By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Bitcoin hit the $50,000 level for the first time in more than two years as the world's largest cryptocurrency was buoyed by expectations of interest rate cuts later this year and last…
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Thousands of drivers for ride-sharing platforms Uber, Lyft and food delivery app DoorDash are expected to go on strike across the United States on Valentine's Day for fair pay, drivers' groups said on Monday. The demonstrations…
By Carolina Mandl, Johann M Cherian and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -The Nasdaq slipped on Monday afternoon after briefly surpassing its record closing high from November 2021, while the Dow rose modestly ahead of two U.S. inflation reports this week that…
(Reuters) -New York Community Bancorp shares gave up earlier gains to close with a small loss on Monday, though some analysts remain focused on confidence-building measures taken by the lender after a tumble in its stock. NYCB's shares closed down…
By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil futures settled little changed on Monday as concerns about interest rates and global demand caused the market to take a break after prices jumped about 6% last week on worries Middle East tensions…
By Seher Dareen and Arunima Kumar (Reuters) -U.S. oil producer Diamondback Energy said on Monday it would buy privately held rival Endeavor Energy Partners in $26 billion cash-and-stock deal that continues a rapid consolidation in the top U.S. shale oilfield.…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Walmart and Energizer were ordered by a U.S. judge to face lawsuits by consumers and retailers accusing them of violating antitrust law by conspiring to raise prices of disposable batteries. In a decision…
By Toby Sterling VELDHOVEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Chip toolmaking giant ASML said on Friday it was gearing up production of its new $350 million "High NA EUV" machine, a device the size of a double decker bus central to its…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Amazon.com was sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the online retailer of violating a consumer protection law by steering hundreds of millions of shoppers to higher-priced items in order to earn extra fees.…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of 15 U.S. lawmakers on Thursday urged the Commerce Department to add TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance to a government export control list to restrict its access to American software. The lawmakers,…
