NAFTA replacement deal lifts Wall Street
Wall Street kicked off the fourth quarter on a positive note on Monday, as a last-minute deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact helped ease trade concerns.
Wall Street kicked off the fourth quarter on a positive note on Monday, as a last-minute deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact helped ease trade concerns.
Investors are raising bets for as many as four additional interest rate increases from the Bank of Canada by the end of 2019 after a deal to save the trilateral NAFTA trade pact reduced uncertainty for Canada’s trade-dependent economy.
General Electric Co ousted Chief Executive Officer John Flannery in a surprise move on Monday, replacing him with outsider and board member Larry Culp, and said it would take a roughly $23-billion charge to write off goodwill in its power division, primarily from a large 2015 acquisition.
While John Flannery’s tenure at the helm of General Electric was far shorter than that of his predecessor Jeff Immelt, the two former chiefs have one thing in common: They both presided over a sharp drop in GE shares.
A medical care unit of DaVita Inc will pay $270 million to resolve claims it provided inaccurate information about patients that caused Medicare Advantage plans operated by private insurers to obtain inflated payments from the government.
Canada, which reached a tentative trade deal with the United States and Mexico, is now pushing the United States to remove steel and aluminum tariffs, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Monday he believed the new trade pact with Mexico and Canada will pass Congress with substantial majorities because it contains benefits for all.
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Shares of Tesla Inc jumped 18 percent on Monday as signs it had met targets for quarterly car production added to relief at Chief Executive Elon Musk’s settling of a lawsuit with regulators that had threatened to force him out.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said a new free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico would support hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs, marking it as a victory in his push to reshape the lines of global commerce.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that Canada made some difficult compromises to reach a deal to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Ford Motor Co said Monday it is “very encouraged” by an announcement of a revised free trade deal reached late Sunday between the United States, Canada and Mexico — an agreement likely to remove significant uncertainty from automakers who feared a collapse of trading rules.
Growth in factory activity slowed across Europe and Asia in September, with export orders weakening before the latest escalation in the U.S.-China trade conflict, but was little changed in the Americas.
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