• Amazon Pledges 1-Day Delivery for Top Clients in US
  
  Amazon.com Inc. will spend $800 million in the current quarter to reduce delivery times for top customers to one day from two, trying to revive its main e-commerce franchise and ward off greater competition.
• Exxon's Refining 'Shocker': Worst Loss in 17 Years
  
  Exxon Mobil Corp.'s refining business posted its poorest performance in 17 years, eroding first-quarter profit and casting doubt on the strength of the oil titan's comeback from its annus horribilis in 2018.
• Ford Facing US Criminal Probe of Emissions Testing
  
  The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into Ford Motor Co.’s emissions certification process, the automaker disclosed two months after fessing up to an issue with its testing.
• Ford More Confident of Stronger '19 as Profit Beats Views
  
  Ford Motor Co. on Thursday posted a better-than-expected first-quarter as pickup truck sales remained strong in its core U.S. market and the company expressed greater confidence in its forecast that 2019 would bring better results than last year.
• Microsoft Tops $1T Valuation, Edging Apple, Amazon
  
  Microsoft Corp.’s market value vaulted above the $1 trillion mark for the first time in regular session trade on Thursday, pulling ahead of Apple Inc and making it the most valuable U.S. publicly traded company after quarterly earnings and revenue beat Wall Street expectations.
• Canada Takes Facebook to Court Over Privacy Violations
  
  Facebook has "refused to voluntarily submit to audits of its privacy policies," so Canada's leading data-protection watchdog is taking the company to court to force it to comply, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
• Chipotle Stock Plunges After Illness-Related Subpoena
  
  Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. plunged on Thursday after reporting it received a subpoena related to an outbreak of customer illnesses last year -- bringing a sensitive issue back into the spotlight for the burrito chain.
• FT: US Seeks Goldman Guilty Plea in 1MDB Settlement
  
  A settlement with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. over its role in the 1MDB corruption scandal should include a guilty plea at the parent company level, the U.S. Department of Justice has recommended, according to a Financial Times report on Wednesday.
• Ford Pours $500M Into Electric Truck Maker Rivian
  
  Ford Motor said on Wednesday it was investing $500 million in U.S. electric pickup truck startup Rivian Automotive LLC, becoming the latest deep pocket investor in the firm, which is seen as a potential rival to Silicon Valley's Tesla Inc.
• Boeing Abandons Outlook, Buybacks on 737 MAX Woes
  
  Boeing Co. on Wednesday abandoned its 2019 financial outlook, said it halted share buybacks in mid-March, and announced $1 billion in increased costs due to the grounding of its 737 MAX jets.
• Occidental Offers $57B for Anadarko, Topping Chevron
  
  Oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum Corp sought to scuttle Chevron Corp's takeover of Anadarko Petroleum Corp on Wednesday with a $57 billion bid that raises the prospect of the first hostile battle for a major oil company in years.
• Tesla Upgrades Model S, X Cars as Cheaper Variants Return
  
  Tesla Inc., struggling with delay in delivery of its higher-priced Model S and X luxury cars, said it will bring back lower-priced options for those cars and roll out upgrades to improve their driving range and re-charging speed.
• Google Self-Driving Unit Waymo Picks Detroit for Factory
  
  Google's self-driving car spinoff Waymo says it will reopen an axle plant in Detroit to convert conventional vehicles so they can drive autonomously.
• Buffett Sees Most Newspapers as 'Toast' After Ad Decline
  
  Warren Buffett, the man behind a print-media empire that includes the Buffalo News and Omaha World-Herald, doesn't think most newspapers can be saved.
• FAA Approves Google Spinoff's Drone Delivery Business
  
  An offshoot of Alphabet Inc.'s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers.
• Kohl's Surges on Deal to Expand Amazon Return Policy
  
  Kohl's Corp. shares jumped the most in almost four months after the company said it will begin accepting returns for Amazon.com Inc. customers at all of its stores starting in July, expanding a program it started in 2017.
• FT: Barclays to Cut Investment-Bank Bonuses
  
  Barclays Plc plans to cut bonuses for investment bankers in a bid to improve performance and ward off activist investor Edward Bramson, who wants the lender to rethink expansion in this business, the Financial Times reported.
• Trump Warms to Harley Davidson: EU Tariffs 'Unfair'
  
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to reverse course on Harley Davidson Inc., saying European tariffs facing the motorcycle manufacturer were "unfair" and vowing to reciprocate, after urging a boycott of the company last year amid a steel spat.
• Trump: NY Times Will Have to 'Beg for Forgiveness'
  
  President Donald Trump, calling The New York Times "the enemy of the people," is demanding an apology from the newspaper for its loss of "all credibility."
• Amazon Job Posting Seeks Alcohol Lobbyist
  
  Amazon is seeking an alcohol lobbyist to work in the Washington, D.C. area, a potential signal that the e-commerce giant is looking to expand its alcohol selling efforts.
• Pentagon: Lockheed's Costly F-35 to Be $22B Costlier
  
  Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 jet, the world's costliest weapons program, just got even costlier.
• Tesla Plans Fully Self-Driving Cars Despite Skepticism
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears poised to transform the company's electric cars into driverless vehicles in a risky bid to realize a bold vision that he has been floating for years.
• Halliburton Shares Dip Despite Price-Recovery Signs
  
  Halliburton Co. sought to convince investors on Monday that weak pricing which has undermined oilfield services providers over four years was on the verge of turning a corner
• Buffett-Backed Kraft Heinz Climbs as It Replaces CEO
  
  Kraft Heinz replaced Chief Executive Officer Bernardo Hees with Anheuser-Busch InBev veteran Miguel Patricio, pointing the way to a possible change of strategy that may involve moving away from years of cost-cutting.
• Foxconn Stays Committed to Wis. Investment Project
  
  Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Friday it remains committed to its contract to build a display plant and tech research facilities in Wisconsin, days after the U.S. state’s governor said he wanted to renegotiate the deal.

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