POTUS got a much-needed win on trade. President Trump delivered on his campaign promise yesterday to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement into something more friendly to American manufacturing, which means more support for blue collar workers. Trump's new trade deal is called the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement. NAFTA has become the USMCA. But beyond Trump's penchant for doing away with his predecessor's signature policies...

Medical plan costs paid by employers around the world are set to rise 7.8% in 2019, far outpacing average general inflation of 2.8%, according to the 2019 Global Medical Trend Report released by Aon recently. The report, said Aon, is based on reported data from Aon professionals, clients and carriers represented in the portfolio of Aon medical plan business in 103 countries...

America's trade dispute with China is a morass that threatens to become a tar pit for CEOs of many U.S. manufacturers, even as President Trump's tariffs provide direct protection of many other companies. Steve Harriott, CEO of Watchfire Signs in Danville, Illinois, is one of the worried ones. Many business leaders and their representatives fear that...

The feds keep on cranking out the year-end updates! Up next: cost-of-living pension plan limits. And while there's less controversy than surrounded last year's release, several key thresholds are going up. And you'll find them in IRS Notice 2018-83. A rundown of what's changing...

In the current corporate climate, any finance pro's inbox could unintentionally become a gateway to big financial losses. Business email compromise (BEC) scams have increased 136% in recent years. How much have they cost your peers? In the U.S., $2.9 billion has been lost to BEC scams in the past five years. Those statistics come straight from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). You can't be everywhere...

Electric auto brand Tesla Inc. said it signed an agreement Wednesday to secure land in Shanghai for its first factory outside the United States, pushing ahead with development despite mounting U.S.-Chinese trade tensions. Tesla, based on Palo Alto, California, announced plans for the Shanghai factory in July after the Chinese government said it would end restrictions on full foreign ownership of electric vehicle makers to speed up industry development. Those plans have...