 | | | | The U.S. Treasury said on Friday it was extending a deadline for investors to divest certain operations, debt and equity of sanctioned Russian company Gaz Group until Dec. 12. | | | | | | Wanda Ferragamo, the honorary president of the Florentine shoemaker founded by her husband Salvatore, has died at the age of 96, the family said on Friday. | | | | | | A U.S. regulatory council announced on Wednesday it had removed the systemically risky label from Prudential Financial , freeing the insurance company from more rigorous oversight by the Federal Reserve. | | | | | | Facebook Inc has hired former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs and communications team, as the social network deals with a number of scandals related to privacy, fake news and election meddling. | | | | | | Fans of Swiss Army perfume can breathe a sigh of relief: the government and knifemaker Victorinox have settled a legal row that paves the way for military-grade scents to be sold in North America. | | | | | | AbbVie Inc said on Friday that Chief Financial Officer William Chase is retiring in mid-2019 and named its controller, Robert Michael, his immediate successor as CFO. | | | | | | Air France-KLM's new Chief Executive Ben Smith struck a pay deal with French unions on Friday, drawing a line under a protracted standoff that had led to costly strikes and the abrupt departure of his predecessor earlier this year. | | | | | | The European Union signed a free-trade deal with Singapore at a summit with Asian leaders on Friday and pressed China to allow greater foreign investment in its economy, but ran into familiar resistance from Beijing over state subsidies. | | | | | | U.S. stocks rose broadly on Friday, driven by the consumer staples sector which was helped by Procter & Gamble results, brushing aside growth risk concerns in Europe and political tensions in Saudi Arabia. | | | | | | Honeywell said on Friday it was seeing slower growth in China and that trade tariffs would squeeze margins and potentially cost it "hundreds of millions" of dollars in 2019. | | | | | | Procter & Gamble Co reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and sales, and said it was raising prices on several products around the world, sending shares up on Friday by their most in a decade. | | | | | |
