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Parker Scheduled to Present at Barclays Capital Industrial Select... | Parker Hannifin Corporation , the global leader in motion and control technologies, today announced that it is scheduled to present at the Barclays Capital Industrial Select Conference in Miami Beach, Florida, February 23, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. Eastern time. Parker's scheduled presenter is Tom Williams, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
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Reuters People News Summary | Following is a summary of current people news briefs.
Closing arguments to begin in Cosby's sexual assault trial
The prosecution and Bill Cosby's defense team are expected to begin closing arguments on Tuesday in the retrial of the entertainer, who is accused of drugging and raping a one-time friend more than a decade ago. Cosby, 80, faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, 45, a former administrator of the Temple University women's basketball team, at his Philadelphia home in January 2004.
NBA's Stephen Curry lands TV, film deal with Sony Pictures
NBA star Stephen Curry has signed a multi-year film and television deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Hollywood studio said on Monday, as the Golden State Warriors player makes a play to be the latest athlete to break into entertainment. The development and production deal will focus on family, faith and sports-themed projects, and will "extend to opportunities in partnerships, electronics, gaming and virtual reality," the Sony-owned studio said in a statement.
Family of late Swedish DJ Avicii says grateful for tributes
The family of Swedish electronic music DJ and producer Avicii on Monday said they were grateful for the numerous public tributes paid to the "Wake Me Up" hitmaker but offered no details on his unexpected death. Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, was found dead in Muscat, Oman, on Friday at the age of 28. |
BRIEF-Reed's, Inc. Reprices Rights Offering And Extends Expiration Date | Dec 11 (Reuters) - Reed’s Inc:
* REED‘S, INC. ANNOUNCES REPRICING OF RIGHTS OFFERING AND EXTENSION OF EXPIRATION DATE
* REED‘S INC - ADJUSTED SUBSCRIPTION PRICE AND RELATED PRICING INFORMATION FOR ITS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED RIGHTS OFFERING
* REED‘S INC - SUBSCRIPTION PRICING IS NOW FIXED AT $1.50 PER UNIT, WITH EACH UNIT CONSISTING OF ONE SHARE OF COMMON STOCK AND 1/2 OF A WARRANT
* REED‘S INC - HAVE EXTENDED EXPIRATION TIME FOR RIGHTS OFFERING TO 5:00 PM EASTERN TIME, ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
BRIEF-Sify Reports Revenues Of INR 20686 Mln For FY 2017-18 | April 24 (Reuters) - Sify Technologies Ltd:
* SIFY REPORTS REVENUES OF INR 20686 MILLION FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2017-18
* SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD - REVENUE OF INR 6,062 MILLION FOR QUARTER ENDED MARCH 2018 VERSUS INR 5,235 MILLION IN QUARTER ENDED MARCH 2017
* SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD QTRLY PROFIT FOR PERIOD INR 261 MILLION VERSUS INR 185 MILLION
* SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD - CASH BALANCE AT THE END OF THE YEAR WAS INR 2275 MILLION Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
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Fitch: Barclays' 1Q17 Results Underpinned by Retail; Weaker on Trading | (The following statement was released by the rating agency) LONDON, May 02 (Fitch) Barclays plc's first quarter results benefitted from resilient retail and highly profitable cards businesses, while the investment bank had mixed results, says Fitch Ratings. The group's return on tangible equity (RoTE) of 9%, excluding a sizeable impairment of the goodwill relating to its African business held for sale, showed an improvement compared to 1Q16, helped by a lower negative impact from the shrinking non-core unit (Barclays Non-Core (BNC)). Barclays UK's performance was broadly stable yoy and the division's RoTE of 21.6% was high relative to the overall group. Income benefitted from deposit growth, lower funding costs and a small gain relating to Visa Inc., which offset margin pressure affecting especially its mortgage portfolio. Operating expenses were also stable despite investments in cyber resilience and structural reform implementation costs. Underlying credit impairment charges were stable according to management, and delinquency rates improved slightly compared to 1Q16. Barclays International fared well overall, and it's RoTE of 12.5% was underpinned by the international Consumer Card and Payments (CC&P) business (income up +19% excluding one-off items) and a good performance in banking fees (income up 51% yoy) in a buoyant debt issuance market. The division is exposed to US dollar appreciation, which benefits revenue more than it weighs on operating expenses. Performance in CC&P benefitted from balance and card spend growth. Impairments and delinquency rates increased slightly, but a large portion of weaker credits have been sold and are not expected to weigh on future impairments. The bank completed a subprime portfolio sale in the US towards the end of the quarter and this, together with the impact of the integration of a high quality partnership portfolio, should gradually lead to an improvement in the quality of the US cards portfolio, according to management. Trading underperformance reflected missed opportunities in US rates and US equity derivatives markets, despite supportive client volumes, while credit trading continued to perform well driven by the flow business. Corporate lending income improved, but was more than offset by losses on fair value hedges. The group continued to run-down BNC towards the guidance of around GBP25 billion risk-weighted assets (RWA) by end-1H17. The division incurred a pre-tax loss of GBP241 million in the quarter and Barclays reiterated the guidance that in 2017 the loss could amount to GBP1 billion. The fully-loaded CET1 ratio increased to 12.5% driven by internal capital generation, which offset the impact of the redemption USD preference shares, share purchases for employee awards and contributions to the pension plan. The redemption of USD preference shares results in an immediate hit to capital but lower preferred dividends should benefit funding costs in the longer term. This compares with a target CET1 ratio of just below 13% in the medium term, sized by the bank as 1.5%-2% above minimum requirements, which is intended to provide an adequate buffer against drawdowns in a regulatory stress test. In progressing towards this target we expect the benefits from accruing profits and deconsolidating BAGL (guided to be around 75bp) to cushion any potential hit from still unresolved legal and regulatory disputes or consumer redress costs. Management expects capital requirements to be similar across the future ring-fenced bank, non-ring-fenced bank and group (currently 10.8%, excluding any potential Prudential Regulatory Buffer (PRA) buffer) and that the entities will maintain similar buffers above the requirements. The impairment of goodwill related to Barclays Africa Group Limited (BAGL) was capital neutral. Following accounting deconsolidation, the bank would need to recycle a currency translation loss of around GBP1.2 billion through P&L, but this too will be capital neutral. The group's liquidity was comfortable, as the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) increased to 140% and the liquidity pool increased to GBP185 billion. 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BRIEF-China Hongxing Sports posts quarterly revenue of RMB301.3 mln | Aug 14 (Reuters) - China Hongxing Sports Ltd
* Quarterly revenue RMB301.3 million, down 2.9 percent
* No dividend had been declared or recommended
* Quarterly loss attributable to shareholders RMB48.9 million versus loss of RMB54.9 million Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
Driver appeals over conviction for threatening Jeremy Vine | A driver found guilty of threatening and abusing BBC presenter Jeremy Vine as he was cycling is to appeal against her conviction.
Shanique Syrena Pearson, 22, threatened to knock out the presenter and made a gun sign at him as she screamed insults on August 26 last year.
The confrontation was captured on a helmet camera worn by the 51-year-old Crimewatch presenter, who said he felt the gun gesture was a 'serious threat'.
Shanique Syrena Pearson, 22, right, is appealing against her conviction for driving offences and threatening and abusing BBC presenter Jeremy Vine, left
Vine was cycling in a narrow road in Kensington when Pearson's Vauxhall Corsa came up behind and she confronted the presenter
It took place as he cycled to BBC offices near Oxford Circus from his home in Chiswick, west London.
He was cycling in the middle of Hornton Street in Kensington, west London, which had parked cars on either side, on August 26, but stopped after being honked at by the driver of a black Vauxhall Corsa behind him.
In the video clip, Pearson can be heard swearing at Vine, who tries to explain why he was riding down the centre of the narrow street, before she kicks and pushes the cyclist and his bike.
Pearson, of Vauxhall, south London, was convicted on February 1 of driving an unlicensed vehicle, driving without reasonable consideration for other road users and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
At that hearing, single mother Pearson, who has a number of previous convictions and was handed a suspended sentence when the latest offence was committed, was warned she may face prison.
At her previous hearing, District Judge Timothy King said he found Mr Vine, who did not attend, to be a 'credible, truthful and reliable' witness who had not exaggerated his account of what happened.
Pearson was filmed appearing to make a gun gesture at Vine, pictured, during the confrontation
'His manner of cycling was perfectly appropriate for the conditions,' he added.
He said it was reasonable that the TV star feared for his safety after Pearson threatened him and formed a weapon with her fingers cocked at his head.
On Pearson's sentencing, Judge King said: 'The court will decide whether the suspended sentence imposed should be activated in whole or in part.'
The clip of the row was posted online by Mr Vine and has since been viewed more than half a million times.
In the clip played to the court, a high-pitched voice belonging to the female driver screams 'Why would you do that?' while she gesticulates out of the car window.
A male voice, that of Mr Vine, can then be heard explaining that he needs a car´s width between him and the parked cars to cycle safely on the narrow street.
Continuing, she says: 'What the f***, why the f*** did you stop in front of my f****** car.
'Do you not respect your f****** life? Move your bike, move your bike,' before allegedly kicking and pushing Mr Vine and the cycle between them.
When she overtakes Mr Vine he is heard to say 'oh my god, so scary', as she appears to pass close to a parked car.
Pearson, right, was filmed on Vine's helmet camera, file picture left, swearing at him before kicking and pushing his bike
A little while later, Pearson gets out of the Corsa a second time after noticing Mr Vine attempting to take a photo, and tells the presenter: 'Take a picture of me again and I will knock you out.'
As she advances towards Mr Vine he says: 'Don’t assault me, you’ve already assaulted me.'
Mr Vine told the court of the next few moments: 'She's gone back in the car, she’s sitting at this junction. I am behind her with my cycle, the lights are red.
'I draw parallel to the car because I want to see inside.
'As I draw level and I look in she produces her fingers like this, and aims them at me, and cocks her thumb and goes like that, in a firing sign.'
The appeal will be heard by a judge at Isleworth Crown Court, in west London, on Tuesday. |
BRIEF-Cefc Anhui International's Controlling Shareholder Scraps Major Plan, Share Trade To Resume | April 24 (Reuters) - Cefc Anhui International Holding Co Ltd :
* SAYS CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER SCRAPS MAJOR PLAN, SHARE TRADE TO RESUME ON APRIL 25 Source text in Chinese: bit.ly/2FcIj95 Further company coverage: (Reporting by Hong Kong newsroom) |
Batteries included as Hyundai amps up electric car ambitions | FILE PHOTO: A Hyundai electric car is seen during the 15th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition in Shanghai April 21, 2013. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
YONGIN, South Korea South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) is developing its first dedicated architecture for electric vehicles, an executive told Reuters, seeking to catch up with the likes of Tesla in the growing segment with multiple, long-range models.
While the platform will not be completed soon, Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia Motors Corp (000270.KS) plan to roll out small electric sport utility vehicles (SUVs) based on an existing underpinning next year, said Lee Ki-sang, who leads Hyundai-Kia's green cars operations.
The separate platform represents a major push into the battery electric-car segment for a firm which has long trumpeted rival fuel-cell vehicles, reflecting strong investor pressure to compete more vigorously in a market that has been stimulated by U.S.-based Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) longer-range models.
Industry executives also say tough fuel-economy and emissions regulations in the United States, Europe and China are compelling automakers to push fuel-efficient cars even though low oil prices have undercut demand.
Hyundai's electric-car platform would allow the automaker to install a battery pack in vehicle floors to accommodate more battery capacity and maximize cabin space, Lee said.
"The electric-vehicle platform will require high up-front investments but we are doing this to prepare for the future," he said at Hyundai-Kia's green car research center in the city of Yongin, outside Seoul. He did not reveal the cost.
Lee, a senior vice-president at Hyundai Motor, was speaking during an interview on the eve of an auto show that kicked off in Seoul on Thursday.
Analysts said Hyundai had no choice but to join the likes of Tesla, General Motors Co (GM.N) and Daimler AG (DAIGn.DE) unit Mercedes-Benz in building separate electric-vehicle platforms to be relevant in the segment.
