Toyota boosts battery range in new plug-in Prius
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius, almost a year after it halted production of the vehicle’s previous version.
Starbucks says reports of rescheduled shareholder meeting false
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp said media reports that the company had canceled its shareholder meeting set for Wednesday were false.
General Mills profit beats as cost cutting pays off
(Reuters) – General Mills Inc , the maker of Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt, reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit as cost-cutting programs helped reduce the impact of weaker sales in the United States.
U.S. says it’s not deterring foreign banks in Iran
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States is not standing in the way of foreign banks doing business with Iran, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday, but his comments appeared unlikely to satisfy frustrated businessmen and Iranian officials.
In era of cheap oil, Saudi loses shine for foreign workers
RIYADH/KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Mobarak Musa, a mobile telephone salesman from Syria, has spent 10 years working in Saudi Arabia, sending part of his wages back home to support his parents and three brothers. A shift in Saudi labor policy means…
Fiat Chrysler to recall 419 cars in Russia: standards agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will recall 419 Jeep Grand Cherokee, Jeep Liberty and Dodge Viper cars in Russia, the country’s technical safety watchdog Rosstandart said on Wednesday.
U.S. grants China’s ZTE temporary reprieve on export curbs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government will give Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone maker ZTE Corp a three-month reprieve on tough export restrictions it imposed this month, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday.
Asia sentiment brightens with turnaround in China view: Thomson Reuters/INSEAD
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Sentiment at some of the biggest companies across Asia brightened in the first quarter of 2016, rising from a four-year low registered three months prior, as executives bet on economic improvement in China, a Thomson Reuters/INSEA…
Google’s cloud business nabs Home Depot as client
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc , long an also-ran in cloud services, has scored an important victory in its effort to win corporate clients: Home Depot is moving some of its data to Google’s cloud.
Ex-Goldman Sachs employee spared jail over New York Fed leaks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc associate who admitted to illegally obtaining confidential documents from a friend at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was handed a fine on Tuesday but spared a prison sentence.
