SEOUL (Reuters) -Hyundai Motor has advised staff who were about to go on business trips next week to the U.S. to delay them unless considered indispensable, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday. The reports comes after hundreds of South Korean workers were detained at a raid at a Hyundai Motor manufacturing facility in the U.S. state of Georgia last...

* PM hopeful Takaichi seen as positive for equities, negative for bonds * Nikkei 225 index nears record high, gains 1.5% * Yen weakens 0.7% to 148.36 against U.S. dollar (Adds details on JGBs, stocks in paragraphs 10-12) By Rocky Swift TOKYO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Japan's Topix share gauge reached a record high, the yen weakened and bonds stood...

Economist Paul Krugman is raising the alarm against President Donald Trump’s attempts to destroy the Federal Reserve’s independence, in a push for personal control over monetary policy. Dangers of ‘Fiscal Dominance’ In his newsletter on Sunday, Krugman highlighted the multi-pronged effort by Trump and his allies to “intimidate Fed officials,” to steer interest rate policy, something that he says could...

SEOUL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor ( HYMLF ) has advised staff who were about to go on business trips next week to the U.S. to delay them unless considered indispensable, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday. The reports comes after hundreds of South Korean workers were detained at a raid at a Hyundai Motor ( HYMLF )...