By Harshita Mary Varghese and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Amazon on Friday said it booked three Falcon 9 launches with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to help deploy the ecommerce giant’s Project Kuiper s[...]
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December 1, 2023
Oil prices fall more than 2% as investors skeptical of OPEC+ cuts
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices slumped more than 2% on Friday on investor skepticism about the depth of OPEC+ supply cuts and concern about sluggish global manufacturing activity. Brent[...]
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US ETF assets hit record $7.65 trillion in November -State Street Global Advisors
By Suzanne McGee (Reuters) – Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had a bumper month in the United States in November, with assets climbing to a record $7.65 trillion, State Street Global Advisors said[...]
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Exclusive-Boeing eliminated from US Air Force’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ competition
By Valerie Insinna and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force has eliminated Boeing from its competition to develop a successor to the E-4B Nightwatch, Boeing confirmed on Friday,[...]
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Southwest, pilots’ union nearing preliminary labor deal – source
(Reuters) -Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union were nearing a new labor deal ahead of the holiday season, a person familiar with the negotiations said on Friday. Shares of the carrier were[...]
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S&P 500 rises to highest close of 2023 amid rate cut optimism
NEW YORK(Reuters) – The benchmark S&P 500 index closed at its highest level of the year on Friday amid growing optimism the Federal Reserve was done raising U.S. interest rates and could beg[...]
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Shares climb, dollar falls with Fed comments inspiring dovish bets
By Sinéad Carew and Amanda Cooper NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -MSCI’s global stock index rose on Friday and marked its fifth straight weekly gain while U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar fell on[...]
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TikTok asks EU court to suspend EU gatekeeper label until its ruling
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Chinese conglomerate ByteDance’s TikTok has asked Europe’s second highest court to suspend its designation as a gatekeeper under onerous new EU t[...]
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US dollar falls on dovish remarks by Fed’s Powell
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar fell on Friday, after two days of gains, as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a cautious tone on further interest rate moves, saying[...]
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