Новости за 19.12.2018

Aleafia Health Inc. announced Wednesday a deal to buy fellow Canada-based cannabis company Emblem Corp. in a deal that values Emblem at about C$173.2 million ($128.8 million). Under terms of the deal, Emblem shareholders will receive 0.8377 Aleafia shares for each Emblem share they own. Based on Tuesday's stock closing prices in Canada, that values Emblem shares at C$1.206, or a 27% premium. The deal, which the companies say will create the largest medical cannabis clinic network, gives Aleafia... Читать дальше...

Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. rallied 1.0% in premarket trade Wednesday, after the drug giant provided 2019 profit and revenue guidance that was above expectations, and raised its dividend by 15%. The company said it expects 2019 net earnings per share of $5.52 to $5.62, and adjusted EPS excluding non-recurring items of $5.90 to $6.00, which is above the FactSet consensus of $5.82. Lilly projects revenue to be $25.3 billion to $25.8 billion, up from its 2018 guidance of $24.3 billion to $24.5 billion, and above the FactSet consensus of $24.

Researchers looked at whether people who hold stringent views were willing to admit they were wrong.

Researchers looked at whether people were willing to admit they were wrong.

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Investors worry about growth at the telecom unit, which is under pressure to slash prices just as network costs are rising

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the U.S. and China will meet in January to try to broker a cease-in the ongoing trade dispute, in an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday. Chinese officials confirmed that a meeting would take place next month, the report said, though China's Ministry of Commerce would not offer comment. Mnuchin said telephone chats had taken place several times over the last few weeks, but plans for more formal talks were still under discussion. He also said U.S. President... Читать дальше...

Stock futures move higher on Wednesday as a Fed decision looms and hopeful noises are heard over the U.S. and China trade dispute.

Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to build a Trump Tower development in Moscow in 2015, CNN reported Tuesday night, contradicting what Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said Sunday. In a CNN interview Sunday, Giuliani dismissed the importance of the project, saying a letter of intent was never signed. However, CNN said Tuesday it obtained a copy of the document, with Trump's signature stating his group's intent to negotiate the deal. CNN said the non-binding agreement was signed by Trump in October 2015. Читать дальше...

Asian stock markets were mixed Wednesday, as traders mulled over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision and weaker-than-expected Japanese trade data.

Facebook Inc. shared its users' data with major companies to a far greater extent than it had previously admitted, the New York Times reported Tuesday night. Citing hundreds of pages of Facebook documents that it obtained, the Times said Facebook gave companies such as Microsoft Corp., Netflix Inc., Spotify SA and Amazon.com Inc. extensive access to personal information, including the contact information of users' friends and the ability to read private messages. In all, the Times reported more than 150 companies... Читать дальше...

Senate approves bipartisan criminal-justice bill

Memory chip giant Micron Technology Inc. surprised investors with a sharply lower outlook and big cuts in its capital spending Tuesday, actions that speak much louder than executives’ words that everything will be fine in a few months.

After a giant stock selloff surrounding the heart of corporate earnings season, investors who thought that the worst was behind them as Christmas approached just received a rude wake-up call.

Micron Technology Inc.’s quarterly outlook fell more than $1 billion short of already-diminished Wall Street estimates Tuesday afternoon, pushing the company’s stock down in after-hours trading.