What's News: Business & Finance -- WSJ
January 21 2020 - 3:02AM
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print edition of The Wall Street Journal (January 21, 2020).
Tesla shares have soared 22% in 2020 alone, catapulting the
company's market capitalization to more than $90 billion and
turbocharging a long-running war over the proper value of its
stock.
Hospitals have granted Microsoft, IBM and Amazon the ability to
access identifiable patient information under deals to crunch
millions of health records.
Silicon Valley is launching a frenzy of lobbying on regulation
of the tech industry, and Europe is set to be one of the first
battlegrounds.
Amazon is creating checkout terminals that could be placed in
stores and allow shoppers to link their card information to their
hands.
BAE has agreed to acquire United Technologies' military GPS
business for $1.93 billion.
U.S. companies are underwriting the EU's ambitious climate
goals, fueling the bloc's green-energy transition with power deals
that cut emissions and costs.
The global economy is poised for a modest rebound in 2020,
following a year in which it notched the weakest growth since the
financial crisis.
France and the U.S. have struck a truce on the divisive issue of
taxing digital giants such as Google parent Alphabet, averting a
trade war on the topic for now.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 21, 2020 02:47 ET (07:47 GMT)
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