"The separate platform may incur losses initially, but Hyundai will be left behind the market if they don't offer long-distance models, like 300 km, 500 km and 600 km," said Ko Tae-bong, an analyst at Hi Investment & Securities.
Hyundai Motor said in a statement on Thursday that it plans to launch a new luxury electric vehicle under its Genesis marque in 2021, after introducing a plug-in hybrid version of an unidentified Genesis model in 2019.
CAUTIOUS OUTLOOK
Hyundai will launch an electric SUV, followed by a sibling model by Kia Motors next year, Lee said, citing strong demand for SUVs.
The subcompact or compact models would have a range of more than 300 km (186 miles) per charge, and would be "more competitive" than rival offerings, Lee said.
Hyundai Motor's IONIQ hybrid sedan fell short of its sales target, while Kia's Niro hybrid SUV exceeded its forecast last year.
Kia Motors was also working on its first fuel cell vehicle, following Hyundai Motor's lead in the segment, Lee said.
Despite Hyundai's beefed-up plans for the electric car market, Lee was cautious about the outlook given the planned phase-out of government subsidies in China and other markets.
Limited charging infrastructure and problems with battery technology, such as lengthy charge times on long-range vehicles, were also holding back demand, he said.
Lee expected electric vehicles to account for about 10 percent of total global vehicle sales by 2025, from some 1 percent now, with China leading the way. Fuel-cell cars, by comparison, were unlikely to take off until 2025 but had long-term potential.
In China, Hyundai Motor was considering sourcing batteries from Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) or a couple of other Chinese firms, because of subsidy restrictions on South Korean batteries, he said.
As part of efforts to meet Chinese electric car quotas, Hyundai and Kia planned to introduce electric versions of its China-exclusive sedans and SUVs, while readying electrified models under local brands made with Chinese joint venture partners, he said.
(Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Stephen Coates) |
Soccer-La Liga summaries | Soccer-Capello targets survival and cup run for new club Jiangsu
HONG KONG, June 15 Fabio Capello has set his sights on steering new employers Jiangsu Suning away from the Chinese Super League (CSL) relegation zone and success in the Chinese FA Cup as the Italian prepares for the latest chapter of his long coaching career. |
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Former US marshal, 30, jailed for spying on girls | A North Dakota man who worked as a deputy marshal in a Federal court house has been jailed for three years for filming a 15-year-old girl in a Target dressing room.
Michael Rivera, 30, was already serving a seven year jail term for possession of images of child sexual abuse when he appeared in court on Tuesday.
Rivera of Bismark was ordered to undergo sex offender treatment while in jail.
Michael Rivera, pictured, was arrested after he was found filming a 15-year-old girl who was using the changing room of a Target in Bismark, North Dakota in June 2016
Rivera was a deputy US marshal who worked at the federal court house in Bismark
The former US marshal was convicted in February of misdemeanors that included surreptitious intrusion and creating and attempting to create sexually expressive images. He was found not guilty of more serious felony charges.
Rivera was sentenced in state court on Tuesday and ordered to get sex offender treatment while in prison.
Addressing the court following his sentencing, Rivera said: 'I violated a norm of our society, but I am not that same person. I understand there may be people here who have ill feelings towards me, but above all, I ask for the forgiveness of the victims. I am not the same person that I was.'
Investigators allege Rivera secretly recorded girls and young women as they tried on clothes in dressing rooms from the summer of 2015 to 2016. He was caught peeping on a 15-year-old girl, who saw his phone peering beneath her fitting room door at a Target store.
Authorities who searched his computer and electronic devices determined he took similar actions at several other Bismarck stores.
He was sentenced in May in federal court to seven years in prison on child pornography charges, and he'll serve the federal sentence first.
Two young women who were peeped on said at the hearing that they now often feel uncomfortable when a man is looking at them and fear going into dressing rooms.
One of his young victims said: 'I don't know how to go into a dressing room again without feeling violated.'
The girls said they felt cheated because Rivera was acquitted on 11 felony counts that corresponded to his recording of minors. |
Preteens in chaotic households may miss out on sleep | (Reuters Health) - Kids in homes with fewer rules and routines are more likely to be kept up at night by noise from other family members’ activities, according to a recent study.
Even in homes where parents enforced kids’ sleep rules, that wasn't enough to prevent kids from being kept awake when other people were doing things like watching TV or having friends over, the study showed.
“Research indicates that the home environment is important in influencing persons' sleep,” said lead author James Spilsbury of the Center for Clinical Investigation at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Efforts to improve adolescents' sleep are likely strengthened if all family members participate, Spilsbury told Reuters Health by email.
To determine what activities might be keeping kids up at night, the study team recruited 26 preteen and parent pairs from the Cleveland, Ohio area.
Over a two-week period, the 11- and 12-year-olds noted each night at bedtime whether their family members did anything to keep them awake or make it harder to sleep.
The parents of the preteens assessed their household’s level of organization with a questionnaire, which asked how much they were aware of their children’s daily activities and friends, and whether their children followed routines.
Parents also noted whether they enforced sleep rules such as having a set bedtime, lowering household noise around the child’s bedtime, and rules against using technology or snacking after bedtime.
Overall, kids in more chaotic households were more likely to say household members made it hard to fall asleep, according to a report in the journal Sleep Health.
Compared to kids with more organized home lives, preteens in disorganized homes were 80 percent more likely to be disturbed by family members watching TV or listening to music and 70 percent more likely to be kept awake by relatives texting or talking on the phone.
Youth in chaotic homes were also 60 percent more likely to be kept awake by family members having friends or relatives over.
Compared to kids in chaotic households, children in more ordered homes were more likely to report that nothing kept them awake or made sleep more difficult.
Having sleep rules enforced by parents was not linked to fewer sleep-disturbing behaviors of family members.
The study was small and only included African American or mixed race families, so it is hard to say if the findings apply to other groups, Spilsbury noted.
But in general, he said, households with less organization or structure are probably more likely to exhibit these types of behaviors at night when a child is trying to sleep.
“Too often, sleep is considered as an individual behavior, devoid of its social context,” Wendy Troxel, a senior behavior and social scientist at the RAND Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told Reuters Health by email.
The stakes are high when considering youth sleep habits, said Troxel, because “sleep problems in adolescents can predict a host of negative outcomes, ranging from poor academic functioning, to increased risk of suicide, physical health problems, and motor vehicle crashes.”
Troxel, who studies sleep habits but was not involved in the current research, said consistent bedtime routines, limiting technology use at bedtime, and the emotional climate of the family are linked to healthier sleep.
“Families can support healthy sleep by creating home environments that are characterized by warmth, low conflict, and predictable routines (including regular bedtime routines),” she advised.
“Think of improving children's sleep as a team effort. What can everyone in the household do to make the environment more 'sleep friendly' for children,” said Spilsbury.
SOURCE: bit.ly/2kYsmgj Sleep Health, online January 23, 2017. |
Hall's first baby, 6-pound, 14-ounce boy, born just after midnight | Deysi Rivas Olivas arrived at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville a couple days before New Year's with contractions, but her baby wasn't ready for the world quite yet. Little Isaac Ruiz finally met his parents at 12:27 a.m. on New Year's Day, becoming Hall County's first baby of 2017.
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Tanzania: Vodacom Now Likely to Extend Share Sale | Dar es Salaam - Vodacom is reportedly considering an extension of the deadline for the sale of its shares to the public, amid reports the initial public offering may be undersubscribed. Bloomberg reported yesterday that the company would ask the Capital Markets and Securities Authority to extend the IPO deadline and also allow foreigners to buy the shares.
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Trump says Republican memo vindicates him in Russia probe | PALM BEACH, Fla (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Trump’s fervent embrace of the memo raised again the prospect that he may use it as justification to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is conducting the investigation, or Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller.
Tweeting from his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said the memo “totally vindicates” him but added “the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their (sic) was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction.” He called the investigation “an American disgrace.”
The White House told Reuters on Friday there would be no changes at the Justice Department as a result of the memo’s conclusions.
The memo, written by Republicans on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee chaired by Devin Nunes, argues that the federal investigation of potential collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was a product of political bias against Trump at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department.
Trump approved the release of the formerly classified memo without redactions, despite objections from the FBI in a move that deepened tension between the White House and senior law enforcement that has existed since Trump first took office.
Democrats contend the four-page memo mischaracterises highly sensitive classified information and was intended to undermine the Mueller criminal probe that was launched in May 2017 as an outgrowth an earlier FBI investigation.
Jerrold Nadler, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that Trump’s decision to allow the release of the memo was “part of a coordinated propaganda effort to discredit, disable and defeat the Russia investigation.”
Some Republicans also were critical of the memo’s release. John Kasich, the governor of Ohio and a former rival of Trump’s for the presidential nomination, released a statement on Saturday calling it “a disservice to our country.”
Asked by reporters on Friday whether the memo made him more likely to fire Rosenstein or whether he had confidence in him, Trump replied, “You figure it out.”
Dismissing Rosenstein or Mueller would trigger a political firestorm much like the sacking of FBI Director James Comey by Trump last year.
Mueller also is examining whether Trump has obstructed of justice in trying to thwart the Russia investigation.
QUESTIONS OF AUTHORITY
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks on South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., before his departure to the Customs and Border Protection National Targeting Center, February 2, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The memo alleges the FBI concealed the Democratic ties of a source the agency used to justify surveillance on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser with links to Russia. The memo revealed the names of senior FBI and Justice Department officials, including Rosenstein, who it said signed off on the surveillance.
The document was commissioned by Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence panel. He said it laid bare “serious violations of the public trust, and the American people have a right to know when officials in crucial institutions are abusing their authority for political purposes.”
On Saturday, Nadler circulated a memo to House Democrats disputing the conclusions of the Nunes memo and arguing that Page was a lawful target of surveillance, according to NBC News.
“Carter Page was, more likely than not, an agent of a foreign power. The Department of Justice thought so. A federal judge agreed,” Nadler wrote in the memo.
Mueller’s investigation so far has led to guilty pleas by two of Trump’s foreign policy advisers to charges of lying to the FBI, and indictments of former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates.
On Friday, the Justice Department backed Mueller by dismissing a civil suit filed by Manafort claiming Rosenstein had exceeded his legal authority in giving Mueller “carte blanche.”
The Republican memo focused on court-approved surveillance of Page and said the FBI used a source who was strongly biased against Trump, former British spy Christopher Steele, to justify the action.
It alleged that a dossier of alleged Trump-Russia contacts compiled by Steele, and funded in part by Democrats, formed an “essential part” of requests to a special court to be allowed to conduct electronic surveillance on Page that began in October 2016.
Despite the memo’s charges, neither the focus on Page nor the FBI’s investigation of Trump-Russia ties began with the Steele dossier.
Page came to the FBI’s attention as early as 2013, when he met in New York with Russians who were officers of the Kremlin’s foreign intelligence service, sources have said.
The memo acknowledges that the FBI counterintelligence investigation began in July 2016, three months before the request for electronic surveillance on Page, as a result of the activities of another Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos.
