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(Reuters) -Activist investors have targeted major healthcare companies over the past year to push them to improve their performance, with some campaigns only coming to light after announcements of board changes. Below are some notable healthcare companies that came under activist pressure in the last 12 months. MEDTRONIC In August 2025, the medical device maker …

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(Reuters) -Air Canada is set to resume its flight services on Wednesday, after a nearly four-day strike by its unionized flight attendants left more than 500,000 passengers stranded. “While the restart of our operations will begin immediately, we expect it will take several days before our operations return to normal,” the airline said. The flight …

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By Andrea Shalal, David Shepardson, Nandita Bose and Max A. Cherney WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is looking into the government taking equity stakes in Intel and other chipmakers in exchange for grants under the CHIPS Act, which aims to spur factory-building in the U.S., two sources said. As part of a …

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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -New Zealand’s central bank cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to a three-year low of 3.00% on Wednesday, and flagged further reductions in coming months as policymakers warned of domestic and global headwinds to growth. The central bank’s dovish tone caught markets offguard and sent the New Zealand …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is “hurting” the housing industry “very badly” and repeated his call for a big cut to U.S. interest rates. “Could somebody please inform Jerome “Too Late” Powell that he is hurting the Housing Industry, very badly? People can’t get a Mortgage …

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By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized an appeals court’s decision to temporarily block federal officials from completing a land transfer needed for Rio Tinto and BHP to develop Arizona’s Resolution Copper project. Trump’s post on his Truth Social platform came after he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met at …

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