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U.S. stocks on Tuesday finish in the green, marking a third consecutive gain for equity gauges, ahead of a key inflation reading, even as shades of last week’s brutal selling lingered.

There’s an important takeaway from their overspending.

Roche Holding AG said Thursday it agreed to acquire all the shares of Flatiron Health Inc. for $1.9 billion. New York City-based Flatiron has raised $313 million in funding from such investors as Alphabet Inc.'s Google Ventures and Roche, according to Crunchbase. Flatiron specializes in electronic health record software for cancer patients and research. Roche already owns 12.6% of Flatiron. Roche expects to close the transaction in the first half of 2018. Roche U.S. shares rose 1.2% in recent activity. Читать дальше...

President Trump’s inaugural committee shelled out almost $26 million to a company formed just weeks before the event by a pal of first lady Melania Trump — while donating about $5 million to charity.

President Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been interviewed several times in the past week by the special counsel looking into Russian influence on the 2016 election, NBC News reported. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is also probing whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. Bannon left the White House last year and fell out of favor with Trump after critical remarks he made about the president and his family in the book "Fire and Fury." Bannon reportedly had been questioned by Mueller's team for 20 hours. Читать дальше...

Worries over the scale of America’s fiscal expansion is weighing on the U.S. dollar, but it is also a concern for emerging markets investors.

The Senate rejected a bipartisan immigration bill that didn't include money for President Donald Trump's proposed border wall. The measure needed 60 votes to advance and got only 52. The bill from Sens. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, and Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, would provide a path to citizenship for more than 1.8 million Dreamers. The Senate is debating four different immigration proposals on Thursday.

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Virtual currency regulation was back in the headlines, courtesy of a warning from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

President Trump reportedly supports a 25-cent increase in the federal gas tax, but even if a tax-averse Republican Congress balks, most Americans are likely to pay more eventually.

Cisco Systems Inc. shares are on track for their highest close in more than 17 years as analysts raised their price targets following a better-than-expected earnings report.

As the Trump administration weighs slashing and dramatically reshaping the food-stamp program, a new study finds the program dramatically cuts the poverty rate.

Oil futures settled higher Thursday, reversing earlier losses, as dollar weakness continued. West Texas Intermediate crude for March delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 74 cents, or 1.2%, to close at $61.34 a barrel. A weaker dollar can be positive for commodities priced in the currency, making them cheaper to users of other currencies.

Women are more likely to get offered leadership roles in a crisis, a phenomenon known as the ‘glass cliff.’

U.S. stocks rise Thursday, with major indexes poised for their fifth straight daily advance, as the market’s recent uptrend remained intact along with its steep intraday swings.

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Gold futures on Thursday end slightly lower, retreating from the highest finish in nearly three weeks, taking cues from a rally in stocks that hinted that investors were wading deeper into assets perceived as risky after a period of turbulence in equities.

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Boeing's stock surge is adding 70 points to the Dow's 200-plus gain

Shares of Boeing Co. shot up 3.1% in afternoon trade, to provide the biggest boost to the Dow Jones industrial Average's price, after European rival Airbus SE reported upbeat results. The aerospace giant's price gain of $10.56 was adding about 73 points to the Dow, which was up 211 points. The Dow's biggest percentage gainer was Cisco Systems Inc.'s shares , which rallied 4.4% after better-than-expected quarterly results, but the price gain of $1870 only added 13 points to the Dow. Apple Inc.'s... Читать дальше...

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‘If you did nothing in 2007, you’d be in a great situation now.’

Despite hopes for accelerating economic growth and climbing inflation, the great bond bull market is nowhere near over, says one trader.

Being green may have prevented some red for U.S. stock investors in the recent downturn.

Republic of Florida leader Jordan Jereb told the Anti Defamation League that the 19-year-old mass-shooting suspect had participated in one or more training drills with his group