Steve Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas-Austin, said it was unprecedented for the president to feud so publicly with leaders of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
“You do long-term damage to these institutions if you convince a large swath of the American public that they can’t be trusted,” Vladeck said. |
PRECIOUS-Gold prices edge higher as the dollar slips | BENGALURU, May 31 (Reuters) - Gold prices edged up early on Thursday, as the dollar eased from 6-1/2 month highs hit earlier this week on a weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data, with prices further supported by concerns about the trade war. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold rose 0.2 percent to $1,303.30 per ounce by 0053 GMT. * U.S. gold futures for June delivery were 0.2-percent higher at $1,304.30 per ounce. * The dollar index , which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, fell 0.1 percent to 94.070. It touched a 6-1/2 month high at 95.025 on Tuesday. * U.S. economic growth slowed slightly more than initially thought in the first quarter as consumer spending rose at its weakest pace in nearly five years. * China lashed out on Wednesday at renewed threats from the White House on trade, warning that it was ready to fight back if Washington was looking for a trade war. * The United States will announce plans to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium from the European Union, possibly as early as Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. * Italy's two main anti-establishment parties could yet form a government, after the man nominated as interim prime minister said politicians, rather than technocrats like himself, might be able to steer the country out of deadlock. * A senior North Korean official made a rare visit to the United States on Wednesday for talks about a possible summit between the leaders of the two countries. * South Africa's Gold Fields is setting aside pursuit of new acquisitions for a year as it focuses on its existing operations and nearby prospects instead, the bullion producer's chief executive told Reuters late on Tuesday. * Gold mining giants in Ghana such as Newmont , Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti welcome new government tests to certify the value of their exports, the main industry association said on Wednesday. * Canadian miner Bear Creek Mining Corp will likely make a public offering for its Peruvian unit on the bourse in Lima to help finance its $550 million Corani silver project, the company's chief financial officer said on Wednesday. DATA AHEAD (GMT) 0100 China Official manufacturing PMI May 0100 China Official services PMI May 0645 France Producer prices April 0900 Euro zone Unemployment rate April 1230 U.S. Personal income April 1230 U.S. Weekly jobless claims 1400 U.S. Pending homes sales April 1345 U.S. Chicago PMI May (Reporting by Karen Rodrigues in Bengaluru; editing by Richard Pullin) |
Renault aims to launch Paris car-sharing scheme in September | PARIS (Reuters) - Renault announced plans on Wednesday to launch in September a ride-hailing and car-sharing scheme covering the French capital and its surrounding areas.
FILE PHOTO - The tyre of Renault's Reon concept car is seen at its launch at the India Auto Show 2018 in Greater Noida, India, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal
Renault and Peugeot-maker PSA are vying to offer a car sharing scheme in Paris to replace Autolib, the electric car sharing service run by French tycoon Vincent Bollore’s group that was recently ditched by local authorities after a dispute.
Renault already offers a car sharing service in France called “Renault Mobility” and operates 500 Zoe electric cars in “free floating” in Madrid. Renault said it hoped to have eventually more than 2,000 vehicles available for the Paris car-sharing and ride-hailing service.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also told a news conference on Wednesday that other companies had expressed an interest in plans to get involved in a car-sharing project for the city.
PSA will launch during the last quarter of 2018 a “free floating” car-sharing scheme in Paris, allowing drivers to pick up an electric vehicle at one location and leave it elsewhere in the city, PSA said earlier this week.
Launched in 2011, Autolib has 150,000 active users and its silver-colored small cars have become a familiar sight on Paris streets.
But issues with cleanliness, problems with parking and booking and competition from other modes of transport such as Uber have pushed the service into the red, with cumulated losses of 293 million euros ($341 million) expected by 2023. |
Clarksville's Customs House Museum receives Tennessee Grant for Serepta Jorda... | A large measure of teamwork is going into the restoration and publication of the diary of Serepta Jordan, who recorded her life in Clarskville from 1857 to 1864 in crisp hardwriting in a repurposed leather-bound ledger book. The diary is part of the collection of the Clarksville's Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, which welcomed a $3,000 Archive Development Grant on Thursday delivered by Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett.
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BRIEF-Auburn National Bancorp Q1 Earnings Per Share $0.60 | April 24 (Reuters) - Auburn National Bancorporation Inc :
* AUBURN NATIONAL BANCORPORATION, INC. REPORTS RECORD QUARTERLY NET EARNINGS
* Q1 EARNINGS PER SHARE $0.60
* AUBURN NATIONAL BANCORPORATION - NET INTEREST INCOME (TAX-EQUIVALENT) WAS $6.3 MILLION FOR Q1 OF 2018, A 7% INCREASE COMPARED TO $5.9 MILLION FOR Q1 OF 2017 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
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Wrong way driver kills mother-of-one, 23, in fiery crash | Shocking video shows the moment an intoxicated driver speeds down a freeway on the wrong side of the road and crashes head on into a young mother, killing her.
Guillermo Suarez, 31, was seen driving east along the west-bound side of the I-20 Freeway in Duncanville Texas on Saturday when he set off a fatal multi-car crash.
His actions took the life of Amberly McCrae, 23, who left behind her nine-month-old son Jace.
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Guillermo Suarez (left) was seen driving down the wrong side of the road in Dallas on Saturday. His journey ended with a fiery crash that killed mother-of-one Amberly McCrae (right)
Video shows the driver speeding along the I-20 freeway in Duncanville, Dallas, on Saturday
Ms McCrae was hit head on (pictured is her car) moments after Suarez sideswiped another car, causing a chain reaction crash
Video of Suarez's dangerous journey shows the driver sideswipe one vehicle, which police told NBCDFW spun out of control into a third vehicle, while Suarez went on to hit another car head on.
The fourth vehicle then ran into a truck, which jackknifed into the median barrier.
The man who filmed the tragic crash pulls over his car before dashing over to the scene, where a man believed to be Suarez is seen writhing on the road.
Meanwhile, a large crowd is seen frantically trying to extract Amberly from the wreck.
Suarez's car goes up in flames moments later, while Amberly's vehicle is completely destroyed.
Ms McCrae, 23, was the mother of nine-month-old boy Jace. She is remembered by friends and family as a devoted mother
The crash completely destroyed Ms McCrae's car and caused Suarez's to burst into flames
Suarez, who was seen writhing on the road nearby as his car burned, spent the next few days in intensive care
The crowd gathered around the woman's car continues trying to pull the door off the car in an effort to free her before they are stopped by a police officer.
The 23-year-old mother is remembered by friends and family as beautiful and a devoted mother.
Suarez spent the days following the crash in intensive care under police custody, WFAA reported. He is believed to have had multiple outstanding warrants.
The suspect is in the Intensive Care Unit in the hospital, under police custody for several outstanding warrants.
He has been charged with intoxicated manslaughter.
A large crowd were seen trying desperately to help the young mother out of the car following the crash |
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Elderly mother of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is killed after her car crashes into a wall on New Year's Day | The mother of legendary singer Shane MacGowan was killed in a car crash on New Year's Day.
Therese MacGowan, 87, died when her car hit a wall at Ballintogher, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, at around 3pm yesterday.
Mrs MacGowan was the driver and there were no passengers when the car crashed near her home in Silvermines.
She was declared dead at the scene and is the first Irish person to have been killed on Ireland's roads this year.
Tragedy: Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, with his mother Therese and father Maurice MacGowan at their family home in Ireland. His mother has died in a car crash on New Year's Day
Gardaí are asking for anyone with information on the collision to come forward.
A spokesman for An Garda Siochana, the Republic of Ireland's national police force, said the crash was being treated as an accident.
'It would appear to be a single car collision with a wall,' he added.
Mrs MacGowan, who was originally from Tipperary, was a singer and traditional Irish dancer, and had worked as a model in Dublin.
She had two children, Shane and Siobhán, a journalist, writer and songwriter, with husband Maurice MacGowan, a department store worker from the Irish capital.
The couple spent some time living in England, where Shane was born in 1957, before returning to Tipperary, where the Pogues frontman had spent much of his childhood.
It came days after the Pogues' tour manager, Frank Murray, died of a suspected heart attack.
Murray, a well-known face on the Irish music scene, was also a former manager to Thin Lizzy and Elton John.
He was credited by some with bringing together Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl together for the hit Fairytale Of New York.
Mr MacGowan's own health has suffered this year and has spent some time in hospital.
Struggle: Mr MacGowan's own health has suffered this year and has spent some time in hospital after breaking his pelvis and for a back operation
It is believed that the singer - who was recently photographed looking frail and hobbling around on crutches - was due to have a procedure on his back.
A year ago, the veteran hellraiser was rushed to A&E for treatment after breaking his pelvis while performing what was described as a 'complicated dance move'.
It's understood that he has re-discovered his unique, gravelly singing voice of late after receiving a new set of teeth, which have helped him 'phrase things properly'.
The new teeth are now changing MacGowan's life and also allowed him to eat his first apple in at least three decades while sitting in the dentist's office after the operation.
He has re-discovered his unique, gravelly singing voice of late after receiving a new set of teeth, which have helped him 'phrase things properly'
According to MacGowan's girlfriend of 30 years, Victoria Mary Clarke, the teeth are based on those of the actor Michael Fassbender.
But never one to play entirely by the rules, the singer insisted on one being gold, which his partner has described as 'sexy'.
To help him through the potential discomfort of the procedure, the singer hired a pranic healer, a form of alternative medicine that claims to 'balance, harmonise and transform the body's energy processes'.
He has described the pranic healing as 'better than any drug he's ever taken'.
Ms Clarke, 49, a writer, said: 'The healer came into the surgery and worked on him to make him relax, which really helped.
'The dentist said he was the most relaxed, calm and patient patient he had ever had.'
MacGowan was worried he might look ridiculous if he were to choose a sparkling white set of teeth, so asked for some resembling those with which he was born, complete with imperfections. |
Bel Mooney: I'm still so bitter after my husband's fling | Get a life in which you are generous. Look at the azaleas making fuchsia starbursts in spring; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black sky on a cold night. And realise life is glorious, and that you have no business taking it for granted. From A Short Guide To A Happy Life by Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
Dear Bel
I met my husband aged 15 (he was 17) — the only man I’ve ever slept with. Infatuated, still at school, I got pregnant and was persuaded by his mother that a termination was best. I was in denial for some time, so it was late.
I couldn’t/wouldn’t let him go, even though I knew his feelings for me had lessened. But he was (still is) a decent man, and we got married in 1990.
I thought we were happy although he gambled quite often and liked to drink. I felt we didn’t deserve a child and in a way wanted to punish myself. But in 2002 we had a daughter, and another four years later. Rather than ease my pain, those births worsened it, because I thought of what I’d lost.
We shared childcare, chores, meals — but in the past five years we became very distant. About seven months ago, I discovered he’d been sleeping with a woman he’d met at the pub. I was devastated. We tried again but I discovered this twice-married, needy woman was still in touch — although he denied it.
I threw him out and he went to live with her, but after a few weeks she threw him out, too — saying he was still too emotionally tied to us.
He had nowhere to go so I took him back on the understanding that he would get his own place — which he did. Then he gave that up when we decided on giving it one last try.
But it was absolutely torture at home. I couldn’t trust him, so I kept checking up on him, and my elder daughter said she can’t live in such an atmosphere. I told him to go and live with the woman as I believed they were still in touch.
A few weeks have passed. He’s still coming over. After a few drinks he’s very remorseful and regrets the whole situation. Truth is, I can’t give him up or let him move on.
He says he loves me as ‘we’ve known each other for 35 years’. But I know he was never really in love with me, and I still feel regret over the lost child and that he doesn’t deserve happiness.
He’s a good man who adores his children and I want to remain friends with him. In some ways, I should see this as a new beginning but I’m struggling so much.
I’m turning into a bitter, angry person and don’t know which way to turn.
MARIA
You and your husband have much talking to do, and I suggest you have some couple counselling
You don’t tell me where he’s living now — with her? In a bedsit? Whatever the circumstances, he keeps visiting because he wants to — very much.
He loves his daughters and is a good father. You have no doubt that he is a ‘decent’ man, even though he had a fling with a readily available woman. This story is uniquely terrible for you and, believe me, I understand and sympathise.
Yet to me it’s ordinary. You see, many marriages run into a dreary period where communication and sex fizzle out. At that stage, men and women are often lured by the tasty green grass in the next field and quickly hop over the fence.
That they might get snagged on barbed wire or even injured by an angry bull doesn’t cross their minds — and never will. But please believe me when I assure you infidelity doesn’t have to break up a family.
Your husband and the woman in the pub were an accident waiting to happen. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the story.
To me, it’s clear that you do not want this marriage to be over. Yes, you’re angry, hurt, and confused — so consumed by jealousy you’ve helped make your daughters miserable, too. But who can blame you?
When a man has been unfaithful, it’s natural to lose all trust. Still, I know for a fact that you can use the upheaval as a trigger for talking, discovering new things about each other, and moving forward — changed. You won’t forget, but you can forgive.
