VW Managers Warned to Stay in Germany as U.S. Charges Near

Some of Volkswagen AG's top executives may find it risky to leave Germany as U.S. prosecutors prepare to charge more company officials. Oliver Schmidt, a VW executive, was arrested in Miami as he was returning to Germany from vacation and faces charges of misleading regulators about the automaker's diesel-emissions cheating devices.

Top business stories of 2016: Amazon and Colorado make peace

The logo of U.S. online retail giant Amazon is displayed on the Brieselang logistics center, west of Berlin on November 11, 2014. But this wasn't over the so-called "Amazon Tax law," a heavily contested Colorado law that required out-of-state internet retailers to inform customers of sales tax owed.