Новости за 26.04.2017

Republicans hedge on rescinding a pair of damaging regulations.

The last of Donald Trump’s cabinet secretaries could be in place this week after Labor nominee Alexander Acosta passed a key hurdle Wednesday.

First, treat yourself and then get down to business.

Boeing could bring more work in-house as part of an effort to reduce the cost of building jetliners that also includes introducing more automation and job cuts.

State banking regulators sued a federal agency in an effort to prevent it from issuing specialty national banking licenses to financial-technology firms, a growing area of competition for traditional banking.

The film “The Circle” zeroes in on the evils that ensue when tech companies inadvertently create a surveillance society—and all of us smartphone addicts willingly help, Geoffrey A. Fowler writes.

The head of the Democratic Party manages to get to the left of Bernie Sanders.

To spur economic growth, President Donald Trump plans to propose what his Treasury Secretary said Wednesday would be the largest tax cut in the country’s history.

With politics pushed aside, investors may need to price in a more durable European economic recovery.

The European Union’s executive branch is ramping up its defense against critics, taking an unusually firm stand against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban over his “Stop Brussels” campaign and moves against foreign-funded universities and nongovernmental organizations

The party has steadily raised its goal since 2013, but none of the proposals has won approval in Congress.

Credit Suisse capital raise is a better alternative to its now abandoned spinoff plan. But claims that the bank has money to invest in growth and to pay better cash dividends from this year onward should be taken with a pinch of salt.

In a last-ditch effort to survive, bankrupt U.S. solar panel maker Suniva asked the Trump administration to impose trade tariffs on all foreign-made solar cells.

The proliferation of connected devices and big data is handing new clout to chip makers. The result is an unprecedented semiconductor boom, as a flood of demand pushes up prices and gives an advantage to firms that can secure huge quantities of the must-have components.

Pope Francis will pursue efforts to reach out to Muslims during a visit to Egypt this week that comes as rampant Islamist terrorism is posing the greatest test to dialogue between the faiths since the Vatican made it a priority half a century ago.

Watch the trailer for the movie "Girls Trip," starring Kate Walsh, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Queen Latifah. Photo: Universal

With days to go until the government runs out of money on Saturday, lawmakers are working to strike a deal to keep the government funded. Here's what a government shutdown would mean, and how it could be avoided.

Chinese internet company Tencent opened its first data center in Silicon Valley this week, expanding cloud-computing services into the U.S. even as American companies complain they face growing restrictions when doing the same in China.

The IAB reports that digital ad spending in the U.S. surged 22% to a record $72.5 billion in 2016, as mobile made up more than 50% of the market for the first time.

Though Brazil’s Supreme Court gave its approval to prosecutors to investigate scores of senior political figures, the court will have to deal with a backlog to bring them to trial. The court just ruled on a dispute over a 1987 soccer championship.

The number of bankruptcies so far this year has already come close to the total in 2016, with 14 retailers filing compared with 18 last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

U.K. opposition Liberal Democrat party has called on the country' financial regulator to investigate why the British pound and government-bond futures often move as if some traders are informed of the strength or weakness of economic data before it is realeased.

To fight takeout and delivery services, supermarkets chop your vegetables, host meal-prepping parties, and sell their own meal kits; They’re betting people want to pick out their own food, but also need homemade meals to be ready fast.

For centuries, the word luthier evoked old Italian masters—Amati, Guarneri, Stradivari—who crafted the world’s most iconic instruments. Today, a new generation is taking over.

Almost one-third of affluent homeowners plan to use credit cards to pay for renovation projects; airline points, other rewards are motivators.