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Qualcomm wins a pause in enforcement of FTC ruling

Qualcomm Inc won a partial stay against the enforcement of a sweeping antitrust ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to a court filing on Friday.



6 years ago

Trump presses U.S. companies to close China operations

President Donald Trump said on Friday he was ordering U.S. companies to look at ways to close their operations in China and make more of their products in the United States instead, a rhetorical strike at Beijing as trade tensions mounted.



6 years ago

Trump's China trade comments send US stocks tumbling

Wall Street's main indexes lost more than 1% on Friday after President Donald Trump said U.S. companies should "immediately start looking for an alternative to China" after Beijing officials earlier retaliated by imposing tariffs on U.S. goods.



6 years ago

Wall St drops 1% after Trump's China salvo

Wall Street's three main indexes lost about 1% on Friday after President Donald Trump said U.S. companies should "immediately start looking for an alternative to China" after Beijing officials earlier retaliated by imposing tariffs on U.S. goods.



6 years ago

Oil prices slides 3% as U.S.-China trade war escalates

Oil prices fell nearly 3% on Friday after China unveiled retaliatory tariffs against about $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, marking another escalation of a protracted trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.



6 years ago

Worldpay charges, disclosed in fine print, anger small U.S. merchants

Mark VenHuizen, the comptroller of a family business which sells parts for boat engines in Florida, says he has complained three times to Worldpay Inc since 2016 for tacking on extra fees to process his customers' credit and debit card payments without clearly telling him about it.



6 years ago

Powell stops short of committing to rate cuts, and Trump fumes

The Federal Reserve will "act as appropriate" to keep the U.S. economy healthy, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday, remarks that did not say how fast it might cut interest rates, drawing fire from President Donald Trump.



6 years ago

Top U.S. publishers sue Amazon's Audible for copyright infringement

Amazon.com Inc's Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on Friday, aiming to block a planned rollout of a feature called 'Audible Captions' that shows the text on screen as a book is narrated.



6 years ago

IMF's Gopinath says U.S. monetary policy being accommodative and data driven

International Monetary Fund chief economist Gita Gopinath said on Friday that U.S. monetary policy is being accommodative and data driven.



6 years ago

Shares of companies that manufacture in China plunge after Trump orders them to move

Multinationals that rely on the supply chain from China are tumbling after President Donald Trump ordered them find alternatives to their Chinese operations.

6 years ago

Trump meets with trade team at White house: CNBC reporter on Twitter

President Donald Trump was meeting with his trade team at the White House, according to CNBC, after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods and the Republican leader told American companies to get out of China.



6 years ago

Will Novel Fintech Models Thrive in Canada?

Fortunly | Biljana Nikolovski | Aug 23, 2019 The figure of home-ownership in Canada is one of the highest in the world, even though the number of people who own residential property in the country slightly dipped from 69% in 2011 to 67.8% in 2016. But, the portion of the Great White North’s population with

6 years ago

Stocks and oil fall, yen rallies as Trump threatens counter to China tariffs

A global stock index fell alongside oil prices and U.S. yields after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further escalate his trade war with China "this afternoon" after a new round of retaliation tariffs from Beijing.



6 years ago

Wall Street tumbles as Trump escalates trade dispute with China

Wall Street's three main indexes lost more than 1% on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. companies "to immediately start looking for an alternative to China" in response to Beijing's threat to impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.



6 years ago

For some, currency wars may not be fun or easy to win

It's a maxim for private investors: Don't fight the Fed.



6 years ago