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This quarter is one for the Wall Street history books — stocks are on track to post their best quarter since 2009 and best start to a year in more than two decades. However, investors shrugged it off. While the S&P is up nearly 13 percent so far this year, …
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Lyft, DowDuPont, Wells Fargo & more
Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Signage for Lyft is seen displayed at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ Stock Market in New York, U.S., March 29, 2019. Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday: Celgene — Shares of Celgene …
Read More »Here’s who could replace Tim Sloan as CEO of Wells Fargo
Spencer Platt | Getty Images People walk by a Wells Fargo bank branch on October 13, 2017 in New York City. Tim Sloan is out at Wells Fargo, setting off a rare event when it comes to big American banks: An external search for a CEO. The journey begins Friday, …
Read More »Trump advisor warns Russia on military presence in Venezuela
Maxim Shemetov | AFP | Getty Images Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro shake hands during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, on July 2, 2013. A top White House advisor on Friday issued a veiled warning to Russia about its military presence in Venezuela, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia will ignore Trump’s ‘tolerance threshold’
Mladen ANTONOV | AFP Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih attends a press conference at the end of the 13th meeting of the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) of OPEC and non- OPEC countries in Baku on March 18, 2019. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia will continue to ignore President Donald …
Read More »DowDupont cuts its sales forecast as Midwest floods hit its agri division
AP Photo | Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management This Monday, March 18, 2019 file photo shows flooding and storage bins under water on a farm along the Missouri River in rural Iowa north of Omaha, Neb. DowDuPont cut its forecast for first-quarter sales on Thursday, citing the impact of …
Read More »Here’s where parents are refusing to get their children vaccinated
Leonard Ortiz | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Chapman students will be getting the Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccines in an effort to stop the spread of a mumps outbreak in Orange on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A growing number of parents are refusing to get their kids vaccinated, especially in …
Read More »Boeing 737 Max anti-stall system likely activated—WSJ
Lindsey Wasson | Reuters Two workers walk under the wing of a 737 Max aircraft at the Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, March 27, 2019. Investigators looking into the fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash involving a Boeing 737 Max plane are said to have reached a preliminary conclusion that an anti-stall …
Read More »Facebook tightens political ad rules in EU ahead of May elections
John Thys | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives at the European Parliament on May 22, 2018. Facebook implemented restrictions on its political advertising rules in the European Union Friday, in an effort to prevent abuse and interference in the run up to EU Parliament elections in …
Read More »What EU copyright directive means for the internet
Robert Michael | picture alliance | Getty Images The European Parliament has approved controversial copyright reforms without any changes, thus paving the way for an early implementation. If you’re an internet user in Europe, chances are the way you use platforms like YouTube and Facebook could be about to shift …
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