Obviously, we need to address your ongoing guilt over the ‘lost child’. You say your husband ‘doesn’t deserve happiness’, but aren’t you actually talking about yourself? Very young and in love, you had an abortion — and you have been punishing yourself for it ever since.
So when you say ‘his feelings for me had lessened’, and ‘he was never in love with me’ — what you really mean is that you feel unworthy of love.
Haunted by the loss of your unborn baby, you blame yourself — and this is something you should talk about. For post-abortion counselling, visit pregnancychoicesdirectory.com.
But the boy you adored chose to marry you; he didn’t have to — he loved you. Yes, he had faults, but the pair of you created a good life — until five years ago.
Now you praise his good qualities and want to remain friends. So tell me, are you really going to throw away 35 years because he behaved like so many others? What would your daughters most like? For you to make a new start, of course — but not if you are ‘angry and bitter’.
You and your husband have much talking to do, and I suggest you have some couple counselling (relate.org.uk). Tell him it’s necessary. For don’t you owe it to all you’ve shared (including the sorrow) to give that a try?
My jealous girl is tearing us apart
Dear Bel
I have a daughter of 43 from my first marriage. Her father and I separated when she was four, and ultimately she was raised by him, and not me.
My second husband and I have been together since she was six. Their relationship has always been rather strained because of my daughter’s jealousy and possessiveness.
In 2012 her husband committed suicide, then in 2015 her new partner died of heart failure.
Her sister (my second daughter) died in 2013. So she really has suffered an enormous amount of heartbreak.
However, she has always been possessive over me — to the extent that she has no friends or other people with whom she can spend time. She isn’t easy company because of her excessive drinking and anti-social behaviour.
I stress that I love her very much and have been supportive when she has been unable (because of the drinking) to care for herself or her home. She has a son of 17 who does not wish to spend time with her.
My daughter has now given me an ultimatum. I must choose between her or my husband of 37 years. I’ve been meeting her on my own to try to diffuse this situation by giving her my undivided attention.
And finally Why we must all help our brave heroes Rarely do I feel involved with sport, although I always want the Union Jack to triumph. But last week I watched a certain cycling race, heart thumping, shouting support. The event, in Prince Harry’s inspirational Invictus Games, was hand cycling. And the competitor was my grandson’s godfather, Steve Arnold, vice-captain of the UK team. How thrilling it was when he took gold. Steve was a Staff Sergeant with 28 Engineer Regiment when he lost both his legs above the knee, stepping on an IED while leading a search team in Afghanistan in April 2011. Broken, but indomitable, he fought back — and only a couple of months later, he’d taken up hand cycling through the Help For Heroes Sports Recovery Programme and was selected by the British Cycling Development Team. He’s now turned his attention to Para Nordic skiing, with his sights set on the next Paralympic Games. He’s an inspiring ‘advertisement’ for the charity Help For Heroes (helpfor heroes.org.uk) which is celebrating its tenth anniversary. In that time it has supported 17,267 men and women — veterans with physical and/or psychological problems and it has also granted £37 million to other specialist charities. All this is only possible as people endlessly raise funds to make a life-changing difference to incredible individuals such as Steve. And there is no end to the ongoing need. Medical discharges from the Armed Forces are at the highest level for three years. I’m ashamed to say that until my daughter married a soldier I knew little of these matters. Now I feel passionate about the need to support all those who serve our country, especially when they suffer life-changing injuries as a result. Prince Harry’s uplifting speeches made me cry, but he’d be the first to agree that the wounded need all of us to help them to become Invictus — unvanquished.
I’m now at the end of my tether, patience and understanding. I love my husband very much and I intend to stay with him.
But I don’t want to lose either of them.
What should I do?
LORRAINE
Forgive me, but I can’t help wondering how much of your love for, and attention to, this very unhappy and difficult woman stems from guilt.
I suspect it will be impossible for you to decide how to go forward without untangling your own complicated feelings about the past. The catch-all ‘Love’ often feels inadequate when I read the outline of a situation like this.
You don’t tell me why your daughter was brought up by your former husband, but this raises questions.
Surely we are looking at the roots of her neediness, as well as her dislike of your second husband? Did she feel you didn’t want her? Did a new man in your life foster terrible insecurity or resentment in the little girl? Were you so wrapped up with him that, in truth, you had little time for your child?
What was your ex-husband’s attitude towards your new love (or was he actually in your life at the time of the split?), and did he communicate his feelings to your daughter?
She may have been even more jealous when you had another daughter. I’m sorry to bombard you with questions, but believe you have to work your way through them. Two more important issues are whether you have discussed the past in detail with your daughter and/or encouraged her to have counselling for her problems.
Her drinking and unspecified ‘anti-social behaviour’ are indications of deep-seated anger and unhappiness — psychological problems that require help. The fact that she has no friends, and that her own son wants nothing to do with her, suggest a disturbed individual.
She knows she can’t force you to give up your husband; nevertheless, you are right to listen to this cry for help. You must be calm and tough. You need to bat her ultimatum back and say you will go on loving and supporting her, but only if she seeks help.
This is your job. If you can pay for counselling, so much the better. The British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy has a useful list at itsgoodtotalk.org.uk, and you could also investigate Alcoholics Anonymous.
I would also like to know whether she had any help in coping with her bereavements. Try Cruse bereavement care for ideas of how to help with this issue. Surely your grandson needs support, too? Look at the Relate website to investigate its excellent services for young people. It’s time to take charge.
Bel answers readers’ questions on emotional and relationship problems each week. Write to Bel Mooney, Daily Mail, 2 Derry Street, London W8 5TT, or email bel.mooney@dailymail.co.uk. A pseudonym will be used if you wish. Bel reads all letters but regrets she cannot enter into personal correspondence. |
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Morning News Call - India, April 13 | (Morning News Call - India edition will not be published on Friday, April 14, as markets are closed for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti and Good Friday.) To access the newsletter, click on the link: here If you would like to receive this newsletter via email, please register at: here FACTORS TO WATCH 11:15 am: Petroleum Secretary K. D. Tripathi briefs media on cabinet decisions related to the ministry in New Delhi. 4:00 pm: India Ratings webinar on power sector in Mumbai. 5:00 pm: RBI to release weekly foreign exchange data in Mumbai. GMF: LIVECHAT - CHINA AUTOMOBILE OUTLOOK Will SUVs continue to boost Chinese car makers such as Geely and Great Wall Motor in the rest of 2017 and beyond? What is the prospect of electric cars - both domestic brand BYD and U.S. brand Tesla - in China? Reuters auto correspondent Jake Spring will discuss the trend of the industry at 11:30 am. To join the conversation, click on the link: here INDIA TOP NEWS • Higher fuel prices drive up India's inflation to five-month high Higher fuel costs drove up India's headline inflation to its highest level in five months in March, data showed, vindicating a central bank decision last week to keep its policy rate on hold amid concern about price pressures. • Indian sales tax coming July 1, to boost growth, revenues - official India will launch a new national sales tax as planned on July 1 to boost economic growth and state revenues, a finance ministry official said on Wednesday, despite calls from some businesses for a delay. • Indian state refiners to revise fuel price in 5 cities daily from May 1 - sources India's state-owned fuel retailers plan to implement daily revision of fuel price in five cities from May 1 ahead of a nationwide roll out of the scheme, industry sources said. • Indian-Greek venture offers 480 mln euros to build Crete airport -sources The only bid submitted to build an airport on the island of Crete was priced at 480 million euros ($509.42 million), well below the expected 850 million, sources close to the project said on Wednesday. GLOBAL TOP NEWS • China's Xi urges peaceful resolution of N.Korea tension in call with Trump Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region. • U.S.-Russia relations at another low after Syria attacks The presidents of the United States and Russia on Wednesday both presented souring views of the relationship between their two countries, exchanging sharp words as Moscow extended an icy welcome to the United States' top diplomat in a face-off over Syria. • Foreign journalists in North Korea gather for "big event" amid tensions Foreign journalists visiting North Korea gathered in Pyongyang for "a big and important event" with tensions high over the possibility of a new weapons test by the isolated state and as a U.S. carrier group sails towards the Korean peninsula. LOCAL MARKETS OUTLOOK (As reported by NewsRise) • The SGX Nifty Futures were trading at 9,202.50, trading little changed from its previous close. • The Indian rupee will likely open higher against the dollar, as the greenback slipped after U.S. President Donald Trump said the currency was getting too strong and that he prefers a low interest rate policy. • Indian government bonds will likely edge higher in early trade tracking a slide in U.S. Treasury yields after President Donald Trump said he preferred a low Federal funds rate. The yield on the benchmark 6.97 pct bond maturing in 2026 is likely to trade in a 6.75 pct-6.81 pct band today. The bond closed at 101.30 rupees, yielding 6.78 pct, yesterday. GLOBAL MARKETS • U.S. stocks eased on Wednesday and the S&P 500 closed below a key technical level for the first time since Election Day, pressured by lingering geopolitical concerns and President Donald Trump's comments on the dollar and interest rates. • Japanese stocks posted fresh four-month lows as the yen spiked against the dollar after U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S currency was too strong, hitting automakers and tech shares hard. • The dollar slumped broadly, falling to a five-month low against the yen, after U.S. President Donald Trump helped accelerate its recent decline by saying the currency was too strong. • U.S. Treasury yields fell on Wednesday with benchmark yields hitting a near five-month low, prompted by comments by U.S. President Donald Trump on favoring low interest rates made in a newspaper interview published in late U.S. trading. • Crude oil futures slid for a second session, moving away from a one-month high touched briefly in the last session as rising U.S. production stoked worries about global oversupply. • Gold hit a five-month peak as the U.S. dollar slid after President Donald Trump said he preferred lower interest rates with the greenback "too strong", and amid rising tensions over U.S. relations with Russia and North Korea. CLOSE FII INVESTMENTS EQUITIES DEBT PNDF spot 64.52/64.55 April 12 -$89.8 mln $116.57 mln 10-yr bond yield 7.16 Month-to-date -$1.2 mln $2.89 bln Year-to-date $6.78 bln $8.36 bln For additional data: India govt bond market volumes Stock market reports Non-deliverable forwards data Corporate debt stories [IN CORPD] Local market closing/intraday levels [IN SNAPSHOT] Monthly inflows [INFLOWS RTRS TABLE IN] ($1 = 64.6850 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Nayyar Rasheed in Bengaluru) |
Washington Wizards' Otto Porter Could Draw Interest From Brooklyn Nets In Fre... | Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter has played at an All-Star level this season, which could cause the Brooklyn Nets to pursue him in the summer. For a few years, fans grew accustomed to seeing Otto Porter sit on Randy Wittman 's bench as depleted veterans got the nod ahead of the developing forward.
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Fitch: Shallow Economic Recovery for Latin America in 2017 | (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Link to Fitch Ratings' Report: Latin American Sovereign Overview 2Q17 here NEW YORK, April 06 (Fitch) In its "Latin American Sovereign Overview 2Q17", Fitch Ratings forecasts regional GDP growth to recover moderately to 1.3% in 2017 following two years of economic contraction. Better external demand, a moderate rise in commodity prices, and improved performance in two large regional economies (Argentina and Brazil) should facilitate the region's economic recovery. Several inflation-targeting central banks have begun to ease monetary policy (most notably Brazil) as the pass-through from weaker currencies is waning and the impact of the El Nino weather pattern is diminishing. Conversely, Mexico has been tightening monetary policy to control inflation and inflation expectations in the face of a weak and volatile peso. Fiscal consolidation continues to face challenges from weak growth and continued spending pressures, while debt dynamics remain adverse in numerous countries. Greater trade protectionism and tighter immigration controls under the Trump administration, tighter external financing conditions, faster deceleration in China, and a renewed slide in commodity prices are downside risks for the region's growth outlook. Currently, six Latin American sovereigns have Negative Outlooks (Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Suriname) and none has a Positive Outlook. Since our 4Q16 publication, we have downgraded Suriname by two notches, and El Salvador and Costa Rica by one notch. Mexico and Chile have had their Outlooks changed to Negative from Stable. On the positive side, we have upgraded the Dominican Republic by one notch to 'BB-' with a Stable Outlook, and we have changed Colombia's Outlook to Stable from Negative. 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Stunning! California's Super Bloom wild flower can be seen from space | California looks beautiful like never before this year. After times of drought, a 'super bloom' of flowers is making hilly regions of California look gorgeous.
