There’s been a lot of debate about the impact Artificial Intelligence will have in the music industry in areas like songwriting and production, record deals and the sync business. Some prominent voices have argued that AI is nothing for the music business to be scared of – and that it should be embraced. This might […]
Seawave Invest is planning to address allegations about its role in a loan scandal that has rocked London’s Aim, said its managing partner. The company, a Bahamas-based consultancy, is alleged by London-listed oil producer Lekoil to have taken $600,000 in fees for broking a $184m loan agreement with the Qatar Investment Authority that proved to […]
Whenever somebody on Twitter takes issue with the network’s rules or content policies, they almost always resort to the same strategy: They send a tweet to @jack. A quick scan of Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey’s mentions show just how often he’s called upon to lay down the law for the service he helped create. […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announces impeachment managers for the articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill January 15, 2020, in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday unveiled the team of Democrats who will make the case for President Donald […]
This year will be the first time in five years that an Avengers or Star Wars movie won’t dominate the box office. And while studios have other blockbusters lined up—a Wonder Woman sequel, a new James Bond entry, and a live-action Mulan remake, to name a few—none are expected to reach the box office heights […]
The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) has appointed respected music industry executive Kris Ahrend as CEO. Ahrend will begin his tenure with the MLC effective immediately. Ahrend began his career in the music industry working in the Law Department at Sony Music, where he provided legal services to all of Sony’s US divisions, including its publishing […]
New Delhi: Sterlite Technologies on Wednesday reported a net profit of Rs 91 crore (excluding exception items) during December 2019 quarter. The company had registered a net profit of Rs 146 crore in October-December quarter a year ago, Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) said in a regulatory filing. Its consolidated revenue stood at Rs 1,203 crore […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will sign an initial trade deal on Wednesday that will roll back some tariffs and see China boost purchases of U.S. goods and services, defusing an 18-month conflict between the world’s two largest economies. FILE PHOTO: Chinese staffers adjust U.S. and Chinese […]
Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) is up 18% premarket on average volume following its announcement that the FDA has granted Fast Track status for its planned marketing application for recombinant quadrivalent flu vaccine NanoFlu. Topline data from a Phase 3 study should be available by quarter-end. Fast Track status provides for more frequent interaction with the FDA review team and […]
A Jan. 14 form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirms that Bitwise Asset Management requested the withdrawal of its application for a (BTC) Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). This is the second major ETF withdrawal in recent months following similar actions by VanEck. Bitwise applied for ETF registration in January 2019. In […]
The writer is a former senior Treasury adviser to Sajid Javid and Philip Hammond. He is a partner at Flint Global and is writing in a personal capacity Should the Conservative party care about income and wealth inequality? Boris Johnson’s government wants to “level up” parts of the UK that have fallen behind. The intention is […]
Universal Music Group-owned Ingrooves Music Group has signed an exclusive global distribution deal with GR6, one of the largest record labels in Brazil. The new agreement represents an expansion of Ingrooves into Brazil, with Sao Paolo-based music industry veteran Cris Garcia Falcão appointed as Managing Director of Ingrooves Brazil. With an extensive roster of artists […]
Ginger bread biscuits are wrapped by employees at the Bahlsen factory in Berlin, Germany, 28 August 2015. picture alliance The German economy grew at 0.6% in 2019, according to Destatis, the country’s federal statistics office, marking a sharp slump in growth and the weakest expansion since 2013. The expansion in gross domestic product (GDP) was […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos said his company will invest $1 billion to bring small and medium-sized businesses online in India and expects to export $10 billion worth of India-made goods by 2025. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, attends a company event in New Delhi, India, January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis […]
Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Stern School of Business at New York University, says businesses are increasingly getting delinked from their native economies because their success is being driven more and more by what the global economy is doing. Excerpts from an interview with Nikunj Dalmia of ETNOW. A concern some of the investors are raising […]
Turkey issues detailed ruling on Wikipedia rights violation ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish Constitutional Court on Wednesday issued a detailed version of last month’s ruling that a more than two-year block on access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia in Turkey was a violation of freedom of expression. The detailed ruling was issued in the country’s Official […]
