The British pound lay battered in Asia on Friday after a bout of political turmoil fanned fears the country could crash out of the European Union without a divorce deal.
PG&E Corp shares sank 31 percent during trading on Thursday, only to then rise 39 percent in after-hours trading, as investors speculated over the impact of this month’s deadly wildfire in northern California on the utility’s finances.
In 2015, when Antony Alex pitched his training products for tackling sexual harassment in the workplace, large and small businesses in India mostly turned him away saying it was not worth the investment.
A California judge on Thursday granted an expedited trial for March in the case of a California couple suffering from cancer who sued Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit, alleging the company’s glyphosate-containing weed killer Roundup caused their disease.
Dell Technologies on Thursday raised its offer to buy back shares tied to its interest in software maker VMware to $23.9 billion from $21.7 billion, prompting billionaire investor Carl Icahn to abandon his campaign to scupper the deal.
The U.S. Defense Department has delivered a report to Congress detailing implications of Turkey receiving 100 F-35 fighter jets, five people familiar with the report said, removing a key hurdle to concluding the deal.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday the world’s largest social media service would create an independent body to review user appeals of content takedowns, saying his company should not by itself be making “so many important decisions about free expression and safety.”
Apple Inc has inked a multi-year deal with A24, the studio behind Oscar-winning projects “Moonlight” and “Amy”, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters, as the iPhone maker pushes deeper into original content and movies.
Chipmaker Intel Corp said on Thursday its board has approved a $15 billion increase to its share repurchase program.
A Democratic U.S. senator said on Thursday she will ask Facebook Inc and the Justice Department about a media report that the company hired an outside firm to attack critics, warning that such action could raise campaign finance issues.
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday on optimism the United States and China could resolve their trade dispute, after a news report said Washington would pause further tariffs on Chinese imports.
A gauge of global stocks climbed on Thursday after five sessions of declines as Wall Street surged on trade optimism, while sterling tumbled as political developments in Britain rippled through markets.
The U.S. Justice Department plans to be more aggressive in pressing antitrust charges against companies that have rigged bids for government contracts, the agency’s antitrust chief said on Thursday.
Italian lender UniCredit on Thursday said that its Austrian business’s Chairman Erich Hampel has resigned from the Board and will also step down from all other functions within the group.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has told employees he is “personally outraged” that any of the bank’s officials would take the actions laid out in U.S. government charges of fraud involving Malaysia’s state controlled investment bank, 1MDB.
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