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Fire officer relives harrowing phone call with mother... | A fire officer who battled to get Grenfell Tower evacuated has relived the harrowing moment he spoke to a trapped mother while her children were dying.
Daniel Egan, a station manager in regulatory fire safety, arrived shortly before 2am on June 14 last year and co-ordinated 999 call information.
He realised “very early on” that the inferno was out of control and urged three senior fire officers to abandon the stay-put advice given to occupants.
Grenfell Tower
A full evacuation was eventually ordered at 2.47am, almost two hours after the fire began.
Mr Egan told the inquiry into the disaster that, as sunrise neared, a crew manager came over with a mobile phone.
On the end of the line was a mother who was in flat 113 or flat 133, the hearing at Holborn Bars was told, while her partner watched helplessly from the ground.
“All she said was…” Mr Egan started, before pausing to compose himself.
“Sorry,” he continued.
“She was saying she just wants to go, really, one of her children had already gone and the other one wasn’t moving and she had no reason to do anything,” he said, his voice breaking.
It is unclear to whom Mr Egan had been speaking.
The officer, with 26 years’ service, also recalled a conversation with a man stuck on the 10th floor, who was a priority for rescue due to his proximity to the blaze.
He said: “The guy was so calm, he just believed we were going to get him out.”
On Tuesday, Mr Egan told the inquiry it was “obvious” that an evacuation was necessary from the moment he arrived.
Asked on Wednesday by counsel to the inquiry Richard Millett QC at what stage he realised fire crews would not be able to extinguish the fire, Mr Egan said: “Very early on.
“There was so much fire that was going through into flats, just on my experience I know you weren’t going to get the water to all of those floors, we just can’t physically do that.
“That’s where my opinion was, we needed to get the people out and once we get them out we could at least then try in a more strategic manner to try to extinguish the fire.
“They were committing breathing apparatus crews to get people out but the frustration was I didn’t know that was what they were doing. I didn’t know if they were trying to put the fire out as well – if they were, they were just wasting resources, wasting time – we cannot put that fire out.”
He had expressed his frustration about the stay-put advice up the chain of command.
He said he raised concerns after group manager Tom Goodall took over responsibility for the 999 calls, a role he had been doing for around 40 minutes since arriving at 2am.
“I was vociferous in the way I said it, I just wanted it to be heard,” he said of conversations with Mr Goodall and group managers Richard Welch and Pat Goulbourne.
“Sometimes some people get focused on their own little routines – I’m sure I got focused on fire survival guidance – sometimes you need to listen to what else is going on.
“You might not see that as the priority, but to me, it was clear.”
Mr Egan explained the system used for prioritising rescues on the night, putting flats with the vulnerable and children first.
At the close of his evidence, he said: “Can I just say – we prioritised everyone, just some were a bit higher.” |
FOREX-Dollar hold gains on hawkish Yellen, investors eye US inflation data | FOREX-Dollar hold gains on hawkish Yellen, investors eye US inflation data
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TOKYO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The dollar stood tall on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signalled a faster pace of U.S. interest rate increases at her two-day testimony before Congress.
Yellen told the U.S. Senate Banking Committee the central bank will likely need to raise interest rates at one of its upcoming meetings, although she expressed caution amid considerable uncertainty over economic policy under the Trump administration.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against its six major peers, rose to a 3-1/2-week high of 101.38 on Tuesday following Yellen's remarks. The index was last up 0.1 percent at 101.27.
"Investors didn't expect Yellen to be that hawkish, so the dollar gained," said Ayako Sera, market strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
"There are no big factors preventing the Fed from raising rates in March. Unless the emerging markets become volatile or the U.S. economic data shows weakness, the March rate hike is highly plausible," added Sera.
U.S. interest rates futures implied traders saw about a 20 percent chance of three rate increases in 2017, up from less than 10 percent on Monday.
Since the end of the 2007-09 recession, the Fed has raised rates once in December 2015 and again in December of last year.
President Donald Trump has announced a rollback of financial regulation though details remain scarce, and markets are yet to get clarity on the size and scope of the tax cuts he has promised.
"Changes in fiscal policy or other economic policies could potentially affect the economic outlook," said Yellen, underscoring the uncertainty over economic policy.
The dollar was fetching 114.28 yen, not far from the two-week peak of 114.49 yen touched on Tuesday.
The euro was last down 0.1 percent at $1.0572, wallowing near a one-month low of $1.0559 plumbed on Tuesday amid political risk and disappointing regional economic data.
The euro has come under pressure from concerns about France's presidential election and Greek bailout talks. Polls showed National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who has promised to pull France out of the euro zone and hold a referendum on European Union membership, is leading in the first round of the French presidential runoff.
Investors are eyeing a batch of U.S. economic data due out later on Wednesday, including consumer price index (CPI) and retail sales, for any fresh catalysts.. |
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BRIEF-Lvjing Holding unit plans investment management JV with partenrs | Architect claims NY's One World Trade Center stole his design
NEW YORK, June 14 A Korean-born architect on Wednesday sued a major architecture firm over the design of Manhattan's One World Trade Center, claiming that the building bears a "striking similarity" to a tower he designed in 1999 while in graduate school. |
Man admits stabbing woman who escaped from moving car | ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A Pennsylvania man who repeatedly stabbed a woman in an Atlantic City casino parking garage last year has pleaded guilty to attempted murder.
David Legette entered his plea Tuesday as part of a deal with Atlantic County prosecutors. The 54-year-old Bristol Township man faces a 16-year state prison term when he's sentenced July 20.
Authorities say the victim had an active restraining order against Legette when the attack occurred July 2. Prosecutors say Legette stabbed her 19 times, then locked the car doors so she couldn't escape.
As Legette drove in nearby Ventnor, the woman reached out of the window and opened the door from the outside. She then rolled herself out of the car and landed in the middle of the road as Legette drove off. She survived the ordeal. |
Germany should raise investment to narrow surplus-Lagarde | BERLIN, April 10 Germany should increase investment on education and broadband internet and not just on hard infrastructure like bridges and roads to narrow its current account surplus, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
"Excessive surpluses are to be rebalanced and there are multiple ways of doing that. Some of our recommendations to German policy makers is to increase investments in the German economy," Lagarde said.
Lagarde was presenting a joint report on global trade by the IMF, World Bank and the World Trade Organization. She, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and WTO Director General Director-General Roberto Azevedo will later on Monday meet Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Lagarde said global trade has had some disruptive effects despite being a major source of growth, adding that international commerce must be supported and reforms should be implemented to address some of its negative impacts.
(Reporting by Joseph Nasr) |
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Toyota invests $1.33 bln in Kentucky plant | April 10 Japan's Toyota Motor Corp said it had invested $1.33 billion in its Kentucky plant as part of the automaker's plan to invest $10 billion in the United States over the next five years.
The move comes amid U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to change trade rules to make them more favorable for American jobs, undermining some Japanese exporters' confidence in their manufacturing plans and likely sales in the United States. (Reporting by Sruthi Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel) |
Georgia May Jagger displays her toned abs in racy selfie | She's made a career of flaunting her model figure in an array of skimpy ensembles down the catwalk.
And Georgia May Jagger, 25, was back to her racy fashion tricks as she showcased her gym-honed body in a saucy Instagram snap on Wednesday.
The supermodel beauty - who is the daughter of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall - displayed her statuesque frame with aplomb as she lay strewn across a beige pillow.
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Pillowtalk: Georgia May Jagger, 25, was back to her racy fashion tricks as she showcased her gym-honed body in a saucy Instagram snap on Wednesday
Soaking up the sun, the style maven slipped on a barely-there bright blue bikini top which managed to contain her assets while she threw her head back in complete elation.
The blonde bombshell showcased her toned abs while she donned a pair of skimpy red bikini bottoms that flaunted her lithe limbs as she relaxed on the grass which was littered with concrete bricks in the background.
Matching her swimwear with her pedicure, she left her golden tresses loose while she worked minimal make-up to accentuate her flawless complexion in the snap captioned: 'Under construction'.
Family affair: The supermodel beauty - who is the daughter of Rolling Stone Sir Mick Jagger (L) and Jerry Hall - displayed her statuesque frame with aplomb as she lay strewn across a beige pillow
Her glowing display comes months after she showcased how she maintains her incredible figure.
In March, the London stunner shared a saucy snap of her suspended upside-down as she wrapped her legs effortlessly around a pole during her pole-fitness class.
Mastering the performance art, she sported minimal clothing for the exercise class, highlighting her limbs in a pair of skintight shorts alongside her dance instructor.
Captioning the image, she wrote: 'Bye LA! Will miss Fox Sinclair, the most understanding friend and teacher!'
Pin-credible: Her glowing display comes months after she showcased how to maintains her incredible figure
Pole position: In March, the London stunner shared a saucy snap of her suspended upside-down as she wrapped her legs effortlessly around a pole during her pole-fitness class
Meanwhile, the catwalk queen has been getting used to having a new Jagger to contend with, after her rocker dad welcomed his eighth child in December.
Ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick, 30, welcomed a son Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger - - Octavian means 'born eighth' in Latin - with the Rollings Stones legend.
Sir Mick has a daughter, Karis Hunt Jagger, 46, from his relationship with Marsha Hunt and a daughter Jade Jagger, now 45, with his ex-wife Bianca.
He had four children with his ex-partner Jerry Hall - Elizabeth, 32, James, 31, Georgia and Gabriel, 18.
Darling: Meanwhile, the catwalk queen has been getting used to having a new Jagger to contend with -her rocker dad welcomed his eighth child in December
New mum: Ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick (pictured in 2016) welcomed a son, Deveraux Octavian Basil, with the Rollings Stones legend
Namesake: Basil was the first name of Sir Mick's late father, who died in 2006, although he was known to others as Joe
He also had a son, Lucas, 17, following a brief relationship with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez. Yet, Basil was the first name of Sir Mick's late father, who died in 2006, although he was known to others as Joe.
A statement released on behalf of the couple at the time of birth said: 'Melanie Hamrick and Mick Jagger's son was born today in New York and they are both delighted.
'Mick was at the hospital for the arrival. Mother and baby are doing well and we request that the media respect their privacy at this time.' |
Kenyan police briefly detain legislator over opposition leader's 'swearing in' | NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police on Saturday briefly detained a third opposition legislator who attended a symbolic “swearing-in” of opposition leader Raila Odinga that was a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta, who won re-election in October.
The government has made several arrests and suspended three television channels that had planned to stream Tuesday’s event.
George Aladwa, a member of Odinga’s National Resistance Movement, was detained by police in the capital Nairobi, his lawyer Nelson Havi told Reuters.
“He was interrogated in connection with the oath taken by Kenyan main opposition leader Raila Odinga as the people’s president,” he said.
Aladwa, who denied any wrongdoing, was ordered to report back on Tuesday, Havi added. A police spokesman said he was not aware of his detention.
The arrest follows that of opposition politician Miguna Miguna, who was detained in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home on Friday and that of another opposition leader a day earlier.
Miguna was released on bail of 50,000 Kenyan shillings ($500).
Miguna stood beside Odinga at Tuesday’s rally and declared himself the “general” of Odinga’s National Resistance Movement, which authorities have designated a “criminal group” because of its stated intent to establish a parallel government.
Kenya’s ban on three private television stations defied a court order to lift the move. The media crackdown has been criticized by the United Nations and the United States.
The arrests and broadcast bans have shocked many Kenyans used to a freewheeling media and irreverent political culture that has taken root since 2002. |
Early-morning pipeline explosion lights up South Texas sky | A natural gas pipeline has exploded in South Texas, in a fiery display that lit up the sky and could be seen for miles.
The force of the explosion shook homes as far as 60 miles away, according to KHOU-TV.
Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Nathan Brandley says the explosion occurred early Wednesday near Refugio, a rural community north of Corpus Christi, about 15 miles from the Texas Coast.