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The Eiffel Tower is one of the most recognizable and well-trafficked monuments in the world. Each year, it’s estimated well over six million visitors wait in long lines to experience this gorgeous landmark. It may be hard to believe, but when it was built the tower was subject to ridicule and was only supposed to […]
Menthol pods for Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarettes are displayed for sale at a store in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Juul is temporarily halting production of its fruity nicotine vaping products in Canada, the e-cigarette maker confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. Mango, cucumber, fruit, and […]
U.S. President Donald Trump called for Apple to “step up to the plate” and suggested the company unlock iPhones used by the gunman behind the Dec. 6 terrorist attack on a Florida Navy base. In a tweet on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. government helps Apple on trade and other issues, so in return, the Cupertino, Calif.-based […]
The House of Representatives will vote on sending articles of impeachment to the US Senate on Wednesday, setting the stage for the historic impeachment trial against President Donald Trump to begin next week. After withholding the articles for nearly a month in a bid to influence the rules of the trial, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday they would include new evidence when they send formal impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday, seeking to expand the scope of a trial that will dominate Washington for the next several weeks. Senior Democrats said they would […]
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For those interested in attention-grabbing headlines, the biggest music streaming news of the week is this: Justin Bieber just reposted (then deleted) a how-to guide instructing his fans to game Spotify in order to give his new track, Yummy, the best chance of topping charts. And yet, in reality, the biggest music streaming news of the […]
© Reuters. Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn talks during an exclusive interview with Reuters in Beirut BEIRUT (Reuters) – Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, speaking in Beirut after his dramatic escape from Japanese justice, said on Tuesday that the French ambassador had warned him shortly after his arrest that his own company was plotting against […]
Record label executives in the United States could be forgiven for treating themselves this month. For a while now, fears have existed that audio streaming growth would start to slow in the U.S. If this tipping point happens — when this tipping point happens — it will be a concrete early sign of market maturity, […]
Flybe has been saved from the brink of collapse after the UK government reached agreement on a rescue deal for Europe’s largest regional airline. Andrea Leadsom, business secretary, on Tuesday evening confirmed a deal with the troubled airline’s owners after a day of crunch talks to help save Flybe. The deal combines a number of […]
NEW DELHI: The government should step up expenditure to spur consumption and improve ease of doing business to rev up the economy, new FICCI president Sangita Reddy said on Tuesday. Reddy, who is the joint managing director of Apollo Hospitals, also said that the government needed to focus on “clusters,” besides undertaking labour reforms, to […]
If you enjoy reading novels or watching movies set during World War II, you’ve had a steady bounty of prize-winning fiction and Hollywood blockbusters to choose from. In just the past decade, there have been books about a blind girl who takes refuge in a seaside French village and prisoners of war forced to labor […]
An Airbus A320-212 operated by Delta Airlines takes off from JFK Airport on August 24, 2019 in New York City. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. J.P. Morgan — Shares of J.P. Morgan jumped nearly 2% after the nation’s biggest bank by assets reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results. J.P. […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed pleas for a review of the death sentence handed down to four men in the gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi, leaving an appeal to the president as their only possible recourse. A woman checks her mobile […]
NEW DELHI: India and Uzbekistan on Tuesday agreed to work towards early conclusion of the Feasibility Study to be jointly conducted by the two sides to begin negotiations for a Preferential Trade Agreement. This was agreed when Abdulaziz Kamilov, Uzbekistan Foreign Minister met his Indian counterpart here. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reiterated the need […]
Spirit Music Group is opening a new office in Miami, having signed a joint venture with legendary Latin hitmaker Rudy Pérez. Spirit’s JV with Pérez will enable him to identify writers and artists to sign to Spirit Miami. Rudy Pérez has composed more than 1,000 songs, with over 300 of them having been either No.1 […]
Wipro (NYSE:WIT) beats Q3 estimates with total revenue up 3% Y/Y and IT Services revenue up 2% Q/Q to $2.09B. IT Services operating margin was up slightly on the quarter to 18.4%. Outlook for the March quarter sees IT Services revenue of $2.1-2.13B, up 0-2% sequentially. Press release. Source link
