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Trump says he is ‘confined’ to public list of SCOTUS nominees

Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks about the government shutdown on January 25, 2019, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. – President Donald Trump told a conservative media outlet that he believes he is “confined” to a list of 25 …

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Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast, delays mobile Mario Kart game

Richard Atrero de Guzman | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Japanese gamers buy the new video game Nintendo Switch games console by Nintendo Co. during the first day of sales worldwide in Tokyo, Japan on March 03, 2017. Nintendo is less optimistic about how many of Switch units it will …

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Analysts unnerved by surprise exit of Tesla CFO: ‘Significant loss’

Peter Parks | AFP | Getty Images Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla’s announcement that Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja is retiring has unnerved Wall Street’s top analysts and overshadowed the company’s sales beat in the fourth quarter. Many viewed the loss of the longtime executive as the …

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Amazon earnings preview q4 2018

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., listens during an Economic Club of Washington discussion in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018.  The last two times Amazon has reported quarterly results, revenue has fallen short of expectations. Now …

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God ‘wanted Trump to become president,’ Sarah Sanders says

Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on September 24, 2018 in New York City. Donald Trump was chosen by God to be president in 2016, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told the Christian Broadcasting Network …

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Uber suspends cab service in Spanish city of Barcelona

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A driver uses an Uber Technologies car service app on a mobile device while driving in Washington, D.C. Uber has suspended its ride-hailing service in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The move, outlined in a blog post on Thursday, is in protest of new …

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Deutsche Bank shares slump 3 percent on reports of a future merger with Commerzbank

Deutsche Bank is set to report its fourth-quarter results on Friday. In the third quarter of 2018, the bank reported a net income of 229 million euros ($262.71 million), above the 149 million euros expected in a Reuters poll of analysts. However, the performance that corresponds to the third quarter …

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Full-year profits soar to four-year high

Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Royal Dutch Shell products in Torzhok, Russia. Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell reported better-than-expected full-year earnings on Thursday, as deep cost cuts introduced after the 2014 energy market downturn filtered through. Full-year profits jumped 36 percent to $21.4 billion in 2018 — with …

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Google apologizes for violating Apple policy

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 11, 2018. Google admitted Wednesday that one of its apps violated the same policies as a Facebook app that landed the social network in hot …

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Elon Musk sees ‘pretty nutty’ demand for Tesla even with a recession

Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images GP: Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during an event at the site of the company’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the electric car maker is predicting “pretty nutty” growth …

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