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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s Volkswagen (VOWG.DE) has struck a deal with U.S. semiconductor maker Broadcom (AVGO.O), ending a billion-dollar patent lawsuit that pitted the carmaker against its supplier, a source close to Volkswagen told Reuters on Wednesday. The companies signed an out-of-court settlement, the source said, adding that a court hearing scheduled for Friday had now been canceled. Volkswagen declined to comment. Broadcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Der Spiegel news magazine reported in early November that California-based Broadcom had made a patent claim for more than $1 billion against Volkswagen and threatened to seek a judicial ban on the production of several car models.
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There was also disappointing news on the labor market. The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits rose to more than a four-month high last week. “The economy may have seen its best day already for growth and prosperity back a couple of months ago in late summer,” said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG. “Winter is coming for the economic outlook where business investment spending looks to be topping out, and companies have let a few workers go.”.
The Commerce Department said the flat reading in orders for non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, followed a downwardly revised 0.5 percent drop in September, These so-called core capital goods orders were previously reported to have dipped 0.1 percent in September, Last month, there were declines in orders for primary metals and machinery, That offset increases in orders for fabricated metal products, computers and electronic products, as well as electrical equipment, appliances and pink hibiscus flower cufflinks components..
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast core capital goods orders rising 0.2 percent last month. Core capital goods orders increased 6.4 percent on a year-on-year basis. Shipments of core capital goods rose 0.3 percent in October after a downwardly revised 0.2 percent drop in the prior month. Core capital goods shipments are used to calculate equipment spending in the government’s gross domestic product measurement. They were previously reported to have slipped 0.1 percent in September. Business spending on equipment stalled in the third quarter and is faltering despite the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax cut.
Some companies including Apple Inc pink hibiscus flower cufflinks (AAPL.O) used their tax windfall to buy back shares on a massive scale, Spending on equipment could also be undercut by declining oil prices, Brent crude has dropped about 28 percent since early October amid rising concerns about slowing global growth, In a separate report on Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors said existing home sales rose 1.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.22 million units last month, Sales, however, were 5.1 percent lower than in October 2017, the sharpest 12-month drop since July 2014..
The report came on the heels of data on Tuesday showing a second straight monthly decline in single-family homebuilding in October. The raft of tepid economic data, a sharp stock market selloff and signs of slowing global growth likely will put the Federal Reserve under the spotlight. Officials at the U.S. central bank have recently started talking about headwinds to domestic growth. The Fed is expected to raise interest rates in December for the fourth time this year. The dollar .DXY was trading lower against a basket of currencies on Wednesday. U.S. Treasury prices fell, while stocks on Wall Street rebounded after a brutal two-day drop.
Lack of growth in core capital goods orders in October suggests that shipments of these goods could drop in November, posing a downside risk to GDP estimates for the fourth quarter, Economists say the White House’s “America First” policies, which have resulted in tit-for-tat tariffs with major trade partners as well as a trade war with China, are also weighing on business investment, “It appears that businesses are becoming more concerned about domestic growth and the negative impact on trade conflicts and future trade relationships, and pink hibiscus flower cufflinks may be more reluctant to up their investment,” said Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto..