Costco plans chicken plant in Nebraska: local council

The facility, if built in Nebraska's Dodge County, would create 1,100 jobs, work with local chicken farmers and invest $180 million in the region, the Greater Fremont Development Council said in a release dated April 14. Costco, the third-largest U.S. retailer, could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Fed’s Kashkari favors higher capital requirements, smaller banks

“I agree that many current reform efforts are headed in the right direction, particularly those that make banks stronger with additional capital, deeper liquidity and stress testing,” Kashkari said. Kashkari, who during the financial crisis ran the government's $700 billion bank bailout program, has been campaigning for solutions to the nation's “too…

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Silicon Valley veteran Bill Campbell dies

Campbell was chief executive of tax software maker Intuit Inc from 1994 to 1998 and again for a few months until January 2000. “He helped us build Google and in countless ways made our success possible,” Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc, said in a post.

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The global oil deal that never came to be

It was supposed to be the easiest deal ever reached among key oil market players, a mere formality. Eighteen countries were gathering in the Qatari capital of Doha to rubber-stamp the first joint agreement between major OPEC and non-OPEC nations in 15 years, tackling a huge global glut after flooding the market for two years. Oil prices were rising.

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Weak markets leave Morgan Stanley struggling to reach return-on-equity target

Trouble in fixed-income markets cut deep into Morgan Stanley’s trading revenue. Morgan Stanley’s return-on-equity, a key measure of how well it uses shareholder capital to earn profits, was 6.2 percent, well below Gorman’s goal of 9 percent to 11 percent by the end of next year. “It must be said that if these markets were to continue as is, our goals would be extremely difficult to achieve and we would therefore take additional appropriate actions,” Gorman said on a conference call

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Japan’s pitch for FX action meets cool G20, U.S. response

By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Japan's efforts to seek informal consent to act against an unwelcome yen rise bore little fruit, with the United States offering a cool response to concerns voiced by Tokyo that the currency's gains are too sharp and may justify intervention. A lack of G20 sympathy for Tokyo's appeal may embolden yen bulls to test the currency's 17-month highs against the dollar hit earlier this month, keeping Japanese policymakers …

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United Airlines gate agents, baggage handlers approve new contract

United Continental Holdings Inc and its union said Saturday that workers voted in favor of contracts hiking the pay of some 30,000 baggage handlers, gate agents and other groups, a dramatic reversal from a year ago when the No.3 U.S. airline mulled outsourcing some of these jobs. The news marks a vote of confidence by…

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Volkswagen increases discounts after emissions scandal: report

Volkswagen AG is offering bigger discounts in its home market to try to lure back customers after the automaker admitted using software to allow diesel vehicles to cheat emissions tests, a German trade magazine reported on Saturday. Germany's Automobilwoche said Volkswagen was trying to boost the used car trade by raising

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U.S. Treasury readies new tax rules as G20 vows to fight evasion

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department is finalizing new tax rules aimed at combating the use of shell companies to evade taxes, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Saturday amid increased pledges by global finance leaders to cooperate on tax issues. In a statement to the International Monetary Fund's steering committee, Lew said the Treasury was finalizing a rule that would require banks to identify the beneficial owners of…

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Doha oil freeze talks face last-minute trouble

By Rania El Gamal and Reem Shamseddine DOHA (Reuters) – A meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers on an agreement to freeze output ran into last-minute trouble in Qatar on Sunday due to a new request by OPEC's de facto leader Saudi Arabia, sources told Reuters. Oil…

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