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US weighs near $1 billion wind farm settlement for TotalEnergies, NYT reports
March 17 - U.S. officials are drafting agreements to pay nearly $1 billion to oil major TotalEnergies as compensation for the cancellation of leases for wind farms in federal waters off New York State...
Mar 17, 2026
US home prices to crawl higher as 30-year mortgage rates stick near 6%: Reuters poll
By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. home prices will rise modestly this year and in 2027 as the market remains constrained by high mortgage rates and a shortage of affordable homes...
Mar 17, 2026
Wall St opens higher as investors weigh energy costs before Fed call
March 17 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Tuesday with financial stocks in the lead, while investors weighed the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy costs, putting infl...
Mar 17, 2026
US House transport committee head wants to collect EV fees for highway repairs
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee wants to collect funds from electric vehicles to help pay for U.S. highway repai...
Mar 17, 2026
Intercontinental Exchange launches private credit platform to address transparency concerns
March 17 (Reuters) - New York Stock Exchange-parent Intercontinental Exchange said on Tuesday it has launched a product to bring greater transparency to the private credit market, an asset class belea...
Mar 17, 2026
Kraft Heinz to launch high-protein Mac & Cheese under CEO's revival push
March 17 (Reuters) - Kraft Heinz said on Tuesday it plans to launch high-protein Mac & Cheese as part of CEO Steve Cahillane's efforts to revive the packaged food maker after hitting pause on its plan...
Mar 17, 2026
OpenAI to sell AI to US agencies through Amazon cloud unit
March 17 (Reuters) - OpenAI has signed a new deal to sell access to its AI models to U.S. defense and government agencies through Amazon's cloud unit for classified and unclassified work, the ChatGPT ...
Mar 17, 2026
Qualcomm unveils $20 billion stock buyback program
March 17 (Reuters) - Smartphone chip designer Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a $20 billion stock buyback program as it looks to take advantage of a steep drop in its share price, which has been hit by a...
Mar 17, 2026
Leaning heavily on tariffs blunts developing nations' industrial push, World Bank says
By Colleen Goko JOHANNESBURG, March 17 (Reuters) - Developing countries are pursuing industrial policy more aggressively than rich nations but many rely too heavily on blunt tools like tariffs and sub...
Mar 17, 2026
Exclusive-Macquarie walks away from Kuwait oil pipelines deal amid Iran war, sources say
By Hadeel Al Sayegh, Federico Maccioni and Andres Gonzalez March 17 (Reuters) - Macquarie has withdrawn from bidding for a stake in Kuwait's oil pipeline network worth up to $7 billion, two sources fa...
Mar 17, 2026
