LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Russo, co-director of Avengers: Endgame, found a memorable setting to approach the latest hire for the independent studio he founded with his brother. Russo invited Chris Brearton, an executive at Amazon.com's ( AMZN ) MGM studio, to join him at the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. Over stops in the Spanish resort town...

06:29 AM EDT, 04/15/2024 (MT Newswires) -- M&T Bank ( MTB ) reported Q1 net operating earnings Monday of $3.09 per share, down from $4.09 a year earlier. Analysts polled by Capital IQ expected normalized EPS of $3.12. Revenue, expressed as the sum of net interest income and noninterest income, was $2.26 billion for the quarter ended March 31, down...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Internal Revenue Service started tax filing deadline day on Monday by announcing that it had exceeded its goals for speeding assistance to taxpayers and cutting phone hold times to three minutes, and underscoring the need for Congress to maintain adequate funding for the tax agency. THE TAKE: The IRS is completing its second tax return filing...

06:27 AM EDT, 04/15/2024 (MT Newswires) -- New York Community Bancorp's ( NYCB/PU ) stock rose marginally early Monday after the troubled lender made a series of senior executive appointments, including the hiring of a new finance chief. The regional bank named Craig Gifford as chief financial officer effective immediately, it said Friday. Gifford, who most recently served as executive...