| | | | | U.S. companies are warning about rising wages eating into profit margins, increasing investor worries that next year's expected drop in profit growth may be sharper than feared. | | |
| | | A U.S. judge in Montana has blocked construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry heavy crude oil from Canada to the United States, drawing praise on Friday from environmental groups and a rebuke from President Donald Trump. | | |
| | | Oil prices fell nearly 1 percent on Friday as global supply increased and investors worried that oil demand growth could slow, with U.S. crude notching its longest stretch of daily declines since 1984. | | |
| | | White House adviser Peter Navarro on Friday lashed out at efforts by current and former Wall Street executives to urge the United States and China to end their trade dispute, calling them "unregistered foreign agents" who were trying to pressure President Donald Trump into a deal. | | |
| | | Stocks around the globe were closing in on their biggest drop in two weeks as soft Chinese data hit demand for risky assets while oil prices weakened again on Friday. | | |
| | | The S&P 500 fell steadily on Friday and deepened its losses as the day wore on with shares of large technology, industrial and material companies taking a hit after weak Chinese data and a slide in oil prices raised concerns about global growth. | | |
| | | Microsoft Corp said in a filing late Thursday it had made $1.3 billion in cash payments in connection to its acquisition of coding hosting startup GitHub. | | |
| | | Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. | | |
| | | A U.S. federal judge in Montana halted construction of TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline on Thursday, saying a U.S. environmental analysis "fell short of a 'hard look'" at the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on Native American land resources. | | |
| | | Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical is set to win conditional EU antitrust approval for its $62-billion bid for London's Shire, the biggest ever overseas acquisition by a Japanese company, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday. | | |
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