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In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

Air freight demand rose by 9 percent in 2017 from a year earlier, the fastest clip since 2010, the International Air Transport Association said this week.

Major is in the small minority, with others including Komal Sri - Kumar, president of Sri - Kumar Global Strategies, who wrote on Business Insider earlier this week that the 10 - year yield would slide below 2 % to 1.5 %.

But: a) This doesn't mean the regulator will definitely nix the takeover; and b) This does, of course, come in the context of a U.S. - China trade spat, and the U.S.'s decision earlier this week to ban China's ZTE from buying U.S. tech for seven years.

WHAT THEY DID: An earlier version of the Senate plan would increase deficits by roughly $ 1 trillion over 10 years, even when taking into account additional economic growth forecast with the tax cuts, the Joint Committee on Taxation said last week.

Earlier this week, Ramadan Abedi told the press that when he spoke to his 22 - year old son five days before the attack, he sounded «normal.»

LSU running back Leonard Fournette, projected to be a top pick in this year's draft, made the same decision one week earlier.

To compound matters, on March 7, mere weeks ahead of the reported early - April launch of its much - anticipated PlayBook tablet, RIM chief marketing officer Keith Pardy announced his resignation just over a year after joining the company.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

Mattel (mat), which has been greatly diversifying its Barbie range in recent years, earlier this week announced a series of dolls representing good role models for girls.

And a survey being released this week by Wells Fargo found demand for credit is little changed from earlier this year.

With the «holiday season» kicking off earlier and earlier every year, if executed effectively, these handful of weeks can deliver massive financial gains.

Earlier this week, the Atlanta - based company said CEO Richard Smith would leave and forgo this year's bonus.

Top Republicans announced the mammoth research bill last week, more than a year after the House by an overwhelmingly bipartisan margin approved an earlier version.

The bubbly 16 - year old finished second to Biles at the U.S. trials, but was kept out of the all - around earlier this week because only four of the five U.S. gymnasts could compete in qualifying on bars.

«In addition to Canada's 270 percent tariff on milk, a program called the «Class 7» pricing program, a market - distorting supply management system, has caused severe pain to New York dairy producers like Avon's Anderson Farm and their fellow Upstate Niagara Co-Op dairies since it came into force last year,» Schumer said earlier this week.

With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.

Germany's benchmark 10 - year bond yield was up almost 2 bps at 0.58 percent in early trade, above a one - week low of 0.56 percent hit on Friday.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury fell below 2 % for the first time since May 2013 in early trading in Europe, while gold rose to a three - week high of $ 1.213.60 a troy ounce, as investors once again shunned anything that smelled remotely of risk.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum earlier this week, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff revealed that he spent about $ 3 million this year to bring the salaries of female employees up to the level of their male counterparts.

And, it looks like the borders of the summer blockbuster season will continue to be blurred in coming years, as Fast & Furious 7 is expected to be released in the first week of April 2015 while the highly - anticipated Warner Brothers release Batman vs. Superman is scheduled for early March of 2016.

The major indexes also snapped four - week winning streaks and are now at least 3.5 percent below all - time intraday highs set earlier in the year.

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

Earlier this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said the new tax legislation would boost business - travel spending this year and that would help boost shares of Delta, United and American, which are heavily reliant on corporate travel revenue.

The hospitality - suite rout continued in the early weeks of this year, with the stocks of several hotel chains dropping by 10 % or more.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Parker faces renewed criticism after details of his 2001 trial on charges of raping a college classmate resurfaced earlier this week, and it was disclosed that the 18 - year - old woman who accused Parker and the film's co-writer, Jean Celestin, of raping her had committed suicide in 2012.

Last night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last week.

Earlier this year, as spring finals week loomed over college campuses nationwide, Netflix — one of the earliest companies to incorporate live - streaming video into its social media strategy — fired up a broadcast on the company's Periscope account.

The central bank bombarded markets in the past week with the message that it could raise interest rates for the second time in nine years as early as June, if the economy continues to improve as expected.

Earlier this week, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz also said the federal government's steps to add to the public debt in recent years has helped slow the rise in debt accumulated by Canadians.

One boon for shareholders for next year's annual meeting: SEC rules that went into effect earlier this week will allow shareholders to change company's governance procedures when it comes to director nominations, which could give shareholders power to nominate directors.

The big move came in the Treasury market, where the 10 - year yield rose to trade at 1.84 percent late Friday, from 1.70 percent the week earlier.

27 - year - old second - year urology resident Dr Sij Hemal successfully delivered baby Jake after his mother's contractions started a week early on December 17.

A selloff in U.S. stocks earlier this week was in large part sparked by the Feb. 2 monthly U.S. employment report which showed the largest year - on - year increase in average hourly earnings since June 2009.

Indeed, those stocks had been on a tear earlier this year, with Facebook shares up as much as 25 % a couple of weeks before the election — but then the FANG stocks suddenly «rolled over,» Gundlach said, falling 10 % as a group as the vote approached and the presidential race got narrower.

Earlier this year, Sony shifted the release date for «The Equalizer» from April 11 — one week after the debut of «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» - to this weekend.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

Just two years ago, the Obama administration inked a $ 1 billion deal with CCA to build a facility in Dilley, Texas, that would detain women and children from Central America seeking US asylum, according to a Washington Post report earlier this week.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

And earlier this week, arch-rival Macy's (m) reported its first quarter of growth in three years.

Two weeks after Glueck's appearance on CNBC, the Mexican eatery reported sales had fallen 29.7 percent from a year earlier.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce blocked Chinese electronics maker ZTE from using U.S. technologies in its devices for seven years.

The cohesiveness among the member nations of the Eurozone, among the wider membership of the European Union, and among officials of the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the IMF that appeared to be emerging in the early months of this year has not been evident in recent weeks.

«Sales volumes for new - energy vehicles exceeded 700,000 last year, and this number is further expected to increase to more than 2 million in 2020, and to more than 5 million in 2025,» Kevin Li, a senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, told CNBC early this week.

Takeda tried earlier this year to buy Salix as part of a joint bid with private equity firm TPG, a few weeks before Papa took over as CEO.

It was brought on stream a week early, under budget and able to handle enough gas in a day to heat over 2,600 Canadian homes for a year.

According to separate media reports earlier in February this year, Uber had expanded its Series E round by $ 1 billion just weeks after the company closed a $ 1.2 billion round of financing, increasing total capacity for the round at $ 2.8 billion.

Earlier this week, the 11 - year - old company announced the Fitbit Ace, a $ 99.95 health tracker wristband made just for kids.

«As an early gauge of spring buying activity, purchase applications for the last four weeks were all higher than the corresponding week a year ago, up an average of 4.8 percent on a year - over-year basis.»