Business Stories from July 29, 2021 (Change date)
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German federal court sides with Lindt in gold bunny battleJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - BERLIN (AP) - A German federal court ruled Thursday that the golden shade of the foil wrap on Lindt & Spruengli's Gold Bunny, a popular chocolate Easter bunny, enjoys pr...
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Robinhood CEO tells AP it's eyeing expansion beyond tradingJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Robinhood has already changed how people trade stocks and who's doing it. Now its sights are on the rest of the financial industry. Shares of Robinhood M...
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Ford, Qualcomm rise; Citrix Systems, PayPal fallJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Thursday: Yum Brands Inc., up $7.70 to $130.31. The owner of the KFC and Taco Bell chains reported encouragin...
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Grains higher, livestock mixed.Jul 29, 2021 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Grain futures were higher on Thursday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Sep. gained 9.50 cents at $7.0375 a bushel; Sep. corn rose...
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Massachusetts sues Grubhub over fees charged during pandemicJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Online food delivery platform Grubhub charged some Massachusetts restaurants illegally high fees during the coronavirus pandemic, the state attorney genera...
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Container vessel that blocked Suez Canal reaches RotterdamJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year finally reached the port of Rotterdam in the Nether...
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Merck weighed own by charges, but drug sales reboundJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - Merck's second-quarter profit dove 49%, mainly due to a big charge for an acquisition and a higher tax rate, though sales of its vaccines and medicines used in hospitals...
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Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over '~Black Widow' releaseJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scarlett Johansson is suing the Walt Disney Co. over its streaming release of 'œBlack Widow,'ť which she said breached her contract and deprived her o...
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Amazon delivers a mixed bag of 2Q results, shares slideJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon on Thursday turned in a mixed bag of results for its fiscal second quarter, coming up short of Wall Street expectations in revenue but beating on ...
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Revisions show slightly smaller GDP drop last yearJul 29, 2021 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. economy contracted by a slightly smaller amount last year than previously reported and grew slightly more in 2019 and slightly less in 2018. T...