FILE PHOTO: Credit reporting company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Tami Chappell (Reuters) – Credit reporting company Equifax Inc (EFX.N) is close to a deal to pay around $700 million to settle data breach probes with U.S. regulators and states, the Wall Street Journal…
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Four Republican lawmakers ask Trump to move forward with $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Four Republican members of U.S. Congress, including House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mac Thornberry, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday urging him to move forward with a $10 billion cloud contract with the Defense Department. FILE PHOTO: House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-CA)…
Oil climbs as Middle East tensions offset demand worries
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose about 1 percent on Friday after steep losses a day earlier, supported by rising tensions between the United States and Iran, even as concerns that slowing economic growth could dent global oil demand cast a cloud. FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen at sunset…
Carlos Ghosn sues Nissan-Mitsubishi in the Netherlands: paper
FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan Motor Chariman Carlos Ghosn leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo, Japan April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Carlos Ghosn has launched a court case in the Netherlands against Japanese carmakers Nissan Motor (7201.T) and Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T), who ousted him as chairman of their alliance…
CBS stations go dark for DirecTV customers amid contract dispute with AT&T
FILE PHOTO: An AT&T logo is pictured in Pasadena, California, U.S., January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (Reuters) – CBS Corp (CBS.N) and AT&T Inc (T.N) failed to renew their contact, resulting in millions of DirecTV subscribers losing access to CBS programming. CBS television stations in over a dozen U.S. cities, including New…
Wall Street falls as Fed signals smaller rate cut
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Friday following a report that the Federal Reserve plans to cut interest rates by only a quarter-percentage point at the end of the month. The benchmark S&P 500 erased earlier marginal gains after a Wall Street Journal report on the Fed’s plans.…
American Airlines-Qantas joint venture wins final U.S. approval
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Friday granted American Airlines Group Inc and Qantas Airways Ltd final approval to operate a joint venture after a prior effort was rejected in 2016. FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines airplane sits on the tarmac at LAX in Los Angeles, California, U.S.,…
White House to host meeting with tech executives on Huawei ban: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow will host a meeting with semiconductor and software executives on Monday to discuss the U.S. ban on sales to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, two sources briefed on the meeting said on Friday. A Huawei logo is pictured at their store at Vina…
Ford to lay off around 200 workers at Canadian plant
TORONTO (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co (F.N) will lay off about approximately 200 employees in September at a Canadian manufacturing plant in Oakville, Ontario, with the possibility of more layoffs in January, the company said on Friday. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Ford is seen on a 2020 Ford Explorer car at…
China Southern Airlines to receive $4 billion capital injection
FILE PHOTO: The company logo of China Southern Airlines is displayed at a news conference in Hong Kong, China March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Bobby Yip SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China Southern Airlines (600029.SS) will carry out an equity diversification plan that will involve the injection of 30 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) of capital from…
AB InBev sells Australian brewer to Asahi, keeps Asia IPO on radar
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI.BR), the world’s largest brewer, is selling its Australian operations to Japan’s Asahi (2502.T) for $11 billion and could revive the stalled flotation of its Asian business as it looks to cut debt. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Anheuser-Busch InBev is pictured inside the brewer’s headquarters in…
Syngenta profits hit by U.S./China trade wars, bad weather
ZURICH (Reuters) – Agricultural chemical maker Syngenta on Friday reported a 34% fall in first-half net income, showing the impact of U.S. trade disputes with China and Mexico as well as bad weather in some of its markets. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss agrochemicals maker Syngenta is seen on a farm…
Microsoft brightens Wall St. mood as rate cut hopes rise
(Reuters) – U.S. stock futures inched higher on Friday as strong results for Microsoft’s cloud business fed into a bullish mood following signs from New York Fed President John Williams that the U.S. central bank was set to cut interest rates this month. Traders walk on the floor of the New York…
AmEx beats profit on higher card spending; expenses a worry
FILE PHOTO: American Express logo and trading symbol are displayed on a screen at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., December 6, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (Reuters) – Credit card issuer American Express Co (AXP.N) beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit on Friday, as a healthy U.S. economy fueled…
GM’s mid-engine Corvettes roar onstage to take on Europeans
TUSTIN, Calif. (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) unveiled on Thursday its newly designed mid-engine 2020 Corvette in a splashy tribute to its emblematic sports car, even as the No. 1 U.S. automaker faces mounting pressures in a sluggish and uncertain global sales environment. In a glitzy presentation in Orange County outside…