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Stocks moved broadly higher in early trading on Wall Street Wednesday as large U.S. companies continued to surprise investors with solid profits. Earnings reporting season is more than a third of the way through and the results have been tempering investors’ worst fears about a severe profit slump. Earnings are down about 0.3% so far […]

That is beginning to change. The United States has enshrined the tech industry’s position in the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, which provides for open access to government data, protections for company source codes and algorithms and a prohibition on customs duties on data, among other provisions. The agreement will serve as a jumping-off point for American

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has once again ridden a high body count to a record viewer count. The Nielsen company says Sunday’s big-battle episode, the third of the final season, drew 17.8 million viewers either live on the network at 9 p.m., streamed, on-demand or in a rerun that aired later that night. That made

Stephen Moore, President Donald Trump’s pick to join the Federal Reserve Board, claimed on Tuesday that the most critical issue the economy has faced over the past few decades is a drop in male earnings. “The biggest problem I see in the economy over the last 25 years is what has happened to male earnings,

H. Johannes Witteveen, a Dutch economist and politician who, as head of the International Monetary Fund from 1973 to 1978, helped steer the world economy through some of the worst turbulence since World War II, died on April 23. He was 97. His death was confirmed on the website of a Sufi Muslim organization in

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is financing a bid by Occidental Petroleum for Anadarko, potentially upending Chevron’s $33 billion offer for the energy company. Anadarko Petroleum accepted a buyout bid from Chevron earlier this month, but said Monday that it is now considering an offer from Occidental worth about $57 billion in cash and stock, including

China’s factory activity grew in April despite a tariff war with Washington, two surveys showed Tuesday, adding to signs a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy might be bottoming out. Activity was weaker than the previous month but an improvement over February, when manufacturing indicators fell to a three-year low. “The worst of China‘s slowdown

Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday after Wall Street hit a new high and Chinese factory activity grew in April but below the previous month’s pace. Benchmarks in Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney declined while Shanghai advanced. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday. Purchasing managers’ indexes from a business magazine and a trade group

What does it take to kill the Night King? Definitely not a pair of fire-exhaling dragons. The Night King turns out to be flame retardant. Nor does the ability to loop through time and assume control of ravens’ brains help much. Bran Stark pretty much sat helpless beneath the Weirwood tree, waiting to be rescued

Anadarko, which had snubbed Occidental’s buyout offer in favor of Chevron, is now resurrecting talks with its original suitor. The move sets up a bidding war for Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which had accepted Chevron’s $33 billion bid even though it had been in talks with Occidental for some time. Vicki Hollub, the CEO of Occidental