Texas officials say the explosion occurred early Wednesday near Refugio, a rural community north of Corpus Christi, about 15 miles from the Texas Coast
The force of the explosion shook homes as far as 60 miles away
In the past two decades, the US government has recorded more than 2,000 accidents on gas transmission lines across the country
The fire created a marvelous image and clash of colors reminiscent of a scene in a science fiction movie
Brandley says no one was hurt and that there are no refineries or plants nearby.
He says it's too early to know what triggered the explosion.
Brandley says crews are working to close the line and extinguish the flames.
Mishaps with transmission lines are not uncommon.
In the past two decades, the US government has recorded more than 2,000 accidents on gas transmission lines across the country. |
BRIEF-Sungrow Power Supply Co Says To Expand Production Facilities Into India | April 24 (Reuters) - Sungrow Power Supply Co Ltd :
* SUNGROW TO EXPAND ITS PRODUCTION FACILITIES INTO INDIA
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French 'Mama Jihad' jailed for spurring on son in Syria | Smoke rises from buildings in Deir Ezzor on September 13, 2017, as Syrian forces advance during their ongoing battle against the Islamic State (IS) group
A French woman who travelled three times to Syria in support of her jihadist son was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
Christine Riviere, 51, was sentenced for her "unfailing commitment" to jihad and for helping a number of young women travel to Syria to marry jihadists including her son, Tyler Vilus.
It was the maximum sentence possible and included a stipulation that Riviere, a Muslim convert nicknamed "Mama Jihad" in the French press, will be ineligible for parole for seven years.
Vilus, 27, travelled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State group in 2012 or 2013.
Riviere, who visited her son three times in 2013 and 2014, denied fighting with the Islamic State group, though she posted pictures on Facebook of decapitations and of herself holding a Kalashnikov.
"I didn't want to push him to die a martyr, but that could happen," she said of her son. "Then he would be in heaven, near Allah."
Friday's verdict came barely a week after the conviction and sentencing of another French mother of a jihadist.
Nathalie Haddadi, 43, whose son fought and is thought to have died in Syria, was given a two-year jail sentence for financing terrorism because she wired funds to him.
Haddadi's lawyer Herve Denis said she would appeal the verdict, to avoid it becoming a precedent for the 2,000 French parents whose children had travelled to Syria to wage jihad.
Riviere's 30-year-old son Leroy, in tearful testimony, said he did not think his mother had "killed innocents".
"She left for her son, for love, not to fight," he said.
He described Riviere as a loving mother who dreamed of going on a world cruise with her sons, who were named after characters in the television series "Fame".
A psychiatrist who served as an expert witness at the trial said Riviere had lost her critical and moral judgement and had fantasies about sharing her son's extremism.
- 'She is completely lost' -
Her lawyer Thomas Klotz described a woman who had lost her bearings but had only a rudimentary knowledge of Islam. "She is completely lost, we are in the heart of darkness," he said.
The prosecutor called Riviere a "jihad madam" because she supplied brides to IS soldiers.
Riviere said she converted to Islam in 2012 at her son's behest but would have been drawn to the religion anyway, saying it had "calmed" her.
Riviere, the daughter of funfair workers, was arrested in July 2014 as she was preparing a fourth visit.
Vilus was arrested a year later in Turkey, from where he was extradited to France, where an investigation is pending. |
BRIEF-CenturyLink says Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland and District of Columbia approve company's level 3 merger | Western Digital expects ruling on injunction request by mid-July -source
TOKYO, June 15 Western Digital Corp expects a ruling on its request for a court injunction to stop the sale of Toshiba Corp's chip unit by mid-July, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday. The California-based firm presented a revised offer for the chip unit that met Toshiba's requests on Wednesday but did not receive a positive response, a separate source said. |
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Former champions Serbia and Switzerland knocked out in... | Feb 3 (Reuters) - The United State surged to an unbeatable 3-0 lead to eliminate 2010 champions Serbia in the first round of the Davis Cup on Saturday.
Joining Serbia at the exit were 2014 winners Switzerland, who were also overwhelmed 3-0 by Kazakhstan after failing to mount much of a challenge in the absence of 20-times grand slam champion Roger Federer.
Holding a 2-0 lead after Friday's singles, Americans Ryan Harrison and Steve Johnson came from a set down to beat Nikola Milojevic and Miljan Zekic 6-7(3) 6-2 7-5 6-4 in front of a partisan Serbian crowd.
Holders France need one more victory on Sunday to progress to the quarter-finals after Pierre Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut earned them a 2-1 lead over the Netherlands following a 7-6(6) 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(2) victory over Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer in almost 3-1/2 hours in Albertville.
Belgium, finalists last year, slipped up against Hungary after winning both of Friday's singles matches. Attila Balazs and Marton Fucsovics kept Hungary's chances alive with a 6-3 6-4 6-7(2) 4-6 7-5 win over Ruben Bemelmans and Joris De Loore in Liege.
Croatia mounted a superb comeback in their tie against Canada, with world number three Marin Cilic and Ivan Dodlig roaring back from two sets down to eke out a 2-6 3-6 6-4 7-5 6-2 win over Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil for a 2-1 lead.
The Spanish pairing of Feliciano Lopez and Pablo Carreno Busta comfortably beat Britain's Jamie Murray and Dominic Inglot 6-4 6-4 7-6(4) to give them a 2-1 lead.
Italy grabbed a 2-1 advantage over Japan, while Germany also stood one win away from a last eight place after beating Australia in the doubles.
Kazakhstan became the first team to reach the quarter-finals after Timur Khabibulin and Aleksandr Nedovyesov secured a 6-4 6-4 3-6 6-7(5) 6-3 win over Marc-Andrea Huesler and Luca Margaroli. (Reporting by Philip O'Connor in Stockholm, editing by Pritha Sarkar) |
BRIEF-LH Financial Group posts qtrly net profit of 586.6 million baht | BRIEF-Jiayuan International Group updates on contracted sales for Month of May
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Members hear about Associated Charities | The March 2 meeting of the Ashland County Chapter 65, District 10 met 10 a.m. at The Mill Restaurant in Buehler's Fresh Foods with 33 members and guests present. Bev Halterman introduced Rosemary Donley, executive director of Associated Charities, as speaker.
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ConocoPhillips posts profit vs year-ago loss on asset sale gain | May 2 ConocoPhillips reported a quarterly profit on Tuesday, compared with a year-earlier loss, helped by a gain on its sale of oil sands and western Canadian natural gas assets to Cenovus Energy Inc.
The company's net profit was $800 million, or 62 cents per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $1.5 billion, or $1.18 per share, a year earlier.
ConocoPhillips' production, excluding Libya, rose 6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) to 1,584 million boepd. (Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza) |
Egypt's Beltone Financial to launch $1 billion fixed income fund: CEO | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Beltone Financial will launch a $1 billion investment fund in fixed income instruments in September, its chief executive officer told Reuters on Monday.
The investment bank aims to raise $150-200 million in the first phase of the investment fund, Bassem Azzab said.
Beltone aims to acquire brokerages in Egypt and frontier markets, Azzab said. He expects the company to manage the initial public offering of a pharmaceutical company worth over 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($56.37 million) on the Egyptian stock market before the end of 2017.
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BRIEF-Fiat Chrysler boosts its revolving credit line to 6.25 bln euros -statement | March 30 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said in a statement:
* It has increased its revolving credit line with banks to 6.25 billion euros ($6.71 billion) from 5 billion euros
* Final maturity for credit line is March 2022. Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.9317 euros) (Reporting by Rome newsroom) |
BRIEF-Veru Acquires Novel Proprietary Formulation For Overactive Bladder | Dec 11 (Reuters) - Veru Inc:
* VERU ACQUIRES NOVEL PROPRIETARY FORMULATION FOR OVERACTIVE BLADDER
* VERU PLANS TO BEGIN SOLIFENACIN DRG BIOEQUIVALENCE STUDY IN 2018 AND TO FILE NDA IN 2019
* UNDER TERMS OF AGREEMENT WITH CAMARGO, VERU PAID AN UNDISCLOSED UPFRONT FEE TO ACQUIRE ASSET
* UNDER TERMS, VERU TO PAY UNDISCLOSED MILESTONE FEES UPON SUCCESSFUL CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT, LOW SINGLE DIGIT ROYALTY UPON COMMERCIAL SALES
* FDA CONFIRMED IN A MEETING WITH CO THAT REGULATORY APPROVAL FOR SOLIFENACIN DRG WILL REQUIRE A SINGLE BIOEQUIVALENCE STUDY Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
Predators bring back Yannick Weber with one-year contract | Two days after having their season come to an end in the Stanley Cup Final the Nashville Predators got to work assembling their roster for next season. The team announced on Tuesday that it has signed veteran defenseman Yannick Weber to a one-year contract that will pay him $600,000 for the 2017-18 season.
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BRIEF-Global Water Resources Secures $8 Mln Revolving Line Of Credit To Support Growth Strategy | April 24 (Reuters) - Global Water Resources Inc:
* GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES SECURES $8 MILLION REVOLVING LINE OF CREDIT TO SUPPORT GROWTH STRATEGY
* GLOBAL WATER RESOURCES INC - ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH MIDFIRST BANK FOR A TWO-YEAR REVOLVING LINE OF CREDIT OF UP TO $8 MILLION Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
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Christian singer asked for an EXORCISM to stop her being gay | To those gathered in the pews, arms raised and swaying with exultation, Vicky Beeching's brand of Christian music was the epitome of a wholesome Christian life.
However, she knew that if she told the truth about her sexual orientation, she would watch her successful career serving up faith-led rock music to America's bible belt falter.
Now out as a proud lesbian woman, the 38-year-old has been speaking out in support of the UK government's plans to ban gay conversion therapy - and has revealed how, as a teenager, she underwent an exorcism in front of 4,000 people to try and rid herself of 'the demons of homosexuality'.
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Vicky Beeching began writing and performing Christian music as a teenager growing up in Kent; her career took off in America's bible-belt and she moved to the US...but spent much of her teenage years and twenties feeling deep shame about her sexuality
Beeching, now 38, told ITV news that she asked for an exorcism as a young teenager - and it was performed in front of around 4,000 people with people trying to pray away her homosexuality
Beeching has added her voice this week to support plans by the UK government to ban gay conversion therapy completely
Ministers this week pledged to bring in new laws to prevent charlatans from advertising 'abhorrent' treatments that offer to 'cure' people of their homosexuality.
Thousands of gay people have been offered the therapy, which claims to be able to make them heterosexual, a survey for the Government found.
The Government's LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) action plan – backed by £4.5million from Whitehall – also promises to hold a consultation on making it easier for people to legally change their sex.
From the age of fourteen, Beeching had been travelling to the US to perform the religious music she wrote at her family home in Kent.
Speaking to ITV News she revealed how she'd experienced both the subtlest and most dramatic forms of gay conversion therapy.
I was taught that being gay was actually damage, damage that had been done to me because I was born straight... Vicky Beeching
She explains: 'By the age of 14, church teachings had already made me feel so much shame about my gay orientation that I went looking for help.
'The first port of call was a Catholic priest, I went to confession. Two years later, I was so desperate that I actually underwent an exorcism in a large venue, with 4,000 people.
'I found the courage to go to the front and have a prayer ministry session where people would shout that the demons of homosexuality would come out... because I'd been told being gay was caused by demons.
Conversion therapy left Beeching 'broken', she says and in hospital with stress and an auto-immune disorder
The singer has now written a book about her experiences and her fight for acceptance
As Beeching entered her twenties, she says she 'engaged in more subtle forms of conversion therapy where you are prayed for and they try and find traumas and damage - maybe sexual abuse or problems with your parents.
'I was taught that being gay was actually damage, damage that had been done to me because I was born straight.'
Eventually, Beeching ended up in hospital with stress and an auto-immune disorder, saying the years of shame 'broke' her.
She adds: 'I'm living proof of the damage that it can do.'
Beeching eventually came out as gay in 2014 and says she was ostracised by her church mentors shortly after.
She says she also lost her record deal and was blacklisted by several radio stations while receiving a torrent of abuse and death threats.
