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The United States launched five separate World Trade Organization dispute actions on Monday challenging retaliatory tariffs imposed by China, the European Union, Canada, Mexico and Turkey following U.S. duties on steel and aluminium. The retaliatory tariffs on up to a combined $28.5 billion worth of U.S. exports are illegal under WTO rules, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement. …read more […]

* Update: Here’s how to get around Amazon’s error. Use smile.amazon.com. TechCrunch confirmed this workaround works. …read more […]

CNBC’s Kate Rogers reports that users are experiencing issues on Amazon’s website as the e-commerce giant’s Prime Day sales event starts. …read more […]

Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith, Andy Serwer, Julia La Roche and Dan Howley discuss Elon Musk’s latest Twitter outburst. …read more […]

Strong quarterly results and price hikes by analysts have pushed PayPal’s share price higher. …read more […]

A community activist who has pushed for more police transparency said Monday that he’s asked Chicago police for the body camera footage from all the officers at the scene where one of them fatally shot a black man over the weekend. William Calloway said a brief video released by police showing the view from one officer’s body camera does not answer crucial questions, starting with the reasons the officers approached 37-year-old Harith Augustus on Saturday afternoon just before he was shot. Calloway also said that a police spokesman’s explanation that the Augustus was “exhibiting characteristics of an armed …read more […]

Turtle Beach Corp. is no one-hit wonder. The video-game headset maker’s shares have soared almost 1,200 percent year-to-date thanks largely to the exploding popularity of Fortnite. Turtle Beach “is the dominant player in the global console headset market,” beating competitors with its comfort designs, shelf space in bricks-and-mortar stores and “super human hearing technology” in some headsets that allows gamers to detect rivals sneaking up on them, Forte said in a note, reiterating his buy rating — a stance first taken last week. …read more […]

Wrestling Chinese regulators and fending off a hostile takeover, the chip giant has left investors frustrated this year. …read more […]

Ryan McQueeney recaps the morning’s top market news, including earnings announcements from Bank of America (BAC) and BlackRock (BLK), as well as June’s retail sales data. Later, the host gives investors everything they need to know about Netflix (NFLX) ahead of its earnings report Monday afternoon. …read more […]

Shares of Netflix (NFLX) added about 0.3% in morning trading Monday, just hours before the video streaming giant is set to release its second-quarter earnings report. …read more […]

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions from the press after joint meeting. Yahoo Finance’s Seana Smith, Andy Serwer and Julia La Roche discuss. …read more […]

Bank of America’s second-quarter profits jumped 33 percent from a year earlier, the company said Monday, as like nearly all other big banks, it benefited greatly from the new tax law. The bank also benefited from the recent rise in interest rates, allowing it to charge more for customers to borrow. On a per-share basis, BofA earned 63 cents a share, beating average projections of earnings of 57 cents per share from industry analysts, according to a survey by FactSet. …read more […]

Ford investors have endured a rough year in the country — and unfortunately, business could get worse before it gets better. Here’s why. …read more […]

Elon Musk can’t follow his own advice. Controversial outbursts are neither new nor unusual for Musk, who frequently spars with critics and investors betting against his company. After Tesla shares fell 22 percent in March — the steepest monthly drop in more than seven years — Musk jokingly tweeted on April Fools’ Day that the company had gone bankrupt. …read more […]

Apple Inc. is facing more challenges in the world’s fastest-growing major smartphone market. The iPhone maker has lost a trio of pivotal executives in India in recent weeks as it struggles to boost iPhone sales there, people familiar with the matter say. Among the executives who’ve departed are its national sales and distribution chief, the head of its commercial channels and mid-market business, and the head of telecom carrier sales, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters. …read more […]