Articles filed under Bloomberg
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The 737 pilot who came to rescue BoeingJun 21, 2019 1:00 am - When Ray Conner retired as head of Boeing's commercial aircraft business in 2017, the company threw a farewell party for its lifelong employee. Among the speakers: Willi...
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What the Fed heard when it listened to Americans about inflationJun 16, 2019 6:00 am - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell calls slumping inflation "one of the major challenges our time." Shawn Smith, who trains some of the nation's most vulnerable low-...
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Analysis: The future will be recorded on your smart speaker (and maybe that's OK)Jun 15, 2019 6:20 am - Amazon's patent application for an always-on feature for Alexa, its popular voice-activated personal assistant, has raised a lot of concern. "If you're already freaked o...
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Apple iPhones can be made outside of China if needed, Foxconn saysJun 12, 2019 1:00 am - Apple Inc. has a backup plan if the U.S.-China trade war gets out of hand. The Cupertino, California-based company's primary manufacturing partner has enough capacity to...
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President Trump says U.S. to 'do something' about French wine tariffsJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump promised to do "something" about French wine that he said is allowed into the U.S. virtually tariff-free while France imposes duties on U.S. wine,...
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A Fed rate cut looks more likely; the question is when and by how muchJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues face three decisions when it comes to reducing interest rates: whether to do it, when to do it, and by how much...
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America's lunch bill could go up $875M thanks to global trade warJun 09, 2019 6:20 am - The growing threat of an all-out global trade war means Americans may have to fork out more cash at lunchtime. Firehouse Subs will likely bump sandwich prices by 10 cent...
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The backlash to plastic has oil companies worriedJun 09, 2019 6:11 am - As the world strives to wean itself off fossil fuels, oil companies have been turning to plastic as the key to their future. Now even that's looking overly optimistic. T...
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Why storm tracking could be a casualty of 5GJun 08, 2019 6:20 am - Satellites tracking water vapor in 2012 helped scientists accurately predict Superstorm Sandy's frightening turn toward New York and New Jersey where it killed dozens of...
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Open-source 'Great Satan' no more, Microsoft wins over skepticsJun 08, 2019 6:10 am - In 2014, Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie wrote up a proposal to acquire GitHub. Then he filed the plan away in a drawer. Every once in a while he'd take the plan out...