'I can't say I believe same-sex relationships and marriage are sinful,' she told the Sunday Times.
'I have decided it will take too long for the church to change on this. I can't move into that role with the infighting, the disciplinary measures going on for LGBT clergy who step outside the lines.'
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UPDATE 1-Taiwan cbank says currency volatility 'unavoidable', won't intervene | * Taiwan cbank urges companies to be vigilant about FX hedging
* Says stronger Taiwan dollar is due to foreign fund inflows
* Says currency level is determined by demand vs supply (Adds background)
By Faith Hung
TAIPEI, May 3 Taiwan's central bank deputy governor said on Wednesday volatility in the local currency against the U.S. dollar is "unavoidable" but that it would not intervene in response to continuing foreign fund inflows.
The central bank has been under pressure as the surging currency could cloud prospects for Taiwan's export-driven economy.
Despite this concern, the central bank has refrained from weakening the currency through market intervention, as a precaution against the possibility of being labeled a currency manipulator by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Taiwan appeared again alongside China, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland and Germany on the latest watchlist published last month of countries that the United States would monitor as potential currency manipulators.
The semi-annual U.S. Treasury currency report has singled out those trading partners for closer scrutiny in an effort to curb what the U.S. calls "unfair currency practices."
The Taiwan dollar has strengthened about 8 percent against the U.S. dollar so far this year, making it the best-performing currency in Asia.
Earlier on Wednesday, it was traded at T$29.940, an intraday level not seen in two and half a years.
"Currency volatility is unavoidable," deputy governor Yang Chin-long said in response to questions from lawmakers at a legislative hearing, adding that the surge can be attributed to foreign fund inflows.
"Companies must be vigilant about currency hedging," he said, adding that the central bank would not intervene if foreign fund inflows continues.
"When the Taiwan dollar trades at T$29 - T$30 (to the U.S. dollar), the market perceives the U.S. dollar as too cheap," he said.
"The currency exchange rate is a matter of supply versus demand." (Additional reporting by Loh Liang-sa; Editing by Sam Holmes) |
BRIEF-Electrovaya reports Q1 2017 revenue of $1.1 million | Feb 13 Electrovaya Inc
* Electrovaya reports financial results for Q1 2017
* Electrovaya Inc - Inventory is $17.9 million as at December 31, 2016 as compared to $9.8 million for December 31, 2015
* Q1 2017 revenue is $1.1 million for quarter ended December 31, 2016, compared to Q1 2016 revenue of $8.2 million
* Electrovaya Inc - Net loss for Q1 2017 is $2.4 million compared to net profit for Q1 2016 of $3.3 million Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
Obama message goes viral after Charlottesville violence | Former US president Barack Obama, seen here at an event in Germany in May 2017, quoted Nelson Mandela in a tweet that drew more than two million "likes"
A tweet from Barack Obama drew more than two million "likes" by Monday as the former US president offered a message of tolerance following a deadly weekend clash at a white supremacist rally.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion," Obama said in the message, quoting the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Obama's tweet garnered 2.3 million "likes," the third most popular of all time, according to the Twitter-tracking site Favstar. The message was retweeted 980,000 times.
Obama's tweet struck a chord after the death of a 32-year-old woman hit by a car driven into a crowd by a suspected white supremacist on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
President Donald Trump drew fire for a tepid initial response to the violence, and he followed up Monday with a stronger condemnation of "those who spread violence in the name of bigotry."
Obama gave additional quotes from Mandela.
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love," a tweet read.
"For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
The most-liked tweet of all time was from singer Ariana Grande earlier this year -- saying "from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry" -- after a deadly attack at her Manchester concert.
That tweet dethroned the popular photo tweet from the 2014 Oscars ceremony by actress Ellen DeGeneres.
Obama's tweet also prompted more than 37,000 responses, including both positive and negative comments. |
BRIEF-Lifespot Capital enters the medical cannabis and vaporizer market | UPDATE 4-GE merges power units as exec who lost out on GE CEO job retires
SEATTLE, June 14 General Electric Co said on Wednesday it will combine its power and energy distribution businesses to create its largest unit by revenue as the top executive at GE Power announced his retirement after failing to win the conglomerate's CEO job. |
British electrician jailed in Dubai for 'public indecency' | Jamie Harron, 27, was arrested for alleged public indecency
A British electrician is facing up to three years in a Dubai jail after brushing an Arab man on the hip with his hand.
Jamie Harron, 27, made light contact with a Jordanian man to avoid spilling his drink while moving through the crowded Rock Bottom Bar on a night out.
He was arrested for public indecency and then sentenced to 30 days in jail after he missed his hearing due to a mix up over dates.
Now he faces being arrested and jailed for up to three years when he turns up to his rescheduled hearing on Sunday.
His solicitor working with NGO Detained in Dubai said Mr Harron was now 'under immense pressure and stress'.
It comes just days after Edinburgh plasterer Billy Barclay, 31, was released after being held for trying to swap a £20 note, which he did not know was forged, at a bureau de change in Dubai.
On the night of the incident Mr Harron, from Stirling, had been having a drink at the with friends at a popular venue for young people in the Tecom area of Dubai.
Mr Harron and friend had just bought their first drink when they noticed a Jordanian man who was looking over at them from the edge of the dance floor in a 'confrontational' manner.
They decided to move to avoid any aggravation, but Mr Harron had to walk past the man, and as he passed, he placed his hand on the right hand side of the top of the man's hip to ensure that when passing they didn't bump and spill drinks 'in a move familiar to most UK patrons of crowded pubs'.
He said there was no intention to upset the man in any way. The man said nothing and didn't show any reaction.
But once Mr Harron and his friend had sat at a new table, they looked over to see the man was now shouting and swinging his arms around, 'clearly agitated'. Mr Harron asked his friend if he thought the man might be shouting at them.
Jamie Harron, 27, made light contact with a Jordanian man to avoid spilling his drink while moving through the crowded Rock Bottom Bar on a night out
Now he faces being arrested and jailed for up to three years when he turns up to his rescheduled hearing on Sunday
Unsure, but not wanting problems, the British pair moved to another table, even further away.
After the incident was seemingly over, Mr Harron and his friend relaxed for another 20-30 minutes chatting when suddenly police appeared outside.
The man went out to meet them, and he began animatedly talking with them, pointing at Mr Harron, who got up and went to see what the problem was.
The man, his friends and the police were all speaking in Arabic, the accuser occasionally shouting in English, 'He's been drinking, and he touched me improperly, I will get you deported, do you know who I am?'
The police asked Mr Harron to apologise which he 'gladly did'. But his accused was 'not mollified' and demanded police arrest him.
After days in Al Barsha prison, where he was not allowed to wash himself or brush his teeth, prosecutors told Mr Harron he was charged with drinking alcohol and 'public indecency.'
He was left in a foul smelling cell with another eight nationalities sleeping on the floor with one 'revolting' mattress between them.
When he was released to stay with friends his passport was seized by police.
He failed to turn up to his hearing after the court moved the date without telling him or his lawyer which means he is now facing a further 30 days' detention.
He has already spent over £30,000 in expenses and legal fees. His entire savings are gone, his company has sacked him, and when his case is eventually heard he faces further jail time and a hefty fine.
Detained in Dubai said Mr Harron had been to Dubai many times on holiday and 'knows and respects' the country's laws.
Detained in Dubai said: 'Jamie denies this latter charge vehemently, restating that his only intention was to avoid spilling a drink.
'Tourists who consume alcohol at licensed venues can still be arrested for having alcohol in their system. Most tourists are not aware of this fact. A number of British nationals have been caught out by this contradictory application of the law.
'When Jamie was in his prison cell the night of the arrest, his friend accompanied him to the police station. The accuser and his friends were also there.
The accuser's friends were telling him to just drop the matter, and that he had taken it too far. Jamie's friend was sitting next to them all and heard the whole discussion.
'Jamie's friend is acting as his witness, as is the sympathetic security worker of the pub where the incident happened. The bouncer saw the whole incident and confirms Jamie's version of events.'
Rock Bottom Bar (pictured) is popular with British ex-pats even though it is illegal to have alcohol in your system in Dubai
Bill Barclay was detained in front of his two children after handing over what turned out to be a counterfeit Scottish note at a bureau de change
Jamie said today: 'I am really stunned that it has gone this far. I have witnesses who are willing to present themselves in court, even the bouncer at the bar. I can not believe I am facing these allegations when I followed the laws in their entirety. Now it is possible that I will be arrested [on Sunday] for failing to appear at a court hearing that neither I, nor my lawyer, were advised of.'
She said: 'He was expecting to appear in court but the court moved the date without telling him or his lawyer. This led to a sentence of 30 days imprisonment for failing to present himself at the hearing.
'Jamie has been advised by his lawyer that he is at high risk of being jailed for a duration of up to three years. It is quite outrageous that he has been held in the country for so long already.
'This is another example of how vulnerable tourists are to arrest and detention in Dubai and at how drawn out and disorganised legal proceedings are.
'We have received a wave of new cases of British nationals detained in Dubai and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office need to increase travel warnings to citizens intending to visit or live in the country.
'If Jamie is sentenced to prison, he faces human rights violations and torture. The English High Court has ruled against extradition to the UAE based on the 'very real risk of unfair trials and torture' but the UK government has refused to increase warnings, largely due to their financial and diplomatic ties with the UAE.
'Both Jamie and his family are anxious for him to be back home in Stirling as soon as possible.'
His case follows that of Edinburgh plasterer Billy Barclay, 31, who was released this week after being held for trying to swap a £20 note, which he did not know was forged, at a bureau de change in Dubai. |
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BRIEF-iFabric Corp Q1 loss per share C$0.005 | Feb 14 Ifabric Corp
* Ifabric Corp reports financial results for first financial quarter 2017 and outlook for 2017
* Q1 loss per share c$0.005
* Qtrly revenue $3,102,120 versus $3,329,010
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BRIEF-Schmolz & Bickenbach successfully placed EUR 200 mln offering | April 6 Schmolz & Bickenbach AG:
* Successfully placed 200 million euro ($213.14 million) offering
* Notes due 2022 were allocated to orders received in a several times oversubscribed offer launched on April 3, 2017 (the "Offering")
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Wild brass bands festival kicks off in Serbia | GUCA, Serbia (Reuters) - The 57h Guca Brass Band Festival, Serbia's liveliest traditional music event, has attracted tens of thousands of people crowding the streets and savoring the trumpet beat.
Guca, a normally sleepy town with only 3,700 people in the rolling hills of southwestern Serbia, is hosting the country’s biggest party, with 50 brass bands competing for the coveted Golden Trumpet.
Launched in 1961 with just four bands and only 2,500 visitors, Guca has since received more than 15 million people.
The “Dragacevo Trumpeters Assembly,” as the festival is officially called, now lures not only Serbians but tourists from around the world.
Revellers sing and dance as a band plays during the 57h Brass Band Festival, in the village of Guca, Serbia August 11, 2017. Picture taken August 11, 2017. Marko Djurica
"One Serbian girl in Germany told me about it ... and now I'm here, it's great, I love it," said Maria, a Bulgarian tourist in her 20s.
The music has a long tradition in Serbia - it goes back to a royal decree establishing a military brass band in 1831.
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The bands, those competing for the prize and those weaving through dozens of tents teeming with guests eating, drinking and partying, make good money from tips.
Most visitors drink beer and plum brandy and eat barbecued meat or a local delicacy, seasoned spicy cabbage with three kinds of meat which simmers for hours in large clay pots.
In an attempt to avoid the serious road accidents which have marred the festival in the past, police have ordered all drivers along the two roads leading in and out of Guca to take a breathalyzer test. |
A Year After It Began, A Check-In On N.H.'s 'Felonies First' Program | It's been exactly one year since the New Hampshire Courts began a major change in how felonies are prosecuted. Traditionally, each felony offense had to make its way through two courts: local courts, with police prosecutors, then superior court, with county prosecutors, before it could be resolved.
