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Ford Targets Emerging Markets with Frugal India Build, In a Bid to Compete With its Rivals in 5th Largest Auto Market

Using India-based engineering, Ford aims to penetrate the India market in a bid to compete against its Asian rival auto companies that are outselling them in the arena.

Aug 13, 2015 4:16 AM EDT


Kraft Heinz terminates 2,500 jobs in the U.S. and Canada to save costs

Kraft Heinz is cutting 2,500 jobs around the United States and Canada. Seven hundred of it will include its labor force in Northfield, Illinois.

Aug 13, 2015 4:14 AM EDT


US banks lead the equity trading revenues in Q2

Morgan Stanely, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs account for 40% market share in equities trading. Many US banks registered encouraging growth in trading revenues.

Aug 13, 2015 4:10 AM EDT


Continued oil price crash reached lowest level

U.S. crude oil price falls down to its level in more than six years. Over-supply of crude seen as one of the reasons for the oil's low price including the China's yuan devaluation. While most crude oil consumers enjoy the benefits of getting lower fuel, oil industries suffer from low profits forcing them to cut on expenditures and employment.

Aug 13, 2015 4:06 AM EDT


Starbucks and 28 other US companies to create jobs for disconnected youth

More than two dozen companies in the US join Starbucks in assuring Americans to create 100,000 jobs for the unemployed youth by 2018.

Aug 13, 2015 3:46 AM EDT


General Electric to sell Healthcare Financial Services biz to Capital One for $9bn

GE has decided to sell its healthcare financial business unit to Capital One for $9bn. This is part of its business plan to offload $100-bn worth assets by 2015 end. GE to remain focused on its core business operations.

Aug 13, 2015 3:03 AM EDT


European banks lead other foreign banks' excess reserves at Fed, valued at $1 trillion

Foreign banks prefer to park their excess funds with the US Fed. The unprecedented rise of excess reserves at US Fed has become a cause of concern for the government.

Aug 13, 2015 2:54 AM EDT


China devalues Yuan, Sends Shockwave to Global Market, and Bringing stocks down

China devalued Yuan for the second time in a row, shocking the world market, bringing stocks, commodities, and currencies down.

Aug 13, 2015 2:47 AM EDT


Analysts bet on Macy's, Alibaba, Cisco and News Corp; quarter earnings to be announced

Macy's, News Corp, Alibaba and Cisco are scheduled to report their quarterly revenue on Wednesday. Analysts are eyeing the movement of four companies in the stock market.

Aug 13, 2015 2:00 AM EDT


Ford Motor Company moves production of F-650 and F-750 truck from Mexico to Ohio

Ford is moving its production of F-650 and F-750 commercial truck from Mexico to Ohio to save expenses.

Aug 12, 2015 10:54 PM EDT


Brands will surely get noticed at 2016 Olympics in 7 new ways

It is still a year before the 2016 Summer Olympic Game to be held in Rio de Janeiro, but different marketers of all sorts began the countdown. David Berkowitz, CMO of MYR said that his firm has released a report from Marketer's Road to the Olympics emphasizing the different marketing strategies to showcase brands.

Aug 12, 2015 10:47 PM EDT


Traders and hackers earned $100M on stocks from stealing news

Two hackers and a group of traders had earned $100M illegal profit on the stock market taking advantage of 80,000 cracked advance press releases from three online news websites for five years.

Aug 12, 2015 10:24 PM EDT