President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a health policy expert on Tuesday to help him repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program. Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump's Health and Human Services secretary, and consultant Seema Verma will lead...
Nov 29- North Dakota law enforcement will begin to block supplies from reaching protesters at a camp near the construction site of an oil pipeline project in an effort to force demonstrators to vacate the area, officials said on Tuesday. Supplies, including food and building materials, will be blocked from entering the main camp following Governor Jack...
*Carmakers to build 400 charging sites in first step. BERLIN/ DETROIT, Nov 29- Four of the world's top carmakers have agreed to invest in thousands of fast-charging sites across Europe to boost mainstream acceptance of electric cars, the companies said on Tuesday. In the United States, it remains to be seen how an administration of Donald Trump will embrace such...
*Nasdaq hits record high; S&P closes in on record. *Oil prices fall nearly 4 pct ahead of OPEC meeting. Nov 29- Wall Street shrugged off a slide in oil prices on Tuesday to move higher in early afternoon trading, with the Nasdaq hitting a record high, boosted by healthcare stocks and strong economic data.
LONDON, Nov 29- Sky said it would enter the UK mobile market with a SIM-only deal that allows data allowances to roll over each month, and offers free calls to the 11 million British households that take its TV services. Stephen van Rooyen, Sky's UK and Ireland chief executive, said the company had asked more than 30,000 potential customers what they wanted from a...
WASHINGTON, Nov 29- U.S. banks' net income increased 12.9 percent, up $5.2 billion, in the third quarter as the number of struggling lenders fell, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Tuesday. The FDIC said the share of unprofitable banks, 4.6 percent, was the lowest since the third quarter of 1997.. The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates low since the 2008...
VANCOUVER, Nov 29- Foreign buyers continued to scale back Vancouver- area property purchases in October after British Columbia introduced a tax on international investors aimed at cooling the city's red-hot housing market, data from the Canadian province showed on Tuesday. British Columbia introduced the 15 percent foreign property transfer tax...
CHICAGO, Nov 29- Pilgrim's Pride Corp, the world's second-largest chicken producer, said on Tuesday it will buy smaller rival GNP Company in a $350 million deal that will increase its organic and antibiotic-free offerings. Pilgrim's shares were up 2.1 percent at $18.35 in afternoon trading, broadly in line with other meat producers such as Tyson Foods Inc..
*Duo already dominant in top producer South Africa. LONDON, Nov 29- Rocketing ferrochrome prices are expected to accelerate consolidation among producers in South Africa, increasing the global stainless steel industry's reliance on mining group Glencore and chrome ore company Samancor. Nearly 60 percent of the world's production of global chrome ore-- used...
MILAN/ LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters)- European shares rose slightly on Tuesday, helped by a strong rebound in Italian banks, while reports of a improved takeover offer sent Swiss biotech Actelion rallying to a fresh all-time high. Italy's bank index rose 4.1 percent, helped by a Reuters report that the European Central Bank stands ready to buy more Italian bonds if a...
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BISMARCK, N.D.— The hundreds of arrests during the months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota have created an unprecedented burden for the state's court system, which faces huge cost overruns and doesn't have enough judges, lawyers and clerks to handle the workload. Police have made nearly 575 arrests since August during clashes...
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LONDON, Nov 29- UK- based law firm Eversheds is in merger talks with U.S. peer Sutherland Asbill& Brennan in the latest attempt by the British firm to secure a U.S. tie-up. Eversheds' Chief Executive Bryan Hughes outlined plans in 2012 to become a "global leader" by 2020, partly to better serve the global needs of clients, and the firm has been openly keen to clinch a U.S....
The EPA on Tuesday named 10 chemicals that will be reviewed under an amendment to the Toxic Substances Control Act passed Congress earlier this year with bipartisan support. The list includes such common chemicals as asbestos and trichloroethylene that have for decades been known to be hazardous, yet EPA lacked the legal authority necessary to ban their...
Nov 29- Investors, including the state treasurers of Connecticut and Illinois, called on Wells Fargo& Co to require an independent board chair, saying the bank needs stronger oversight in the wake of a scandal over fake customer accounts. Although Wells Fargo already has shuffled its leadership structure, Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier on Tuesday said...
*Japan and China sales strong. Nov 29- Tiffany& Co reported its first rise in sales in two years as more people shopped in its stores in Japan and China, and the upscale jeweler said sales in the United States declined at their slowest quarterly pace this year. The company said Japanese shoppers bought more at home and in the United States, in the third quarter ended Oct....
TULSA, Okla.— McDonald's is testing the use of fresh, never frozen beef for its Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The fast food giant says the tests are being carried out in 75 of its restaurants in the Tulsa, Oklahoma- area. Oak Brook, Illinois- based McDonald's says it got positive feedback recently from a similar test in the Dallas/Fort Worth- area.
*OPEC experts could not agree details in Monday talks. OPEC sources told Reuters a meeting of experts in Vienna on Monday failed to bridge differences between OPEC's de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, and the group's second- and third-largest producers over the mechanics of output cuts. On Tuesday, tensions rose further after Iran wrote to OPEC saying it wanted Saudi...