Новости за 27.05.2016

PC Connection Inc. said late Friday it had acquired IT products and services company Softmart.

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Plenty of studies suggest Americans getting close to retirement can expect to live longer than generations past.

Donald Trump said Friday he would not debate Bernie Sanders, after the two White House hopefuls talked separately about the idea in recent days.

U.S. stocks closed slightly higher Friday, turning in their largest weekly gains in months.

Terex' deal to sell Konecranes its port solutions and material-handling segments is still set to move forward.

According to Berkshire Hathaway 's latest SEC filing, the company sold its entire AT&T stake during the first quarter of 2016.

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It's been a particularly rough year for most biotech stocks.

Despite the ‘entitled’ label often placed on the Millennial generation, their investing behavior suggests they are very responsible and want their money to make a difference.

For people over a certain age, the idea of watching other people play video games sounds as appealing as watching someone knit a sweater.

Is Wal-Mart back? That seemed to be the message from Wall Street after the retail giant cruised past first quarter earnings estimates last week, with the stock posting its biggest one-day gain since 2008.

United Technologies and Honeywell International are having a pretty good year so far.

U.S. stocks inched higher on Friday, with investors hesitant to make major moves ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen and a long holiday weekend.

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Marijuana is going mainstream and that means that marijuana taxes are increasingly fattening state government's coffers.

A closely-watched gauge of consumer sentiment from the University of Michigan came in at 94.7 in May from an initial reading of 95.8. Still topping April's reading of 89. Economists anticipated a reading of 95.4 for the month.

In a comparison of Baidu and Alphabet , or parent company of Google, in February, I concluded that both online search companies had the characteristics of stocks investors may want to consider buying, but I ultimately suggested that Alphabet was the better buy.

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Barack Obama became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing.

Verizon Communications is working on its bid for Yahoo's core assets with an investment bank which was, as recently as last year, one of the U.S. internet company's top advisers.

Nihar Janga, a fifth-grader from Austin, Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, a seventh-grader from Painted Post, New York, were named co-champions of the U.S. Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International received a joint takeover offer this spring that the Canadian drugmaker rejected.

Oil futures slipped in Asian trade on Friday after hitting resistance at the $50 a barrel mark as investors worried higher prices could reactivate shuttered crude output, adding to global oversupply.