Новости за 14.12.2017

Canada’s most prominent business leaders are ‘deeply concerned’ by setbacks to diversify trade in Asia in the face of uncertainty over Nafta, according to a letter their lobbyist sent to Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Christmas may be over but WSJ’s Richard Rubin keeps the holiday spirit alive by explaining who’s getting presents and who’s getting coal with the GOP tax bill.

WSJ's Richard Rubin takes us to a weird, wacky Santa's workshop to explain who's getting Christmas presents and who's getting coal with the GOP tax bill. Photo/Illustration: Adam Falk/The Wall Street Journal

The arrest of two Reuters reporters in Myanmar casts a spotlight on how the country’s authorities use colonial-era laws to restrict press freedom as international criticism builds over the nation’s treatment of its ethnic-Rohingya Muslim minority.

The People’s Bank of China followed a U.S. interest-rate increase with one of its own to blunt the effect of the Federal Reserve move on the Chinese economy.

Money raised from initial coin offerings has surged past $4 billion for the first time, even as regulators world-wide have escalated warnings about the new form of corporate funding.

Shale producers are roaring back to life, pushing the global oil supply to its highest level in a year and undermining OPEC’s efforts to rebalance the market, the International Energy Agency said.

An Islamic extremist suicide bomber disguised as a police officer killed at least 17 and injured 20 at a police academy in Somalia’s capital on Thursday, police said.

Markets had largely stopped worrying about capital outflows from China. The People’s Bank of China’s rate increase shows that may be a mistake.

Scholars parse Pyongyang’s inventive invective using high-powered mathematical tools to better understand Kim Jong Un’s regime.

Babies born to women who live close to fracked natural gas wells have an elevated risk of being born with a low birth weight, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

South Korea’s government is pushing ahead with new rules to curtail the widespread speculation on cryptocurrencies that has swept the Asian nation this year, following an emergency meeting of officials and regulators.

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group is working to persuade lenders and investors that it is financially sound following sharp declines in the prices of bonds and shares of some of its units.

LexinFintech, a Chinese online lender that is planning to go public in the U.S., scaled back its fundraising ambitions after regulatory changes in China sparked a rout in shares of similar companies.

Democrats have finally figured out how to turn Trump’s tweets into their own weapon.

The central bank seems to think tax reform won’t do much for growth.

More troubling evidence of election meddling at the bureau.

If Republicans want policy victories, they should stop throwing away Senate seats.

AT&T Inc. reached a tentative deal with the union representing more than 21,000 of its wireless-support and retail workers, ending a 10-month standoff over pay and work conditions.

Message to businesses and families: It’s OK to plan for the future.

The stock of an obscure pink-sheet company attempting to make money out of cryptocurrencies skyrocketed earlier this month, making CEO Michael Poutre a paper multibillionaire—before it plunged.

Normal growth will drive up the demand for bank loans and induce lending of excess reserves.

At the end of the day, the degradation of language is a problem of culture—whatever that means.

Prime Minister Theresa May lost a crucial vote in Parliament when rebel lawmakers from her party joined the opposition in approving a measure that gives the legislature greater control over the Brexit terms.

Walt Disney Co. is finalizing a deal to acquire assets from 21st Century Fox, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that the deal values 21st Century Fox as a whole at around $40 a share.