Business

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a new North American trade agreement during an outdoor ceremony at the White House attended by about 400 guests - but not the key Democrats who helped secure congressional passage of the deal.

General Electric Co plans to slash 737 MAX engine deliveries to Boeing Co roughly in half this year but set higher cash target for 2020 as it reported quarterly profit and cash flow that beat analysts' estimates on Wednesday.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed to sell its newspaper business to Lee Enterprises Inc for $140 million in cash, abandoning an industry the billionaire investor had long defended even as its financial prospects deteriorated.

Ottawa should require U.S. tech companies such as Netflix , Amazon and Facebook to collect the same taxes as Canadian companies and also be subject to the same requirements for supporting domestically produced content, a Canadian government-mandated panel recommended on Wednesday.

Wall Street investment banks JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley have been placed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's "named and shamed" list after the $300 million initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese biotech company Akeso Inc. was sent back for not meeting the correct regulatory requirements.

Beyond Meat said on Wednesday it will supply plant-based "fried chicken" to several KFC stores in Tennessee and North Carolina, after a test conducted last year showed strong consumer demand.