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Micron Technology Inc. is still experiencing big financial gains from elevated demand for its memory chips, an earnings report showed Thursday, and the company is looking to spend some of that money to increase production.

The Justice Department and AT&T Inc. traded blows in a courtroom Thursday as a federal judge opened proceedings on whether the telecom giant’s planned purchase of Time Warner Inc. violates antitrust laws.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google will ask web publishers to obtain consent on its behalf to gather personal information on European users and target ads at them using Google’s systems, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a plan to comply with a coming data-privacy law in Europe.

Among the Dow 30, only Chevron and Intel have seen their shares rise this month.

Dropbox Inc. priced its initial public offering at $21 a share late Thursday, above its expected range, according to The Wall Street Journal. Earlier this week, Dropbox wrote in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it raised its expected range to $18 to $20 a share, from the $16 to $18 a share it had previously expected. Dropbox logged $112 in net losses on revenue of $1.1 billion in 2017, compared to losses of $210 million on sales of $845 million in 2016. Dropbox will start trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the ticker DBX. Читать дальше...

Demand for fur in the U.S. has actually increased.

After a solid start to the week, the No. 1 digital currency stumbles further on Thursday following a report that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is facing potential headwinds in Japan.

February’s historic surge in a prominent gauge of stock-market volatility may have ushered in an end to a protracted period of calm on Wall Street, but it also offers a worrisome sign about market structure during times of extreme turmoil.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are looking at an ugly March, amid a rise in volatility and heightened concerns about geopolitics.

Losses in Chinese tech stocks outpaced their U.S. counterparts on Thursday, with those losses holding into the close after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on tens of billions of dollars’ worth of goods from China.

Micron Technology Inc. said Thursday afternoon that a production facility was experiencing issues that are likely to affect its memory output this quarter, as the memory-chip company faces heavy demand for its products. Micron Chief Executive Sanjay Mehrotra said in an earnings conference call Thursday afternoon that nitrogen supply needed to build dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips at one of its facilities had been disrupted as of Tuesday, and it could pull down DRAM production by 2% to 3% this quarter. Читать дальше...

Investors should see higher Treasury yields if the U.S.-China trade skirmish escalates into a full-blown trade war, says a strategist from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Charles Lazarus had a simple if powerful idea: Build a supermarket for toys. After returning from World War II, he opened a store that he would build into a national chain called Toys “R” Us Inc. with hundreds of cavernous locations stocked with Barbies and Hot Wheels.

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with major indexes suffering their worst day in weeks, as fears trade tensions with China could spark a trade war sparked a broad selloff.

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It doesn’t take much to get people to change their security priorities.

Treasury yields pull back sharply Thursday after the reemergence of trade tensions between global powerhouses rattles investors, pushing stocks down and bond prices up

The S&P 500 index on Thursday turned sharply negative for 2018, erasing its year-to-date gain amid a broad downturn for Wall Street equities. The S&P 500 index had narrowly been in positive territory to start the session but a sharp decline on the back of intensifying trade-war concerns helped to push the broad-market index into into negative territory, off 1.1% for the year, joining the Dow Jones Industrial Average , which also is down by 3.1% for the year. The S&P 500 finished down... Читать дальше...

Pest control company Terminix, a ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc. brand, seeks to fill 700 open positions at its National Hiring Day event on March 24. Positions will range from sales to customer service to management. ServiceMaster shares are down 2.7% for the last three months, but up 25.6% for the last year. The S&P 500 index is up 12.6% for the past 12 months.

Shares of Nike Inc. rose more than 2% late Thursday after the company swung to a surprise loss in the fiscal third quarter thanks to the U.S. tax overhaul, but its sales beat Wall Street expectations. Nike said it lost $921 million, or 57 cents a share, in the quarter, versus earnings of $1.1 billion, or 68 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue increased 7% to $9 billion, compared with $8.4 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 53 cents a share on sales... Читать дальше...

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The SPDR Consumer Staples Select Sector ETF slumped 0.8% Thursday, and while it was the third-best performing tracker of the 11 key S&P 500 sector, it suffered its longest losing streak since it began trading in December 1998. The ETF (XLP) has declined for nine-straight sessions, and has lost 5.7% during its streak. The previous record losing streak was the eight-session stretch ending Jan. 8, 2002. On Thursday, 30 of the XLP's 35 components declined. Among the biggest losers, shares of Mondelez International Inc. Читать дальше...