BEIJING (Reuters) – Guo Qingshan delights in riding his 400,000 yuan ($63,839) Harley-Davidson motorbike around Beijing’s suburbs.READ Trade tensions with U.S. testing resolve of Chinese consumers On ReutersTweet ...
(Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co is close to settling a record fine of $1 billion imposed by two U.S. regulators for its risk management business, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.READ Wells Fargo nears ...
A Michigan mom is in custody after allegedly leaving her infant twins in a suitcase on the curb. Child Protective Services had already been called to the woman’s residence and when they arrived on the scene found the twins in the suitcase, police said Wednesday, the Detroit Free Press reported. CPS was there to take custody of the twins and two other ...
Authored by Stefan Wieler via GoldMoney.com, Silver prices are trading almost 25% below the values predicted by our price model. This is the largest downside deviation we have seen in over 25 years. We believe this is the result of massive short selling in the futures market. In order to maintain this downward pressure on silver, speculators would have to continue to sell over 500 ...
(Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told President Donald Trump last week that he is not a target of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, according to a source familiar with the probe.READ Rosenstein told Trump last week he ...
(Reuters) – Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is cutting 1,500 jobs across multiple divisions at its offices in California, as part of its promise to investors to cut annual costs by $1 billion.READ Qualcomm cutting 1,500 jobs at its California offices On ...
Today in the little known academic world of hedge fund manager gender studies, it has been researched and reported that if you’re a beta-male running a hedge fund, you’re likely to generate more alpha.So if you’ve been looking for the mystery behind why so many hedge funds are underperforming over the last couple of years? Well, look no further, because ...
(Reuters) – Mattel Inc , which has been trying to revive its tepid sales, said on Thursday its director and former digital media executive Ynon Kreiz will replace Chief Executive Margaret Georgiadis, who has decided to step down after a 14-month tenure.READ ...
A TV tower collapsed Thursday, officials said, killing a maintenance worker in Missouri when he became trapped under a tangle of metal and wires. Rob Talburt, assistant fire chief for the Logan-Rogersville Fire Protection District, says the 1,980-foot (600-meter) tower near Fordland collapsed Thursday. Missouri State University owns the tower and uses it to broadcast KOZK Ozarks Public Television and KSMU Ozarks ...
The six 2018 Time 100 covers this year include four women and just two men. The Time 100 is the magazine’s annual list of whom it considers the most influential people currently. The 2018 list includes a record 45 women and 45 people under the age of 40. “The Time 100, always a reflection of its moment, looks quite different than in ...
A west Los Angeles tunnel Elon Musk wants to dig to test an underground transportation system has been granted an environmental review exemption by a committee of the Los Angeles City Council and may now move forward. The Los Angeles Times reports that members of the council’s public works committee said Wednesday they wanted to approve any proposal that could help untangle the city’s ...
Following yesterday’s criminal referral issued to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, his ex-boss James Comey and several other individuals, alleging malfeasance during the 2016 US election, the Washington Post reports that McCabe was referred to the U.S. Attorney’s Office by the Department of Justice’s internal watchdog.While CNN suggests that the criminal referral was recently issued, citing a “source familiar with the matter” – ...
The idea for a National School Walkout on Friday, April 20, came from a 16-year-old girl and was prompted by the Feb. 14 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 dead. From that incident, high school sophomore Lane Murdock decided that enough was enough — mass shootings were becoming too commonplace. “In the time I’ve been in high school we’ve had the ...
Firefighter Andrew Needum of Celina, Texas, was emotional Thursday morning as he recalled the horrifying moments after the engine exploded in mid-air on Southwest Flight 1380. Needum had been traveling on Tuesday with his wife, two kids, and his parents when, after what he said was a “smooth takeoff,” an engine exploded, breaking a window on the plane. A ...
