WEF: Here's what millennials around the world think about refugees,...
Millennials are often portrayed in a negative light — a vacuous, selfie-obsessed generation of lazy Pokemon Go players.But the generation born after 1980 has serious concerns. They are worried about...
View ArticleOil is getting crushed
Oil prices are diving Monday morning in response to a downbeat note from Morgan Stanley.UK Brent was down 2.83% to $49.44 a barrel as of 1 p.m. BST (8 a.m. ET):Crude oil was down 2.67% to $47.80:The...
View ArticleGovernment 'to do its best' to privatise Rosneft in 2016: Russian Economy...
SHCHETINKA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's government should do its best to privatise a stake in the nation's largest oil producer Rosneft this year, Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev said on...
View Article10 things in tech you need to know today
Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know to start your week:1. Lyft reportedly tried to sell itself to Uber and several other companies, but failed. The ride-hailing startup is refusing to...
View ArticleBOUTIQUE BLOWOUT: 3 tiny firms will make a killing on a $14 billion pharma deal
Pfizer is buying the cancer drugmaker Medivation for $14 billion, and three small banks helped make it happen.Guggenheim Securities and Centerview Partners advised Pfizer on the deal, while JPMorgan...
View ArticleWall Street set to open lower as oil prices drop
By Yashaswini Swamynathan(Reuters) - Wall Street looked set for a lower open on Monday as oil prices dropped the most in four weeks and dollar strengthened on bets of an interest rate hike in the...
View ArticleEx-Comverse CEO to return to U.S., plead guilty: lawyer
(Reuters) - The former Comverse Technology Inc chief executive officer who authorities say fled to Africa a decade ago to avoid prosecution in a stock options scandal will return to the United States...
View ArticleThe next big consensus view in economics has arrived
It's official: Calling for more government spending is a mainstream consensus view.For years following the financial crisis, policymakers around the world sought to follow the post-crisis response...
View ArticleWorld's largest indoor theme park to open in Dubai
By Noah BrowningDUBAI (Reuters) - The world's largest indoor theme park is set to open in Dubai this month to lure back some of the tourists and residents who often flee abroad during the scorching...
View ArticleRio's 29th sport: building the perfect corporate 'dream house'
By Liana B. BakerRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As the athletes strived for gold, the world's biggest companies engaged in their own sport during the Rio Olympics - outglamming each other with spectacular...
View ArticleThese 2 charts show why your train commute in Britain is hell
Train journeys in the UK have sky-rocketed since the early 1990s while investment has failed to keep pace, explaining why commuting on the train can be such an over-crowded, horrible experience.Two...
View ArticleRBS to relive unpleasant memories as investor lawsuit looms
By Andrew MacAskill and Sinead CruiseLONDON (Reuters) - At an English country mansion last month, lawyers for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) sat down with representatives of angry shareholders to broker...
View ArticleWhy the new 'Ben-Hur' is the biggest box-office flop of the whole summer
There was a time when Hollywood would put all of its chips on the epic movies set in ancient Egypt or the Roman Empire to bring home huge box-office dollars.But it looks like that time is over. The...
View ArticleThe first jobs of 12 dictators
Dictators are remembered as larger-than-life political and military rulers.From teachers to artists, here's what 13 despots did before they came to power.Editor's Note: The original list included Jozef...
View ArticleFor the first time ever, a county in America has lost all of its Obamacare...
Pinal County, Arizona is situated right next to Phoenix, was founded in 1875, and is home to roughly 400,000 people.It's also the county that Obamacare forgot.After Aetna's announcement that it will be...
View ArticleThese 2 classic cars made history at Pebble Beach this weekend
Two separate sales records were set at the Pebble Beach auctions this weekend, and they were definitely worth it for these cars.The very first Shelby Cobra ever made broke the record for the most...
View ArticleThis is the only right way to eat tacos
I love tacos, but I'm also a horrible taco snob. I only like mine served off a truck in a parking lot in Los Angeles. I want them to be small, tasty, and very, very cheap. I spent the better part of a...
View ArticleNew home sales surge to the best level since 2007 (XHB, ITB)
New home sales jumped 12.4% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 654,000 in July, according to the Census Bureau.It was the strongest print since October 2007.Economists had forecast that...
View ArticleThe US has a $1.4 trillion hole that needs to be filled
We're not going to stop talking about it: everybody wants more government spending. Hillary Clinton wants it. Donald Trump wants it. Wall Street wants it. And now economists want it. Over the weekend,...
View ArticleU.S. new home sales race to near nine-year high in July
WASHINGTON, Aug 23 - New U.S. single-family home sales unexpectedly rose in July, reaching their highest level in nearly nine years as demand increased broadly, brightening thehousing market...
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