 | | | | The U.S. Justice Department accused Facebook Inc on Thursday of discriminating against U.S. workers, saying in a new lawsuit the social media giant has given hiring preferences to temporary workers, including those who hold H-1B visas. | | | | | | Global benchmark Brent crude prices rose 1% to their highest since early March on Thursday on renewed hopes for a U.S. stimulus deal and after major oil producers agreed to increase output by a modest 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) from January. | | | | | | Budget airline Ryanair on Thursday ordered 75 Boeing 737 MAX jets with a list price of $9 billion, throwing a commercial lifeline to the embattled U.S. planemaker after regulators lifted a 20-month safety ban. | | | | | | Ryanair hopes to agree another large order of the 737 MAX jets with manufacturer Boeing over the next 18 months and expects to be flying the 230-seat MAX 10 by 2025, Group Chief Executive Michael O'Leary told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. | | | | | | Vitol Group's U.S. subsidiary agreed to pay $135 million to resolve allegations by the U.S. government that the energy trader paid bribes in Brazil and other countries to boost its oil trading business, a prosecutor told a judge in Brooklyn on Thursday. | | | | | | Energy and commodities trading firm Vitol Inc has agreed to pay $95.7 million to settle charges of corruption-based fraud and attempted market manipulation, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday. | | | | | | Jim Chanos, who has been short on Tesla Inc's stock since 2016, has reduced his bet against the electric-car maker, the short-seller told Bloomberg News on Thursday. | | | | | | AT&T Inc's Warner Bros studio on Thursday announced that it will make all of its 2021 films available in theaters and on the HBO Max streaming service starting on the same day, an unprecedented shift in response to the coronavirus pandemic that sank shares of movie theater operators. | | | | | | The Nasdaq Composite hit an all-time high on Thursday as investors stayed focused on a COVID-19 vaccine and looked beyond bleak economic data, while Boeing Co lifted the Dow Jones Industrial Average. | | | | | | The U.S. passenger and cargo airline industry saw total employment fall by nearly 29,000 workers through the month ending in mid-October as government restrictions on laying off staff expired. | | | | | |
