 | | | | WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration signaled on Wednesday that proposed U.S. tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods may be a negotiating tactic in the escalating U.S.-China trade fight in which China retaliated by targeting key American imports with similar duties. | | |
| | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's three major indexes staged a big comeback to close higher on Wednesday as investors turned their focus towards earnings and away from a trade conflict between the United States and China that wreaked havoc early in the session. | | |
| | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday it hoped China would change its "unfair trade practices" in a way that would avoid the need for the Trump administration to move forward with announced import tariffs. | | |
| | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Beijing's objections to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs are "completely baseless" and there is no justification to impose $3 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. fruits, nuts and other goods, the Trump administration said it told China and the World Trade Organization Wednesday. | | |
| | | (Reuters) - As equity markets show increasing fragility, investors are looking for any sign that selling pressure will wane. Some of those markers could be found in the charts favored by technical analysts - although they suggest investors still face considerable risk. | | |
| | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million. | | |
| | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, arrived at the U.S. State Department on Wednesday for talks with Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan amid a deepening U.S.-China trade dispute. | | |
| | | BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts can move forward with a lawsuit accusing credit reporting firm Equifax Inc of failing to safeguard its databases or provide prompt notice of a breach that exposed the personal data of 147 million people, a state court judge has ruled. | | |
| | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar fell and global stock markets edged higher on Wednesday after China retaliated in a trade dispute with the United States, but Wall Street rebounded from a steeply lower opening on the notion a tariff war has not begun and any impact is too early to foresee. | | |
| | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China may pursue negotiations to resolve deepening differences over trade, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday, but he declined to say whether any new high-level meetings were planned. | | |
| | | SANTIAGO, April 4 (Reuters) - Chile's new government plans to slash $500 million in spending over four years to reduce a larger-than-anticipated fiscal deficit inherited from its predecessor, Finance Minister Felipe Larrain said on Wednesday. | | |
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