Oct 5 (Reuters) – US stock index futures dipped on Monday, as technology stocks eased from record highs, while investors looked for fresh clues on the monetary policy path with Treasury yields and oil prices still elevated. Chip stocks were a drag in premarket trade,…
By Mike Dolan Oct 5 (Reuters) – While a somewhat soft US employment report appeared to take the heat out of the interest rate and bond story on Friday, stress in sovereign debt markets shifted to Europe with an alarming blowout in the French debt…
GDANSK, Poland, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Poland’s antitrust watchdog said on Monday it suspected Alphabet’s Google of abusing its dominant market position while negotiating content payments with domestic media publishers. The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, known by its Polish abbreviation UOKiK, said the charges relate…
By Jan Wolfe Oct 5 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s administration will ask an appeals court on Monday to revive his effort to terminate more than $2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University, a centerpiece of his broad campaign against the nation’s richest and oldest…
By Jarrett Renshaw OMAHA, Nebraska Oct 5 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump will visit Nebraska on Monday to rally Republicans and promote his economic record, taking his message of new investment and manufacturing to a state where farmers and truckers face sharply higher diesel…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump and his Republican Party will carry a 4.2% unemployment rate into the congressional elections in early November, a low number by historical standards and in line with what most economists would regard as…
By Mike Blake YUMA, Arizona, Oct 5 (Reuters) – The US Army is testing counter-drone technology in the US-Mexico border area, seeking to sharpen its defenses against the growing threat of drone use by cartels and emulate the rapid battlefield innovation happening in Ukraine’s war…
By Tom Hals, Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis WILMINGTON, Delaware, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Chipmaker Qualcomm and chip tech firm Arm Holdings, long at loggerheads, will once again be in court on Monday with Qualcomm accusing Arm of withholding chip testing tools that were…
By Joe Cash and John Geddie WENZHOU, China/TOKYO, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Four years ago, the United States warned that China was poised to unleash a trade superweapon: a state-backed digital dragnet that would rapidly expand across the globe and give Beijing unprecedented insight into…
KABUL, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Problems affecting relations between neighbours Afghanistan and Pakistan can be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy, Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Monday. Pakistan’s powerful military, instead of seeking political understanding, uses only military language in relations with…
