By David Shepardson and Jack Kim NEW YORK/SEOUL (Reuters) -Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday it will invest 68 trillion won ($51 billion) over three years in South Korea to ramp up electric vehicle production and new mobility business and separately hire 80,000 new employees, doubling down at a time when other established automakers are […]

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney completed the addition of the general-audience-focused Hulu streaming service to the family friendly Disney+ on Wednesday, putting titles such as “The Bear” and “American Horror Story” in the same app as “Moana” and “Frozen.” The combination, which the company started testing last year, is designed to […]

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Sales of new U.S. single-family homes unexpectedly fell in February after mortgage rates increased during the month, but the underlying trend remained strong amid a chronic shortage of previously owned houses on the market. The report from the Commerce Department on Monday also showed the median new house price last […]

By Helen Coster, Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump came a step closer on Friday to reaping a major windfall from his social media firm after investors in a blank-check acquisition company approved a merger currently worth about $5.7 billion.  The deal values Trump’s majority stake in the company that holds his app […]

(Reuters) – Bleach maker Clorox said on Thursday that it would sell its operations in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay to private equity fund Apex Capital, as it looks to tighten its portfolio to be more profitable, and take a one-time charge of about $233 million related to the sale. The company, whose move comes at […]

By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) -Samsung Electronics expects $100 million or more of revenue from its next batch of advanced chip-packaging products this year, co-CEO Kye-Hyun Kyung said on Wednesday. Samsung set up advanced chip packaging as a business unit last year, and Kyung said he expects the results of Samsung’s investment […]

By Hannah Lang, Amanda Cooper and Rae Wee WASHINGTON/LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Bitcoin fell by as much as 6.5% on Tuesday, on track for its largest one-day drop in two weeks, as a wave of selling hit cryptocurrencies and other risk assets, such as stocks. The price was last down 5.86% at $63,419, having dropped to a […]

By Jonathan Stempel and Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -The National Association of Realtors agreed on Friday to resolve antitrust litigation accusing brokerages of inflating sales commissions, a settlement likely to bring major changes and lower costs when Americans buy and sell homes. The $418 million settlement calls for the NAR to eliminate decades-old rules on commissions, […]

By Echo Wang (Reuters) -Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners is seeking to hire investment banks for a U.S. initial public offering of Solera, a provider of software to the automotive and insurance industries, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Vista, which acquired Solera for $6.5 billion in 2016, is interviewing banks as […]