Bacon lovers have nothing to fear. The truth is this: there will be no rationing at breakfast.

The uncertain fate of Xiao Jianhua, a China-born billionaire who was last seen at a luxury Hong Kong hotel a week ago, has raised fresh fears about the city's autonomy amid media reports he may have been abducted by Chinese agents.

Abe says it is not accurate to say that Japan is devaluing the yen, and that he would explain Japan's monetary policy to Trump if necessary.

A Chinese-born billionaire with financial ties to Beijing was reportedly kidnapped by Chinese police from Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel.

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The phone calls flew back and forth among the top US chief executives over the weekend, all asking the same questions: "What are you going to say publicly about Trump's executive order? And what can we say about it without becoming his next punching bag?"

Sony said it will take a 112 billion yen ($1.3 billion) writedown in its movie business after reviewing the future profitability of its operations.

Most US corporate bosses have stayed silent on President Donald Trump's immigration curbs.

Always an innovator, Tesla founder Elon Musk has asked the public for help in rewriting Donald Trump's controversial immigration bill.

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If China's sustainable growth rate does fall as far and as fast as I have suggested is possible, how would the Chinese authorities react?

For all the hand-wringing, Donald Trump needs China's help to fulfil some of his campaign pledges.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have expressed optimism that the United States will move ahead as a nation, even as it works through political differences and gets used to the new Trump administration.

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Donald Trump's statement that the US should have taken Iraq's oil after invading their country in 2003 is a worry on a number of fronts.

​President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in south Florida has doubled its new-member fees to $US200,000 ($265,000) due to growing interest since the election, a major spike that is already drawing criticism that the president is profiting off his rise to the White House.

Oil and natural gas producers are preparing for even more quick policy turns from the Trump administration.

Super-rich American "preppers" are buying up New Zealand land to escape to in case the US collapses or the poor rise up in revolt against them, The New Yorker reports.

​Speaker? Professor? Author? Board member? Owner of a professional basketball team?

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US withdrawal from a long-planned trade deal creates a political and economic vacuum that China is eager to fill.

Bermuda has joined the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's fight against multinational profit shifting.

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The Davos elite has enjoyed its private jets and outsize influence over economic policies for decades. That fortune may not persist.

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On April 6, 1917, the US officially entered World War I. Just six weeks short of 100 years later, Donald Trump is being sworn in. Thus ends the "American Century".

​Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn refused to tell German lawmakers when he first learned about systematic exhaust emissions cheating but said it was no earlier than VW has officially admitted.

Bill Gates warned at the World Economic Forum on Thursday that a new form of terrorism could be coming, and we are not prepared for it.

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Fines that could wipe out a year's profits. A grovelling public apology from the chief executive. Immeasurable damage to the reputation of what was one of Britain's most prestigious companies.

America should brace for a final blow-off surge in stock markets akin to the last phase of the dotcom boom or the "Gatsby" years of the Roaring Twenties, followed by a cathartic crash and day of moral judgment, according to a Nobel prize-winning economist.

Actor Matt Damon appeared to give President-elect Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt Wednesday (Swiss time) over whether he will help break the cycle of global poverty that arises from lack of safe water and sanitation.

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History is replete with examples of populist authoritarian policies that produced short-run benefits but poor long-run outcomes.

While Chinese President Xi Jinping defended globalisation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, US companies say his government is not practicing what he preached.

​Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $US7.2b ($9.5b) to the US Justice Department for having 'contributed directly' to the global financial crisis.

​Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a vigorous defence of free trade at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday in a speech that underscored Beijing's desire to play a greater global role as the United States turns inward.