Apple Inc. likes to say it supports two million U.S. jobs. Plans by the company's main manufacturing partner for a $10bn factory in Wisconsin will add at least 10,000 more, helping Apple fend off the threat of import tariffs on its most important product, the iPhone.

The "Made in Mexico" label has become more plentiful on American car lots this year, even as automakers pressured by President Donald Trump began the year with promises to create more jobs in the U.S.

Two proposed policy changes - imposing a border adjustment tax (BAT) and withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) - would likely fail to achieve their goal of reversing the trend of offshoring manufacturing to low-cost countries and could potentially harm the U.S. motor vehicle industry, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Unilever is sharpening its focus on profitability by lifting prices and cutting spending on everything from employee flights to product ingredients as activist investors take aim at consumer-goods giants wrestling with slow growth.