MOSCOW, May 16 (Reuters) - The United States and other countries are trying to pressure China to restrict its cooperation with Russia but Beijing is strong enough to resist, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday. There are attempts by the United States and other countries to put pressure on China quite brazenly in order to limit its manoeuvre in...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -The next chief executive of Petrobras, Magda Chambriard, arrives with the résumé and mandate to make Brazil's state-run oil firm what it was under prior Workers Party governments: an engine of job creation and industrial development, said people familiar with the matter. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - who used Petrobras to spur domestic shipbuilding...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams welcomed the arrival of softer consumer inflation data, he told Reuters, but said that positive news is not enough to call for the U.S. central bank to cut interest rates sometime soon. While it is important not to overemphasize the latest economic news, the softer tone of...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the world's two largest economies face more frost rather than a fresh firefight over trade. China denounced the Biden administration's action and vowed resolute measures to protect its interests. But Beijing's response also suggests...