Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps

Vladimir Putin told Russian diplomats that he made a proposal to Donald Trump at their summit this week to hold a referendum to help resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine, but agreed not to disclose the plan publicly so the U.S. president could consider it, according to two people who attended Putin’s closed-door speech on Thursday. Details of what the two leaders discussed in their summit in Helsinki, Finland, remain scarce, with much of the description so far coming from Russia. While Putin portrayed the Ukraine offer as a sign he’s seeking to bring the four-year-old crisis to an end, a referendum is likely to be a hard sell with Ukraine and its backers in Europe, who remain committed to an 2015 European-brokered truce deal for the Donbas region, parts of which are controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

Boeing (BA.N) claimed victory on Thursday after outselling rival Airbus (AIR.PA) at this week's Farnborough Airshow, where the world's largest planemakers repeated last year's comparable haul of around 900 orders with the help of leasing industry demand. The world's largest planemaker said it had won 528 orders and commitments at the event in southern England, while Airbus reported 431 new deals, or 371 excluding the recently acquired Bombardier CSeries, now rebranded A220. Airbus blamed the incognito wave on trade tensions that had made some firms nervous about appearing to side with the United States or other economic powers amid heated trade rhetoric.

Most millennials, Gen Xers, and baby boomers believe the American Dream is still attainable, according to the Bank of the West's 2018 Millennial Study. All three generations define the American Dream the same way: owning a home, being debt-free, and retiring comfortably. Nearly 60% of respondents surveyed in Bank of the West's 2018 Millennial Study believe they have attained the American Dream or believe that it's still attainable today.

Apple recently released new MacBook Pro models, which can be configured with Intel's Core i9 processor. You'll have to put the brand-spanking-new 2018 MacBook Pro with Intel's Core i9 processor in a freezer to get the advertised 2.9 GHz speeds. At least, that's what Dave Lee from the Dave2D YouTube channel did to get the most out of his.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket company shot a capsule higher into space Wednesday than it's ever done before.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took harsh criticism on Wednesday after saying that the social network won't ban Holocaust deniers from Facebook. The Anti-Defamation League tweeted that Facebook has a moral and ethical obligation not to allow Holocaust deniers to spread their ideas on the platform.

BGC Partners Inc.’s Richard Anthony is a diehard Knicks fan who has long had courtside seats for a basketball team that’s known for annoying New Yorkers with its struggles. A BGC brokerage unit was fined $1.25 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday over allegations that included failing to appropriately report sports tickets and travel expenses as compensation. The perks included one broker receiving $600,000 a year in free athletic tickets and $100,000 for an international birthday celebration, according to the SEC.

The retailer plans to exit Japan after 16 tough years.

President Donald Trump criticized the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases, breaking with more than two decades of White House tradition of avoiding comments on monetary policy out of respect for the independence of the U.S. central bank. “I’m not thrilled” the Fed is raising borrowing costs and potentially slowing the economy, he said in an interview with CNBC broadcast Thursday. The Fed has raised interest rates five times since Trump took office in January 2017, with two of those coming this year under Chairman Jerome Powell, the president’s pick to replace Janet Yellen.

The European Union is set for crunch talks with the Trump administration over possible US tariffs on automobiles made in Europe. Officials are preparing for the worst and readying a list of retaliatory tariffs should they fail to reach an agreement with President Donald Trump. "If the US would impose these car tariffs, that would be very unfortunate, but we are preparing together with our member states a list of rebalancing measures as well," the EU's trade chief said on Thursday.

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The family of KFC’s Colonel Harland Sanders has come to his defense after Papa John’s founder John Schnatter suggested the colonel had used the N-word but hadn’t faced criticism for doing so.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ordered committee hearings on legislation to deter Russia from meddling in this year’s election, marking lawmakers’ first concrete response to the uproar over President Donald Trump’s shifting posture on Russia following his summit with President Vladimir Putin. A U.S. intelligence assessment on the 2016 election "makes clear that President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign aimed at undermining public faith in our democratic process," McConnell said in a statement Thursday.

