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Is Beyond Meat overcooked?

The price for a share of Beyond Meat almost tripled on the first day of trading in May and that was just a taste of what was to come.

Japan premier hopes to ease US-Iran tensions in Tehran visit

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's trip to Tehran represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran as the country appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers that America earlier abandoned.

EU regulator blocks Thyssenkrupp-Tata Steel merger

The European Union's antitrust regulator says it's blocking a planned merger between German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp and India's Tata Steel because the move would have cut competition and pushed up prices.

UN panel: Connect half the world, and $20 phones can help

An independent U.N. panel is calling for much greater cooperation to bring digital technology to roughly half the world's people, and a senior Google executive says mobile phones with internet access are being created to sell for about $20 to help make this possible.