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Russia has given preliminary approval to a bid by U.S. oilfield services giant Schlumberger (SLB.N) to acquire up to 49 percent of Russia’s Eurasia Drilling Co (EDC), an unexpected decision given a chilling in U.S.-Russian relations. RIA news agency cited Igor Artemyev, head of Russia’s anti-monopoly body (FAS), as saying the regulator would quickly start talks with Schlumberger, the largest oilfield services company by revenue. …read more […]

Facing a rising death toll from drug overdoses, state lawmakers across the country are testing a strategy to boost treatment for opioid addicts: Force drug manufacturers and their distributors to pay for … …read more […]

The low cost airline will slash its flight schedule by a third in Long Beach — its smallest focus city — this September. Instead, it will add several new transcontinental flights from New York and Boston to the Los Angeles area. …read more […]

NetEase’s Yanxuan proudly sells “unbranded” brand name products. …read more […]

Stocks can be a bumpy ride, but Apple, Texas Roadhouse, and Diageo still have a place in retirement portfolios. …read more […]

Qualcomm isn’t entirely shut out of Apple’s upcoming smartphones. …read more […]

One of these numbers will surprise you. …read more […]

President Donald Trump is claiming credit for a historic inter-Korean summit, but now faces a burden in helping turn the Korean leaders’ bold but vague vision for peace into reality after more than six decades of hostility. “It is still unclear whether North Korea still believes that it can have its cake and eat it too,” said Victor Cha, who until January had been in the running to become Trump’s choice for ambassador to South Korea. Cha said that while the atmospherics of the inter-Korean summit got an “A” grade, the meeting had failed to clarify whether Kim …read more […]

North Korea’s state media on Saturday trumpeted leader Kim Jong Un’s “immortal achievement” a day after he met South Korean President Moon Jae-in and repeated past vows to remove nuclear weapons from the peninsula and work toward a formal end to the Korean War. Despite the bold declarations, the leaders failed to provide any new measures on a nuclear standoff that has captivated and terrified millions, and analysts expressed doubts on whether the summit represented a real breakthrough. …read more […]

Investigators hunting down the so-called Golden State Killer used information from genetic websites last year that led to the wrong man, court records obtained Friday by The Associated Press showed. An … …read more […]

Jim Cramer feels like he’s stepped in a time machine after listening to Microsoft and Intel’s post-earnings conference calls. …read more […]

The White House said Friday that internal records raise doubt about some of the most serious allegations leveled against White House doctor Ronny Jackson in his failed bid to become the next secretary … …read more […]

Here’s what you need to know about the technology that’ll be used to build the processors destined to power 2020 iPhone models. …read more […]

And they might miss out on collecting some serious money as a result. …read more […]

MoviePass parent company, Helios and Matheson,) is dumping the monthly $9.95 subscription for one movie ticket per day. Instead, there’s now only a bundle on offer that combines a three-month trial for iHeartRadio, with four tickets per month on MoviePass. …read more […]