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Five states, including some crucial to Trump, just hit all-time low unemployment rates

Alabama, California, Illinois, New Jersey and South Carolina set news bottoms according to data that goes back to 1976.

4 years ago

Boeing, J&J, dismal China data drag Wall Street lower

Wall Street fell on Friday as negative headlines about Johnson & Johnson and Boeing, along with bleak economic data from China, soured investor risk appetite and offset generally positive corporate earnings.



4 years ago

GM temporarily halts Chevy Blazer production because of parts shortage

General Motors Co on Friday said it temporarily halted production of its Chevy Blazer SUV in Mexico because of a parts shortage due to a month-old strike by 48,000 U.S. hourly GM employees.



4 years ago

Exclusive: Electric Hummer could be part of GM's move into EV trucks, SUVs - sources

General Motors Co plans to build a new family of premium electric pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant beginning in late 2021, possibly reviving the imposing Hummer brand on some of them, several people familiar with the plans said.



4 years ago

J&J recalls 33,000 bottles of baby powder as FDA finds asbestos in sample

Johnson & Johnson said on Friday it is recalling around 33,000 bottles of baby powder in the United States after U.S. health regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in samples taken from a bottle purchased online.



4 years ago

Ken Fisher fallout: Which pension plans have pulled out and which have stayed

Three retirement plans cut ties with Fisher Investments in a matter of days, pulling close to $1 billion in assets. Here's why that decision was so surprising.

4 years ago

FAA turns over emails from former Boeing 737 pilot

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday turned over 10 pages of emails from a former chief technical pilot on the Boeing 737 MAX that disclosed new details of the company's efforts to win approval from regulators around the world.



4 years ago

Opioid settlement talks falter, landmark trial expected Monday: attorney

A landmark trial stemming from the U.S. opioid epidemic is expected to begin on Monday after last-ditch talks to strike a multibillion-dollar settlement faltered on Friday, according to an attorney for local governments.



4 years ago

News Corp to supply headlines for Facebook's upcoming news tab

Facebook Inc's upcoming news tab will feature headlines from the Wall Street Journal and some other News Corp media properties when it launches in fall of 2019, the social network said on Friday.



4 years ago

Fisher Investments pension losses hit $1.3 billion as Iowa yanks $386 million

The Iowa Public Employees Retirement System is ending its relationship with Fisher Investments, pulling $386 million from the firm. This marks the fourth public pension to drop the mjoney manager following founder Ken Fisher's off-color comments at a conference.

4 years ago

Boeing pilots' messages on 737 MAX safety raise new questions

A Boeing Co senior pilot said he might have unintentionally misled regulators, in a series of internal messages from 2016 that became public Friday, plunging the world's largest airplane maker into a fresh crisis.



4 years ago

Trump hopes U.S.-China trade deal will be signed by middle of November

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he thinks a trade deal between the United States and China will be signed by the time the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings take place in Chile on Nov. 16 and 17.



4 years ago

Opioid settlement talks fail, landmark trial expected Monday: attorney

A landmark trial over the U.S. opioid epidemic is on track to begin on Monday after drug companies and local governments failed to agree on a settlement on Friday that had been expected to be valued at up to $50 billion.



4 years ago

Boeing 737 MAX test pilot grappled with simulator flaws, too

In newly released text messages from 2016, a top Boeing 737 MAX test pilot tells a colleague that the jet's MCAS flight control system - the same one linked to two fatal crashes - was "running rampant in the (simulator) on me."



4 years ago

Mnuchin backs proposal to double IMF's crisis fund

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday said he welcomes a proposal to double the size of the International Monetary Fund's $250 billion crisis lending fund as part of a deal to maintain overall IMF resources.



4 years ago