Half the gold will be returned to the Russian government.

Tariffs that affect many consumer goods could make prices stay high even after tariffs are vacated.

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama's Republican runoff, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to the GOP president. The four-term incumbent will now represent the GOP on the November ballot having defeated Bobby Bright, a former Democrat who tried to cast himself as the more authentic Trump ally in the low-turnout Republican contest. The Trump White House was on Roby's side.

In March, regulators reversed a key tax rule that had made gas pipeline MLPs viable. The final policy announced Wednesday gives those businesses a way to adapt.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said late on Wednesday it had voted unanimously to refer Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc's (SBGI.O) $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N) to an administrative law judge, a blow to the firms' chances of winning approval. The decision came despite the company's announcement it would not divest three television stations currently owned by Tribune in hopes of winning approval after FCC Chairman Ajit Pai raised "serious concerns" on Monday. Two FCC officials who did not wish to be identified said Wednesday they believe the merger will not be able to proceed.

Trump has Clintonized the White House, and gone much further.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the European Union over a record $5 billion fine EU antitrust regulators imposed on Google, saying the bloc was taking advantage of the United States. EU officials on Wednesday also ordered Google to stop using its popular Android mobile operating system to block its rivals, adding to trade tensions between Washington and Brussels. Trump took to Twitter over the decision: "I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google.

Merck & Co on Thursday announced price cuts to some of its medicines, including a 60 percent reduction to a little-used hepatitis C treatment, after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized drugmakers for failing to help reduce healthcare costs for consumers. Amid heightened public and political scrutiny over the high cost of prescription medicines and promises by Trump that drug price reductions were coming, New Jersey-based Merck became the first major drugmaker to announce voluntary price decreases. In addition to slashing the price of Zepatier for hepatitis C, Merck said it would lower the list price of six other older drugs by 10 percent.

Decreased volume and competitive headwinds are likely to interfere with growth for The Clorox Co.  (NYSE: CLX ), according to Goldman Sachs.  The Analyst Analyst Jason English downgraded  Clorox from Neutral ...

You should instead invest your excess savings in the stock market for the best returns, NerdWallet's retirement and investing specialist Arielle O'Shea recommends. The easiest way to put your savings to work is through a 401(k), which invests your money in stocks through low-cost index funds or exchange-traded funds. The average American is holding more than $32,000 in cash, a new study from NerdWallet found.

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The pipeline giant’s results remain on pace to exceed its full-year expectations.

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Comcast's withdrawal is a concession to Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), which last month sweetened its offer for the Fox assets to $71.3 billion, in a bid to unite two storied Hollywood studios and several television networks under one corporate umbrella. Comcast's move de-escalates one of the media industry's most high-profile confrontations, which pitted Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts against Fox Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch and Disney CEO Bob Iger.

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President Donald Trump entertained a proposal from Vladimir Putin to let Russian authorities question the former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday. Trump made no commitments to the Russian leader when Putin raised the idea at a private meeting in Helsinki on Monday and is “going to meet with his team,” Sanders said. In exchange, the Russian president offered to allow Special Counsel Robert Mueller to observe interrogations of 12 Russian intelligence agents indicted by a U.S. grand jury last week for hacking Democratic Party email accounts.

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Google is appealing the EU's record $5 billion fine over abusing the dominance of Android. CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the ruling could destroy the Android ecosystem. Sundar Pichai has suggested that the EU's record $5 billion fine against Google will be bad for Android users.

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The U.S. Federal Reserve should consider formally easing the regulatory framework for U.S. banks that have more than $250 billion in assets but are not global players, a top Fed official said on Wednesday. The comments by Fed vice chair Randal Quarles will be cheered by the country's three super-regional lenders PNC , Capital One and U.S. Bancorp, which worried they would be hurt by a rewrite of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law passed by Congress in May that helped their smaller rivals.

Shares of the aluminum parts manufacturer popped on the buyout rumor.

Following is a summary of commercial aircraft deals announced by Airbus and Boeing at the Farnborough Airshow in southern England. The two companies have so far signed deals worth more than $100 billion ...

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