Новости за 01.05.2019

One man was rushed to hospital on Wednesday after a hit-and-run collision in northeast Calgary.

NEW YORK:General Electric reported better-than-expected quarterly profits on Tuesday (Apr 30), lifting hopes over its turnaround, even as it signalled a potential hit tied to the Boeing 737 MAX ground

Eli Lilly and Co's first-quarter profit more than tripled, as the U.S. drugmaker recorded a US$3.7 billion gain from its spin-off of animal health unit Elanco.

JAKARTA:Indonesia's plan to move its capital off the main island of Java will require investment of about US$20 billion to US$30 billion, a minister said on Tuesday (Apr 30), even though the gover

Merck & Co Inc reported a higher-than-expected first-quarter profit on Tuesday and raised its earnings and sales forecasts for the year, thanks to surging sales of its blockbuster cancer immunotherapy

Cable operator Charter Communications Inc edged past analysts' estimates for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as the company attracted more customers for its internet services, offsetting a drop

REUTERS: Pfizer Inc on Tuesday beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and slightly raised its earnings forecast for the year, as the largest U.S. drugmaker reined in costs and recorded higher

Japan's Softbank is expected to announce on Tuesday a US$1 billion investment in Colombian delivery app Rappi, Brazilian financial blog Brazil Journal reported.

Mastercard Inc reported a 26.7 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, as a strong U.S. job market and a boom in online shopping boosted transaction volumes on the company's payment network.

Across the Midwest, growing numbers of grain farmers are choosing to shed their machinery and find renters for their land, all to stem the financial strain on their families, a dozen leading farm-equi

REUTERS: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc committed US$10 billion on Tuesday to Occidental Petroleum Corp's US$38 billion cash-and-stock bid for Anadarko Petroleum Corp, boosting its ch

Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ro Khanna join antiwar groups in calling for U.S. to back off as Pompeo and Bolton spin

WASHINGTON: USlabour costs increased steadily in the first quarter as a jump in transportation and manufacturing wages was offset by small gains elsewhere, pointing to moderate inflation pressures eve

More talks are planned between the British government and the opposition Labour Party to find consensus over a European Union withdrawal agreement, with no firm date for the discussions to end, Prime

DETROIT: General Motors Co on Tuesday reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, lifted by revaluations of shares it holds in ride-hailing company Lyft Inc and France's Peugeot SA. Excludin

JPMorgan Chase, a top player in the US$5.1 trillion-a-day global currency market has started applying a new technology that enables machine-trading programs to learn from previous trades and search fo

President Donald Trump, his three oldest children and the Trump Organization have sued Deutsche Bank AG and Capital One Financial Corp to try to block them from responding to subpoenas issued by U.S.

HealthEquity Inc on Tuesday confirmed its offer to acquire WageWorks Inc in a deal valuing the administrator of employee benefits at about US$2.01 billion.

It was a quiet Easter holiday at the offices of major European oil companies and refiners when an email in Russian landed. "What the hell does it say?" one manager recalled thinking as he se

They are from the progressive left, and do an excellent job explaining RussiaGate. Hedges particularly is in his element as he is perhaps one of the worlds top experts on how the media are a corrupt seething pit of liars. He explains how the media are now in damage control much the way they were after the Iraq WMD fiasco. Hedges argues that Russigate is 'one of the most shameful periods in modern American journalism.'

Brad Marchand’s punch to the back of defenseman Scott Harrington’s head would be a minor incident for most players. But not Marchand and his history.