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By Jonathan Stempel and Koh Gui Qing

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett will command center stage at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting on Saturday, but someone who won't be there -- his influential sidekick Charlie Munger -- will loom large.

The meeting is Buffett's 60th since he took over Berkshire in 1965 and the first since the death of his longtime friend, business partner and foil Munger at age 99 in November. His absence... (continue reading...)

By Joey Roulette

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing is poised to send the first Starliner space capsule with a crew of humans into orbit next week, giving it a long-delayed chance to score a badly needed win as it struggles to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

The CST-100 Starliner test mission, a years-delayed milestone after more than $1 billion in cost overruns, will ferry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a... (continue reading...)

By Rod Nickel and Scott DiSavino

The start-up of LNG Canada, the country's first such export terminal, is likely to strain its natural gas supplies for multiple years and force producers to reduce exports to the U.S., where demand for the fuel is record high, companies said.

Shell-led LNG Canada has begun testing its C$40-billion British Columbia terminal ahead of commercial operations starting in mid-2025. The terminal will process up to 2... (continue reading...)

By Jack Queen, Brendan Pierson and Andy Sullivan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's longtime fixer Michael Cohen was upset not to be offered a top job in Trump's administration after the Republican businessman-turned-politician won the 2016 presidential election, according to testimony at Trump's criminal hush money trial.

Thursday's testimony by lawyer Keith Davidson could prove relevant during the trial when Cohen, having since split... (continue reading...)

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan

The strength of the U.S. labor market will give Wall Street's interest rate relief a reality check on Friday, but Apple's monster share buyback has buoyed the market in advance.

The world's second biggest company by market capitalisation wowed the gallery overnight with a whopping $110 billion stock buyback program - the biggest in the iPhone maker's history - and upped its... (continue reading...)