The push to funnel increasingly advanced weapons to Ukraine hasn’t interfered with the US’s long-standing policy of arming Taiwan against threats from China, a top State Department official said on Friday.
Faced with declining earnings and heavy debt loads, companies are reducing dividend payments to shareholders to improve the health of their balance sheets.
Heineken NV said it is dealing with the “very real risk” that the Russia would nationalize its local business if it were to stop operations or become insolvent, amid criticism of the company’s presence in the country.
The walls are closing in on online used-car dealer Carvana Co., whose disappointing quarterly results sent the stock into freefall Friday and triggered a string of warnings from analysts, with JPMorgan dealing the harshest blow.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. approved a new share-repurchase program authorizing as much as $30 billion in stock buybacks without giving a timetable.
A weaker dollar will cool some of the price pressures that have been evident around the world.
Donald Trump will find himself facing three sexual assault accusers instead of one if the writer who claims he raped her in the 1990s persuades a judge to let two other women testify at trial.
Private lenders have spent the last five years making ever larger loans to junk-rated companies, grabbing leveraged lending deals away from banks. Now the direct lenders are muscling in on funding consumer loans, cutting into banks’ asset-backed securities business.
More than 720,000 homes and businesses in Michigan still didn’t have power Friday morning after an extreme ice storm tore down thousands of electricity lines, snapped utility poles and toppled trees earlier in the week, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the US.
(Bloomberg) — The European Central Bank is about to get fresh inflation data, with another strong core reading likely to overshadow a softer headline number.
