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Orange CEO under fire at Tapie affair trial of IMF's Lagarde
PARIS French telecoms boss Stephane Richard was sharply criticized by one of the judges and by a witness during the negligence trial of IMF chief Christine Lagarde in Paris this week.Richard, the chief executive of Orange (ORAN.PA), is a target of investigators in a related inquiry which has yet to
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PIMCO sees possibility of China floating yuan in 2017
LONDON Asset management giant PIMCO said on Thursday it thought there was a chance China could freely float its currency, the yuan, this year.The firm's head of Asian portfolios, Luke Spajic, said in a note Beijing was finding it impossible achieve
HSBC set to nominate AIA's Tucker as next chairman: sources
LONDON HSBC Holdings Plc is lining up Mark Tucker, currently chief executive of insurer AIA Group Ltd, to be the next chairman of Europe's biggest bank, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Sunday. Regulators in Hong Kong
Trump packs trade team with veterans of steel wars with China
By David Lawder | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel
