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    The Canadian Press

    Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall Street slump triggered by strong US spending data

    BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares skidded Tuesday following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks. The Shanghai Composite index lost 1.4% to 3,013.84 even though the Chinese government reported that the economy grew at a faster-than-forecast annual rate of 5.3% in the first quarter of the year. In quarterly terms it expanded at a 1.6% pace. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 1.9% to 16,279.66. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 2.1% to 38,402.59 as the doll

  • Politics
    The Canadian Press

    Weedkiller manufacturer seeks lawmakers' help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Stung by paying billions of dollars for settlements and trials, chemical giant Bayer has been lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Nearly identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year — with wording supplied by Bayer — would protect pesticide companies from claims they failed to warn that their product causes cancer, if their labels otherwise c

  • News
    The Canadian Press

    Trump trial: Why can't Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?

    NEW YORK (AP) — It's a moment in history — the first U.S. president facing criminal charges in an American courtroom. Yet only a handful of observers are able to see or even hear what is going on. Instead, most of the nation is getting news of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial secondhand. Starting with preliminary motions and jury selection Monday, reporters in a Manhattan courtroom must convey what is being said to the outside world after the fact. That's all because New York sta

  • Business
    Bloomberg

    Microsoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42, Will Get Board Seat

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