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 Chip sales to smartphone vendors and how Qualcomm Inc. moves forward from fending off a takeover from Broadcom Inc. will be among the main topics of focus for investors as the chipmaker reports its earnings this quarter.
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Earlier this month — and before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress — the company announced a series of changes to how it would handle political advertisements running on its platform in the future. It had said that people who
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American Airlines passenger Jacob Garcia was arrested after touching a female passenger inappropriately and resisting efforts to remove him from the aircraft, according to the Miami-Dade Police Department. Garcia had boarded a flight from Miami to
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 'This is the weirdest meeting culture,' says the Amazon founder.
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 Wall Street closed flat Monday, but stocks managed to hold off a rise in bond yields. Fred Katayama reports.
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 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google owner Alphabet Inc reported first-quarter sales and profit Monday that topped financial analysts' estimates due to strong ad sales and a change in accounting for investments in startups, sending its shares up about 1 percent after hours.
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 April 23 (Reuters) - Software company Trimble Inc
said on Monday it will acquire privately-held Viewpoint from
investment firm Bain Capital in an all-cash deal valued at $1.2
billion as it looks expand its services in the construction
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman capped a three-day visit to France by breaking out the kingdom's check book.
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 Shares of Whirlpool Corp. lost 3% late Monday after the appliances maker reported first-quarter earnings and sales below expectations and said it expects pressure this year from lower sales and increased costs. Whirlpool said it earned $94 million, or $1.30 a share, in the quarter, compared with $153 million, or $2.01 a share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose to $4.91 billion, compared with $4.78 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of $2.51 a share on sales of $4.95 billion. Whirlpool said it expects GAAP profit between $12.30 a share to $13.30 a share in 2018, as "favorable product price/mix is expected to be partially offset by lower global revenue growth and increased raw material inflation." The analysts surveyed by FactSet expect 2018 GAAP earnings of $13.68 a share. In the same statement, Whirlpool said it will increase its quarterly divided by 4.5%.
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Sales keep soaring at Google parent Alphabet Inc., which also got an earnings jump-start from Uber Technologies Inc. Alphabet's net profit surged 73% to $9.4 billion in the first quarter, up from $5.4 billion in the same period last year, boosted by a
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Shares of Carvana Co. fell nearly 5% late Monday after the company, which operates a platform for buying used cars online, said it wants to sell 6 million shares in a follow-on offer. Additionally, certain stockholders are proposing to sell 4 million shares, and a selling stockholder has granted the underwriters the right to buy up to 1.5 million shares, the company said. Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank are the book runners. In a separate press release, Carvana released preliminary results for its first quarter, saying it expects to have sold about 18,450 vehicles, compared with 8,334 sold in the first quarter of 2017. The increase in retail cars sold "was driven in part by increased penetration in existing markets, as well as Carvana's business participating in 56 markets as of March 31, 2018 from 23 markets as of March 31, 2017," the company said in the statement. Net sales and operating revenues are to be about $360 million, compared with $159.1 million for the year-ago period, Carvana said. Analysts polled by FactSet expect about 18,000 vehicles sold and sales around $343 million in the quarter. Carvana shares ended the regular trading session up 2%.
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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, April 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's largest
for-profit education firm, Kroton Educacional SA has
agreed to buy a controlling stake in rival Somos Educação SA
for 4.6 billion reais ($1.34 billion) to increase
basic education business.
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 Sears CEO Eddie Lampert is looking to sell the distressed retailer's Kenmore appliance brand and real estate. Elizabeth Keatinge has more.
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The hedge fund run by Sears CEO Edward Lampert has offered to buy the retailer's popular appliance brand Kenmore and other Sears divisions, moving to break up the company after it failed to find other buyers for the assets.
Sears said it has received a letter from ESL Investments suggesting that...
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Sears Holdings CEO Edward Lampert is offering to purchase the Kenmore appliance brand and other Sears units after the struggling company was unable to find other buyers for the assets.
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ESL Investments, Mr. Lampert's fund and the Sears's biggest shareholder, called on the retailer to sell the Kenmore brand and the chain's home improvement business.
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The yield on 10-year U.S. notes took a stab at the psychologically important 3% level before pulling back on Monday as strengthening inflation prospects added to expectations of a more hawkish approach from the Federal Reserve.
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BMO strategists say higher oil prices should ultimately lead to a flatter yield curve, not a steeper curve as seen last week
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Bloomberg
Few people on Wall Street believe in Eddie Lampert like Eddie Lampert. Thirteen years after merging Sears, one of America's most iconic retailers, with the budget Kmart chain, the hedge-fund billionaire is moving -- again -- to salvage what he can. His
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European markets moved higher Monday as investors reacted to fresh corporate earnings.
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Wall Street fell into negative territory on Monday as signs of soft smartphone demand took a toll on tech stocks and a rise in bond yields dented demand for equities, offsetting optimism on earnings.
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(Reuters) - Wall Street's three major indexes struggled for direction on Monday as Treasury yields inched up to levels that have spooked investors in recent months.
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* Aluminium tumbles as U.S. mulls Rusal sanctions reprieve
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* Indexes: Dow and Nasdaq flat, S&P up 0.13 pct
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Look for China to use the Trade War to try and its tech firms at the expense of ours. That is why I think we will fight to win.
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 Toymaker Hasbro fell short of Wall Street expectations for profit in first quarter as bankruptcy of Toys 'R' Us spurred nearly $100 million shortfall in revenue. Aleksandra Michalska reports.
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A week after blowout earnings, Netflix Inc. said it is once again tapping the corporate bond market.
