SEOUL (Reuters) -The United States has agreed that South Korea is not manipulating its currency for trade advantage, a spokesperson for President Lee Jae Myung said on Sunday. The two allies agreed that Seoul does not fall under the manipulator designation that the U.S. Treasury Department announces in reports twice a year, Kang Yu-jung told a press conference. Officials at...

(Reuters) -The U.S. labor board has withdrawn its allegations that Apple CEO Tim Cook violated federal labor law and several other claims, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The office of the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board said it was withdrawing many of the claims in a complaint it had issued against Apple in January, the report said,...

(Corrects ninth paragraph to identify Bank of America ( BAC ) as a defendant, corresponding with list of bank defendants in fourth paragraph) By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday dismissed all remaining claims in a slew of antitrust litigation accusing large banks of conspiring to rig Libor, an interest rate benchmark that once underpinned hundreds...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The risk that pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump could shift the Federal Reserve to an overly dovish stance is the main near-term concern for the U.S. dollar, said a senior executive at U.S. asset manager PGIM Fixed Income. Trump has relentlessly criticized Fed Chair Jerome Powell and the U.S. central bank's Board of Governors for not...