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SUMMING IT ALL UP FIRST – WE HIT RECORD HIGHS TODAY ON THE LOWEST VOLUME OF THE YEAR AS GLOBAL MACRO DATA MISSED EN MASSE… that is all

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McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook said Thursday he was “incredibly proud” of a recent decision to bump pay for some workers, even as hundreds of protesters outside called on the company to do more.

Prosecutors in Detroit have joined the U.S. federal probe into Takata Corp’s (7312.T) defective air bag inflators that are linked to at least six deaths globally. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section in Washington “are jointly handling the criminal investigation into Takata,” Gina Balaya, spokeswoman for the Detroit office, said on Thursday. “We have been cooperating fully and are engaged in a regular dialog with the Department of Justice, and we will continue to do so,” a Takata spokesman said.

Despite speculation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in June, minutes from the Fed’s April policy meeting released this week reveal a rate hike is highly unlikely.

The CEO’s ‘unexpected’ resignation is the latest blow to struggling retailer Lumber Liquidators

President Barack Obama’s signature Asian trade push cleared another hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday after a knife-edge vote moved the White House closer to gaining the power to speed trade deals through Congress. Senators voted 62-38 to give Obama a major victory and set up a speedy decision on the “fast-track” trade negotiating authority the president needs to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

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