Blockchain-Based IBM Sterling Adds Advanced Supply Chain Tracking Features The IBM (NYSE:) Sterling supply chain platform will now feature additional integrations developed by Salesforce, Publicis Sapient, IBM Services and others, a Jan. 13 press release reads. The additions will allow the blockchain and AI-based suite to quickly solve returns and cross-channel logistics challenges. IBM Services […]
The UK, France and Germany have triggered a dispute mechanism in the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, taking their most robust response yet to Tehran’s decision to no longer abide by the uranium enrichment limits set in the accord. The European move pushes the accord closer to collapse and comes amid escalating diplomatic tensions […]
BlackRock Inc. will ditch investments with high sustainability-related risk as climate concerns drive a sweeping change in the way the world’s largest asset manager invests its $7 trillion in assets. “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink wrote in his annual letter to corporate executives on Tuesday. “Awareness […]
Aircraft parts from the wreckage of a Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft, operated by Ukraine International Airlines, which crashed shortly after takeoff lie on the ground near Shahedshahr, Iran, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg via Getty Images Iran’s judiciary has arrested some people for their role in the crash of a Ukrainian plane that […]
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump depart Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is considering visiting India next month, for what would be his first visit to the world’s largest democracy since he took office three years ago, sources with knowledge […]
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked WhatsApp and Google to preserve and provide information related to the JNU violence to police. The court also asked police to seize at the earliest phones of members of two WhatsApp groups on which the January 5 violence was allegedly coordinated. Justice Brijesh Sethi directed the […]
Aaron Randall and Bill Ashton have been named as the new Managing Directors of Warner Music Group-owned, live music discovery platform, Songkick. They will be based in Songkick’s London HQ and report to Emmy Lovell, EVP, WEA Europe. Ashton moves into his job after serving as Senior Vice President, Artist Services at Warner Music and […]
© Reuters. FX Manipulator No More, Spiraling Debt, Hong Kong Hope: Eco Day (Bloomberg) — Welcome to Tuesday, Asia. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your day started: President Donald Trump’s administration plans to lift its designation of China as a currency manipulator, removing an obstacle to a trade […]
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit today against Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH), McKesson (NYSE:MCK) and AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC) for their alleged role in fueling the opioid epidemic in the state, adding to the several lawsuits the companies already face across the country. The AG office says the companies distributed opioids primarily to hospitals and pharmacies […]
In McDonald’s push to make a fried-chicken sandwich that better competes with Chick-fil-A, it picked up something extra in the recipe: MSG, the flavor enhancer that has both fans and foes. The world’s biggest restaurant chain is currently testing chicken sandwiches with monosodium glutamate, an ingredient that adds a savory taste but has also drawn health […]
Three of out five staff in the National Probation Service are overworked leaving it unable to fulfil its role of monitoring serious offenders, government inspectors have warned. The service, which has responsibility for supervising 106,000 high-risk offenders across England and Wales, is “not performing to its full capability”, according to HM Inspectorate of Probation. It […]
SANDRINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth has reluctantly agreed to her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s wish for a more independent future after the British royal family held crisis talks on Monday to resolve a widening rift among the Windsors. Harry and his American actress wife will now begin a “period of transition” […]
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He talk to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House April 04, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images A Chinese clerk counts renminbi yuan banknotes at a bank in China on December 2015. Jie Zhao | Corbis News | Getty […]
Zumiez (NASDAQ:ZUMZ) reports comparable sales increased 6.8% for the nine-week holiday period. The company raises guidance due to the strong holiday performance, saying it expects comparable sales to increase ~6.0% for the quarter and EPS to land in a range of $1.34 and $1.38 vs. $1.30 consensus. #ICR20 Source: Press Release Shares of Zumiez are up 6.69% AH. […]
Another senior Spotify executive has left the building. SPOT’s Global Marketing Lead, Matt Webster (pictured), has joined live streaming platform Twitch as Director of Marketing, EMEA. The London-based exec joined Amazon-owned Twitch this month, according to his LinkedIn profile. The news of his departure comes as Spotify recruits for a very similar-sounding role to the […]
