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Wednesday's early trade: stocks rise ahead of Fed minutes

While the economy is expected to remain solid , the waning stimulus from last year's tax cuts will contribute to the slowing, with "GDP in 2019 to step down so...

Caesars Entertainment has held talks with Icahn

The company's comments came a day after Icahn said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that he wants the company to pursue a sale while making lead...

Union: Southwest isn't calling Dallas mechanics in on overtime, despite operational emergency

Shortly after 6:30 a.m., Southwest had told a passenger the issue was "resolved". Southwest canceled roughly 440 flights, more than 10 percent of its schedule...

Kraft Heinz's Stock Plummets 20% After Company Slashes Dividend, Discloses SEC Probe

Shares fell almost 21 percent in after-hours trading. The company's CFO, David Knopf, said during a conference call with analysts Thursday that the company co...

China's Dalian port bans Australian coal imports, sets 2019 quota

Anglo American Plc, a major producer of Australian coal, on Thursday said it's not seeing any problems with its shipments into China , while mining giant BHP G...

What will today's BC budget bring?

Poverty Reduction Coalition. She said her organization was looking for an increase of at least $200 this year. "Expanding the supply of affordable homes in B.C....

China port bans Australian coal imports

A Chinese media steel industry website says that China will obtain most of its coal imports in 2019 from Russian Federation and Indonesia, reports Sydney Mor...

European Medicines Agency loses bid to end London lease over Brexit

The EMA was hoping to escape an overall rent bill estimated at around £500 million it is contracted to pay to landlord Canary Wharf Group, as the European agenc...

United Kingdom cyber security head voices confidence in relationship with Huawei

It wasn't quite the briefing that I got about them (Huawei). Britain can handle the security risks involved with using mobile networks made by China's Huawe...

Alberta government to invest $3.7 billion to move oil to market

Canadian crude-by-rail volumes hit record highs past year, but declined in 2019 after production cuts made rail shipments less economic. The rail service will...

Consumer Reports strips Tesla Model 3 and others of recommendations

Consumer Reports on Thursday said it would no longer recommend Tesla's signature Model 3 based on reliability issues, a development that led to a decline...

US, China reportedly drafting outline of trade deal

For more on the trade talks, we crossed to Jeffrey Tucker in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Negotiators may be close to coming up with a deal that will end ...

Apple, Goldman Sachs teaming up on credit card for the iPhone

A wider rollout to consumers will come later this year, according to the Journal . However, neither Apple nor Goldman Sachs have historically focused their eff...

Walmart to Host ‘Baby Savings Day’ this Saturday at Metro Stores

Walmart is having in-store events at stores all over the country this weekend specifically for babies! From vehicle seats, to sippy cups, diaper bags and pacifi...

Brexit: Hammond and Gove fight over who pays tariffs

The deadline for farmers to make decisions was imminent, she said, adding: "Next week, ships will set sail from Britain with cargo on board, including British f...

Police believe airport insider was behind Gatwick drone chaos

The source says the drone flew past the control tower - where the pilot knew it couldn't be photographed due to a ban on devices in the operations centre - and ...

Oil Prices Pull Back Amid Surging US Supply

Crude oil futures eased on Wednesday in light of the prospect of a continued boom in US shale oil output, although with OPEC determined to restrict its own prod...

Hikes EPF interest rates to 8.65%

The move, once approved by the finance ministry will benefit six crore EPFO subscribers. Currently, the Employees Provident Fund Organisation invests 15% of...

United Kingdom wages rose by 3.4% in December, meets expectations

The latest unemployment figures in the East of England are down to 91,000 which, at just 2.8% of the workforce, is the lowest rate in the UK . While the fa...

More pain for carmakers as China sales continue to slide

Vehicle manufacturers that have made heavy investments into production facilities in China are now uncertain if the period of growth will still return and are m...

Trump Threatens Tariffs on European Cars If No EU Trade Deal

United States tariffs on imports of European cars could mean that Europe would buy less soya beans and liquid gas from the USA, the head of the European Commiss...

Payless to close Ottawa-area shoe stores amid creditor protection, liquidation

They plan to close all 2,500 stores in North America by the spring, including all 248 stores in Canada. No, the company stopped taking online orders last week...

Worker killed after tire explodes at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana

The blast set off a fire alarm that summoned airfield rescue crews. The impact from the explosion caused traumatic injuries to one of the contractors , accor...

Binance DEX Launches On Testnet, With One Second Block Times

What do you think of Binance Chain and its DEX? Still, users will now be able to try out the new trading platform. Among other things, traders can create a wa...

Google buys Israeli data migration co Alooma for $150m

U.S. tech giant Google has entered an agreement to acquire Israel's Alooma, a startup that helps enterprises move their data into the cloud. Alooma, which is ...

Vegan sausage roll brings home the bacon for Greggs

People sit inside a Greggs bakery in Bradford, Britain March 1, 2016. Greggs shares jumped 6pc following the news to a record £17, topping the FTSE 250 rise...

Jet stream helps flight reach 801 miles per hour

On February 18, 2019, en route from Los Angeles (LAX) to London Heathrow, the Dreamliner has reached the milestone speed as it was flying at 35,000 feet over Pe...

Elon Musk Praises Bitcoin, Says "Paper Money is Going Away"

In a podcast with Cathie Woods, CEO of ARK Invest , an advisory services firm, Musk said that Bitcoin has an fantastic structure although not with its own ...

Reliance group stocks drop after court order on RCom chairman

The Swedish telecom giant took RCom to insolvency court when they couldn't recover the money. On February 13, the Supreme Court Bench had reserved the judgmen...

City clearing houses are given no-deal Brexit access

With this equivalence framework in place, the three CCPs have been recognised as third-country CCPs under Article 25 of the European Market Infrastructure Regul...