Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP followed Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's second-largest investor, Wellington Management, in opposing the drugmaker's $74 billion purchase of biotech Celgene Corp on Thursday, sowing further doubt on would be the largest pharmaceutical acquisition of all time.
American Airlines was fined $1 million and Delta Air Lines Inc $750,000 for violating federal rules barring lengthy tarmac delays at U.S. airports, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Thursday.
The U.S. economy fell short of the Trump administration's 3 percent annual growth target in 2018 despite $1.5 trillion in tax cuts and a government spending blitz, and economists say growth will only slow from here.
Global equities markets fell on Thursday as weak Chinese economic data and mixed messages on the progress of trade talks between China and the United States weighed on investor sentiment.
Wall Street's main indexes went nowhere fast on Thursday with better-than-feared GDP data providing some support to counter the abrupt end to a U.S.-North Korean summit and ongoing concerns about earnings and U.S.-China trade relations.
Appaloosa LP said on Thursday investor John Chevedden was backing the hedge fund's proposal to split the roles of chairman and chief executive officer at Botox-maker Allergan Plc.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday warned he could walk away from a trade deal with China if it were not good enough, even as his economic advisers touted "fantastic" progress toward an agreement to end a dispute with the Asian country.
Venezuela's oil exports sank 40 percent in the first full month after the beginning of U.S. sanctions designed to oust Socialist President Nicolas Maduro, according to data from state-run oil firm PDVSA and Refinitiv Eikon.
U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold in car plants.
Six Google employees on Thursday joined U.S. lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer contracts, as the workers seek to build on recent success in getting the Alphabet Inc company to drop some arbitration provisions.
The sale of a stake in Universal Music has attracted potential buyers including KKR and China's Tencent, but it's hardly a perfect pitch. A buyer would need to assume hefty growth in streaming, and be comfortable playing backup to majority owner Vivendi, as Liam Proud explains.
J.C. Penney's results wowed Wall Street. Its comparable store sales fell at a much lower pace than expected. As Fred Katayama reports, the retailer is focusing on selling apparel to middle aged women instead of millennials.
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