11:24 AM EDT, 04/17/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Shares of Travelers (TRV) tumbled on Wednesday after the property and casualty insurer reported weaker-than-expected results for the first quarter amid higher catastrophe losses. Earned premium rose to $10.13 billion from $8.85 billion a year ago but missed the average analyst estimate of $10.21 billion in a Capital IQ poll. Shares of Travelers...

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, April 17 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is calling on Wednesday for sharply higher U.S. tariffs on Chinese metal products as part of a package of policies aimed at pleasing steelworkers in the swing state of Pennsylvania, at the risk of angering Beijing. As he makes a campaign stop in the Steel City of Pittsburgh, Biden will propose...

(Reuters) - After a series of victories against the Detroit Three automakers last fall, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain is now trying to use his influence to organize other U.S. auto factories that have stayed out of the union's ambit. The UAW has tried and failed for years to organize nonunion U.S. auto factories, most of them built...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Meta Platforms ( META ) and other large online platforms should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising, EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Board said on Wednesday. The EDPB's opinion came after it was asked by national privacy regulators in the Netherlands, Norway and Germany to look into consent...