April 18 (Reuters) - A congressional investigation found that Wall Street used billions of dollars of American retirement savings and other investments to buy shares in index funds that included several blacklisted Chinese companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The probe, conducted by a bipartisan House committee empowered to devise strategies for the U.S. to counter China, focused...

03:29 PM EDT, 04/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Microsoft ( MSFT ) is set to introduce a new software that can handle multiple tasks with little guidance from users and powered by OpenAI's technology, The Information reported Thursday. The software, which would improve upon Microsoft's ( MSFT ) current suite of Copilots, can assist users in creating, sending and tracking a...

03:17 PM EDT, 04/18/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Ocular Therapeutix ( OCUL ) said Thursday data from the phase 1 Helios study of Axpaxli showed that 46% of the patients had a 1- or 2-step improvement in the Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale at 40 weeks, compared with no improvement in the control arm. We are pleased to announce positive topline data...

By Shankar Ramakrishnan (Reuters) - Lenders are starting to ask for extra protection in junk-rated corporate loans to damp down on a growing practice among some stressed companies to engage in a creative financing technique that allowed them to raise new money, said a Moody's report on Thursday. Over the past year, many junk-rated companies like At Home Group and...