WASHINGTON -- The US economy added 196,000 jobs in March, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.8 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday.
Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc for .4billion in stock as the world's largest entertainment company seeks even greater scale to combat growing digital rivals Netflix Inc and Amazon.com Inc.The deal brings to a close more than half a century of expansion by Murdoch, 86, who turned a single Australian newspaper he inherited from his father at the age of 21 into one of the world's most important global news and film conglomerates.Shares of Fox, which have surged 35 percent since talk of the deal surfaced in early November, were slightly lower in premarket trading.Disney shares also edged lower as investors fretted about dilution from the all-stock deal. Disney said it expects to buy up to billion of its own shares to offset that dilution.Fox stockholders will receive 0.2745 Disney shares for each share held and will end up owning about a quarter of Disney.Under the deal, expected to close in 12 to 18 months, Disney acquires 21st Century Fox's film and television studios, its cable entertainment networks and international TV businesses.
WASHINGTON-Country music legend Glen Campbell, the mellow-voiced "Rhinestone Cowboy" who sold millions of albums over a career that spanned decades, has died at the age of 81.
WASHINGTON -- Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday blocked an attempt from House Democrats to pass 2,000-US-dollar direct payments to Americans, a figure demanded by President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said on Friday there is a "good chance" that the United States and Mexico can reach a deal to avert the tariffs on all Mexican imports.
Wang Jia, a partner at Roland Berger, said rents would rise in the long term due to the process of urbanization and economic development. But the rise will be stable under macroscopic readjustment and control from the government.
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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed a New York Times report about US top security officials reviewing a plan to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East to counter Iran.
Wang Guike, chairman of Guangdong Provincial Publishing Group Co Ltd, explains how China's Belt and Road Initiative promotes cultural exchanges and people-to-people understanding at a forum in Brussels, Belgium, late last year. [Photo provided to China Daily]
WASHINGTON -- Former US vice-president Joe Biden broadened his advantage ahead of the second debate of the Democratic primary, a poll showed on Monday.
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to lead the department on a permanent basis, despite complaints by Democrats that the former oil and gas lobbyist has used his federal position to benefit former industry clients.