A bizarre press conference held this Monday by Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of Ohio-based steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs, further underscored the imprudence of President Joe Biden’s move to nix Tokyo-based Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.

US Steel and Nippon, whose $14.3 billion merger was blocked by President Joe Biden last week, filed a lawsuit against the US government Monday, claiming Biden’s executive order to bar the companies from combining was signed for “purely political reasons.

Citing national security concerns and following an expansive but divided Treasury Department review, President Joe Biden recently decided to deny the $14 billion purchase of U.S. Steel Corp. by the Japanese firm Nippon Steel. The decision is final, at least for now, but both companies have already brought suit to overturn it.

Lourenco Goncalves, CEO of steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs, which made a failed $7 billion bid for US Steel in August 2023, participated in at least nine calls assuring investors that President Joe Biden would scuttle the Nippon Steel merger months before he ...

In dual lawsuits filed Jan. 6, U.S. Steel Corp. and Nippon Steel Corp. blame the Biden administration's politicizing its national-security review as well as the behind-the-scenes actions by rival Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. and United Steelworkers International President David McCall for scuttling the $14.9 billion deal.

Pompeo said that for the past several decades, Tokyo has been “amongst our greatest allies in the delivering security for the American people.”

Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba asked U.S. President Joe Biden to allay concerns in the Japanese and U.S. business communities over the status of Nippon Steel’s 5401.T planned acquisition of U.S.

U.S. Steel shares jumped Monday on a report that Cleveland-Cliffs is teaming up with rival Nucor for a potential bid for the company, whose $14.1 billion buyout by Nippon Steel was recently blocked by President Joe Biden.

The proposed deal kicked up an election year political maelstrom across America’s industrial heartland and quickly drew vows by Biden and Trump from the campaign trail in a critical battleground state to block the deal.

An Ohio-based company won’t give up on its quest to merge with U.S. Steel. According to multiple media outlets, Cleveland-Cliffs wants to buy the iconic company with the help of North Carolina’s Nucor Steel.

Lawyers for U.S. Steel, Nippon and Cleveland-Cliffs sparred Friday morning in a Pittsburgh courtroom. Here's what went down.