Australian employers are offering signing bonuses to entice workers, with companies like Wesfarmers Ltd. and Ramsay Health Care Ltd. reporting up to 8% in wage growth, highlighting a tight labor market and complicating the Reserve Bank’s inflation fight.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank said it welcomed a investigation by the Canadian government into allegations that the institution faces interference from the Chinese Communist Party.
The top US liaison to Taiwan asked the opposition’s presidential candidate about how he would navigate relations with Beijing if he wins next year’s election, according to people familiar with the meeting, as polls show a tight race between the key parties.
A crash between a bus and a semi truck in rural Manitoba killed 15 people and sent 10 to the hospital with injuries, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The biggest rally in three years for Toyota Motor Corp. shows how a well-timed campaign to promote the carmaker’s EV strategy can pay off, but a dip in support for Chairman Akio Toyoda at a shareholders’ meeting served as a reminder of the perils of drawing investor ire.
Regional and small banks should fall under more monitoring to prevent future crises undermining financial stability, Ray McGuire, president of Lazard Ltd., said at a Bloomberg New Voices event in Washington.
For half a century, America’s top geopolitical rival used a spy base in nearby Cuba to steal US military secrets by listening in on phone and data communications.
Federal regulators would get new powers to claw back compensation of executives who led failed banks under a bipartisan plan from two US senators.
Reddit Inc. said that most of the company’s communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands of its online forums in protest over its plans to raise fees.
Peru’s President Dina Boluarte plans to stay in power until 2026, she said in her first explicit statement on the issue since congress rejected her proposal to bring elections forward to this year.
