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(Reuters) – AbbVie Inc (ABBV.N) on Friday forecast 2019 revenue above Wall Street estimates and expressed confidence in future sales of blockbuster wrinkle treatment Botox, which it will acquire with its $63 billion purchase of Allergan Plc (AGN.N). FILE PHOTO: A screen displays the share price for pharmaceutical maker AbbVie on the floor of the

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will use a giant import fair in Shanghai next week to try to showcase its free trade credentials, temper criticism of its policies and deepen its global economic influence at a time of fresh uncertainty over the China-U.S. trade war. FILE PHOTO: People walk past an advertisement for the upcoming China

FILE PHOTO: Stickers bearing the Facebook logo are pictured at Facebook Inc’s F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc (FB.O) rose nearly 5% on Thursday, a day after the social network reported its third straight rise in the pace of quarterly sales growth

TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Thursday as investors banked on more economic stimulus by China after weak PMI data, partly recovering from losses in the previous session on a surprise build in U.S. crude stocks. FILE PHOTO: A pump jack operates at a well site leased by Devon Energy Production Company near Guthrie,

FILE PHOTO: Volkswagen cars are parked outside a VW dealership in London, Britain November 5, 2015.REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) lowered its full-year sales outlook on Wednesday, warning of slowing demand even as nine-month adjusted operating profit jumped 11.2% on increased demand for SUVs as well as Skoda and Porsche cars. The German

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese retail sales grew at the strongest pace in 5-1/2 years in September as consumers rushed to buy big-ticket items to beat a rise in the country’s sales tax, raising concerns spending could pull back sharply in the coming months. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in front of an electronics store in

(Reuters) – The S&P 500 hovered near its record high on Tuesday, lifted by upbeat earnings from drugmakers Merck and Pfizer, while a disappointing quarterly profit from Google-parent Alphabet kept the Nasdaq firmly in the negative territory. FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S.,

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outs a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dave Paresh (Reuters) – Australia’s consumer regulator filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday, alleging it misled consumers about how it was collecting, storing and using personal location data. The

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday on hopes for a Sino-American trade deal but gains were capped by weak Chinese industrial data. FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen just after sunset outside Saint-Fiacre, near Paris, France September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Brent crude was up 26 cents, or 0.4%, at $62.28 a

TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices were steady on Monday, holding on to strong gains last week, after Russia affirmed its commitment to a deal with OPEC producers to keep production in check and support prices. FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen just after sunset outside Saint-Fiacre, near Paris, France September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

(Reuters) – Louis Vuitton owner LVMH (LVMH.PA) has approached Tiffany & Co (TIF.N) with an acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday, at a time when the U.S. luxury jeweler grapples with the impact of tariffs on its exports to China. FILE PHOTO: A Tiffany & Co logo is seen outside the

FILE PHOTO: The Microsoft logo is pictured ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) said in a statement on Saturday that the company appreciates being chosen by the U.S. Defense department (DoD) for the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O). FILE PHOTO: Visitors stand in front of a display screen at Microsoft’s new Oxford Circus store ahead of its opening in London, Britain July 9, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Boeing (BA.N), acting without adequate oversight from U.S. regulators, failed to grasp risks in the design of cockpit software on its 737 MAX airliner, sowing the seeds for a Lion Air crash that also involved errors by airline workers and crew, Indonesian investigators found. FILE PHOTO: Lion Air’s Boeing 737 Max 8

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee appeared at a Seoul courtroom on Friday for the start of a bribery trial that could result in a tougher sentence after South Korea’s top court ordered a review of his graft case. FILE PHOTO: Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee arrives to attend a

BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) – Brembo’s distinctive colored brakes stop many of the world’s fastest cars but when it comes to the electric vehicles of the future it faces a problem – traditional brakes are noisy. FILE PHOTO: Electric cars are parked for display during E-Rallye Baltica 2019 in Bauska, Latvia July 23, 2019. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins