FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Bayer’s potential synergies from buying U.S. rival Monsanto will be lower than $1.5 billion because of anti-trust divestments, the German company’s Chief Financial Officer told Germany’s Boersen-Zeitung.
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At first glance, Michigan and Louisiana don’t seem to have much in common: One shares an extensive border with Canada, and the other is in the Deep South.
But the economies of these two states have an important similarity: Both derive more than a third of their gross domestic products (GDPs) from international trade.
They’re not exactly outliers, either. As you can see from this week’s chart, 40 of our 50 states would lose a double-digit chunk of their economies without international trade.
However, this chart isn’t about why trade is good or bad. It’s simply meant to remind you that there’s a …read more […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s long-promised plan to bring down drug prices would mostly spare the pharmaceutical industry he previously accused of “getting away with murder.” Instead he focuses on private competition and more openness to reduce America’s prescription pain. …read more […]
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Walmart Inc said on Saturday in a filing with a U.S. regulator that it may take India’s Flipkart public in as early as four years, detailing for the first time a potential listing timeline for Walmart’s largest-ever acquisition.
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Warnings that Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could shoot boulders and ash out of its summit crater are prompting people to rethink their plans to visit the Big Island. Then as Kilauea’s magma shifted underground, a magnitude-6.9 earthquake rocked the Big Island. …read more […]
(Reuters) – Chinese technology company ZTE Corp , which this month suspended its main operations after a U.S. Commerce Department ban on American supplies to its business, paid over $2.3 billion to 211 U.S. exporters in 2017, a senior ZTE official said on Friday.
ZTE paid over $100 million each to Qualcomm Inc , Broadcom Inc , Intel Corp and Texas Instruments , the official said. As one of the world’s largest telecom equipment makers, ZTE relied on U.S. companies such as Qualcomm and Intel for components. …read more […]
(Reuters) – AT&T Inc on Friday ousted its top lobbyist, and the No. 2 wireless carrier’s chief executive said it was a “big mistake” to hire Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, for advice on working with the Trump administration.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The top trade representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada ended the latest round of talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade without a deal Friday, less than a week before an unofficial deadline to get any agreement through the U.S. Congress. …read more […]
This is likely to be a bit of a black eye from Amazon, as the company looks to …read more […]
(Reuters) – VMware Inc’s Chief Financial Officer Zane Rowe has indicated he will turn down the offer to be become Uber Technologies Inc’s [UBER.UL] finance chief, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill aimed at tightening oversight of foreign investment in the United States because of concern about China’s acquisition of critical technology is headed for a vote this month in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, the panel said on Friday.
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