Insight: To flee Ohio oil boom, Amish cash out by selling royalties
ST CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) – Farmers in the close-knit Amish community who eschew electricity and most technology, are among landowners capitalizing on a new financial trend in the United States energy boom – selling decades of future oil and natur…
GM reshuffle to test Opel CEO’s turnaround skills
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A management rejig at General Motors and the scaling back of its alliance with PSA Peugeot Citroen have created fresh uncertainty over the U.S. carmaker’s strategy for Opel, just as the European business seemed to have secured a s…
Boeing gets $7 billion order from Cathay Pacific for 777X jets
(Reuters) – Boeing Co said it won an order from Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd for 21 Boeing 777X jets, valued at more than $7 billion at current list prices.
Cars, cosmetics, drugs on U.S.-EU free-trade talks short list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cars, cosmetics, information technology and medicines are among the industries earmarked for potential gains in trade talks between the European Union and the United States, negotiators said on Friday.
Washington gains clout in white-collar prosecutions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The fight against Wall Street crime, long the domain of New York prosecutors, is increasingly being pursued out of Washington, as lawyers at the Justice Department’s headquarters build expertise and gain the clout needed to grab …
Oracle to buy Responsys for $1.39 billion in cloud software push
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp, the world’s No. 2 business software maker, said it would buy web-based marketing software maker Responsys Inc for about $1.39 billion to bolster its cloud computing offerings.
Yellen takes big step toward taking reins at Fed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Janet Yellen, an unwavering advocate of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive steps to boost the U.S. economy, on Friday took a big step toward becoming the first woman to chair the central bank as her nomination cleared a Senate proc…
Amazon workers in Germany to continue strikes in 2014
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Workers at Amazon.com Inc’s German operations plan to continue industrial action next year, the Verdi labor union said on Friday, in a pay dispute that has been dragging on for several months.
Insight: How U.S. spying cost Boeing multibillion-dollar jet contract
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Goldman Sachs bans multidealer chatrooms: source
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs has become the latest major financial institution to ban its dealers from using multilateral online chatrooms, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
