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Uber wants to raise as much as $9 billion in an IPO that could give the ride-hailing giant a market valuation of $84 billion. Early investors such as co-founder Travis Kalanick are planning to sell about $1.3 billion worth of stock. The company has lost more than $10 billion over the past three years. 

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Ford faces a federal criminal probe into its emissions certification process. The automaker in February said it used a flawed approach to calculate fuel economy.

President Donald Trump’s re-election hopes always hinged on supercharging the economy, and data show faster than expected growth.

One thing Trump may have to defend on the trail, though, is his comments about white supremacists after their deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The newest Democratic candidate, former Vice President Joseph Biden, just got him to affirm his widely condemned sentiment.

Oil slid by the most since December after Trump pressed OPEC to lower prices and doubts grew about the impact of supply squeezes.

Lettuce-farming robots might grow your next salad. Applied intelligence and robotics are being used to cultivate time- and labor-intensive greens.

Generation Z is about to become the planet's biggest consumer-spending force. But that pesky financial crisis taught them to be frugal.

China President Xi Jinping spent a large portion of a speech signaling his approval for Trump's demands to end his trade war.

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