Uber will share its data - starting with Sydney, Manila, Washington and Boston - in a bid to make good with city planners.

Martin Shkreli photoshopped his face onto a picture of Lauren Duca and her husband, as well as repeatedly tweeted about his love for her.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will invest $US1 billion in new US car manufacturing as President-elect Donald Trump pressures the auto industry.

A finance app has unveiled a special feature that alerts investors when president-elect Donald Trump has tweeted about a public company.

The Dow came within one point of 20,000 for the first time ever on Friday and the Nasdaq and S&P; 500 reached record highs, extending their two-month Trump rally.

Kimbal Musk - Elon's brother - just opened a shipping container farm compound in New York City.

Following the pounds' drop, increased costs for sourcing products such as Italian olive oil have made the branches "quite unsustainable," a spokeswoman said.

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Trump's cosying up to Vladimir Putin is straight out of the Nixon/Kissinger realpolitik playbook, seeking to befried Russia to better contain China, the country he sees as the biggest threat to the US as the world's biggest economy.

The promise of production cuts from OPEC and its partners sent oil rallying in 2016. Now traders want proof they're delivering on those vows. It won't come easy.

Shares of Toyota Motor Corp fell more than 3 per cent on Friday after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose heavy taxes on the automaker if it builds its Corolla cars for the US market at a plant in Mexico.

It hasn't been a great time to be a man without a job. The jobs that have been disappearing globally, like machine operator, are predominantly those that men do. The occupations that are growing, like health aide, employ mostly women.

The era of Donald Trump, a man long associated with conspicuous consumption, figures to be good to a whole range of luxury-goods industries. But perhaps nowhere is that excitement greater than in the private-aircraft business.

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Federal Reserve officials expect Donald Trump's election to result in somewhat faster economic growth, but see little chance of the boom Trump has promised.

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The Facebook founder's no-show at Trump Tower may be linked to possible White House ambitions.

Earthquakes in Japan and devastating floods in China were the most expensive catastrophes of 2016.

Ford's decision to can a planned factory in Mexico stems more from its long-term goals than Donald Trump or devotion to US workers, analysts say. 

Top executives in Britain were set to make more money by Wednesday, January 4, than the typical worker would earn all year, new figures reveal.

The Coca-Cola Company is being sued by activists who compare the beverage giant's advertising tactics to the tobacco industry's past efforts in minimising the health effects of its products.

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Business leaders thinking about how they might want to better themselves in 2017 would be well advised to take an intensive course in managing climate risk.

Starbucks is poised to overtake McDonald's as the world's most valuable restaurant chain, and the coffee giant could ultimately have a staggering 50,000 locations.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday notched the biggest victory of his campaign to get automakers to keep jobs in the US when Ford cancelled a $US1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) Mexican expansion, saying it would add positions in Michigan instead.

A branch of the fast-food chain McDonald's has opened in Vatican City, the seat of the Catholic Church, despite protests from residents and cardinals.

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Markets are still behaving as if they will get the "good Trump" (tax cuts and fiscal stimulus) rather than the "bad Trump" (trade wars), despite mounting evidence to the contrary.

Has James Packer jumped the gun scrapping the international ambitions of his gaming empire Crown Resorts this month and selling out of Macau?

Three Chinese men have been charged in the US with making over $4m by trading on information they got by hacking into top NY law firms.

A Chinese court has jailed Sun Zhaoxue, the former president of state-owned metals producer Chinalco for 16 years for graft

Toshiba's shares tumbled after the company announced it may have to book several billion dollars in charges related to a US nuclear acquisition.

As the inauguration nears, Trump has shown no signs of curbing his willingness to criticise brands that draw his ire.

Donald Trump's new trade chief has urged Britain's rivals to take advantage of the "God-given opportunity" of Brexit to take business away from the UK, according to a report.