuilders Persimmon and Berkeley Group are both down 1.2%, on fears that another Brexit delay will deter people from moving house. Anxiety about consume...

(Bloomberg) -- Flaws in the design of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max and lack of information on how to deal with malfunctions in one of the jet’s flight-control systems contributed to last year’s crash of Lion Air Flight 610, which killed 189 people, Indonesian investigators found.In a slideshow to victims’ families, the National Transportation Safety Committee said the 737 Max’s Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, was approved based on incorrect assumptions and that its reliance ...