President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive to waiting media during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Dan Coats, former director of national intelligence, worried about Trump’s relations with Putin. According to a new book, Trump’s behavior at a summit with…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
China’s currency has fallen sharply this week. Future Publishing/Getty Images The offshore yuan weakened against the dollar Thursday as the US currency rallied. China’s currency slipped below the key psychological threshold of 7 per dollar for the first time in over two years. Tuesday’s hotter-than-expected inflation reading has pushed traders to bet on another jumbo…
Elon Musk. Jae C. Hong/AP Apple has ousted Tesla as the most-shorted US stock in dollar terms. Elon Musk’s automaker held the title for 864 days, or more than two years. Short interest in Apple stock is $18.4 billion, compared to $17.4 billion in Tesla stock. Investors are betting more money against Apple than Tesla…
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President Biden praised railway workers and companies for reaching a “tentative agreement” on Thursday. OLIVIER DOULIERY / Contributor / Getty Unions and rail companies have struck a deal, averting crippling rail strikes, the White House said. President Biden praised railway representatives for reaching a “tentative agreement”, on Thursday. The potential strike threatened to cost the…
A CSX freight train runs through a crossing in Homestead, Pa., on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Railroad stocks rose Thursday after unions and railway companies reached a tentative labor deal, averting a strike. Tens of thousands of unionized workers had been set to go on strike if no agreement was reached…
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on May 05, 2022 in New York City. Stocks opened lower this morning after closing high on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced an interest-rate hike by half a percentage point in an effort to further lower inflation. Michael M. Santiago/Getty The…
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, performs in 2015. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Kanye West’s lawyers notified Gap on Thursday of his plans to end the deal, WSJ first reported. The retailer will still be able to sell existing Yeezy merchandise, The Journal said. The breakup comes after West repeatedly criticized Gap on social media. Kanye…
Apple Watches are starting to look mostly the same. The new Series 8 and Watch SE look so much like last year’s Series 7 that I struggle to tell them apart. But in fact the new models Apple unveiled last week bring some less obvious changes. The most notable of these is a new temperature…
Bose is no stranger to true wireless earbuds. The company’s first model debuted in 2017 and it has refined its take on the product segment multiple times in the years since. Bose made a big leap in 2020 with the QuietComfort Earbuds, bringing its active noise cancellation (ANC) expertise to an updated true wireless design….