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• Quentin Tarantino nets his biggest opening weekend ever with $40.4 million take for 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' (SNE)

  28-07-2019 17:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  Disney's "The Lion King" won the domestic box office for a second-straight weekend with an estimated $75.5 million.
  But the real story of the weekend is the performance by Sony's "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood," which came in second place with a strong $40.4 million.
  Quentin Tarantino's ninth movie proved that audiences will come to original movies — when they are motivated correctly.
  Now Sony's game plan is to make "Once Upon a Time" the must-see movie for the rest of the summer.Visit
  
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• Earnings season rages on this week. Here are the 8 companies to watch — and what to look out for.

  28-07-2019 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tech giant Apple and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway are among the large-cap companies announcing quarterly earnings in the week starting July 29.
  The week comes after positive quarterly reports from Facebook and Hasbro. Ford and PayPal were among the companies that upset investors by lowering yearly forecasts.
  Visit the Markets Insider homepage for more stories.
  Coming off a week that included earnings reports from Facebook, Google, Tesla, and several other heavyweights, the last week of Ju
  
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• Trump has so far missed one of his biggest goals for the economy

  28-07-2019 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  President Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for reelection in 2020 with the slogan "Keep America Great."But he hasn't delivered on a central promise he made the last time he was a candidate: that the economy would grow at a rate of 3% or higher each year of his term. 
  That has been the case despite a $1.5 trillion tax-cut package and increased government spending.
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  President Donald Trump kicked off his campaign for reelection in 2020 with the slogan
  
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• Apple already has a China problem. Here's why it could get worse. (AAPL)

  28-07-2019 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  China has become a big problem for Apple.
  For years the company benefited from cheap labor there and a growing consumer market.
  But its sales there have fallen off a cliff in recent quarters, and it could be hit hard if President Trump follows through on his threat to impose yet another round of tariffs on China.
  Some analysts aren't as worried as others about the China situation, thinking it will eventually blow over.
  Click here for more BI Prime stories.Apple's got a China problem.
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• There are 2 areas where Uber's competitors could leave the ride-hailing giant in the dust (UBER)

  28-07-2019 14:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Uber stands to lose its dominant position in both Europe and Latin America, HSBC analysts say. 
  The ride-hailing giant is set to keep its pole position in places like the US, where a duopoly is all but solidified. 
  But in other markets, especially for food delivery, there's still plenty of capital for smaller startups to raise.
  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Uber's stranglehold on most ride-hailing markets around the world is set, but there are still a few areas whe
  
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• Billionaire 'Bond King' Jeffrey Gundlach unpacks a market phenomenon that takes place just before a recession hits — and warns it's happening right now

  28-07-2019 12:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Jeffrey Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital, sees a key lapse in the understanding of the yield curve, which has long been a favorite recession indicator of investors.
  The billionaire investor — who is commonly referred to as the "Bond King" — sees the phenomenon already taking place in financial markets. And he says there's unfortunately no way to fix it.
  Click here for more BI prime stories.Trying to forecast when a recession is going to hit the US economy is about as easy as t
  
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• Boeing reportedly kept the FAA in the dark about big changes it made to the 737 Max's flight-control software late in its development (BA)

  28-07-2019 01:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Federal Aviation Administration didn't understand the risks of the flight-control system in Boeing's 737 Max before the first of its fatal accidents last October, according to a new report in The New York Times.
  The engineers charged with overseeing the safety of the automated software had little experience with such systems, according to the report.
  The FAA allowed Boeing to assess the safety of the system itself, The Times reported.
  Boeing largely kept the agency in the dark about the impo
  
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