Europe

Global finance ministers meeting this week in Buenos Aires were planning to focus on topics like the workforce in an age of automation and how to boost infrastructure investment.

The Anglo-Dutch maker of Dove soap, Domestos and Ben & Jerry's ice cream launched a review of its dual-headed structure in 2017 after fighting off a $143 billion takeover from Kraft Heinz.

Sixteen of Volkswagen's factories will be equipped to build battery-powered vehicles by the end of 2022.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who will hold tariff talks with European officials, told FOX Business that previous administrations within both political parties allowed outdated trade policies to continue after World War II.

Trump set import tariffs on Thursday of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, to come into force in 15 days.

The European Union and Japan urged the United States on Saturday to grant them exemptions from metal import tariffs, with Tokyo calling for "calm-headed behaviour" in a dispute that threatens to spiral into a trade war.

The European Central Bank is all but certain to keep policy unchanged on Thursday but it will be comments from President Mario Draghi that many will focus on.

Stefan Lofven, the Swedish prime minster, supports open and free trade.

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