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Plan to expand offshore drilling draws cheers, jeers
Experts say the proposal is unprecedented in regards to the geographical extent and in the number of lease sales. The Trump administration unveiled its draft five-year plan for offshore drilling this week to replace the Obama administration plan that went into effect last year. [Artigo completo...]
Hong Kong Stocks Overdue For Correction
Asian shares crept toward all-time peaks on Monday after Wall Street boasted its best start to a year in over a decade, with brisk economic growth and benign inflation proving a potent cocktail for risk appetite. The Dow shed 12.87 points or 0.05 percent to 25,283.00, while the NASDAQ climbed 20.83 points or 0.29 percent to 7,157.39 and the S&P 500 rose 4.56 points or 0.17 percent to 2,747.71. [Artigo completo...]
Institutional Investors Are Crazy About Nuveen Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund (NYSE:NAD)
The investment managers in our partner's database now hold: 1.63 million shares, down from 1.66 million shares in 2017Q2. Also, the number of investment professionals holding Nuveen Maryland Premium Income Municipal Fund in their top 10 stock positions was flat from 0 to 0 for the same number. [Artigo completo...]
New pay gap figures revealed as companies forced to disclose employee salaries
For easyJet, the mean hourly rate for women was 52% lower than for men, while the figure stood at 33% lower at Virgin Money. But at some organisations have higher hourly pay for women than men, including Cambridgeshire Police, where women earn 13 per cent more. [Artigo completo...]
Stockholm metro station explosion kills one and injures another
The blast happened at around 11am local time at the Vårby Gård station in the south west of the Swedish city. The man, in his 60s, was rushed to hospital with serious injuries while the woman, in her mid-40s, received "minor wounds" to face and both legs, Olsson said. [Artigo completo...]
Yami Gautam starts shooting for Batti Gul Meter Chalu
From the tags added to her post by Yami, it is evident that Shraddha Kapoor , who is now busy in shooting for Prahas" ambitious film "Sahoo" and Sania Nehwal's biopic will also be a film of " Batti Gul Meter Chalu' . She beat Katrina Kaif to playing his wife on the scale of rusticity.Katrina just didn't make the cut a smalltown UP housewife the kind who walks around in a crumpled cotton housecoat... [Artigo completo...]
Supreme Court's Refusal To Intervene
HB 1523 defines and protects three religious beliefs and moral convictions: Marriage is a union of one man and one woman; sexual relations are reserved for such a marriage; and "male" and "female" refer to an individual's "immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth". [Artigo completo...]
Cidco inks three deals, boosts Navi Mumbai International airport
Ltd has been selected as partner of New Mumbai International Airport project. The agreement was signed through a special objective vehicle [a subsidiary company] Navi Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (NMIAL). Reddy said, "With the continued support of the Central government, Maharashtra government, CIDCO and all our stakeholders, we are confident of creating and delivering the much-nee... [Artigo completo...]
Congrats, Cleveland? Browns fans celebrate 0-16 season with parade
Rumor has it that the Browns went 0-16 in 2017, one year after 1-15. Frustrated by almost 19 years of losing, coaching and front office changes, personnel decisions that didn't work out and a quarterback carousel counter now at 28 and still spinning, a group of fans gathered outside of FirstEnergy Stadium for what they called a " Perfect Season parade " - a tribute to the Browns' 0-16 season and... [Artigo completo...]
UK Car sales fall due to fears over Brexit
David Bailey, professor of industry at the Birmingham-based University, on Tuesday predicted that 2018 would likely see another double-digit slump in percentage terms, triggered by environmental pressures and consumer confusion around the Government's views on diesel . [Artigo completo...]
Plan would split Altice USA from parent; Drahi still in control
Shares of the US unit are down about 35 percent from their market debut last June. "Altice USA's shares have suffered from guilt by association with the weaker results at the European parent", Craig Moffett, an analyst at MoffettNathanson, said in an email. [Artigo completo...]
AC OCEAN WALK Announces Acquisition of Atlantic City's Revel Hotel
Deifik, now president and chief executive of Denver-based Integrated Properties Inc., picks up on the troubled tenure of Wellington, Fla. -based developer Glen Straub, who bought the Revel out of bankruptcy for $ 82 million in April 2015. [Artigo completo...]
Ethereum Remains Rock Solid In the Falling Market While Other Cryptocurrencies Plunge
That pushed Ripple's market capitalization down to $98.5 billion, and lifted Ethereum's value to $111.9 billion, according to data firm CoinMarketCap . With the direction of cryptocurrency prices seemingly impossible to predict, I would caution investors on the merits of cryptocurrencies alone, and would encourage any early-stage or emerging tech investors to consider companies operatin... [Artigo completo...]
One lakh gram panchayats become internet-service ready in Phase 1
The government has completed the first phase of the BharatNet programme, having connected 1 lakh gram panchayats (GPs) with optic fibre, telecom minister Manoj Sinha Monday said, and hoped that the second phase to connect to 1.5 lakh more Global Positioning System will be completed before time by December this year. [Artigo completo...]
Zé Roberto promete conversa com Palmeiras após convite para jogar na Lusa
O ex-meia Zé Roberto, que se aposentou dos gramados no fim de 2017 e atualmente ocupa o cargo de assessor técnico do Palmeiras, revelou que irá conversar com a diretoria do clube alviverde sobre uma proposta para disputar a Série A2 do Paulistão pela Portuguesa. [Artigo completo...]
NE confidence high but investment plans fall
However the net balance of firms looking to grow investment in the next six months remained stable at two per cent, the same level as in July 2017 while the share of firms anticipating stronger total exports remained positive at 17 per cent. [Artigo completo...]
Microsoft Now Lets You Pay With Bitcoin Once Again
Microsoft is bringing back support for Bitcoin as a payment method online, letting you add money to your Microsoft Account using Bitcoin for purchases made on the Microsoft Store. Reports first emerged on Reddit that Microsoft stopped accepting bitcoin. To be widely adopted by the financial sector, a digital or fiat currency must be stable in order to be useful, something that Bitcoin is definitel... [Artigo completo...]
Kia Niro EV: Is It More Techy Than Motory?
Kia says it will start Level 4 autonomous vehicle testing in 2021. Another cockpit showcases a feature that allows rear passengers to listen to different music from front passengers, made possible by noise-cancellation technology creating two separate zones in the auto. [Artigo completo...]
The grim cynicism of Trump's tweet about black unemployment
So have the unemployment rates for all races and ethnic groups tracked by the Labor Department. There is a longer-term problem with Trump's tweet , too. Trump's Monday morning tweet came after Fox & Friends ran a segment on the unemployment rate in the 8 a.m. hour of its broadcast. While the unemployment rate is relatively low - near what economists call "full employment" - it remains true ... [Artigo completo...]
United States stocks open flat, taking a breather from record rally
The S&P and the Nasdaq last week recorded its strongest first four trading days in a year since 2006, and the Dow industrials posted its best since 2003. Caterpillar closed up 2.5 per cent to US$166.03 (RM665.02), just below a record high set earlier in the day, after JP Morgan upgraded the stock saying the tax overhaul could help North America's construction business cycle extend in 2018. [Artigo completo...]