June 21 (Reuters) - China is pushing for Visa and Mastercard ( MA ) to lower their bank card transaction fees in the country as part of an effort to facilitate payments for foreign visitors, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter. ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar pushed to a fresh eight-week top above 159 yen and clung close to a five-week peak to sterling on Friday, with the Federal Reserve's patient approach to cutting interest rates contrasting with more dovish stances elsewhere. The dollar index, which measures the currency against six major peers including the yen, sterling, euro and Swiss franc,...

KUALA LUMPUR, June 21 (Reuters) - Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) said its buyer BlackRock ( BLK ) will not be involved in privatising Malaysia Airports after criticism in Muslim-majority Malaysia over the U.S. firm's alleged ties to Israel. GIP, Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional and others are part of a consortium that has offered to take over Malaysia Airport...

OSLO/PARIS (Reuters) - Europe has clocked a record number of hours of negative power prices this year due to a mismatch between demand and supply as solar power generation soars, potentially helping to shift investment to much needed storage solutions. Wholesale power markets in most of Europe's key economies turned out zero or negative prices for a record number of...