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Fed makes small changes to control policy rate, hints at more to come

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday made only minor changes to help it better manage its benchmark interest rate after the U.S. central bank briefly lost control of it earlier in the week.



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Purdue Pharma seeks to halt opioid suits against company, Sacklers

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP on Wednesday asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge to halt for roughly nine months more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging the company and its controlling Sackler family helped fuel the U.S. opioid crisis, according to court documents.



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Trump says the Fed should have acted faster but today’s action is fine

President Donald Trump said the Federal Reserve's decision on Wednesday to lower interest rates was "fine" but the central bank should have acted sooner.



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Small, midsize businesses are 'much stronger' than large enterprise right now, Tech Data CEO says

"In tech, something is always hot. We can move to where the demand is quickly," Tech Data CEO Rich Hume says.

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Asian shares edge higher after Fed, investors await BOJ

Asian shares edged higher on Thursday, tracking some modest Wall Street gains after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected but offered mixed signals on the next easing, keeping investors cautious.



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Airbnb says second-quarter revenue topped $1 billion

Airbnb Inc took in more than $1 billion in revenue for the second quarter of 2019, the second time it exceeded that level in its decade-plus history, the home rentals company said in a statement on Wednesday.



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Trump and California go to war over clean cars

U.S. President Donald Trump and the state of California went to war on Wednesday over who should set the standards in the United States for vehicle emissions and electric cars, foreshadowing a legal battle over environmental policy issues that will affect the auto industry and consumers.



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Asian shares turn lower on guarded Fed, yen rises after BOJ

Asian shares turned lower on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected but signaled a higher bar to further policy easings.



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Costly Saudi defenses prove no match for drones, cruise missiles

Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge Western military hardware mainly designed to deter high altitude attacks has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry.



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Saudi Arabia to restore oil output fully by end of September: energy minister

Saudi Arabia will restore its lost oil output of 5.7 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of September and has managed to recover oil supplies to the levels they were at prior to weekend attacks on its facilities by drawing from oil inventories.



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Oil plummets 6% as Saudi oil minister says production fully restored

Oil prices dropped about 6% on Tuesday after Saudi Arabia's energy minister said the kingdom has fully restored its oil production hit by an attack this weekend that shut 5% of global oil output.



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Pence upbeat that Congress will pass USMCA trade deal this year

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said he believed Congress would act to pass a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement this year, providing important momentum for the U.S. economy.



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Head of Russian shipping giant Sovcomflot to step down -deputy PM's office

The chief executive of Russian state-controlled shipping giant Sovcomflot, Sergei Frank, will step down after 15 years in office, the office of Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov said in a statement on Tuesday.



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Yemen Houthi drones, missiles defy years of Saudi air strikes

At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles.



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From underpants to oat drink makers, Citigroup courts startups for growth

At an event hosted by Citigroup Inc this month, its dealmakers sat executives from major consumer-product companies alongside rivals trying to disrupt their businesses.



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