Wall St holds gains after cooler inflation, mixed earnings
By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) -Wall Street stocks mostly held on to their previous gains on Friday, while the dollar stayed…
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Microsoft asks court to reject FTC request to pause Activision deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft urged an appeals court in sometimes scathing language on Friday to reject the U.S. Federal Trade…
Court blocks curbs on US government contact with social media companies for now
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court order that had sharply limited…
US House passes defense bill authorizing record spending; Senate debate next
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of a sweeping bill setting policy for…
UnitedHealth’s lower-than-feared costs lift profit, shares
By Bhanvi Satija and Raghav Mahobe (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group’s quarterly profit beat Wall Street estimates on Friday as a smaller-than-expected…
Dollar gains after steep losses, but downtrend stays intact
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Joice Alves NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar bounced on Friday after falling sharply the…
Disney seeks to toss district lawsuit in DeSantis feud
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co asked a Florida judge on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit by…
Oil prices fall on profit-taking, still record weekly gain
(Corrects Brent price unit in second paragraph to ‘per barrel’) By Shariq Khan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Oil prices fell more…
US state, local governments budgeted $173 billion in COVID aid, Treasury says
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly half of the $350 billion in COVID-19 assistance to state, local, tribal and territorial…
Biden 2024 campaign says it has $77 million in the bank
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election team said on Friday that it…