A rise in Apple led a rebound in technology shares and boosted all three major stock indexes on Thursday, while trade worries eased after China said it was open to fresh talks with the United States.
United Parcel Service Inc is bolstering services to boost shipments between businesses as part of a $20 billion push to automate its network and offset lower-profit home deliveries from Amazon.com and other online retailers.
The U.S. agency that enforces federal labor law on Thursday took the first steps toward loosening an Obama-era standard that made it easier to hold companies liable for illegal labor practices by their contractors and franchisees.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Thursday announced its biggest management shakeup since naming David Solomon as Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein’s successor.
The world’s biggest package delivery firm’s embrace of expensive “last-mile” home shipments of everything from clothes to car tires has squeezed margins as it competes with FedEx Corp (FDX.N), which takes fewer of those pricey deliveries. UPS shares fell 1.7 percent to $121.21 in midday trade after executives on Thursday boosted long-term earnings targets but stopped short of saying they would take fewer home deliveries. UPS is still more profitable than FedEx, but “FedEx may be better at saying ‘no’ to low-profit volume,” Morningstar analyst Keith Schoonmaker said. …read more […]
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which stops mergers it believes will push up prices, signaled Thursday he was willing to consider tougher enforcement, a move that could affect high profile big tech companies but also energy producers, drug makers and a big swath of the U.S. economy.
A rise in Apple led a rebound in technology shares and boosted all three major stock indexes on Thursday, while trade worries eased after China said it was open to fresh talks with the United States.
Roche , the world’s biggest producer of cancer drugs, is stepping up cost cuts in an efficiency drive made unavoidable by competition from cut-price copies of three mega-brands from its famed U.S. Genentech biotech stable.
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which stops mergers it believes will push up prices, signaled on Thursday he was willing to consider tougher enforcement, a move that could affect high profile big tech companies but also energy producers, drug makers and a big swath of the U.S. economy.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc on Thursday announced its biggest management shakeup since naming David Solomon as Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein’s successor earlier in the year.
U.S. consumer prices rose less than expected in August as increases in gasoline and rents were offset by declines in healthcare and apparel costs, and underlying inflation pressures also appeared to be slowing.
U.S. supermarket chain Kroger Co missed quarterly same-store sales estimates on Thursday, sending shares down as much as 11 percent, as changes to the way it stocks merchandise on shelves kept some customers away from its stores, analysts said.
Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos on Thursday launched Bezos Day One Fund, a new philanthropic initiative, with an initial commitment of $2 billion to help homeless families and create preschools for low-income communities.
Airbus named its second new sales chief in less than a year on Thursday after chief commercial officer Eric Schulz resigned nine months after being poached from Rolls-Royce to lead the battle for jet sales against Boeing.
Unions representing three of Ryanair’s Italy-based cabin crews said on Thursday they had reached an agreement in principle for a three-year collective labor agreement, according to a statement.
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