 | | | | U.S. regulators are examining how Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk announced his plan to take the electric carmaker private and whether his statement was truthful, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. | | | | | | Tesla Inc's board has said it is evaluating taking the electric car maker private, a day after Chief Executive Elon Musk surprised shareholders with the idea of launching the biggest leveraged buyout of all time. | | | | | | Roku Inc reported a 57.4 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Wednesday, helped by higher number of subscribers for its ad-supported video streaming platform. | | | | | | Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's quarterly revenue jumped 17.7 percent as the Rupert Murdoch-controlled media company received higher fees from cable distributors. | | | | | | The S&P 500 ended flat on Wednesday as energy share declines and trade jitters kept gains in check. | | | | | | Tronc Inc is weighing an offer to sell the Chicago Tribune and the rest of its newspaper holdings to a private equity firm, the Chicago Tribune reported on Wednesday. | | | | | | A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an antitrust challenge by 23 beer drinkers to Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's $107 billion purchase in 2016 of SABMiller Plc, which they claimed would thwart competition and raise prices in the U.S. beer market. | | | | | | Oil prices slumped after Chinese import data showed a slowdown in demand and weighed on world equity markets, which traded near break-even as U.S. technology shares extended recent gains. | | | | | | China and Germany defended their business ties with Iran on Wednesday in the face of President Donald Trump's warning that any companies trading with the Islamic Republic would be barred from the United States. | | | | | | New U.S. sanctions against Iran took effect on Tuesday and President Donald Trump, who defied Washington's allies to impose them, pledged that companies doing business with Tehran would be barred from doing business with the United States. | | | | | | Proposed tariffs on U.S. imports from China of electronic cigarettes, known as vaping products, could not come at a worse time for the industry. | | | | | |
