 | | | | Google's chief executive officer, Sundar Pichai, is on Capitol Hill this week to face questions from Republican lawmakers who accuse the company of being biased against conservatives and have raised a litany of other concerns. | | | | | | Boeing Co's jet was selected to build the U.S. Air Force's next training jet in a contract worth up to $9.2 billion over the life of the program, a U.S. official said on Thursday. | | | | | | Canada on Thursday shrugged off U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism that talks to modernize NAFTA were moving too slowly and made clear it had to keep negotiating as long as there was a chance of success. | | | | | | The U.S. dollar rose held near a one-week high against a basket of major currencies on Thursday following a hike in U.S. interest rates, while a robust economy and surging shares of Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc boosted the U.S. stock market. | | | | | | Wall Street rose on Thursday, helped by high-flying shares of Alphabet and Netflix, as well as the U.S. Federal Reserve's confidence in the strength of the economy after it raised rates for the third time this year. | | | | | | The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other powerful business groups asked an appeals court on Thursday to not undo AT&T Inc's purchase of movie and TV show maker Time Warner, despite the protests of the Justice Department. | | | | | | As the Trump administration negotiates new trade pacts with Canada, China and other countries, Ford Motor Co Executive Chairman Bill Ford said on Thursday the automaker wants deals that allow it to plan and invest with "certainty." | | | | | | Petróleo Brasileiro SA will pay an $853.2 million fine to settle U.S. criminal charges that the Brazilian state-run oil company bribed politicians and then sought to conceal the payments, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. | | | | | | Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has a new message for financial markets: watch the data on jobs, wages and inflation for signals on monetary policy - not the U.S. central bank's words or forecasts. | | | | | | Oil edged higher on Thursday, driven by the prospect of a shortfall in global supply once U.S. sanctions against major crude exporter Iran come into force in five weeks. | | | | | |