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. budget deficit widened to $356.6 billion in the first three months of fiscal 2020 as spending rose more than revenue, keeping the federal shortfall on pace to exceed $1 trillion by year-end. The gap increased 11.8% from the $318.9 billion in October-December of the previous year, the Treasury Department said in […]
The US Treasury department will drop the designation of China as a currency manipulator in a gesture that aims to ease tensions with Beijing ahead of this week’s signing of a deal to halt the trade war. The move, flagged by an administration official, would reverse last summer’s controversial decision by the US government to […]
FRANKFURT: German engineering group Siemens said it would fulfil its contractual obligations to a controversial coal mining project in Australia‘s outback, attracting criticism from environmental groups on Monday. Siemens was awarded a contract last year to provide signalling technology for a railway line to transport coal from a remote coal mine run by India’s Adani […]
Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) says goodbye to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as they break from meetings at the USTR offices May 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The United States will remove China from a list of countries considered currency manipulators just two days before top trade […]
NEW DELHI: IT firm Mindtree is likely to see a disappointing quarter as Q3 profit may fall by double digits on Tuesday. Brokerages expect the L&T-owned company to post October-December quarter profit at Rs 154-166 crore, down 12-19 per cent on a year-on-year basis. EBIT is expected to be around Rs 210 crore. “Dollar revenue […]
FILE PHOTO: The Netflix logo is seen on their office in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo (Reuters) – Streaming video service Netflix Inc scored 24 Academy Award nominations on Monday, including two for the best picture prize, the film industry’s highest honor. Netflix Mafia epic “The Irishman” and divorce […]
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Deezer has just signed a hugely significant strategic partnership covering Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE. Last year, Elie Habib, co-founder of Deezer’s biggest rival in the region Anghami – which could soon be under new ownership (or co-ownership) – told MBW that its telco partnerships are so important “because credit card penetration is very […]
© Reuters. Investing.com — Oil hits its lowest in a month as fears of conflict between the U.S. and Iran ebb. U.S. stocks and emerging market currencies are all on the up, in anticipation of the U.S.-China phase-1 trade deal being signed. The U.K. economy shrunk in November in the run up to the country’s […]
Sterling has fallen below $1.30 for the first time in 2020 on swelling expectations that the Bank of England could cut interest rates as soon as this month. The pound fell 0.7 per cent to $1.2970 in morning trading on Monday, leaving it more than 2 per cent lower since the start of the year […]
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen (center) thank her supporters at the victory rally after winner the election. The president of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory in the 2020 presidential election by securing over 57% of the votes beating her major opponent Han Kuo-yu who only secured 38% of the votes. Chan Long Hei | […]
Badminton – Danisa Denmark Open 2019 – Men’s Singles – Odense, Denmark – October 15, 2019. Kento Momota of Japan in action in his match against Wong Wing Ki Vincent of Hong Kong. Ritzau Scanpix/Claus Fisker/via REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Badminton world number one Kento Momota was injured in a pre-dawn vehicle collision in […]
Shares of Reliance Home Finance tanked 5 per cent to hit lower circuit on Monday even though an independent forensic audit committee found no fraud by the company. At 10.21 am, the stock was down 4.92 per cent to Rs 2.32 on BSE. In a regulatory filing, Reliance Home Finance said an independent forensic audit […]
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Lawmakers Finally Took Data Privacy Seriously — 2019 Regulatory Roundup Data privacy has long been seen as one of the major non-monetary usages of blockchain technology. Many governments and corporations are already running recordkeeping systems based on distributed ledgers to securely store internal data. Tech enthusiasts believe that blockchain has the potential to revolutionize personal […]
Who will be celebrating Oscar morning? Brad Pitt for sure. Jennifer Lopez almost certainly. And very possibly the Obamas, too. Nominations for the 92nd Academy Awards, which will begin at 8:18 a.m. EST Monday, should bring plenty of star power to the Feb. 9 ceremony — a good thing, too, since the show will for […]
Men still dominate the most senior roles in public life and the UK is “generations away” from achieving gender equality, according to a report published on Monday. The 2020 Sex and Power Index compiled by the Fawcett Society, a charity campaigning for gender equality, showed that women are missing from the top ranks of business, […]
Stocks in Asia were subdued on Monday morning as investors await the signing of a phase-one trade deal between the U.S. and China. The S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.60% in early trade. Major miners and oil stocks declined. Fortescue Metals was down 1.12%, while BHP Group lost 0.84%, and Rio Tinto was off by 0.71%. Among […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame. “They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right […]
