SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The passenger traffic of LATAM Airlines LTM.SN, the largest air carrier in Latin America, increased 2.8 percent in the first half of 2018 on demand in Spanish-speaking countries, the company said on Monday. In June, passenger traffic grew 1.3 percent from the same month a year ago, the Santiago-based company said in a report. Between January and […]

In his trade war with China, President Donald Trump wields one seeming advantage: The United States could ultimately slap tariffs on more than $500 billion in imported Chinese goods. Beijing has much less to tax: It imported just $130 billion in U.S. goods last year. Continue Reading Below Yet that hardly means China would be powerless to fight back once […]

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Amazon will constantly be under regulators’ magnifying glass: Gene Munster Loup Ventures Managing Partner Gene Munster on Amazon’s potential impact on the pharmaceutical industry and regulators’ potential concerns about the company. Gearing up for Amazon’s Prime Day 2018 – which begins July 16th at 3 p.m. ET and last for 36 hours – the company started rolling out countdown deals […]

(Note: The author of this fundamental analysis is a financial writer and portfolio manager.) The bulls have begun to return to General Electric Co. (GE), at least based on recent activity in the options market. The volume of options trades betting that GE’s stock will rise has risen sharply in recent days, with some traders betting the stock will rise by about 10% by […]

Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. Continue Reading Below The company becomes the largest food and beverage company to do so as calls to cut waste globally grow louder. Plastic straws have become a flashpoint. A week after its hometown banned plastic drinking straws and utensils, the […]

The dollar is turning in a mixed performance against its major rivals Monday afternoon, but remains little changed overall. The lack of U.S. economic data is keeping some investors on the sidelines at the start of the new trading week. Things will begin to pick up on the economic front beginning Wednesday, with the release of the producer price index […]

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Rebuilding the community’s trust following the Hayne royal commission’s revelations of banking misconduct will take time, says the head of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Marnie Baker, but suggests second-tier banks may now be in a better position to gain market share from the big four. Ms Baker, the lender's first female managing director in the bank's 160-year history, recently took […]

(REUTERS/Christian Hartmann) Oil prices rose on Monday as increased global demand and U.S. efforts to shut out Iranian output using sanctions outweighed drilling data suggesting U.S. shale production would climb. Continue Reading Below Benchmark Brent was up 70 cents at $77.81 a barrel by 1150 GMT. U.S. crude was unchanged at $73.80. "Oil prices are starting the week on the […]