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Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party, reacts as he speaks to members of the media at a European Parliamentary elections count centre in Southampton, U.K., on Sunday, May 26, 2019. Farage, cast by supporters as the “godfather of Brexit”, has come under intense pressure from some powerful Brexit supporters and the governing Conservative Party to stand down more. “The Conservatives want a Conservative majority in parliament, not a Brexit majority in parliament.” Farage, 55, said a deal with the

“The introduction of a Russian air defense system that will preclude Turkey from receiving the F-35 is obviously not welcome.” The supersonic jets — which can fly for hundreds of miles undetected by radar and of which 110 were slated for Turkey’s military — were withheld from the Turks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made clear his forces would buy the S-400 against U.S. wishes. “Turkey is a very, very important country to NATO, it is very geo-strategically important in its positioning and

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – 2018/06/20: OPEC logo is seen at the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) building in Vienna. Still, the report kept its 2020 economic and oil demand growth forecasts steady and was more upbeat about the outlook. OPEC, Russia and other producers have since Jan. 1 implemented a deal to cut output by 1.2 million bpd. While the demand for OPEC crude will drop next year, OPEC trimmed its forecast for growth in 2020 non-OPEC supply to 2.17 million bpd, down 40,000 bp

Activist investor Carl Icahn has bought a $1.2 billion stake in HP Inc and is pushing for the personal computer maker’s merger with printer maker Xerox, arguing that a union could yield big profits for investors, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Icahn, who owns a 10.6% stake in Xerox, now owns a 4.24% stake in HP, the Journal said. HP did not disclose how much stake Icahn owns in the PC maker. Xerox made a roughly $33 billion cash-and-stock offer for HP, a company more than three t

Despite Kraft Heinz’s recent rally, the food company has a long road to recovery, according to Goldman Sachs. The firm downgraded shares of Kraft Heinz to sell from neutral because the stock has gone up too much, too fast since Kraft’s strong third-quarter earnings. Goldman left its $29 per share 12-month price target unchanged, which Kraft blew by last month, trading at $32.31 per share, down 1.7%, just before Thursday’s opening bell.

Customers look at the Apple’s new iPhone 11 series smartphones in an Apple retail store on East Nanjing Road in Shanghai. Apple shares got a rare sell rating on Thursday after Maxim Group downgraded the stock on concerns about lower iPhone sales next year, citing proprietary survey data. Maxim downgraded Apple to sell from hold and set a 12-month price target of $190, a 28% downside for the stock. Apple shares hit a record on Wednesday of $264.78 and are up 67% this year.

If you’re hoping to snag the best-available terms on a loan, a standard rule of thumb about credit card usage could end up messing with your plans. The common advice is to keep revolving debt below 30% of your available credit so your utilization rate doesn’t hurt your credit score. Yet experts say your FICO score — which most lenders use in their decision-making — starts taking a hit well below that threshold. “Anything above 5% will start lowering FICO scores,” said Al Bingham, a credit expert

When Andy Roddick was at the height of his tennis career, he knew he had to be smart about his money. So he started building his wealth instead of spending it — and is now a successful real estate investor. “The most powerful thing you can be is a young investor,” the one-time U.S. Open champ said. Roddick entered the world of professional tennis in 2000 at the age of 17. At the time, a mentor said, “you don’t have to wear your wealth,” recalled Roddick, who earned $20.6 million in prize money d

The number of Fidelity 401(k) plans with a balance of $1 million or more jumped to a record 200,000 as of Sept. 30, up 7% from a year ago, according to a new report by Fidelity, the nation’s largest provider of 401(k) plans. The financial services firm handles more than 30 million retirement accounts altogether. In addition, the number of individual retirement account millionaires increased to 182,400, also an all-time high. The average 401(k) contribution rate is now 8.8% — not including the em

British start-up Magway is planning an alternative to traditional above-ground truck deliveries and wants to build narrow tunnels and tracks that could run underground next to freeways and under cities in the U.K., carrying parcels and groceries. Freight pods and track designed by Magway, part of a proposed underground network of delivery tunnels in the UK. London had an underground “mail rail” system that was built in 1927, with a capacity of more than 4 million letters a day. The company has r

Facebook’s head of mergers and acquisitions this week recounted the company’s acquisition of Instagram as calls for the breakup of the social media giant continue to drum up. “I want to acknowledge that in some ways we absolutely considered Instagram a competitor,” Amin Zoufonoun, Facebook’s vice president of corporate development wrote in a post on Monday. In his post, Zoufonoun wrote that Instagram was not alone competing in the mobile photo-sharing space. Zoufonoun added that Instagram was de

Apple could launch a bundled subscription service as soon as 2020, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The bundle would combine Apple News+, Apple TV+ and Apple Music into one paid subscription service. Offering a bundle of subscription services could help allay fears of a stagnating smartphone market. As iPhone sales have slowed, investors have urged Apple to adopt a subscription model to shift its revenue away from transactional sales and toward recurring reven

Apple is launching a new app for consumers to sign up for up to three new medical studies. The app, dubbed Research, will be available to download via the Apple Store on Thursday. People can ask to participate in studies on heart, movement and hearing issues, and on women’s health. Apple has several major efforts underway in health, ranging from its Apple Watch, which monitors heart health and movement, to its employee health clinics. The movement-oriented study, for instance, requires that part

Salesforce said Thursday it will move its Marketing Cloud service to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, putting aside the rivalry between the two companies. Microsoft’s share of the public cloud market remains smaller than market leader Amazon Web Services but has gained wider adoption from customers under CEO Satya Nadella. They compete in multiple areas, including Salesforce’s core business of customer relationship management: Salesforce has the Sales Cloud and Microsoft fields the less popular D

Stifel CEO Ron Kruszewski on trade, markets, wealth tax and moreRonald Kruszewski, chairman, president and CEO at Stifel and a member of the Federal Advisory Council, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the U.S. economy, Fed’s monetary policy, trade and more

Comparable sales were up 3.2 percent, beating estimates and rising for the 21st straight quarter. Viacom – The media company beat estimates by 4 cents with adjusted quarterly profit of 79 cents per share, with revenue also beating estimates. Canopy Growth – The Canadian cannabis producer reported a wider than expected loss for its latest quarter, hit by restructuring charges. Cisco Systems – Cisco beat estimates by 3 cents with adjusted quarterly profit of 84 cents per share, with the networking

In a potentially historic marriage of supercomputing and big data, IBM goes live Thursday with a global weather model that it says can provide far more accurate forecasts for the entire world. IBM says its new supercomputer, DYEUS, built just to run the model, will issue 12 trillion pieces of weather data every day and process forecasts every hour, while many global weather models update only every six to 12 hours. IBM became a leading player in meteorology in 2015 when it purchased The Weather

Christian Liriano is glued to his phone these days, anxiously awaiting any news on whether the Trump administration will ban flavored e-cigarettes. Liriano, 27, owns a vape shop called Vape Hangar in Jacksonville, Florida. Vape shop owners pride themselves in helping people quit smoking. For vape shop owners, such a ban would mean they would need to close or fill their stores with other products. Vape shop owners and e-cigarette users have been pushing hard against banning flavors, saying it wou

Tim Cook at the Apple launch event in Cupertino Calif. on Sept. 10th, 2019. Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday:Maxim downgraded the stock and said iPhone sales would be lower than expected in 2020. “We are downgrading shares of AAPL to Sell, from Hold, and establishing a price target of $190, representing 28% downside, based on a sum-of-the-parts analysis. On pages 2-5, we present our most recent proprietary survey data, based on which we expect FY20E (Sept) iPhone units to de