Washington Post Italy Announces Inevitable Bank BailoutHuffington PostAfter Monte Dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) failed to raise enough money for a private recapitalization, the Italian government finally pulled the trigger on an inevitable bailout. Early Friday morning following a cabinet meeting, caretaker Prime Minister …Belgian bonds resilient as market ignores surprise downgradeReutersMonte Dei Paschi Needs […]
Politico 'Profitable' Washington Post adding more than five dozen journalistsPoliticoTwenty-sixteen was the year The Washington Post came of age — again. In its audience growth, in the ambitiousness of its journalism, in its impact on the American conversation, the Post became the U.S.'s fourth national newspaper company, joining The …The Jeff Bezos effect? Washington Post is […]
USA TODAY Missouri's new Branson Airport struggling to keep fliersUSA TODAYSPRINGFIELD, Mo. — For the third straight year, the number of passengers flying out of Branson Airport declined in 2016. As of the end of October, 5,149 people had boarded a plane at the airport in 2016 — a drop of 63.5% compared to the […]
Asian Stocks Lower in Light Trading After ChristmasNew York TimesBEIJING — Stock markets in Japan and China declined Monday in light trading after Christmas with most other Asian markets closed. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.8 percent to 3,085.82 and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 shed 0.1 percent to … and more » Subscribe to the RSS […]
Reading Eagle How to give your Christmas tree another lifeReading EagleChristmas 2016 is over, but it may be that there's still plenty of life in your Christmas tree. If you have a live tree, consider your options before tossing it out to the curb or dragging it to the nearest pickup location. It's estimated that […]
CNBC Op-Ed: The Trump rally is youngCNBCA trade war with China — a country with a $473 billion of bilateral trade with America in the first ten months of this year — is an implausible assumption. But a serious conversation about the fact that Chinese exports to America represent three …Stocks could suffer as Trump […]
Business Insider Iran negotiated to pay only half price for its $16.6 billion Boeing plane dealBusiness InsiderDUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order that the American planemaker had said was worth $16.6 billion. Boeing and its […]
TechCrunch Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli startup for a reported $30 million to $40 millionTechCrunchSnapchat sewed up its first acquisition in Israel this week, according to the outlet Calcalist News. It acquired four-year-old Cimagine, whose augmented reality platform lets consumers instantly visualize products they want to buy in their intended …Snapchat buying Israeli augmented […]
New York Times Retailers Chase the Late Shoppers — WSJNasdaqTraditional retailers are pulling out all the stops to attract last-minute holiday shoppers in the final days before Christmas, even as Amazon.com Inc. steps up its own efforts to appeal to procrastinators. As the deadline to receive packages before …Hours Wind Down For Last-Minute Holiday ShoppersCBS […]
Bloomberg Investors Betting on Oil Price Drop Flee as Production Cuts NearBloombergOil investors seem to have less reason to doubt that OPEC and other producers will make the cuts needed to balance the market. Money managers trimmed bets on falling West Texas Intermediate crude prices to the lowest level since August 2014 as the …Oil Edges […]