(Reuters) -China's state-owned shipping giant Cosco aims to secure at least 20%-30% stake in a $23 billion ports deal involving strategic assets in the Panama Canal, as Beijing moves to renegotiate the terms of a sale previously praised by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. ...

LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) -As a U.S. tariff deadline neared this week, Swiss watch manufacturer DuBois et fils rushed to ship five high-end watches worth thousands of dollars each to the United States. By Wednesday the firm had blocked orders on its U.S. website. Now CEO Thomas Steinemann is calculating the price hikes he'll need to make. The whipsaw week for the...

Aug 8 (Reuters) - China's state-owned shipping giant Cosco aims to secure at least 20%-30% stake in a $23 billion ports deal involving strategic assets in the Panama Canal, as Beijing moves to renegotiate the terms of a sale previously praised by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. ...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...