Jan 29, 2024
What investors are saying about China’s market meltdown

(This Jan. 23 story has been refiled to correct name to Diane, not Diana, in paragraph 29) (Reuters) - Stock markets in China and Hong Kong have slumped to multi-year lows this week as confidence in the world's second-biggest economy…

Jan 24, 2024
Microsoft hits $3 trillion market value, second to Apple

By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft's stock market value crossed the $3 trillion milestone for the first time on Wednesday, retaining its place as the world's second most valuable company, just behind Apple. Microsoft and Apple shares have…

Jan 24, 2024
Tyson Foods drops CVS for startup to manage staff pharmacy benefits

By Christy Santhosh (Reuters) -Tyson Foods has dropped CVS Health as its pharmacy benefit manager and replaced it with Rightway, the startup said on Wednesday, to manage drug benefits for the meatpacker's 175,000 employees. Three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) —…

Jan 24, 2024
Six dead in Rio Tinto plane crash in Canada’s Northwest Territories

By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Six people were killed after a small plane carrying global miner Rio Tinto's workers crashed near Fort Smith in Canada's remote Northwest Territories (NWT) on Tuesday, the NWT Coroner Service said on Wednesday. Four passengers and…

Jan 24, 2024
How Biden plans to fight Trump in 2024, hoping for a repeat win

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is getting the opponent he thinks he was made to beat in 2024. Donald Trump's decisive victory in the first two Republican presidential contests in…

Jan 24, 2024
‘We have a problem:’ Boeing 757 loses wheel while taxiing

(Reuters) -The nose wheel of a Boeing 757 passenger jet operated by Delta Air Lines popped off and rolled away as the plane was lining up for takeoff over the weekend from Atlanta's international airport, according to the airline and…

Jan 23, 2024
US union membership rate hits fresh record low in 2023 -Labor Dept

By Dan Burns (Reuters) -U.S. union membership rates fell to fresh record lows in 2023 despite it being a year of headline-grabbing organized labor strikes from the Rustbelt to Hollywood and some continued organizing successes at companies such as Starbucks.…

Jan 23, 2024
Netflix to stream WWE Raw in $5 billion bet on live events

By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -Netflix took a big step into live events on Tuesday with a more than $5 billion rights deal that would make it the exclusive home of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw from January 2025. The 10-year partnership…