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earnings growth is looking stronger at nearly the halfway mark of the reporting period, with corporate results giving a boost to stocks this week after recent weakness. S&P 500 year-over-year earnings growth for the first quarter of 2024 is now seen at 5.6%, according to LSEG data on Friday. That is up from 4.3% the day before.

a proposal for the new rule in September, saying it would boost safety requirements on farms and raise transparency around how such workers are recruited, in order to combat human trafficking. The Labor Department is already required to ensure that the H-2A program doesn’t undercut the wages or working conditions of Americans who take similar jobs. Employers are required to pay minimum U.S.

Change is afoot at the leadership levels of Huntington National Bank’s wealth business.

Vietnam's National Assembly has resigned, the ruling Communist Party said Friday, one of the most senior leaders to fall in a sweeping anti-corruption purge. Vuong Dinh Hue asked to step down because of «violations and shortcomings», the party said in a statement on its website.

Former President Donald Trump's political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him unprecedented influence over the Federal Reserve, including a plan that could make him an «acting» central bank board member, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su says workers at southern auto plants should be free to unionize without employer or political interference, even as some southern states pass new laws meant to inhibit organized labor

With Donald Trump facing dozens of federal criminal charges and hundreds of millions in legal expenses, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. went public on the Nasdaq exchange March 26

President Joe Biden has arrived in New York state to celebrate a tech company’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with government support

«The old joke was you could not become a CEO in the US if you are an Indian, now the joke is you cannot become a CEO in America if you are not Indian, whether it is Google, Microsoft or Starbucks, people have come and made a big difference,» said the US Ambassador. More than one in 10 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies now are Indian immigrants who studied in the United States, said Garcetti.

As investors grapple with geopolitical tensions and ambiguity on interest-rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, another risk looms – the upcoming US Presidential election. A survey in April by Bofa Securities showed that global fund managers see the US election as the third-biggest risk to their portfolios, with 12% of respondents expressing caution regarding this. In Bofa's February survey, it was at the fifth spot.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on Muslims, Nadda once again accused the Congress and INDI alliance of having a hidden agenda. Also Read: Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting Live He alleged that they plan to take away the rights of lower-caste groups (SC, ST, and OBC) and give them to Muslims.

Cboe plans to close its spot crypto trading platform by Q3, with cash-settled crypto futures moving to the Cboe Futures Exchange by 2025.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Despite weak global market sentiments on disappointing forecasts from Facebook and Instagram parent Meta, the Indian stock market ended higher for the fifth straight session on Thursday. The Nifty 50 index gained 167 points and closed at a 22,570 level, the BSE Sensex surged 486 points and ended at the 74,399 mark while the Bank Nifty index finished 305 points higher at the 48,494 level. Cash market volumes on the NSE were higher on the monthly F&O expiry day at Rs.

Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote public health

Taylor Swift meme has attracted a famous personality. Monica Lewinsky has written «you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me» and posted a photo of White House on social media X. The lyric from Swift's latest song has become an instant hit. The line — «you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me» — has become a viral one. Fans are using the line to reveal bittersweet memories of their own.

After switching on support for bitcoin in 2014, Stripe ditched crypto, saying that crazy price fluctuations and higher fees rendered it as unusable as a form of payment. Speaking at the company's Global Internet Economy conference, president John Collison revealed: "We’re excited to announce that we’re bringing back crypto as a way to accept payments, but this time with a much better experience." Merchants will be able to accept stablecoin payments from this summer, although initially this will be restricted to Circle's USDC on the Solana, Ethereum and Polygon blockchains. Said Collinson: "Crypto is finding real utility.

President Joe Biden on Thursday sought to sell voters on an American “comeback story" as he highlighted longterm investments in the economy in upstate New York to celebrate Micron Technology's plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with government support. Staring down a rematch with Republican Donald Trump, Biden was asking voters to buy into his vision of the future, at a moment when voters are most worried about enduring pressures from high inflation. The initial phase of New York project would open the first plant in 2028 and the second plant in 2029, with more time expected for the next two factories to be completed.

Native American tribes and environmentalists want a U.S. appeals court to weigh in on their request to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line

Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 'redistribution of wealth' controversy with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge writing a letter seeking PM's time to explain the grand old party's manifesto. Defending the Congress manifesto, Kharge said that the 'Nyay Patra' (manifesto) is aimed at providing justice to youngsters, women, farmers, labourers and marginalised people across castes and communities. Accusing the Prime Minister of seeking to divide society, Kharge said, «It has become your habit to seize on a few words taken out of context and create communal divide.»

Hilton portfolio, and the chain expects to achieve that same level of success in the India market in the coming years, Chris Silcock, president, global brands and commercial services at Hilton told ET in an interview. Silcock said the chain is 'exceptionally' bullish on the sector and that is supported by its results. «Last year was a record year for us in signings and we added more rooms to our portfolio on a global basis in Q4 than in any year in over 100 years of our history,» Silcock said. «We opened over 130 hotels in Q4 of 2023 and we now have a pipeline of over 3,000 hotels, and half a million rooms. So, on a global basis, we feel very bullish.» Hilton aims to have 75 trading and in-pipeline hotels in India by 2027. It operates 26 hotels in India and there are 20 more in the pipeline.

Election Commission took note of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks and seved a notice to BJP preseident JP Nadda over the former's «infiltrator» comments during a campaign speech at Banswara in Rajasthan. It has also served a notice to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for Rahul Gandhi's campaign remarks on allegedly accentuating a «North-South» divide. Both parties have been asked to reply by April 29.