Uber, Europe and Oil -- This Is What You Need to Know
This is what you need to know Friday:
1. U.S. equity futures suggest a bullish start to trading following the Thanksgiving break.
2. Investors continue to push asset prices higher amid solid economic fundamentals and robust corporate earnings growth.
3. Uber Technologies faces multiple investigations into a 2016 data breach that could complicate a potential $10 billion investment from Japan's Softbank (SFTBY) and its plans for an initial public offering in the next two years.
4. A key survey of Germany's business leaders has hit the highest levels in nearly 50 years this month, putting Europe's biggest economy on course to extend its surging growth and pull the broader European economy to its best quarter in nearly a decade.
5. Benchmark oil prices headed in opposite directions Friday as supply issues pushed the U.S.'s West Texas Intermediate sharply higher, while international benchmark Brent Crude dipped as traders nervously eyed next week's crucial OPEC meeting.
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