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Fed holds U.S. rates steady, maintains gradual hike option

Fed leaders meet again in June, and Wall Street predicts there's a 67% chance of a June rate increase, according to CME Group. The unemployment rate was 4.5 per...

Chinese Passenger Plane Takes off in Shanghai after Three Years of Delays

Still, Stone Fish says, COMAC has 20 to 40 years to go before they can realistically shake up the aviation market. The aircraft maker, state-owned Commercial ...

Google reports 28% profit increase boosted by ad sales

Google segment includes Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Apps, Cloud, Android, Chrome, Google Play, and hardware products, incl...

French presidential candidate's team says it suffered 'massive' hack

Macron's party has previously complained that his campaign had been the target of "fake news" put out by Russian media, as well as internet attacks on its datab...

House Committee Grills Airlines In Wake Of United Passenger Dragging

Last month, American airlines faced a problem when a video went online showing am encounter between a crying woman on a plane holding her two children and a fl...

Oil prices fall further amid oversupply fears

Crude oil lost ground on Thursday, falling for a third out of four sessions and trading near its lowest since late March after data showed a lower than expected...

Trump fires back at Clinton in late-night tweet storm

And you can see what the president thinks of it all below. "I tend to agree", said Bila's co-host, Sara Haines. At the beginning of a Senate Judiciary Comm...

Puerto Rico requests bankruptcy protection for public debt

Puerto Rico is preparing to cut public employee benefits, increase tax revenue, hike water rates and privatize government operations, among other things. As thi...

New Google Docs phishing scam is 'spreading like wildfire'

But unlike traditional phishing attacks that try to coax personal details out of you with an official-looking imitation page, this cunning scam took you to a ...

Solo climber stranded on Canadian mountain is rescued

He said: "She was getting pretty weak over the last couple of days". "Staff had been in contact with Ms. Martinez and monitoring the situation since May 1, a...

Warren Buffett cuts IBM stake by a third citing tough competition

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Warren Buffett's company reported a 27 percent drop in its first-quarter profit largely because of a big gain it booked past year in connec...

China 'putting pressure' on North Korea, says Trump

On Saturday, John Dickerson of CBS News conducted an interview with President Donald Trump, which began airing on Sunday morning's edition of " Face The Natio...

FAST FACTS: New lumber tariff could increase home prices

That's how Stephen Colbert began a monologue about Canada's brewing trade conflict with the United States, which escalated with the announcement of a 20 per ce...

Johnson struggles in wind in second round at Wells Fargo

On a sunny day with a steady wind hovering around 15 miles per hour, Lehman hit 12 of 14 fairways on the 7,002-yard layout and reached 14 greens in regulation. ...

Man sues American Airlines after being crushed by 'grossly obese' passenger

Taylor said he was forced to "contort his body" because of the passenger next to him, exacerbating existing back problems and giving him ongoing neck pain. Th...

Tottenham's pursuit of EPL leaders suffers a big blow

Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 defeat to West Ham United on Friday leaves them facing an impossible task to win the Premier League title, according to midfielder Er...

Tyson Fury Accepts Anthony Joshua Challenge

What the future now holds for the brilliant Klitschko remains to be seen but for Joshua, the future looks bright. It could include a rematch with Klitschko, who...

Prudential PLC reiterated as Buy By Berenberg Bank

With 23,300 avg volume, 0 days are for ARKADOS GROUP INCORPORATED (OTCMKTS:AKDS)'s short sellers to cover AKDS's short positions. The ETF decreased 1.74% or $0....

US Economy Grows at Disappointing 0.7% in First Quarter

United Kingdom gross domestic product (GDP) growth slumped to an estimated 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2017, the slowest rate in a year as higher pri...

China's First Civilian Airliner - And Industry Ambitions - Take Maiden Flight

As the plane smoothly landed in Pudong Airport after a 90-minute flight, the flight crew, wearing orange uniforms with the Chinese national flag sewn over the h...

Oversupply fears push oil prices to five-month lows

The main trend is down according to the daily swing chart, but the June WTI crude oil contract is also down 16 days from its recent top, putting it in the win...

House Republicans push bill to scrap Wall Street safeguards

That aspect of the rule was challenged by a House Democrat, but yesterday Republicans succeeded in maintaining it by a committee vote of 34-26 along party lin...

Local student reacts to contentious French presidential election

In her campaign speeches, Le Pen has consistently said she is not a candidate of the far-right party and that her policies are hers alone. US stocks ralli...

Easterly Government Properties Announces Quarterly Dividend

Finally, SunTrust Banks, Inc. reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of Medical Properties Trust in a report on Wednesday, March 8th. Robert W. Baird assumed cover...

FxWirePro call review WTI downside target extended to 38 per barrel

The precise trigger for the two-day sell off, which has loped more than 7% from global crude prices, is hard to pinpoint, but the downward slope has been eviden...

U.S. airline apologises for booting family off flight

He told CBS2: 'We never thought it was going to get to the point where they were actually getting us all off the flight. The incident occurred around midnig...

Korea: US, South plotting to kill Kim Jong

North Korea is beginning to act like a rabid dog by biting the hand that feeds them. And it targets those involved in the export or use of North Korean forced...

Trump eases restrictions on religious groups

A 1954 federal law prohibits tax-exempt charitable organizations such as churches from participating in political campaigns. The order limits the reach of ...

Jefferies International Reiterated Prudential PLC (LON:PRU) As 'Hold'

About shares traded. Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX) has risen 33.55% since September 16, 2016 and is uptrending. It has underperformed by 22.85% the S&P500. However...

No federal charges against officers in Alton Sterling death

Everett Matthews of Baton Rouge , holds up a sign outside the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was killed previous year, in Baton Rouge , La ., Tuesd...

Warren Buffett kicks off annual meeting with a quip

Last year's attendance fell to about 37,000 from more than 40,000 a year earlier. Back in April, IBM reported earnings that showed its revenue has fallen for 2...

Suddenly, Oil Below $40 a Barrel Doesn't Seem So Far-Fetched

Iraqi fuel oil exports have soared since January despite a reduction in the country's crude production in line with OPEC supply cuts, industry sources said, in ...

First passenger jet 'made in China' takes maiden flight

Comac itself functions as the main vehicle in implementing large passenger aircraft programs in China. Change is in the air in China as the country's first do...

Dollar rallies after Fed signals June rate hike likely

Even so, investors increased bets on a move in June after absorbing the Fed's sanguine assessment of the outlook and its encouraging observations on inflation, ...

Striking workers give France's Macron rough reception in factory visit

Mr Issa said investors would likely shift their attention to Thursday's European Central Bank meeting. For all the paeans to Macron's unifying vision in divid...