Senior Trump administration officials in the United States on Sunday tried to calm market panic over the coronavirus, saying investors had over-reacted and that stocks will rebound due to the American ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday sharply criticized Tesla Inc.’s lack of system safeguards in a fatal 2018 Autopilot crash in California and called US regulators’ approach in overse ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
US health officials told Americans to begin preparing for coronavirus to spread within the country as outbreaks in Iran, South Korea and Italy escalated. Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16 on Tu ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-26
The United States expects China to honor its commitments to buy more US goods under a trade deal signed by the two sides in January, despite the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports, citing a senior ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
President Donald Trump objected to US proposals that would prevent companies from supplying jet engines and other components to China’s aviation industry and suggested he had instructed his administra ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-19
Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Saturday, Reuters reports. Speaki ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
Iran will never hold talks with the United States under pressure, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, adding that Washington's tactics are doomed to failure. “Iran will never negotiate under pres ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in central China’s Hubei province rose by 116 on Friday, health officials said, less than half the number of deaths from the day before, when Japan reported ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Boris Johnson forced the resignation of his finance minister for refusing to toe the line, a sign the prime minister was tightening his control in a government reshuffle designed to deliver his vision ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-14
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his confidence in the US economic outlook, even as he said he expected some drag “soon” from China’s new coronavirus epidemic, Reuters reports. “There ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-13
Concerned that big tech companies are unfairly engaging in potential anti-competitive behavior, the Federal Trade Commission has ordered Alphabet Inc.’s Google unit, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Faceb ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
Last Thursday, China’s ambassador to Britain criticized its government for advising its tens of thousands of citizens in China to leave the country. “It was an overreaction that ignored World Health O ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-10
A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about a new coronavirus died of the disease on Friday, prompting an outpouring of sorrow, Reuters reports. Li Wenliang, 34, died in the early hours of the ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-07
