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Florida power provider NextEra Energy said Friday that it had reached a deal to acquire an 80% stake in Texas transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery in a deal that will help resolve a massive energy bankruptcy.

Alphabet – which competes with all of the other four companies in either advertising, cloud computing, or operating systems – showed that efforts to push its vast ad business toward mobile were paying off, calming fears that the company’s best days were behind it.

The dip was even deeper than expected as economists had predicted a decline of 0.4%.

U.S. stock-index futures rose on Wednesday, as European and Japanese stocks gained in early trade ahead of policy announcements from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.

“If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”

However, despite reports of an increasingly limited role at the convention, she added: “As Party Chair, this week I will open and close the Convention and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans”.

USA electric component distributor Avnet has agreed to buy Premier Farnell Plc for 691 million pounds ($911 million), trumping an earlier offer from Daetwyler Holding AG for the British maker of the Raspberry Pi mini- computer.

CISF is not commenting on whether he was shouting pro-ISIS slogans. He paid no heed to fellow passengers who asked him to be seated.

Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence is expected to make his first solo campaign stop as the Republican vice presidential nominee in southeast Wisconsin on Wednesday night.

Rights group Amnesty International said that authorities had canceled 34 journalists’ press cards and called on Turkish authorities to not “arbitrarily restrict freedom of expression”.

The yen weakened earlier on Wednesday after Japan’s prime minister unveiled a surprisingly large $265 billion stimulus package to reflate the world’s third-largest economy.

The announcement that the banking group is to cut 3,000 jobs and close 200 branches was seized upon by papers this morning as evidence that agents of “project fear” were correct, despite the United Kingdom economy remaining buoyant.

Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Thursday to do “everything humanly possible” to ensure security in Germany following a string of attacks – including two carried out by asylum-seekers and claimed by the Islamic State group, which she said mocked the country that...

Oracle has announced it is to acquire fellow California-based cloud services and software provider, NetSuite, in a deal worth around $9.3 billion.

Fans of “Stephen Colbert”, the pundit-parodying host of the now-defunct The Colbert Report, were delighted to see the return of the character on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show last week.