Ahead of its JPM20 presentation, Invitae (NYSE:NVTA) announces preliminary 2019 results and its 2020 outlook. 2019: Revenue: ~$216M (+45%). Quick assets at year-end: ~$400M. More than 482K (+60%) samples accessioned. 3,500 (+71%) new accounts added. Final results will be released next month. 2020 guidance: Revenue: at least $330M. Test volume: at least 725K. #JPM20 Source […]
Andrew Parker, head of MI5, says he has “no reason to think” that the UK’s intelligence-sharing relationship with the US would be hit if Britain adopted Huawei technology in its 5G mobile phone network, as a key decision on the issue looms. Sir Andrew’s comments will increase expectations in UK government and industry circles that […]
Sanjay Raut,who was instrumental in getting the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress to form an alliance to rule Maharashtra, told Krishna Kumar that the Sena ended its alliance with BJP as the latter not only did not keep its promises, but was also trying to “finish off” the party. Hence, the Sena is […]
Top-5 Cryptos This Week (Jan 12): BSV, DASH, LINK, BCH, LTC The CME Group (NASDAQ:) will launch its options contract on Jan. 13. The analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE:). have spotted a 69% increase in open interest from year-end in CME’s existing Bitcoin futures contracts. They also noted that the number of large […]
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper holds an end of year press conference at the Pentagon on December 20, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that he did not see tangible evidence showing that Iran planned to strike four U.S. embassies, despite President Trump’s claims that an […]
PATNA: JD(U)’s Prashant Kishor on Sunday thanked Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for “formal and unequivocal” rejection of the NRC and reassured the people of Bihar, ruled by his party, that CAA and NRC will not be implemented in the state. The BJP, an ally of the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister […]
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic inspired Serbia to victory in the inaugural ATP Cup team event in Sydney after defeating his long-term Spanish rival Rafael Nadal in singles on Sunday before playing a pivotal role in the deciding doubles match. Tennis – ATP Cup – Ken Rosewall Arena, Sydney, Australia – January 12, 2020 Serbia’s […]
Senior police officer arrested in Kashmir on suspicion of aiding militants By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) – A senior police officer has been arrested in Indian Kashmir and accused of aiding militants after he was found driving two suspected insurgents toward Jammu, Kashmir’s chief of police told reporters on Sunday. The Muslim-majority Kashmir valley, claimed […]
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The 2010s went out with a bang and a social media upwelling of decade retrospectives of accomplishments and failures, habits shed and fed, relationships fractured and nurtured. Pim Techamuanvivit’s recap would go something like this: wound down an award-winning jam business and food blog; opened the Thai restaurant she couldn’t find in America, Kin Khao, […]
Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, will on Sunday formally unveil a cabinet designed to emphasise his new administration’s mainstream social democratic credentials despite his alliance with the radical left. The new ministerial line-up keeps key economics posts in the hands of Mr Sánchez’s Socialists — and away from Podemos, their leftwing coalition partners. “Sánchez is […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian protesters and newspapers piled pressure on the country’s leadership and riot police stepped up their presence in Tehran on Sunday after Iran’s military admitted that it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner. Riot police fired teargas at thousands of Iranians who had taken to the streets late on Saturday in […]
TEHRAN: Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards chief briefed parliament on Sunday over the killing of a top general by the US, Tehran‘s retaliation and the subsequent downing of an airliner, ISNA news agency said. Major General Hossein Salami addressed the members of the Majles in a closed session, the semi-official news agency reported. Salami had been due […]
Investors monitor a screen displaying stock information at the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) following the debut of Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering (IPO) on the Riyadh’s stock market, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 11, 2019. Ahmed Yosri | Reuters State-owned oil company Saudi Aramco said on Sunday it has exercised its “greenshoe option” to sell […]
© Reuters. Treasury Bulls’ Swagger Undiminished as Focus Shifts to Growth (Bloomberg) — Bond investors may get a chance next week to contemplate the soft spots in the U.S. economy rather than a geopolitical precipice. Either way, Treasury bulls have little to fear. For now, haven buying of government debt has subsided as the U.S. […]
Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International, has backed an overhaul of the rules governing investment funds following the implosion of Neil Woodford’s asset management business last year. Ms Richards, who took over at the £330bn asset manager in December 2018, said the collapse of Woodford Investment Management last year has sparked a big debate […]
