Toyota says to delay start of Mexico plant to early 2020
TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp will push back the start of operations at its scheduled new plant in Mexico, to the first half of 2020 from the initial plan of 2019, the company said on Thursday.
North Korea nerves push stocks down for third day, lift gold
LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks fell for a third day on Thursday and investors moved again into the Swiss franc, yen and gold as North Korea ratcheted up tensions with the United States with a threat to land a missile just short of the U.S. territory o…
Oil gains as inventory overhang erodes and Saudi cuts exports
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Thursday, lifted by a sustained decline in inventories and as Saudi Arabia prepared to cut crude supplies to its prized Asian customers.
Facebook makes new bid for TV viewers with expanded video
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Wednesday made its biggest move to date to compete in the television market by expanding its video offerings with programming ranging from professional women’s basketball to a safari show and a parenting progra…
Goldman to use ‘personality test’ for hiring decisions
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to begin using a “personality test” as part of the hiring process for positions in its banking, trading and finance and risk divisions, a senior Goldman executive said on Wednesday.
Snap shares up ahead of results; options traders eye steep stock swing
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of Snap Inc rallied on Wednesday as options traders buckled in for the social media company’s quarterly results and after an analyst said the beaten-down stock was “getting interesting.”
Exclusive: Tesla developing self-driving tech for semi-truck, wants to test in Nevada
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in “platoons” that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an email discussion of …
Twenty-First Century Fox revenue misses, profit tops estimates
(Reuters) – Rupert Murdoch-controlled Twenty-First Century Fox Inc’s quarterly profit edged past analysts’ estimates, but revenue fell just short of expectations, hurt by the lack of box office hits from its movie studio.
Amazon sued by transgender woman, husband for workplace harassment
(Reuters) – A transgender woman and her husband sued Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday, accusing the company of subjecting them to severe harassment and physical threats when they both worked at the retailer’s warehouse in Kentucky.
Altice weighing takeover offer for Charter: sources
(Reuters) – Netherlands-based telecom conglomerate Altice NV and its U.S. cable unit are in the early stages of working on an offer to buy Charter Communications Inc , sources told Reuters on Wednesday, in a move that would build more scale in the Uni…
