Boeing drops bid for lucrative Pentagon ICBM contract
The company cited anticompetitive concerns with the procurement process.
Pot company CEO paid $3M tax bill in cash, report says
How’d you like to carry around a cool $3 million?
Stocks decline on ECB rate cut hint, mixed bag of 2Q earnings
The session's declines came after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq closed on Wednesday at record highs.
Movers & Shakers: July 25, 2019
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Allergan recalls textured breast implant tied to rare cancer
Medical device maker Allergan Inc. is recalling a type of breast implant linked to a rare form of cancer.
Movers & Shakers: July 24, 2019
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Ripple CEO: Facebook’s Libra does not represent all crypto
Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, says not all crypto should be painted with one "broad brush."
Facebook to settle privacy allegations with federal regulators: Report
As part of the settlement, the Menlo Park, California-based company will agree to create a board committee on privacy and will agree to new executive certifications on user privacy, the people said.
Boeing faces new pressure from pilots ahead of 2Q earnings
The head of the Allied Pilots Association said the public can be assured the Max is safe when union members fly it.
El Chapo’s imprisonment doesn’t slow ‘booming’ US-Mexico drug trade, report says
Mexican drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is serving a life-plus-30-years sentence in Colorado, but has his high-profile arrest slowed the market for illegal drugs?
Microsoft pays $25M to settle corruption charges
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Microsoft will pay about $16.6 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. While the case centered on Hungary.
FTC to announce $5B Facebook settlement as soon as this week
The settlement, which includes a roughly $5 billion fine and other requirements of Facebook, would conclude a lengthy probe into whether the firm kept its promises around protecting user data.
Equifax, federal officials defend $700M settlement against critics
The firm is not required to plead guilty, but executives could be charged in the future.
Movers & Shakers: July 22, 2019
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Equifax to pay up to $700M in breach settlement
The deal could be announced as early as Monday.
Who is Eugene Scalia, Trump's labor secretary pick?
Eugene Scalia is President Trump’s pick for the next secretary of labor after Alexander Acosta resigned last week, the president tweeted Thursday.
Movers & Shakers: July 19, 2019
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Trump is right, the Fed doesn't know what it's doing and it could get worse: Ron Paul
While he doesn’t control monetary policy, the least the president can do is prevent the Fed from running the private marketplace amuck by disobeying orders from Congress, the very body that created it in the first place.
Need for new F-15s reflects F-35 catastrophe
While it is too late to reverse the errors that led to the current situation, it is not too late to fix the F-35’s problems.
Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia for labor secretary
President Trump announced late Thursday he would nominate Eugene Scalia to be the next Secretary of Labor.



















