PRESS DIGEST -Wall Street Journal - April 13

Reuters04-13 13:43
PRESS DIGEST -Wall Street Journal - April 13

April 13 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- McDonald’s MCD.N is set to offer a Red Bull Dragonberry Energizer as part of a broader overhaul of its menu of cold drinks at its U.S. restaurants later this year.

- Workers at JBS Z98.F ratified a tentative two-year agreement with the world's largest meat company, covering nearly 3,800 workers at the JBS flagship beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, according to statements from both the union and the company on Sunday.

- U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisers are looking at resuming limited military strikes in Iran in addition to the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz as a way to break a stalemate in peace talks.

- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is negotiating a potential settlement with several major advertising companies to resolve a probe into whether they violated federal antitrust laws by coordinating boycotts against platforms, including Elon Musk’s X.

- Since earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisers have been privately hearing from cabinet officials, political allies and corporate leaders about what the Iran war could do to Wall Street and Main Street if it didn’t conclude within a tight time frame.

- The Philippines government has ordered Facebook’s parent company Meta META.O to curb the spread of false, “panic-inducing” content on its platforms, including misleading claims around exaggerated oil price increases and energy supply disruptions it said risk causing economic disorder.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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