(Reuters) -Within hours of taking office in January, President Donald Trump boasted about attracting $3 trillion in new corporate investments to the United States. Since then, Trump has said the investments have swelled to $14 trillion, or roughly half of the nation's annual gross domestic product.  The White House calls it The Trump Effect and features a rolling list on...

(Reuters) -U.S. small-business confidence slipped in June, as firms overall felt they had too much inventory on hand amid ongoing trade tensions and declining optimism over the outlook for sales.   The National Federation of Independent Business said on Tuesday its Small Business Optimism Index fell two tenths of a point last month to 98.6. A substantial increase in respondents...

* Ryanair sees strong bookings, rising prices for summer * Recent heatwave has no influence on travel * Aims to treble traffic from Warsaw's Modlin airport by 2030 (Adds background, quotes throughout) By Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk WARSAW, July 8 (Reuters) - Ryanair said demand for travel this summer was showing no signs of cooling, with strong bookings and rising ticket prices,...

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,...