  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged up on Wednesday, following the biggest drop in the S&P 500 since mid-April, as earnings season began to wind down and ahead of congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. nonfarm productivity fell at its fastest pace in a year in the first quarter as severe weather took its toll, leading to the largest gain in unit labor costs in more than a year. | | | |  | | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alibaba gave investors a closer look at the scale and growth of the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut in an initial public offering (IPO) prospectus filed on Tuesday, the first step in what could be the largest technology debut in history. | | | |  | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Pfizer sought to allay fears that its proposed $106 billion takeover of AstraZeneca would deal a blow to drug research, saying the new company would bolster innovative science and speed the development of new treatments. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp , the second largest U.S. producer of natural gas, reported a sharply higher quarterly profit on Wednesday that topped expectations, helped by a 53 percent increase in gas prices. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Managed care company Humana Inc said on Wednesday that it expects growth in Medicare Advantage plans in 2014 despite government cuts to funding and said its will add hundreds of thousands of new customers in Obamacare plans. | | | |  | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC's first-quarter pretax profit fell 20 percent from a year ago to just under $7 billion, as revenue dropped in Brazil and at its investment bank, while last year's earnings were swelled by asset sales. | | | |  | | | | | PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus took 78 orders in April but remained behind Boeing in the battle for new business after a relatively quiet month dominated by the reshuffling of existing orders, data released by the European planemaker showed on Wednesday. | | |  | | | | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Japan have agreed to try to wrap-up free-trade negotiations next year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Wednesday, following an EU-Japan summit in Brussels. | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost six years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, U.S. regulators still haven't given Wall Street banks individual feedback on how to improve so-called "living wills" that detail how to go bankrupt without spending taxpayer dollars or causing a market panic. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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