Новости за 05.12.2016

Tyson Foods, Hershey and other established food companies are following startups into the meal-kit market, hunting for new ways to profit from ingredients that they already make.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he will visit Pearl Harbor in late December to pay tribute to the victims of the Japanese attack there 75 years ago, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so.

Britain’s Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments over whether Prime Minister Theresa May has to consult Parliament before starting Britain’s exit from the European Union.

Italy’s rejection of constitutional reform and the resignation of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi are far from being a Brexit-style shock. Markets got this one right. But even more political uncertainty is the result. Italian bonds remain in the crosshairs.

The typically low-key head of China’s securities regulator took an unusually biting swipe at investors quietly raising their stakes in blue-chip companies, calling them new-money barbarians.

President Barack Obama is in the middle of a delicate balancing act between moving forward with executive actions to cement his legacy and trying to shape the policy choices of President-elect Donald Trump.

Autonomous-driving software startup AImotive, backed by Bosch and Nvidia, has found it can more quickly improve its algorithms by using scenarios fed by a videogame console.

As Republicans gear up to overhaul the federal health law, they face pushback from a couple unexpected corners over one of their goals: Giving health insurers greater ability to sell policies to consumers across state lines.

If Monte dei Paschi fails to raise capital, the eurozone faces two equally unappealing options.

Footage from a Pakistani cricket player shows people fleeing a fire that tore through a Karachi hotel early Monday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 50 others, including several cricket players. Photo: Sohaib Maqsood via Storyful

In its first briefing since a phone call between U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, China’s Foreign Ministry said Mr. Trump’s people understand the importance of the issue to Beijing.

President-elect Donald Trump has offered few clues for his choice of who will become his Secretary of State. With an expanding list of candidates, the confusion makes it difficult to discern how his foreign policy will be run when he is president. Photo: AP

Panasonic’s potential deal for leading automotive headlight maker ZKW Group is the latest in a growing frenzy for putting high tech in cars.

India’s transport ministry has proposed allowing drivers to sign up for organ donation in case they become some of the hundreds of thousands of people who die after being caught up in accidents on the country’s roads. The South Asian nation has a huge gap in demand and supply for organ donation. Many people are unwilling to donate relatives’ organs due to religious beliefs, because they don’t understand how it works, or because it is too difficult to do so due to red tape, doctors say. The road... Читать дальше...

HERE’S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: President Barack Obama has meetings at the White House. Vice President Joe Biden, with former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, participates in a discussion on financial regulation hosted by Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at 3 p.m. […]

Several Silicon Valley technology companies have delayed releasing their annual diversity reports as the industry struggles to show progress in adding more women and minorities to their ranks.

The country now faces a period of uncertainty as it prepares for elections next year and with the challenge of balancing its close U.S. ties with a growing economic relationship with China.

Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu and one of India’s most powerful politicians, was in “very critical” condition Monday, a day after she suffered a cardiac arrest, according to authorities at the hospital where she is being treated.

John Key, one of Asia-Pacific's longest-serving conservative leaders, has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Here's a look back at his eight years in power. Photo: AP

On the first day of a stock-market trading link between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, flow into mainland China was underwhelming, taking up less than 20% of the allotted daily quota. Photo: Reuters

A fire that swept through a four-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi has killed at least 11 people.

President-elect Donald Trump stepped up his rhetoric about Beijing’s economic and military stances, as senior members of his transition team sought to play down concerns that his phone call with Taiwan’s president heralded a break from longstanding U.S. policy on China.

Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his fortune over the past decade fighting tobacco use in the developing world. Now, with cigarette use declining globally, he is deepening his campaign.

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