Today’s Top Business News – The Los Angeles Tribune
- The decision is the latest in a string of lunar-related wins for the Elon Musk-controlled company.
- The company pays the music industry a penny per stream on its service, a disclosure it made as part of an effort by music-streaming services to show they are artist-friendly.
- Virtual presentations by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (nicknamed JPow by followers) often include chat-room commentary. “Pump pump pump!!! Print the money!!!”
- The problems involve Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine supply chain for countries other than the U.S., the company said.
- A potential electrical problem that led airlines to pull dozens of the plane maker’s 737 MAX jets from service last week affects more areas of the flight deck than previously known, Boeing said.
- The book’s author, Jonathan Mattingly, was one of the three Louisville police officers who fired their weapons during last year’s raid.
- The Treasury Department says Taiwan’s central bank is actively intervening in the foreign-exchange market.
- A pair of production companies have broken new ground by securing the rights to the NFT character created by artist Micah Johnson that sold more than $2 million worth of the tokens in a day.
- China has been scrutinizing data on the vaccine from Germany’s BioNTech as pressure mounts to expand beyond the country’s own roster of shots.
- U.S. payrolls increased in 49 states in March, with large states such as California, Texas and New York adding the most jobs.