TOKYO – Japan reports its trade surplus leaped nearly 38 percent in September from a year earlier, on strong shipments to China and the U.S. Continue Reading Below Customs data released Thursday showed exports rose 14 percent year-on-year to 6.8 trillion yen ($60.3 billion) while imports climbed 12 percent to […]
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Honda Sharpens Its All-New 2018 Accord to Steal SUV Sales
Honda (NYSE: HMC) said that its all-new 2018 Accord sedan officially went on sale in the U.S. on Wednesday. The all-new Accord is a major evolution of Honda’s mainstay sedan: In some ways, it’s more like a German luxury car than like the bread-and-butter Accords of the past. Continue Reading […]
US regulators approve 2nd gene therapy for blood cancer
TRENTON, N.J. – U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a second gene therapy for a blood cancer, a one-time, custom-made treatment for aggressive lymphoma in adults. Continue Reading Below The Food and Drug Administration allowed sales of the treatment from Kite Pharma. It uses the same technology, called CAR-T, as the […]
Trump selects Washington lawyer Joe Simons to head FTC: official
President Donald Trump has selected Joseph Simons, an antitrust attorney from a Washington law firm, to head the Federal Trade Commission, a White House official said on Wednesday. Continue Reading Below Trump is expected to nominate Simons to the agency, along with Noah Phillips and Rohit Chopra to be FTC […]
Blue Apron cuts 6 percent of its workforce
Blue Apron Holdings Inc (APRN) said it had cut about 6 percent of its total workforce, nearly four months after going public, as the meal-kit delivery company comes under increasing pressure from deep-pocketed rivals such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN). Continue Reading Below Blue Apron, which went public in June has […]
Should Raytheon Raise Its Dividend?
Shares of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have climbed 29% so far this year, giving investors in the company little reason to complain. But one side-product of the soaring stock price is a rather pedestrian 1.64% dividend yield. Given the company’s suddenly inflated valuation, trading at more than 25 times trailing 12-month […]
States ask US court to keep up health subsidies cut by Trump
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Top government lawyers representing 19 U.S. states on Wednesday asked a federal judge in California to force the administration of President Donald Trump to make health care subsidy payments that Trump abruptly cut off last week. Continue Reading Below The monthly payments would normally be scheduled to […]
Iowa governor pushes Trump to preserve ethanol quotas
DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowa’s Republican governor on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and his administration to preserve a federal program mandating that biofuels such as corn-based ethanol be blended into gasoline and diesel following a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency to lower production targets for renewable fuels. […]
‘American Chopper’ is coming back to Discovery Channel
“American Chopper” will return to the Discovery Channel next year, five years after its first run on the network ended. Continue Reading Below The reality series follows feuding father and son motorcycle builders Paul Teutul (TUHT’-ehl) Sr. and Paul Teutul Jr. as they put together chopper-style bikes for a high-profile […]
Mexican fishing group: Proposed fish ban to hurt tuna catch
MEXICO CITY – A group representing Mexico’s leading fish canners says a proposal to create a non-fishing marine park off the Revillagigedo Islands in the Pacific could reduce catches in Mexican waters by 20 percent. Continue Reading Below The Pacific Alliance for Sustainable Tuna says the ban could cut annual […]