Peru's leading opposition party lost its majority in Congress after a dispute between two of its leading members, the children of former autocrat Alberto Fujimori, led to a split. One of the siblings, Kenji, said his breakaway group would support the government from now on. Seven lawmakers quit the party
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Democrats and union leaders expressed alarm after President Donald Trump asked Congress in his State of the Union speech to make it easier for him to fire federal workers, a proposal that would undermine longstanding protections for U.S. civil servants. J. David Cox, president of the American
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Brookfield Asset Management is said to be in talks to buy Forest City Realty. Bloomberg's Ed Hammond reports. Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada's largest alternative-asset manager, is in talks to acquire Forest City Realty Trust Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Negotiations between
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Qorvo makes radio-frequency chips and gets about 40 percent of its sales from Apple, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Apple declined to comment on the suppliers' forecasts. A survey of seven analysts from Bloomberg estimates that Apple shipped 80 million iPhones in the holiday quarter of
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The thieves of today don't typically break into banks or have getaway cars, they sit at a computer thousands of miles away sending attacks to get their hands on valuable client data to, in many cases, sell on the 'Dark Web.' As such, it's become more important than ever to define an accounting firm IT
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