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump warned Iran against cracking down on protests that broke out after it admitted shooting down an airliner by mistake, killing all 176 people aboard. “The government of Iran must allow human rights groups to monitor and report facts from the ground on the ongoing protests by the Iranian people,” Trump […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing all 176 aboard, has provoked international outrage and triggered growing protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britain’s ambassador was detained. In what President Hassan Rouhani called a “disastrous mistake”, Iran said on Saturday that a […]
President Donald Trump announces proposed rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act regulations during an event in Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, January 9, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump expressed solidarity with Iranian protesters on Saturday, as they took to the streets of Tehran after the Islamic Republic admitted […]
Iran has admitted it mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet, killing all 176 passengers and crew, but blamed the US for heightened tension. The armed forces joint staff said human error caused the disaster and promised to bring those who made the mistake to justice and make reforms to its air defence […]
Traders Unsurprised by Deribit’s Move to Panama, Expect Further Exits Crypto traders see potential for other market platforms to exit after crypto derivatives exchange Deribit announced a move to Panama from its EU base in the Netherlands. “This is something they had hinted at in an interview months ago, and it’s something I fully expect […]
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Billionaires Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are testing an unproven theory in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination: that their vast personal wealth can buy the trophy. Not since Texas businessman Ross Perot spent $63.5 million in 1992 (more than $100 million in today’s dollars) on his run for president as an independent have […]
A worker handles a package at the Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore, Maryland, April 30, 2019. Clodagh Kilcoyne | Reuters For the second time in a week, Amazon has acknowledged that its employees improperly accessed customer data. The company notified customers Friday that it fired several employees after they shared customer email addresses and phone […]
India is going through no ordinary economic turbulence. As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman rises to present the Union budget on February 1, there is little elbow room, fiscally, for any audacious act: consumer demand is lacklustre, tax collection is modest and the estimated GDP growth for 2019-20 is 5%, an 11-year low. As Sitharaman walks […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, one of the Middle East’s longest- serving rulers who maintained the country’s neutrality in a turbulent region, died on Friday and his cousin Haitham bin Tariq al-Said was named as his successor in a smooth transition. FILE PHOTO: Oman’s leader Sultan Qaboos bin Said attends the opening […]
Last weeks’s wild card games might be some of the most exciting in recent memory. And that puts a lot of pressure on the divisional round this weekend. After the Patriots fell short and New Orleans lost in overtime, it’s going to be hard to match that level of drama. But this season has been […]
Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has won a landslide second term in the country’s general election, beating her more China-friendly challenger Han Kuo-yu by a margin of nearly 20 percentage points. With more than 99 per cent of ballots counted, Ms Tsai received 8.16m votes, the highest-ever count since Taiwan started directly electing its president in […]
Japan Crypto Exchanges Face Imminent Margin Trading Limits: Report (BTC) and cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan will face significant restrictions on margin trading as soon as this Spring, according to reports. Referencing sources at Japan’s finance regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), local English-language news outlet Japan Times revealed plans to limit margin leverage to twice […]
Streaming media might have been a huge topic of conversation among showgoers and television manufacturers at CES this year, but many of the executives running those streaming companies chose to play things close to the vest while they were in Las Vegas. NBCUniversal’s keynote, which featured Linda Yaccarino, chairman of advertising and partnerships, was remarkably […]
Some weeks, the headlines about Apple are dominated by its plans, or supposed plans, for its next iPhone or iPad. Other weeks, the news about Apple is full of surprises and quirks. This past week falls into the latter category. Rather than articles about Apple’s next big thing, there was talk about Apple’s China business […]
Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 5, 2019 in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE / AFP / Getty Images In late January 2018, Wall Street reached the moment of “peak happiness,” which marks the highest levels of valuation, investor confidence, financial liquidity and risk appetites achieved […]