Новости за 16.03.2017

President Donald Trump has tapped a leading executive from Boeing to serve in the No. 2 role at the Pentagon.

Italy's Ferrero International SA has agreed to buy U.S.-based Fannie May Confections Brands for $115 million, as the maker of Nutella and TicTacs tries to strengthen its foothold in the critical North-American chocolate candy market.

Despite taking some verbal hits from President Trump during the campaign, Fed Chair Janet Yellen insists her relationship with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is off to a good start as the two officials plan to represent the U.S. at the G20 finance ministers summit in Germany this weekend.

Nearly half of President Donald Trump's 2017 $30 billion supplemental defense budget proposal - $13.5 billion - would go to buy and modernize warplanes, warships and missiles.

Drugmakers, biotech companies and health insurance providers took a beating in response to President Trump’s proposed budget cuts.

Both brands are making an effort to capture the entrepreneurial spirit.

The FOMC is back in action.

Optimism is giving way to impatience among makers of heavy machinery that hope their businesses will benefit from President Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan.

The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's gauge of regional manufacturing activity rose more than expected in March to a reading of 17.5 from 11.1 in February.

U.S. homebuilding jumped in February as unseasonably warm weather boosted the construction of single-family houses to near a 9-1/2-year high, suggesting the economy remained on solid ground despite an apparent slowdown in growth in the first quarter.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week and continued to hover at a low level consistent with a healthy U.S. labor market.

Toyota says it will invest $294 million in the U.K. despite the economic uncertainty surrounding the country's departure from the European Union.

Hyundai Motor Co will recall about 978,000 Sonata cars in the United States because of a seat belt glitch that has led to one minor injury, according to a report filed on Thursday by the South Korean automaker with U.S. regulators.

China's central bank raised short-term interest rates Thursday following the U.S. rate increase as Beijing tries to shore up the value of its currency and stanch an outflow of money.

World stock indexes surged to record highs on Thursday while the dollar traded close to a one-month low after the Federal Reserve hiked U.S. interest rates but signaled no pick-up in the pace of tightening.

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen said Wednesday financial markets shouldn't have been caught off guard by the interest rate rise the central bank just delivered.

Oil prices rose for a second day on Thursday, supported by U.S. data showing crude inventories had dipped after rising for nine weeks and a weaker dollar after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled it would not hike rates faster than expected.

Tesla Inc said on Wednesday it expects to raise about $1.15 billion from stock and senior notes offering, as the electric car maker accelerates the launch of its new Model 3 electric sedan.