By Gram Slattery and Bo Erickson
WASILLA, Alaska, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Taiwan has agreed to buy 30% of the liquefied natural gas from a pipeline project in Alaska, US President Donald Trump told a rally in the state on Tuesday, but the deal terms were not immediately clear.
Taiwan has committed to investing $4.4 billion in the development of the pipeline, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who also appeared at the rally organized... (continue reading...)
BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - China's exports in September soared 36.3% from a year earlier in US dollar terms, far outpacing forecasts, while imports grew 31%, customs data showed on Wednesday.
A Reuters poll of economists forecast that exports rose 25.5% year-on-year, versus growth of 25% in August.
Import growth was estimated to have slowed to 24.5% from 28.2% the previous month.
(Reporting by... (continue reading...)
BANGKOK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not recommending that the UK accelerate its fiscal consolidation, an IMF official said on Wednesday.
"Our recommendation is 'stay the course'. We are not saying 'accelerate the pace of consolidation'," fiscal affairs director Rodrigo Valdes said during IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok.
The UK government, which ran a budget deficit of 4.4% of GDP last year,... (continue reading...)
BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge linking China and North Korea will be opened on October 15, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.
The two sides will jointly hold an opening ceremony, the report said.
China completed its side of the bridge in 2014, hoping to boost trade ties, although North Korea left its approach roads and customs facilities unfinished as relations soured over... (continue reading...)
By Kanishka Singh
Oct 13 (Reuters) - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday six people had been confirmed dead in the state from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall last week.
• "We have now had six storm-related fatalities," DeSantis told reporters
• The six deaths included two that had been previously confirmed. Those two deaths were in Escambia County in the state's far west. One person died when a tree fell... (continue reading...)
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