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The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance seeking to close a loophole that hedge-fund managers had been trying to exploit to avoid paying higher taxes on

Among the rich and powerful gathering in Beijing for the annual meetings of China’s legislature and political advisory body are some of the biggest names in business.

European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told the U.K. that even if there’s a deal this month on the transition period that businesses crave, it’s still at risk of unraveling until a full

President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan is designed to change the way roads and bridges are built and maintained across the U.S. by providing "seed money" to stimulate additional investment,

Canada plans to scrap a major IBM federal payroll plan that created chaos for thousands of government workers and will have cost the government almost C$1 billion ($780 million) by the time it’s over.

Vladimir Putin devoted over a third of his annual state-of-the-nation speech to revealing a series of new weapons, both nuclear and conventional, he said Russia is developing that will render U.S.

Governments and investors around the world may be calling for greater transparency to tackle the gender pay gap, but the business community in Spain isn’t so sure.

Kroger Co., the largest grocery chain in the U.S., is joining Walmart Inc. and Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. in tightening gun restrictions following last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

In the weeks since the Parkland school shooting, big companies have found themselves in a familiar position: pressured to act on controversial social and political issues where government won’t.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is getting ready to join passengers in coach after receiving bipartisan criticism for flying first-class around the globe on the

The cold snap rattling energy markets across Europe has revealed Britain’s vulnerability to natural gas shortages driven by a lack of capacity to store the fuel.

Prime Minister Theresa May is facing divisions in her Cabinet on how far she should aim to keep the U.K. in line with European Union rules as she prepares to reveal her latest thinking on Brexit.

French prosecutors have filed preliminary charges against far-right leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting brutal images of Islamic State violence.

One of Iran’s leading female politicians has called for debate over the mandatory wearing of the headscarf after protests indicated growing frustration among some younger women over the pace of change

U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports. If he gets his way, the policy could have sweeping ramifications across the globe.

His government’s message: Not even the most well-connected tycoons are safe.

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More than two decades after white-minority rule ended in South Africa, most of its profitable farms and estates are still owned by white people, and about 95 percent of the country’s wealth is in the

South Africa’s new political leadership under President Cyril Ramaphosa sets a solid and credible policy trajectory, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said.