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Law enforcement apprehended the suspect in a fatal weekend shooting at a Nashville-area Waffle House, and are now looking into how Travis Reinking reacquired weapons legally taken from him last year.
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The European Commission has opened a new investigation into the Mac maker's proposed acquisition of Shazam.
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European stocks finished at their highest in more than 10 weeks Monday, with a turnaround in the market aided by a gains for financial stocks as bond yields gained, moves that came ahead of this week's European Central Bank meeting.
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Climate change crusader Michael Bloomberg says he'll pony up $4.5 million to fulfill the annual U.S. commitment under the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.
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April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks opened higher on Monday as
gains in technology and industrial stocks led optimism about a
strong earnings season and concerns on rising U.S. bond yields
eased.
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The anticipated action involves the megabank's treatment of car loans and mortgages.
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Hasbro's issues went beyond the Toys ‘R' Us liquidation, with European inventory proving to be a first-quarter problem as well.
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said
on Monday that it removed or put a warning label on 1.9 million
pieces of extremist content related to ISIS or al-Qaeda in the
first three months of the year, or about double the amount from
the previous quarter.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co canceled more flights on Monday as it worked to complete inspections of engines like the one that failed last week in a deadly accident over Pennsylvania.
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The U.S. Treasury extended the deadline for investors to exit their dealings with sanctioned Russian aluminum giant Rusal after America's European allies complained Washington's latest punitive actions put their companies at risk.
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Twitter is scheduled to announce its Q1 results on Wednesday, April 25. The company reported a slowdown in revenues through 2017, mainly due to a 13% fall in average revenue per user for its U.S. segment.
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 The most widely watched bond in America is close to a barrier that could cause trouble for the markets.
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* Aluminum prices had rallied on sanctions last week
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On Monday, 128 flights were reported canceled, but the company did not detail why.
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Facebook and Google are dealing with a privacy backlash and new European rules on data collection. The rules, though, may not be as damaging to the companies as they appear.
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Many managers accept that teams must plod through the phases of storming, norming and forming before arriving at the holy land of performing. But modern business rewards speed and agility - there's no time for a gradual march towards optimal impact. So what's the fastest path to thriving teams?
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Fox Business
Amazon and Netflix are teaming up with several top Hollywood studios in a lawsuit against rival streaming service Set TV. Continue Reading Below. The plaintiffs include Sony Pictures, Disney, Warner Bros. and other studios that comprise the Alliance
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Sanmina Corp. shares rose more than 15% late Monday after the electronics maker reported fiscal 2018 second-quarter profit and sales above Wall Street expectations. Sanmina said it earned $24.6 million, or 33 cents a share, in the quarter, compared with $31.7 million, or 41 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted for one-time items, Sanmina earned $37 million, or 50 cents a share, compared with $59.1 million, or 76 cents a share, a year ago. Sales reached $1.68 billion, matching sales for the same period of fiscal 2017. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected adjusted earnings of 45 cents a share on sales of $1.64 billion. Sanmina had ended the regular trading session up 0.4%.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday finished in negative territory for a fourth straight session, marking its longest losing trend since early March, as Wall Street wrestled with rising government bond yields. The Dow closed off about 14 points, or less than 0.1%, at 24,448. The four declines in a row represent the lengthiest downdraft for the blue-chip gauge since a similar period ended March 2, according to FactSet data. The S&P 500 index , meanwhile, closed virtually unchanged at 2,670, while the Nasdaq Composite Index finished the session down 0.3% at 7,128. The advance in U.S. interest rates, notably the 10-year Treasury note yield to near 3% , has come as traders increasingly start to price in four interest-rate hikes in 2018 from the Federal Reserve, rather than the three signaled by policy makers. Higher rates translate into increased borrowing costs for U.S. corporations and the level at around 3% is viewed as a threshold at which bonds can compete with investor appetite for other investments, like stocks, market participants said. In corporate news, shares of Box Inc. surged by nearly 11% after Venture capitalist, Chamath Palihapitiya, said shares of the cloud-storage company had room to run higher and that the company would benefit from advancements in artificial intelligence. Separately, shares of Alcoa Corp slumped 12% as the Treasury Department said it has extended its wind-down period for dealing with Russian company Rusal, a major industrial metals mining company.
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Los Angeles - it's not what you think.
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European Union antitrust authorities on Monday opened a full-blown probe into Apple Inc.'s proposed acquisition of the popular song-recognition app Shazam Entertainment Ltd. on concerns the deal could reduce choice for users of music-streaming services.
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* Q1 EARNINGS PER SHARE VIEW $0.15 -- THOMSON REUTERS
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Public Service Electric and Gas Co. said Monday it settled with New Jersey Board of Public Utilities for a $1.875 billion plan to replace gas pipes, which will increase residential customer bills by less than 2%, or about $17 a year. PSE&G said the five-year plan, which will enable the utility to replace 875 million of aging cast iron and unprotected steel gas pipes, is expected to create about 3,200 jobs. The company said the steel pipes will be replaced with plastic piping, which are less likely to leak and release methane gas. "Since 2009, residential gas heating bills are down about 50 percent because of the lower cost of natural gas supply," PSE&G said in a statement. "Continued low gas prices make this the ideal time to accelerate this work." PSE&G's stock, which was still inactive in premarket trade, has lost 3.9% year to date, while the SPDR Utilities Select Sector ETF has lost 4.5% and the S&P 500 has eased 0.1%.
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 Former New York mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg said on Sunday he will write a $4.5 million check to cover this year's U.S. financial commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. President Donald Trump last year pulled the United States out of the pact, making the country the only one opposed to it. Bloomberg, in a CBS interview, said he hopes by next year Trump will have changed his mind.
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