By Michael Erman, Patrick Wingrove and Maggie Fick NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. pharmaceutical industry is pushing to revamp the new law that allows Medicare to negotiate prices for its costliest prescription drugs once president-elect Donald Trump is back in office, according to lobbyists, executives, analysts and healthcare policy experts. Seven lobbyists and executives…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil created a net 132,714 formal jobs in October, data from the labor ministry showed on Wednesday, below the 200,000 forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. The figure accounts for 2,222,962 new jobs and 2,090,248 jobs closed. October marked the lowest net result for a month since December, when Brazil closed…
How Daniel Jones affects Vikings, Sam Darnold, J.J. McCarthy play Stephen A. makes Mad Dog laugh with reaction to Vikings signing Daniel Jones (2:31) Stephen A. Smith reacts to the Vikings signing Daniel Jones to back up Sam Darnold. (2:31) Kevin Seifert, ESPN Staff WriterNov 27, 2024, 12:36 PM ET Close Kevin Seifert is a…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad will make a televised address to the nation at 8:30 pm (2330 GMT) local time on Wednesday, the ministry said, adding he will talk about “efficient government”. Haddad is expected to lay out details of an eagerly awaited fiscal package with spending cut measures that was finalized…
Investing.com — Berkshire’s Class A shares (NYSE:BRKa) reached a near six-month high, trading up 1.7% at $731,224. The company’s Class A share price touched $741,971 on June, following a glitch that briefly caused the class B shares to fall more than 99%. Berkshire has stake in a diverse range of businesses, including Geico car insurance, the…
Investing.com — The US dollar may experience a temporary pullback in December as a wave of central bank meetings unfolds, according to Citi analysts. Nine of ten G10 central banks are set to meet over the next three weeks, with five—including the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Japan (BoJ), Bank of Canada (BoC),…
By Gianluca Lo Nostro (Reuters) – Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Orange will become the first telecoms firm in Europe to have direct access to…
ESPN’s Rivalry Week Heisman Watch votes are in Illustration by ESPN Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterNov 27, 2024, 08:40 AM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Follow on X Email Print Nothing about this Heisman Trophy race has followed the script we have come to expect. For…
(Reuters) – Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes rose unexpectedly in October, notching a third straight month of increases, despite high mortgage rates and as inventory of properties for sale continued to build and a healthy job market fortifies the finances of prospective buyers. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Wednesday its…
(This Nov. 25 story has been corrected to say that the U.S. became the world’s top exporter of LNG in 2023, not 2022, in paragraph 12) By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export…
