PRESS DIGEST- New York Times business news - July 17

July 17 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- After a year of prolonged negotiations marked by several dramatic twists and turns, the Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard ATD.TO said it was abandoning its multi-billion dollar bid to acquire the owner of 7-Eleven 3382.T convenience stores.

- Indonesia's president, Prabowo Subianto, confirmed on Wednesday the broad outlines of a trade agreement with the United States under which U.S. exports to Indonesia would face no tariffs, while Indonesian goods would be charged a tariff of 19% in the United States.

- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had spoken to the Coca-Cola KO.N Company about using "REAL cane sugar in Coke" in the United States and that the company had agreed to begin adding it.

- President Trump showed off a draft of a letter firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell during a meeting with roughly a dozen House Republicans on Tuesday night, polling them as to whether he should do it and indicating that he likely would.