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...Meanwhile, Shar Dubey, the chief executive of the dating app maker Match, said in a memo to employees that she was “shocked” to live in a “state where women’s reproductive laws are more regressive than most...
...Ohio (2,039), Colorado (1,048), and North Dakota (702) had record increases in cases on Wednesday and are among the 21 states to have reported peak one-day jumps this month....
...Harley, Stockton-on-Tees, England Crossword 16,284: J Vercoe, Dorchester, UK; Anna Bruce, Wiltshire, UK; J Ireland, Bristol, UK Polymath 1,041: Phoebe Sutherland, London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich...
...Wall Street’s benchmark equity index rallied 0.6 per cent to close at an all-time high of 3,039....
...It has since recovered and on Friday closed at 1,039. The FTSE 100 meanwhile dropped 4.4 per cent from peak to trough. However, the FTSE 350 index of the biggest 350 businesses was down 7.4 per cent....
...There will be plenty for equities investors to focus on as the US earnings season picks up pace, with Bank of America, GE, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley and Netflix among the...
...On Wall Street, the S&P 500 fell 0.5 per cent to 2,092 as traders prepared for the first-quarter earnings season to slip into high gear with companies including Intel, Johnson & Johnson and Bank of America...
...Mr Johnson shifted the company’s strategy away from promotions and instead focused on fair pricing, but this caused same-store sales to fall....
...Rogers said the Duke board had raised issues about Johnson’s management style on June 23, nine days before the merger occurred and six days before it received regulatory approval....
...Mr Sharma, who has the strong backing of Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party leader, has already visited 35 of the 53 member countries....
...US-based Franklin will take two seats on Algebra’s seven-member board, the fund management firm said on Tuesday. Algebra, which is owned by its management and staff, has about $200m under management....
...At the close, the Nasdaq Composite was down 2 per cent, or 41.29 points, at 2,039.42, its worst day in more than a month....
...Johnson & Johnson shares fell 1.3 per cent to $56.56 after the US Food and Drug Administration said the company had failed sufficiently to disclose the side effects of its epilepsy drug....
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