The United States and China agreed on Friday to the first phase of a trade deal covering agricultural purchases, currency and some aspects of intellectual property protections, and averting a threatened tariff hike, but President Donald Trump said more needed to be negotiated.
Facebook’s efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered several setbacks on Friday as EBay Inc, Stripe Inc, and Mastercard all announced they were leaving the Libra Association, a group of companies aiding Facebook’s efforts to establish the project. The companies join Paypal Holdings Inc which exited the group just a week ago. …read more […]
President Donald Trump said on Friday the United States and China had come to a substantial phase-1 trade deal, reaching agreement on intellectual property, financial services and big agricultural purchases.
The mayor of Cloverdale California says plenty of people blame troubled utility PG&E for recent blackouts but they should blame the California Public Utilities Commission. …read more […]
Global stocks and the euro rallied on Friday on signs of progress in U.S.-China trade talks and hopes that Britain was moving closer to a smooth exit from the European Union.
German carmaker Daimler is recalling hundreds of thousands of Mercedes-Benz vehicles including Sprinter van models over diesel emissions issues.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved Eli Lilly and Co’s migraine drug, Reyvow. The drug has been approved to treat acute migraine with or without aura, a sensory phenomenon or visual disturbance, in adults. Lilly acquired Reyvow, formerly called lasmiditan, in a deal https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colucid-pharms-m-a-eli-lilly-idUSKBN1521O6 worth about $960 million when it bought CoLucid Pharmaceuticals Inc in early 2017. …read more […]
Boeing is under fire yet again after a new report from a panel of international air safety regulators will reportedly criticize the FAA’s review of Boeing’s 737 max jet. The report also faults Boeing for not improving the airplane’s design. CFRA’s Jim Corridore joins Yahoo Finance’s Akiko Fujita to discuss. …read more […]
U.S. officials on Friday signaled good news was coming after a second day of trade talks with China ended, boosting investor hopes that the world’s two largest economies would agree to cool the fires of their 15-month tariff war.
U.S. stocks rose sharply on Friday as hopes grew that the talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He would culminate in a partial trade deal and delay planned U.S. tariff increases.
A fierce, wind-driven wildfire swept through foothills and canyons along the northern edge of Los Angeles on Friday, engulfing homes, closing roads and engulfing acre upon acre of dry brush and chaparral as 100,000 residents were forced to flee.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Judge signaled support on Friday for a six-month pause to litigation led by 24 states against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP to give the company time to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging it fueled a deadly nationwide opioid crisis.
Citibank has agreed to pay a $30 million fine to settle charges of repeated violations of real estate holding rules and for failing to meet its commitment to take corrective actions, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) said on Friday.
The underlying signs that may have signaled Apple’s stock would climb. …read more […]
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