SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China announced a ban on Tuesday on imports of genetic sequencers from U.S. medical equipment maker Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN), just minutes after U.S. President Donald Trump’s additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods took effect.The ban is part of a series of measures China announced in response to the extra U.S. tariffs and comes after Beijing put Illumina on its "unreliable enti ...
By Alasdair Pal and Christine ChenSYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia’s gender pay gap has narrowed slightly but women are still paid nearly a fifth less than men, with the finance, mining and construction industries showing the biggest differences, a government report found.The Workplace Gender Equality Agency survey also showed that 72.2% of employers had a gap favouring men while 21.3% had a gap wit ...
By Anirban Sen and Shankar RamakrishnanNEW YORK (Reuters) - Family-owned candy giant Mars is preparing to sell bonds worth between $25 billion and $30 billion as soon as next week to help finance its takeover of Pringles maker Kellanova (NYSE:K), according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that would headline a $40 billion rush of acquisition financing bonds. Banks led by Citigroup ( ...
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump likened the UK government’s demand that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) grant it access to some user data as "something that you hear about with China," in an interview with The Spectator political magazine published Friday.Trump said that he had told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that he "can’t do this", referring to the request for access to data. The two met ...