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Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.
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Bilfinger to seek compliance damages from former executives
FRANKFURT Bilfinger said on Tuesday it will pursue former executives of the German engineering group for at least 100 million euros ($123 million) in damages for alleged breaches of duty in compliance and mergers over almost a decade.
C.H. Robinson teams up with MerQbiz as Chinese recycling ban bites
FRANKFURT, Jan 22 MerQbiz, an online marketplace for recycled paper, is teaming up with U.S. logistics giant C.H. Robinson as a Chinese ban on imports of scrap paper pushes the fragmented industry to become more efficient.
German strikes spread to Daimler, union mulls escalation
BERLIN/FRANKFURT Tens of thousands of German industrial workers downed tools on Tuesday in support of trade union IG Metall's demands for a 6 percent pay rise and a right to the first new cut in weekly working hours since the 1980s.
Siemens sees scale, data privacy as winners in digital race
MUNICH Germany's Siemens sees its broad industrial base and respect for customers' data privacy as giving it the edge in a race to attract businesses to its factory software platform, rather than those of rivals.
Siemens partners with Amazon as it ramps up industrial software platform
MUNICH Siemens is partnering with Amazon as it accelerates the rollout of its MindSphere industrial software platform, the core of its bid to dominate the market in digital factory automation.
Siemens partners with Amazon as it ramps up industrial software platform
MUNICH, Dec 15 Siemens is partnering with Amazon as it accelerates the rollout of its MindSphere industrial software platform, the core of its bid to dominate the market in digital factory automation.
German domestic demand for factory equipment seen rising
FRANKFURT German engineering output is likely to grow at a steady 3 percent next year as domestic manufacturers begin to reinvest in equipment, compensating for slower export growth to China, industry association VDMA said on Tuesday.
European stocks rally after Brexit, banking rules deals
LONDON European stocks rallied to a week's high on Friday as Britain and the European Union announced a breakthrough in Brexit negotiations and new global banking regulations appeared kinder to European banks than had been expected.
Energy stocks, Brexit drama send FTSE to 10-week low
LONDON UK stocks fell to a 10-week low on Thursday, weighed down by energy stocks and consumer staples as sterling edged higher on a glimmer of hope in Brexit talks.
U.S. tax bill powers European shares toward year's end
LONDON European stocks recovered strongly from multi-week lows on Monday after the U.S. Senate passed a tax package delivering significant fiscal stimulus, which investors had anticipated would give extra legs to the bull run in equity markets.
Markets
- U.S.
- Europe
- Asia
- Sectors
| DOW | 25,669.32 |
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110.59 |
+0.43% |
| S&P 500 | 2,850.13 |
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9.44 |
+0.33% |
| NASDAQ | 7,816.33 | -- | --% |
| TR US Index | 254.10 |
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0.86 |
+0.34% |
Sector Summary
| Energy |
-0.01%
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| Basic Materials |
-0.11%
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| Industrials |
-0.13%
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| Cyclical Goods & Services |
-0.04%
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| Non-Cyclical Goods & Services |
-0.07%
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| Financials |
+0.02%
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| Healthcare |
-0.06%
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| Technology |
-0.05%
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| Telecoms |
-0.19%
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| Utilities |
-0.09%
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