Business, Technology, Equipment, Safety, Autonomous

Parts Makers Must Change With Times as Autonomous Tech Evolves

The car industry is reinventing the wheel to prepare for autonomous vehicles.

July 15, 2019
Government, Business

Trump Hits Out at China Over Slowing Agricultural Purchases

President Donald Trump complained that China hasn’t increased its purchases of American farm products, a promise he said he had secured at a meeting with the country’s president, Xi Jinping, at the Group of 20 summit last month.

July 12, 2019
Government, Business

China Maintains Negotiating Stance Ahead of Trade Talks

There’s no change to China’s conditions for making a trade deal with the United States as the nations’ leaders prepare to meet this weekend, a government spokesman said.

June 27, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Trump Says He'll Drop Mexico Tariff as Deal Reached on Migrants

President Donald Trump said he would drop plans for tariffs on Mexico that he’d been threatening to impose for the past week after the country promised new steps to stem an influx of illegal migration into the U.S.

June 7, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

Trump to Impose Tariff Until Mexico Stops Migrant Flood Into US

President Donald Trump said that he would impose a 5% tariff on Mexican goods until that country stops immigrants from entering the U.S. illegally.

May 30, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

US Hikes Tariffs Amid Trade Talks; China Vows to Retaliate

The United States hiked tariffs on more than $200 billion in goods from China on May 10 in the most dramatic step yet of President Donald Trump’s push to extract trade concessions, deepening a conflict that has roiled financial markets and cast a shadow over the global economy.

May 10, 2019
Government, Business, Logistics

NYC Congestion Pricing Triggers Hustle for Discounts, Exemptions

Commercial truckers want out of New York City’s first-in-the-nation congestion pricing. So do advocates for the disabled, taxi drivers and swaths of the suburbs.

April 2, 2019
Business, Top 100

FedEx Names Don Colleran New CEO of Express

FedEx Corp. named company veteran Don Colleran president and chief executive officer of FedEx Express, the latest change linked to a shakeup of the shipping company’s top executives last month.

March 19, 2019
Business

Ola Kallenius Appointed First Non-German to Lead Daimler

Daimler AG accelerated a management transition, appointing development head Ola Kallenius to replace CEO Dieter Zetsche ahead of schedule as the German carmaker confronts jarring changes in the automotive industry.

September 26, 2018
Business

Tesla Holders Brace for Market’s Verdict on Musk’s Brazen Pivot

Elon Musk’s stunning tweet that he wanted to take Tesla Inc. private and had funding secured was a classic Musk moonshot — given credibility only by the sense that if anyone could possibly pull such a brazen feat, he was the guy.

August 27, 2018