Crude prices and global equities markets rose on Friday, with the major U.S. indexes setting record highs, on renewed hopes that the United States and China will reach a deal to de-escalate a 16-month trade war that has crimped global growth.
Comic book movie “Joker” is poised to surpass $1 billion in global ticket sales on Friday, becoming the first R-rated Hollywood movie ever to overcome the milestone. “Joker,” a dark origin story from Warner Bros. about Batman’s arch nemesis, had sold $999.1 billion as of Thursday despite not having been screened in China, which is projected to become the world’s largest movie market next year. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as a mentally-ill loner who finds fame through a random act of violence, the movie earned warm reviews as it opened in early October but stoked controversy in the United …read more […]
An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson needs to pay only $465 million of the $572 million he previously concluded it owed the state for fueling the opioid epidemic through deceptive marketing of painkillers.
An Oklahoma judge on Friday said Johnson & Johnson needs to pay only $465 million of the $572 million he previously concluded it owed the state for fueling the opioid epidemic through deceptive marketing of painkillers. The ruling by Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman in Norman, Oklahoma, came in the first case to go to trial out of 2,700 nationally by states, counties and cities seeking to hold drug companies responsible for the deadly epidemic. Following a non-jury trial, Balkman had ruled in August that Oklahoma had proven that J&J engaged in misleading marketing about the benefits …read more […]
JD.com’s stock dipped despite the company’s strong earnings for the quarter. Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi and Alexis Christoforous discuss on The Ticker. …read more […]
The ruling by Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman in Norman, Oklahoma, came in the first case to go to trial out of 2,700 nationally by states, counties and cities seeking to hold drug companies responsible for the deadly epidemic. Following a non-jury trial, Balkman had ruled in August that Oklahoma had proven that J&J engaged in misleading marketing about the benefits of painkillers, and that their addictive risks caused a public nuisance in the form of the opioid crisis. …read more […]
At a time when companies in a U.S. natural gas field have been losing money and exiting Louisiana’s Haynesville shale basin, Dallas Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones’ Comstock Resources is picking up cheap assets, betting on the field’s proximity to the growing U.S. Gulf Coast export hub.
Reuters on Wednesday reported that Comstock Resources is in talks to buy Chesapeake Energy Corp’s Haynesville shale assets in Louisiana. A deal would come just months after Comstock paid $1.1 billion to buy privately held Covey Park Energy to become the largest operator in the region. …read more […]
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AMD shares are trading at new highs again …read more […]
Wall Street’s main stock indexes hit record highs on Friday, fueled by fresh optimism over a potential calming of U.S.-China trade tensions and by a strong forecast from semiconductor industry bellwether Applied Materials.
U.S. retail sales rebounded moderately in October although consumers did cut back on purchases of big-ticket household items like furniture and discretionary spending, which could temper expectations for a strong holiday shopping season.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Google’s bid to escape Oracle Corp’s multi-billion dollar lawsuit accusing Google of infringing software copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world’s smartphones.
Investors in S&W Seed Company (NASDAQ:SANW) had a good week, as its shares rose 5.0% to close at US$2.31 following the… …read more […]
If you’re looking at retiring in the future, you’ve probably heard of an IRA and a 401(k). But what’s the difference between these two retirement-saving plans? The bottom-line answer: one is employer sponsored and one you can open with almost any provider.
Before you read any further, it’s important to know you can have both. There is no rule that says you can’t have both an IRA and a 401(k). But knowing the differences between the two can help you decide the best way to reach your retirement goals.
What Are the Different Retirement Plans?
In this article we will be talking about …read more […]
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