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By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) – McDonald’s is toasting buns and melting cheese to improve the quality of its Big Mac and other burgers as it looks to boost sales.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nine more U.S. states on Monday joined a civil antitrust lawsuit filed earlier by the Justice Department against Alphabet Inc’s Google for allegedly monopolizing multiple digital advertising technology products, the department said.

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Inc is seeking to attract U.S. savers with a new high-yield deposit account it announced on Monday with partner Goldman Sachs Group Inc amid increased competition among financial institutions for consumer dollars.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Aurubis AG, Europe’s largest copper smelter and producer, no longer buys the red metal from Russia after it let supply contracts lapse, its CEO told Reuters on Monday.

(Reuters) – J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings on Monday, hurt by weak shipping demand, high driver wages and maintenance expenses.

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Grunge music pioneers Soundgarden and Vicky Cornell, the widow of lead singer Chris Cornell, have settled a legal dispute over the late singer’s unreleased recordings, according to a joint post from their Instagram accounts on Monday.

(Reuters) – Asset manager BlackRock Inc plans to start sale of securities of the banks that collapsed in March, Bloomberg News reported on Monday citing emails.

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks opened cautiously on Monday as U.S. earnings season gets into full swing, while a raft of Chinese data will offer insight into how the world’s second-largest economy is recovering.

By Jody Godoy and Helen Coster (Reuters) – Fox Corp shareholders are demanding company records that may show whether directors and executives properly oversaw Fox News’ coverage of former President Donald Trump’s election-rigging claims, sources told Reuters, in what could be a prelude to lawsuits seeking

By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are awaiting earnings reports from consumer discretionary companies in coming weeks for a read on how the U.S. economy is faring amid persistently high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive rate hiking cycle since the 1980s.

(Reuters) – Charles Schwab Corp beat first-quarter profit estimates as rate hikes by the Federal Reserve boosted the financial services provider’s interest income, even as it struggled with a decline in deposits from the U.S. banking crisis last month.

(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures were largely flat on Monday as investors awaited more bank earnings and views from Federal Reserve policymakers that could shape expectations around when the central bank will pause its monetary policy tightening.

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Stock exchanges and asset managers have squared off ahead of European Union negotiations this week over how much information investors should be given to find the best deals on Europe’s fragmented stock markets.

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tighter lending conditions after recent bank failures will likely drive the U.S. economy into a shallow recession in the second half of this year, bolstering the case for a gradual increase in exposure to long-term bonds in anticipation of

(Adds exclusive tag) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is set to move ahead with the sale of a small modernization package for Turkey’s existing F-16 aircraft, after leaders of U.S. congressional committees gave informal approval for the sale, sources familiar with the matter

(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc shares fell over 4% in premarket trading on Monday after a report that South Korea’s Samsung Electronics was considering replacing Google with Microsoft-owned Bing as the default search engine on its devices.

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed a bid by Salesforce Inc’s Slack Technologies to avoid a lawsuit over its 2019 direct listing in a case that could undermine the ability of shareholders to sue companies for alleged misstatements when

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By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar bounced from a one-year low on Monday as resilience in core U.S. retail sales, a rise in short-term inflation expectations and impressive Wall Street bank earnings raised market expectations for an interest rate hike in May.