 | | | | Federal Reserve officials discussed raising interest rates soon to counter excessive economic strength but also examined how global trade disputes could batter businesses and households, minutes of the U.S. central bank's last policy meeting showed. | | | | | | U.S. central bankers discussed raising interest rates soon to counter excessive economic strength but also examined how global trade disputes could batter businesses and households, minutes of the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting showed on Wednesday. | | | | | | The S&P 500's bull market turned 3,453 days old on Wednesday, making it the longest such streak in history, according to some investors' definition. | | | | | | A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive $4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company's talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer. | | | | | | Saudi Arabia has called off both the domestic and international stock listing of state oil giant Aramco, billed as the biggest such deal in history, four senior industry sources said on Wednesday. | | | | | | The S&P 500 was little changed on Wednesday after the release of the Federal Open Market Committee's minutes from its last policy meeting as the index marked its longest bull-market run. | | | | | | JPMorgan Chase & Co is extending its Sapphire credit card brand into checking accounts at the largest U.S. bank to attract increasingly wealthy millennials as lifetime customers, it said on Wednesday. | | | | | | Investors in the debt of electric carmaker Tesla are betting the take-private deal described by Chief Executive Elon Musk will not materialize. | | | | | | Comcast Corp said it had received valid acceptances for shares representing just 0.21 percent of Sky Plc after its 14.75 pound per share offer to buy 61 percent of the European broadcaster. | | | | | | Apple is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its planned acquisition of British music discovery app Shazam, two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. | | | | | |
