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FDA threatens to fine Walmart, Kroger and convenience store chains for selling tobacco to minors

The Federal Drug Administration threatened to fine Walmart, Kroger, Family Dollar and more than a half dozen convenience store and gas ...
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Mattel’s Fisher Price recalls all ‘Rock ‘n Play’ models due to reports of deaths

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Friday that toy maker Fisher-Price has voluntarily recalled all its "Rock 'n Play Sleeper" ...
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CDC suspects ground beef is the source of recent E. coli outbreak

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is homing in on ground beef as the source of the latest E. coli ...
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Here’s what happens if you don’t file your taxes before April 15

2018 taxes are due soon and, though everyone's tax situation is different, you could face real consequences if you don't submit ...
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Disney’s stock flies as it unveils its new streaming service —Jim Cramer and other experts react

The magic of Disney might be back. Shares of the entertainment giant surged to a record high on Friday after Disney ...
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Some optimistic corporate outlooks in the week ahead could lift the stock market to a record

It's now up to corporate America to reveal whether the U.S. economy simply hit a soft patch this winter, as many ...
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Georgetown students vote to raise tuition by $27 per semester to pay slavery reparations

On Thursday, students at Georgetown University voted to raise tuition at the school by $27.20 per semester to provide reparations to ...
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Campbell Soup to sell Bolthouse Farms for $510 million

Campbell Soup said on Friday it would sell its Bolthouse Farms business to an affiliate of private equity firm Butterfly Equity ...
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Hedge fund manager David Einhorn slams Tesla: ‘The wheels are falling off’

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is taking more digs at Tesla. "The wheels are falling off — literally," Einhorn, founder and ...
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Disney, JP Morgan Chase, GrubHub & more

Check out the companies making headlines midday Friday: Wells Fargo — The beleaguered bank's stock dropped more than 2% after CFO ...
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Awkwafina shops for clothes at Target and doesn’t splurge ‘on literally anything’

Nora Lum, better known as Awkwafina, had a breakthrough 2018. The rapper, comedian and actress appeared in two major motion pictures: ...
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This is the No. 1 mistake investors are making as earnings season begins

Earnings season kicked off with a bang Friday. Better-than-expected earnings from J.P. Morgan sent financials flying higher and the S&P 500 ...
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Jamie Dimon says the US economic expansion ‘could go on for years’

The biggest bank in the world's largest economy just posted record quarterly results showing U.S. growth continuing to start the year ...
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Health stocks plunge as uncertainty rises on Obamacare, Congress threatens action on drug prices

Health-care stocks were poised to end the week in the red on Friday after lawmakers on Capitol Hill threatened to write ...
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Disney’s Iger hints at more job cuts from Fox deal: ‘There’s work to do’

Disney's chief executive said that the company has only just started making global layoffs as it works to incorporate its newly ...
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Oil shares jump after Chevron buys Andarko and merger fever hits oil patch

Chevron's $33 billion acquisition of Anadarko sparked speculation the oil patch will see a new wave of consolidation as major players ...
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Disney shares rocket higher by 6% after unveiling streaming service that’s cheaper than Netflix

Disney shares jumped 6.4% in premarket trading Friday after the company announced its Disney+ video streaming service would be $6.99 a ...
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Cain reportedly will withdraw his name as potential Fed nominee

Herman Cain is expected to remove his name from consideration for appointment to the Federal Reserve, according to a report Friday ...
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Pete Buttigieg says his experience as a mayor gives him an edge in the 2020 race

Rising Democratic star and 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg sat down with CNBC's John Harwood for an extensive interview. Here is ...
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Pete Buttigieg: Government has been ‘in some kind of crisis’ since Trump arrived

Rising Democratic star and 2020 presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg sat down with CNBC's John Harwood on Monday for an extensive interview ...
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2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg on taxing the rich and the future of American capitalism

In the sprawling 2020 Democratic field, Pete Buttigieg may be the unlikeliest serious contender of all. He's just 37 years old ...
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Inflation could be a problem for India as surging oil prices and monsoon fears take hold

Surging oil prices and monsoon fears are driving up the risk of higher inflation in India, experts warn — even as ...
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US and Russia ‘need to strengthen’ economic and political ties, Russian finance minister says

Russia and the U.S. must find a way to resolve their differences on the international stage in order to improve the ...
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Trump is declaring the Revolutionary Guard a terror group — here’s what that means for Iran

The President Donald Trump administration announced its plan this week to officially designate Iran's military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
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