MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s economy minister said on Tuesday that he sees a better than 50 percent chance of reaching an agreement in principle on NAFTA this year despite escalating tensions between his country and the United States.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose on Wednesday after tech sector strength lifted Wall Street shares while concerns about Italy’s debt prompted investors to move into lower-risk government debt elsewhere, pushing U.S. Treasury yields down from recent highs.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies on security concerns.
BOSTON (Reuters) – A wide majority of outside investors at Facebook Inc backed a measure that would revamp its voting structure and end the supervoting rights of shares held by Mark Zuckerberg and others, seen as a rebuke to the chief executive of the world’s largest social media company.
RABAT (Reuters) – Workers at Morocco’s Centrale Danone, a subsidiary of French group Danone , staged a sit-in in Rabat late on Tuesday over losing their jobs as a consumer boycott now in its second month pressures the company.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is expanding a program designed to increase its hiring of women seeking to rejoin the workforce, following a rash of complaints about sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the world’s largest software company.
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TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. oil prices edged up in early Asian trade on Wednesday to move away from lows hit in the previous session, buoyed after industry data showed a decline in U.S. crude inventories.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks edged up on Wednesday after tech sector strength lifted Wall Street shares, while concerns about Italy’s debt prompted investors to move into lower-risk government debt elsewhere, pushing U.S. Treasury yields down from recent highs.
(Reuters) – Newspaper publisher Tronc Inc’s top shareholder said in a filing http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC.Enhanced/SecCapsule.aspx?c=254385&fid=15681381 on Wednesday that it had terminated the sale of a stake in the company after the prospective buyer, investor group McCormick Media, breached its obligations.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a goal of building 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of June was “quite likely” as the company’s production lines were now demonstrating the ability to build 3,500 vehicles per week.
Apple will reportedly add Live Listen technology to its AirPods later this year. The addition of Live Listen to the AirPods was first reported by TechCrunch earlier on Tuesday. The AirPods, which have been hailed as one of Apple’s greatest inventions in recent memory, will expand the reach of Live Listen, and let far more people take advantage of a potentially very handy feature. …read more […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman won U.S. antitrust approval to buy solid rocket motor supplier Orbital ATK, Inc , with conditions, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that a goal of building 5,000 Model 3s per week by the end of June was “quite likely” as the company’s production lines were now demonstrating the ability to build 3,500 vehicles per week.
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