US President Donald Trump's decision to delay an increase in tariffs on Chinese goods drove European shares to their highest since October as carmakers and mining companies rallied. The pan-European STOXX 600 was up 0.3

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Australian shares ended higher on Monday, with resource stocks in favour after US President Donald Trump announced a delay in planned tariff hikes on Chinese goods due to progress made in trade negotiations, although weaker

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London's blue-chip index squeezed out gains on Monday as banks got a boost from comments about a possible Brexit delay, while housebuilders were hit by reports the government was worried about Persimmon's handling of a

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Almost 80 percent of high earners in Britain are male and the gender pay gap among the nation's richest will not close for another 36 years at current rates of progress, a study showed on

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European businesses said Monday they fear a Chinese foreign investment law allegedly fast-tracked by Beijing to meet Washington's demands on trade has inadequate protections against forced technology transfers. The law will eliminate the requirement for

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US President Donald Trump said Monday he expects to hold a "signing summit" with China's President Xi Jinping to seal a trade deal, since negotiators "very, very close" to an agreement. Negotiators worked through the

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The world's largest Nutella factory restarted production on Monday after it stopped work for five days as a precautionary measure over a "quality defect", owner Ferrero's French branch said. The factory in Normandy, France stopped

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German prosecutors said Monday they had fined high-end carmaker BMW 8.5 million euros ($9.6 million) over diesel cars with higher harmful emissions than allowed, while adding the infraction was down to error rather than deliberate

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Canadian miner Barrick Gold on Monday launched a nearly $18 billion hostile merger offer for American rival Newmont to create a global gold juggernaut. Together the world's two biggest miners in the sector would form

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Britain and the United States agreed Monday to maintain how multi-trillion dollar financial transactions are carried out between the two countries after Brexit, aiming to avoid market uncertainty when the UK leaves the EU. "Market

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