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Viacom Inc. said Monday that it has stopped exploring a potential merger with CBS Corp. , after Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc. withdrew its support. The media giant said it has dissolved the special committee that it had formed to evaluate a potential merger. Separately, the company named Bab Bakish as its chief executive officer, effective immediately; Bakish was acting CEO since Nov. 15. "I am very excited by the strategy Viacom is pursuing under Bob's leadership, as well as the... Читать дальше...

Viacom Inc. said Monday that it has stopped exploring a potential merger with CBS Corp. , after Sumner Redstone's National Amusements Inc. withdrew its support. The media giant said it has dissolved the special committee that it had formed to evaluate a potential merger. Separately, the company named Bab Bakish as its chief executive officer, effective immediately; Bakish was acting CEO since Nov. 15. "I am very excited by the strategy Viacom is pursuing under Bob's leadership, as well as the... Читать дальше...

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Hillary Clinton‘s former campaign chairman John Podesta backed an effort to give members of the Electoral College information about purported Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election results on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump.

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will use her press conference on Wednesday to try to dampen market expectations of more aggressive interest-rate policy next year

Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen will use her press conference on Wednesday to try to dampen market expectations of more aggressive interest-rate policy next year

President-elect Donald Trump has asked Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn to be director of the National Economic Council, Trump's transition office said Monday. Trump said Cohn would help make policy that would grow workers' wages and "stop the exodus of jobs overseas." Cohn has worked at Goldman since 1990. The NEC sets the economic agenda for the White House.

Oil futures settled Monday at their highest level in nearly 17 months after oil producers outside of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to cut back production by 558,000 barrels a day. The reduction will be in addition to the 1.2 million-barrel reduction OPEC members plan to implement on Jan. 1. January West Texas Intermediate crude rose $1.33, or 2.6%, to settle at $52.83 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

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The surge in oil prices is helping keep the Dow Jones Industrial Average positive, but also doing a number on the Dow Jones Transportation Average . Crude oil futures spiked up 3.3% toward a 1 1/2-year high, after some oil producing countries agreed to production cuts. That helped push the stocks of Dow industrials components Exxon Mobil Corp. up $1.97, or 2.2%, and of Chevron Corp. up $1.33, or 1.2%. Those price gains added a combined 23 points to the Dow, which was up 12 points in afternoon trade. Читать дальше...

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was the maestro of the economy and the villain of the financial crisis. A new book tries to find the human underneath the myths.

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Most of the reductions among non-OPEC nations, besides Russia, were already scheduled, says Thomas H. Kee Jr.

Exchange-traded funds tracking the defense industry tumbled on Monday, suffering their biggest one-day decline in months after a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump prompted turbulence in one of the industry’s biggest players.

Exchange-traded funds tracking the defense industry tumbled on Monday, suffering their biggest one-day decline in months after a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump prompted turbulence in one of the industry’s biggest players.

Exchange-traded funds tracking the defense industry tumbled on Monday, suffering their biggest one-day decline in months after a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump prompted turbulence in one of the industry’s biggest players.

Exchange-traded funds tracking the defense industry tumbled on Monday, suffering their biggest one-day decline in months after a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump prompted turbulence in one of the industry’s biggest players.

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