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Boeing plans to cut up to 8,000 airplane jobs: sources

Boeing Co plans to cut up to 8,000 jobs this year at its commercial airplane division, according to two people familiar with the matter, a move that could slash $1 billion in costs and help it battle for sales against European rival Airbus. Boeing on Wednesday acknowledged plans to cut about 4,000 jobs in its commercial airplanes division by…

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U.S. judge strikes down MetLife designation of ‘too big to fail’

MetLife had argued in court that the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), made up of the heads of the country's financial regulatory agencies, used a secretive and flawed process when in 2014 it designated the …

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China’s Anbang challenges Marriott with $13 billion Starwood offer

The non-binding bid, unveiled on Monday, just days after Anbang agreed to acquire Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc from buyout firm Blackstone Group LP for $6.5 billion, would represent by far the biggest Chinese investment in U.S. real estate assets. The head of China's insurance regulator, Xiang Junbo, wrote in January in a magazine published by the country's central bank that Chinese insurers should venture overseas for investments. Anbang's $2 billion acquisition…

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EPA requests information from Mercedes-Benz over emission levels

Daimler on Sunday said the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had requested information from its luxury car brand Mercedes-Benz to explain emissions levels in some of its cars. A spokesman for Daimler said they are fully cooperating with the request for information, and that Mercedes-Benz cars conform with all rules and norms.

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Growing trust helps flurry of Sino-German deals

China has for years sought to buy in key technology rather than develop it at home more slowly, but attempts to reach deals have often failed. “The cultural dimension is very important,” said Frank-Christian Raffel, Munich-based partner in boutique advisory firm MelchersRaffel, which specialises in M&A deals between German-speaking and Asian countries.

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Burberry faces U.S. lawsuit accusing it of deceptive price tags

LONDON (Reuters) – British luxury fashion brand Burberry is to face a class action lawsuit in the United States, claiming it used misleading price tags at its outlets stores to fool shoppers into believing they were getting big bargains. The company, which specifically manufactures some of the products for its outlet stores, is accused of intentionally presenting false price information on products that have never been sold in its retail stores to mislead

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U.S. judge rejects motion to review GM ignition switch deal

The motion filed by Lance Cooper, a Georgia attorney who first publicly exposed the defect, accused a lawyer leading federal litigation over the switch, Robert Hilliard, of mismanaging the cases and negotiating a multimillion dollar settlement primarily to benefit his own clients, rather than all plaintiffs. Cooper had asked U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan, who oversees the federal switch litigation…

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Google to scrub web search results more widely to soothe EU objections

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google will start scrubbing search results across all its websites when accessed from a European country to soothe the objections of Europe's privacy regulators to its implementation of a landmark EU ruling, a person close to the company said. The U.S. company has been at loggerheads with several European Union data …

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BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler recall vehicles in U.S. with Takata air bags

FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The three largest German automakers said they will recall 2.5 million vehicles in the United States equipped with Takata Corp air bags, the latest moves in a long-running safety crisis involving the Japanese automotive supplier. On Wednesday, Volkswagen AG said it would recall 850,000 vehicles and BMW said it would recall 840,000 vehicles. The vehicles to be recalled have Takata-made air bag inflators that

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Volkswagen faces Tuesday U.S. deadline for SUV emission repair plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG faces a Feb. 2 deadline to submit a repair plan for 80,000 diesel SUVs and larger cars that emit excess pollution, even as it considers buying back some vehicles and a prior fix plan for smaller vehicles was rejected.

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