Blackstone reports better-than-expected second-quarter distributable earnings
Blackstone Group Inc , the world’s largest manager of alternative assets such as private equity and real estate, said on Thursday its distributable earnings in...
UnitedHealth boosts earnings forecast, set to pass price discounts to patients
UnitedHealth Group Inc will stick with its decision to pass on drug maker discounts to patients to help them beat rising medicine prices despite the...
Union Pacific quarterly profit beats estimates on price gains
Union Pacific Corp on Thursday reported a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street estimates, as the U.S. railroad operator cut costs and raised prices to...
India queries Chinese app TikTok after call for ban by Hindu group
India’s IT ministry has asked Chinese video app TikTok, one of the world’s most popular, to explain how it collects user data and creates awareness...
Iran seizes foreign tanker, U.S. vows to protect vital Gulf waterway
Iran said on Thursday it had seized a foreign tanker smuggling fuel in the Gulf, and the U.S. military commander in the region said the...
Oil falls as U.S. Gulf oil platforms return to service
Oil fell more than 1.5% a barrel on Thursday, weighed down by weakness in U.S. equities markets and an expectation that crude output would rise...
Take it easy: central bank U-turns loosen financial conditions
Rate cut bets and rallying equity and bond markets are feeding into a gradual loosening of financial market conditions that could potentially send world growth...
5 policymaker concerns over Facebook’s Libra
G7 finance ministers and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee all added to the chorus of concerned voices about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency. These are their...
Documents on Trump ex-lawyer’s porn star hush payment released
Hundreds of pages of documents regarding hush-money payments by Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to a porn star and a Playboy model who...
Bullet-riddled U.S. flag that survived D-Day coming home 75 years later
Shot through by German machine gun bullets and tattered by the wind, an American flag that flew on the first U.S. invading ship on D-Day...