BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters) - China announced the next step in its anti-dumping investigation into European brandy imports on Friday, ramping up tensions on the same day the European Commission's provisional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles take effect. While a Commerce Ministry spokesperson stressed at a news conference on Thursday that Brussels and Beijing should stay at the negotiating table...

(Reuters) - Australia's Mining And Energy Union has reached an agreement with Anglo American to extend pay until August-end for workers at its Grosvenor mine that was shut earlier this week due to an ongoing underground fire, the two parties said. We are pleased to confirm payment extension from July 15 to Aug. 31 for all employees and embedded contractors...

July 5 (Reuters) - Fasadgruppen Group AB (publ): * FASADGRUPPEN GROWS IN CONSTRUCTION FORGING THROUGH ACQUISITION OF JE:S SVETS & SMIDE * ACQUIRES 91 PERCENT OF JE WITH AN OPTION TO BUY REMAINING 9 PERCENT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom) ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Shell will take an impairment charge of up to $2 billion after the sale of its Singapore refinery and pausing of construction of one of Europe's largest biofuel plants, it said on Friday. The British energy company had announced on Tuesday that it would halt construction at its Rotterdam plant in the Netherlands because of weak market conditions....