Local

Best Friends Animal Hospital Achieves Highest Level of Veterinary Excellence

Local employee receives award from John Deere

• Illinois Department of Labor Posts Updated Prevailing Wage Rates   

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National

Herbalife raises profit forecast, tops key FTC threshold

An Herbalife logo is shown on a poster at a clinic in the Mission District in San Francisco, California April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo

• First-quarter productivity revised up to show it unchanged

• Coke, Cargill enter fray as sugar dispute threatens Mexico trade

• Homebuilder D.R. Horton offers to buy 75 percent of Forestar for $520 million

• Blackstone offers $2 billion for Finnish real estate firm Sponda

International

Canada beats U.S. in pork sales to China - feet, elbows and all

Canadian pork shoulders are being prepped on a butcher's counter at North Hill Meats in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 10, 2017. Picture taken on May 10, 2017. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang

• Deutsche Bank asks for more time for U.S. query on Trump, Russia: source

• GM China sales slip for second month in May as old model phased out

• Fresh safety concerns hang over global airlines conference

Economy

Anger in Mexican sugar cane fields, harbinger of NAFTA risks

Samuel Montes, sugarcane producer, speaks with Reuters journalists in a sugar cane field in Zacatepec de Hidalgo, in Morelos state, Mexico, May 31, 2017. Picture taken May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

• IMF warns U.S. fiscal uncertainty, China's credit growth pose risk to Asia

• Dollar steadies, sterling hit briefly by London attack

• China May data to show stable growth as exports stay solid

• Morgan Stanley slashes sterling forecast, no longer sees $1.45 next year

• Goldman, Nomura heeded warnings before Venezuela bond deal

Money

• GM shareholders to decide on Greenlight stock plan, board challenge
   

Energy

Big oil, small U.S. towns see new reward in old production technique

Equipment used to process carbon dioxide, crude oil and water is seen at an Occidental Petroleum Corp enhanced oil recovery project in Hobbs, New Mexico, U.S. on May 3, 2017. Picture taken on May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Ernest Scheyder/File Photo

• Oil prices dip on fears Middle East spat could harm OPEC cuts

• BHP CEO says he has not met with Elliott since Barcelona
   

Markets

• European shares inch lower as banks fall, energy boost fades

• U.S. stock futures little changed ahead of economic data

Internet & Technology

SoftBank's India solar ambitions may gain from Modi's electric vehicles push

Workers carry a damaged photovoltaic solar panel at the Gujarat solar park under construction in Charanka village in the western Indian state of Gujarat, India April 14, 2012. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File photo

• Foxconn says Apple, Amazon to join its bid for Toshiba chip business: Nikkei

• After London attack, Facebook says aims to be 'hostile environment' for terrorists

• Veritas buys Send Word Now, creates new emergency messaging company

• McEntire's Direct Maytag

• MKS Jewelers

• NAPA

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