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Analyst Dick Bove upgrades Goldman Sachs, says investment bank is 'crushing it'

Longtime Goldman Sachs critic Dick Bove now recommends investors buy the company's stock and says the company is "crushing it."

5 years ago

Exclusive: Chevron Phillips Chemical in bid to acquire Nova Chemicals - sources

​Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, a joint venture between Chevron Corp and Phillips 66, has offered to acquire Nova Chemicals Corp for more than $15 billion including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.



5 years ago

The Trump economy is starting to look more and more like the Obama economy

It wasn't supposed to be this way: The 2017 tax cut and deregulation were supposed to pull the economy out of its glacial move higher.

5 years ago

Martin Shkreli settles all litigation with his former company Retrophin

Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur serving a seven-year prison term for fraud, has settled all outstanding disputes with Retrophin Inc, the biopharmaceutical company he founded in 2011 and which ousted him three years later.



5 years ago

Merck CEO sees legal challenge if U.S. adopts drug pricing based on other countries

Merck & Co Chief Executive Ken Frazier said on Thursday a rule to base the price the U.S. government pays for some prescription drugs in it Medicare program on lower prices in other countries would face legal challenges if adopted.



5 years ago

FTC objects to Qualcomm submission of Apple documents in antitrust case

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday objected to a move by mobile chip supplier Qualcomm Inc to introduce internal Apple Inc documents in its fight to stop the enforcement of a May antitrust ruling.



5 years ago

Slack stock surges at debut, values company at more than $23 billion

Shares of Slack Technologies Inc, the fast-growing workplace messaging and communication platform, soared nearly 50% in their public trading debut on Thursday, valuing the company at more than $23 billion.



5 years ago

Risks to Wall Street's rally abound despite record high

The benchmark S&P 500 index hit a record high on Thursday as an almost giddy euphoria over the prospects of a U.S. interest rate cut fueled the appetite for equities, but there are plenty of pitfalls that could throw the stock market off course.



5 years ago

Investor LGIM dumps ExxonMobil from its Future World funds

Britain's biggest asset manager has removed ExxonMobil and four more companies from its 5 billion pounds ($6.3 billion) Future World Funds, and said it would vote against their chairs for failing to confront the threats posed by climate change.



5 years ago

Apple, Keurig Dr Pepper, Dollar Tree, Fitbit press U.S. to drop China tariff plan

Apple Inc, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc, Dollar Tree Inc and Fitbit Inc have joined other companies in filing letters of opposition to a Trump administration plan for more U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, including iPhones, MacBooks, and single-serve coffee brewers.



5 years ago

Fed sees case building for interest rate cuts this year

The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it was ready to battle growing global and domestic economic risks with interest rate cuts beginning as early as next month, as it took stock of rising trade tensions and growing concerns about weak inflation.



5 years ago

U.S. bond market's inflation gauges rise as Fed hints at rate cuts

The U.S. bond market's gauges of investors' inflation views climbed on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve signaled it may lower interest rates later this year to counter slowing global growth and sluggish domestic inflation.



5 years ago

Papa John's to invest $80 million in marketing, U.S. franchisees

Papa John's International Inc, which has been struggling to boost sales, said on Wednesday it would spend $80 million to boost its brand image and support its franchisees in the United States from the third quarter of fiscal year 2019.



5 years ago

DoubleLine's Gundlach says Fed's 'pivot' is following bond market's lead

Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital and the most widely followed bond investor, said the Federal Reserve's dovish turn in its policy statement on Wednesday took its lead from the bond market.



5 years ago

Facebook called before Senate panel over digital currency project

Facebook Inc's plans to create a global cryptocurrency will face scrutiny from the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on July 16, the latest sign that policymakers around the globe are casting a wary eye on the project.



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