LONDON (Reuters) – A minority shareholder of Britain’s House of Fraser, Sports Direct , is suing the department store chain to gain access to its business plan, after House of Fraser announced a major restructuring this week.
OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Saturday ended its more than year-long stretch of falling operating profit, while a new accounting rule caused the conglomerate chaired by Warren Buffett to suffer an overall net loss.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal investigators were assigned last year to monitor Southwest Airlines’ maintenance operations, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday, after whistleblower complaints of mistreatment of mechanics raised safety concerns. The agency found no rule violations, it said, and the assignment of additional inspectors was standard practice to preclude any deterioration in maintenance. …read more […]
If President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal on May 12, the rest of the world will be thrust into uncharted territory, forced to navigate a complex web of U.S. sanctions that were lifted under the landmark accord but would ostensibly be put back in place. Would Trump re-impose sanctions on those who do business with Iran? How would Iran respond? …read more […]
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(Reuters) – Fidelity Investments has fired or allowed more than 200 employees to resign over alleged misuse of workplace-benefit programs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress says the Evangelical Christian community is more concerned with President Donald Trump’s economic and national security policies. …read more […]
Indiana Congressman Todd Rokita (R) explains why he has introduced a resolution to end special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. …read more […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Following are five big themes likely to dominate the thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them.
A list of hard-line demands that the Trump administration handed China this week could make it even more difficult to resolve a trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies. A U.S. official confirmed the authenticity of a document outlining U.S. priorities that was presented to China ahead of two days of trade talks that ended Friday. …read more […]
BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on China-U.S. trade talks in Beijing (all times local): …read more […]
Many rural residents living on an erupting volcano in Hawaii fled the threat of lava that spewed into the air in bursts of fire and pushed up steam from cracks in roadways Friday, while others tried to get back to their homes. Officials ordered more than 1,700 people out of neighborhoods near Kilauea volcano’s newest lava flow, warning of the dangers of spattering hot rock and high levels of sulfuric gas that could threaten the elderly and people with breathing problems. Officials said the airport and highways were not damaged, but residents said they felt strong shaking and …read more […]
President Donald Trump is urging members of the National Rifle Association to elect more Republicans to Congress to defend gun rights. Trump addressed the NRA’s annual convention in Dallas Friday. Trump said: “We will never give up our freedom. …read more […]
(Reuters) – SandRidge Energy said on Friday it would increase its board size to seven from five to allow investors to elect two of activist investor Carl Icahn’s nominees.
ISFIYA, Israel, May 04, 2018 — Check-Cap Ltd. (the “Company” or “Check-Cap”) (NASDAQ: CHEK, CHEKW, CHEKZ), a clinical-stage medical diagnostics company engaged in the development of C-Scan®, an ingestible capsule for preparation-free, colorectal cancer screening, […]
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