Shares in Japan’s Seven & i plunge 7% after Couche-Tard withdraws $47 billion takeover bid

A 7-Eleven convenience store, operated by Seven & i Holdings Co., in Kawasaki, Japan, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Seven & i plunged Thursday as trading resumed following a brief halt after Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard withdrew its $47 billion bid to acquire the Japanese company. Seven &…

Expect tariff ‘cascade’ effect across slowing global economy, top UN official warns

The leading arm of the United Nations’ organization focused on trade and development, UNCTAD, said President Trump’s tariff policies are already creating new costs and disruptions in the global supply chain, and for less developed nations that trade with the U.S., the worst economic fallout hasn’t hit yet. “We already see a disruption in the…

Port of Los Angeles sees record container traffic as shippers race to beat Trump’s tariff deadlines

Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The Port of Los Angeles reported its best June ever for shipping container traffic, an increase in ocean freight that port executives described as a tariff whipsaw effect, with shippers racing to beat President Trump’s trade taxes, especially a mid-August deadline for tariffs on Chinese…

G-7 leaders gather in Canada for summit overshadowed by Middle East crisis and Trump’s tariffs

The flags of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union ahead of the Group of Seven (G-7) Leaders’ Summit in Banff, Alberta, Canada, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers will arrive in the…

Israel targets Iran’s defense ministry as Tehran unleashes deadly missile strike

Emergency and rescue soldiers search for trapped people around heavily damaged buildings after an overnight missile strike from Iran on June 15, 2025 in Bat Yam Israel. Iran launched a retaliatory missile strike on Israel starting late on June 13, after a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier in the day targeted Iranian military and nuclear…