BEIJING (Reuters) - The 90-day tariff truce agreed by the United States and China during trade talks in Switzerland last weekend is too short, China's state-backed Global Times said on Friday, as envoys from the world's two biggest economies regrouped in Korea. During the Geneva summit, the U.S. agreed to cut the extra tariffs it imposed on Chinese imports last...

PRINCETON, New Jersey (Reuters) -New Jersey's commuter rail engineers walked off the job early on Friday after 11th-hour contract talks with the third-largest U.S. public transit system stalled ahead of a midnight strike deadline set for meeting union wage demands. The first labor strike against the New Jersey Transit agency in more than 40 years went into effect at 12:01...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The 90-day tariff truce agreed by the United States and China during trade talks in Switzerland last weekend is too short, China's state-backed Global Times said on Friday, as envoys from the world's two biggest economies regrouped in Korea. During the Geneva summit, the U.S. agreed to cut the extra tariffs it imposed on Chinese imports last...

03:56 PM EDT, 05/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- New York manufacturing contraction worsened in May as firms remained pessimistic regarding the outlook, while the downturn in the US Mid-Atlantic region improved, two separate surveys showed Thursday. The Empire State Manufacturing Survey's general business conditions index deteriorated to minus 9.2 this month from minus 8.1 in April, a survey by the Federal...