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Torts Is Getting Badly Outcoached and It Has Likely Cost Columbus The Series | Scott Hartnell played 10:28 last night and very sparingly after the third period started. Sonny Milano , entering the lineup for Matt Calvert after Calvert's suspension , played 6:46 last night, including no time on the ice from the third period on - he played 9 total shifts in an overtime game.
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China Vanke falls under direct control of Shenzhen govt | HONG KONG, March 31 China Vanke , the subject of a protracted corporate power tussle, has come under the direct control of the Shenzhen municipal government, according to a WeChat post by a local authority.
Vanke, China's No. 2 homebuilder by sales, has been in crisis since late 2015 as financial conglomerate Baoneng Group built up a 25 percent stake to become its largest shareholder and sought to oust management.
To counter Baoneng, state-owned Shenzhen Metro Group, a key Vanke ally, bought a 15 percent holding and this month became its largest shareholder in terms of voting rights after a proxy agreement with Vanke's third-biggest shareholder.
The Shenzhen body that oversees government-controlled enterprises said Vanke had become one of its newest members, according to the Wechat post seen by Reuters on Friday.
The developer had also attended a recent meeting to set targets on social responsibilities and role of state-owned enterprises in promoting Shenzhen's growth, it added.
Asked to comment on whether it could be considered a state-owned enterprise, Vanke said on Friday it had always been 'a mixed-ownership enterprise' and would continue to be one.
Whether the more direct control by the Shenzhen government will cause Baoneng to back down remains to be seen. Some analysts believe it is still interested in gaining seats on Vanke's board.
Baoneng and Shenzhen Metro did not respond to requests for comment.
The term of Vanke's current board officially expired on March 27, although company rules allow the current board to serve until a new one is formed. The property developer said this week that no time frame to select a new board had been set as yet as various parties were discussing proposals. (Reporting by Clare Jim; Editing by Anne Marie Roantree and Edwina Gibbs) |
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Non-profit pushes for new location while adding to revitalization efforts | Plans are in the works to get rid of an eyesore along a busy road in the City of Florence and replace it with a facility dedicated to helping the homeless, hungry and hopeless. The now shut down Young Pecan Factory, located along Highway 52, is in the process of being converted by Harvest Hope Food Bank.
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China's premier pledges further market opening as talk... | By Kevin Yao
BEIJING, March 20 (Reuters) - China will open up its economy further, and its door to the outside will only get wider, with foreign and domestic firms allowed to compete on an equal footing, Premier Li Keqiang said at the close the country's annual parliament session on Tuesday.
The familiar-sounding pledges from Beijing came as the prospect of a global trade war loomed in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump imposition of hefty import tariffs on steel and aluminium earlier this month.
By the end of this week, according to sources in Washington, the United States is expected to unveil new tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of Chinese technology and consumer goods annually, fulfilling Trump's campaign promises to get tough on China and its trade practices.
"I hope both China and the U.S. will act rationally, and not be led by emotions, and avoid a trade war," Li told reporters in a televised news conference at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.
China will improve access to its services and manufacturing sectors while further lowering import tariffs, including those on cancer-related drugs, Li also said at his once-a-year press conference. He did not give more specifics.
"China's economy has been so integrated with the world's, that closing China's door would mean blocking our way for development," Li said.
"China's aim is to ensure that both domestic and foreign firms, and companies under all kinds of ownership structure, will be able to compete on fair terms in China's large market."
When President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser Liu visited Washington recently, the Trump administration pressed him to find ways to reduce China's $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. "We are unwilling to see a big trade deficit, not only with the U.S.,," Li said. "We hope trade will be balanced."
In his remarks, Li said that as China widens access to its markets, there will be no forced transfers of technology, and China will better protect intellectual property rights.
Trump says Beijing has forced U.S. companies to transfer their intellectual property to China as a cost of doing business there, though China has insisted that technology transfers are not a condition of gaining market access.
A source who had direct knowledge of the Trump administration's thinking told Reuters last week that the tariffs expected to be announced this week would chiefly target information technology, consumer electronics and telecoms and other products benefiting from U.S. intellectual property.
But they could be much broader and hit consumer products such as clothing and footwear, with a list eventually running to 100 products, this source said.
The U.S. currently restricts exports of items for military use to China, which could potentially cover a wide range of dual-use technology products.
The situation is also complicated by the fact that many Chinese firms are active in both civilian and military industries.
"We hope the U.S. could ease restrictions on high-tech or high value-added product exports," Li said.
"We will strictly protect intellectual property. We hope this important means for balancing China-U.S. trade will not be missed, otherwise we will lose a chance to make money."
Li said China was confident of achieving its 2018 economic targets. The government aims to expand its economy by around 6.5 percent this year, having easily surpassed the same target in 2017.
China's financial sector were in good shape and banks have enough provisions, Li said, adding that regulators would take "resolute measures" to tackle financial risks.
The Chinese central bank was being given responsibility for drafting important laws covering banking and insurance sector, with regulation over the $42 trillion sector becoming more streamlined and tighter.
Before the press conference, Li introduced China's four new vice premiers, though they neither took questions or spoke. Among them was Liu He, widely regarded as China's new economic tsar. (Reporting by Kevin Yao Additional reporting by Lusha Zhang and Elias Glenn Writing by Ryan Woo and Tony Munroe Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) |
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WELLINGTON, June 15 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Thursday that New Zealand's central bank should add debt-to-income (DTI) limits on home loans to its toolkit to help cool the country's housing market. |
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Golf-Chappell finally wins on PGA Tour in 180th career start | April 23 Kevin Chappell birdied the final hole on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour, by one stroke over fellow American Brooks Koepka at the Texas Open.
Chappell sank an eight-foot putt at the par-five 18th for his breakthrough triumph in his 180th start on tour, and six previous runner-up finishes.
He carded a closing 68 to finish on 12-under-par 276, while Koepka charged home with a 65 for second place on 11-under at TPC San Antonio. (Reporting by Andrew Both in Cary, North Carolina; Editing by Clare Fallon) |
Michael Kors says higher spending on Jimmy Choo will hit earnings | (Reuters) - Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (KORS.N) said higher spending on marketing its upscale footwear brand Jimmy Choo will weigh on earnings this year, driving shares of the luxury handbag maker down 12 percent on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: A Michael Kors Holdings Limited retail store is shown in La Jolla, California, U.S., May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Kors has already signed new supermodels for Jimmy Choo marketing campaigns, and on Wednesday it unveiled plans to open some 30 new Jimmy Choo stores in fiscal year 2019, doubling down on its $1.2 billion purchase last year of the footwear brand famous for its stilettos.
Kors expects earnings per share of $4.65 and $4.75 for fiscal year 2019, reflecting what it said was a 5- to 10-cent hit from investments in Jimmy Choo. Analysts on average were expecting earnings of $4.74 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
“We expect Jimmy Choo operating income to be above the full year average in the first and third quarters, while we do not expect the business to generate significant operating income in the second and fourth fiscal quarters,” Michael Kors Chief Financial Officer Thomas Edwards said on a conference call with analysts.
The earnings forecast, which was lower than the consensus expectation at its midpoint, took the shine off Kors’ stronger-than-expected quarterly results which were powered by higher demand for luxury handbags.
Kors’ earnings forecast was “uninspiring,” given the strengthening handbag market, stable prices at department stores and higher foreign tourism to the United States, RBC Capital Markets analyst Brian Tunick said.
Kors’ shares, which have risen nearly 90 percent over the past 12 months, plunged 11.7 percent to $60.34 on Wednesday morning and were on track for their worst one-day dip in three years.
Still, Kors reported a rise in same-store sales for the first time in eight quarters, surprising analysts who had expected sales to decline.
The company said sales were boosted by new spring accessories and selling more products at full price rather than on discount.
Kors also said it would explore more acquisitions to boost its luxury products.
Net income attributable to Kors was $44.1 million or 29 cents per share in the fourth quarter ended March 31, compared with a net loss of $26.8 million or 17 cents per share a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $1.18 billion from $1.06 billion, exceeding analysts’ average estimate of $1.15 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Excluding one-time items, the company earned 63 cents per share, topping analysts’ estimates of 60 cents. |
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Philippines says US troops near besieged Marawi, but not fighting | Armed U.S. troops are on the ground near the besieged Marawi City in the Philippines, but they are in a support role and not participating in fighting Islamic State militants, a Philippines military spokesman said on Wednesday. Government soldiers are seen onboard military vehicles driving along the main road of Amai Pakpak as government troops continue their assault against insurgents from the Maute group, who have taken over large parts of Marawi City, Philippines, June 13, 2017.
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Chinese store automatically restocks and uses a DRONE | A convenience store with a modern twist has launched in China.
Moby Mart is an unmanned self-driving store which runs on solar power and is able to drive to your area at the touch of a button.
Customers scan the goods themselves to purchase their shopping all without meeting a single person.
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24 hour store: The store has already been tested in Shanghai and is currently in Hefei
Genius: Customers use an app to get the shop to drive to their area and purchase goods
For those customers in need of some assistance, a hologram worker appears with instructions
Moby Mart is open to the public 24 hours a day and can automatically restock goods.
New technology also allows users of the app to call a Moby to their area in order to buy items. While there are also plans to have drones installed on the top of shops to deliver goods to customers.
Moby Mart is open to the public 24 hours a day and can automatically restock goods
Moby Mart is open to the public 24 hours a day and can automatically restock
It is currently travelling around the country in demo mode and has visited Shanghai
Convenience store: The shop stocks groceries along with medicine, hot drinks and magazines
While shoppers in need of help are given assistance by a hologram worker.
The idea has been developed by Swedish company Wheelys in cooperation with Hefei University and Himalfy.
It is currently travelling around the country in demo mode and has visited Shanghai. The shop is currently in Hefei.
The main aim of the store is to make grocery shopping environmentally friendly
Advanced AI technology means that the travelling mart knows when it needs to restock
THE 'UNMANNED' SHOP The futuristic staff-free shop was the idea of local resident Robert Ilijason and shop opened after the app was approved by Apple in January. The idea for the shop is similar to unmanned gyms. It can stay open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, because it does not require staff. Shoppers use the app on their smartphones to unlock the door and scan each purchase. They are then charged monthly for their purchases. To enter, people need to use a BankID - a Swedish ID solution used by the banks. The shop is also covered with security cameras.
According to Wheelys, the main aim of the store is to make grocery shopping environmentally friendly and cheaper to operate.
The store will stock groceries, ready meals, magazines and hot drinks.
One way that it is cheaper is that it does not have any staff at the store.
Customers download an app in order to call the mart to their area. Once the store arrives they can then scan items themselves and pay using the app.
Advanced AI technology means that the travelling mart knows when it needs to restock. It can also meet up with other Moby marts to swap products that it is short of.
There are plans to have drones on the roof of stores in the future that can deliver to houses.
According to the team behind Moby Mart, the store cuts down shopping time from between 30 and 60 percent. |
Falklands map mix-up embarrasses Argentine ministry | Falklands map mix-up embarrasses Argentine ministry
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An Argentine government ministry has stumbled out of the gate for 2017, forced to apologize for a map that failed to show the Falklands Islands as Argentine territory.
The Social Development Ministry responded to an uproar by posting a tweet on Monday apologizing for map included in an otherwise unremarkable New Year greeting, which expressed the hope that 2017 "finds us united and in peace."
Failure to include the Falklands on the image of Argentina outraged some veterans of the country's failed 1982 attempt to conquer the British-held islands, which Argentines call the Malvinas. |
Two Britons poisoned with Novichok nerve agent near where Russian spy was struck down | AMESBURY, England (Reuters) - Two British citizens are critically ill after they were exposed to Novichok, the same nerve agent that struck down a former Russian agent and his daughter in March, Britain’s top counter-terrorism officer said on Wednesday.
The pair, a local 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, were hospitalized after being found unwell on Saturday in Amesbury, just miles away from Salisbury where ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked in March.
“I have received test results from Porton Down (military research center) which show that the two people have been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok,” Neil Basu, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer, told reporters.
Britain has accused Russia of poisoning the Skripals with Novichok - a nerve agent developed by the Soviet military during the Cold War - in what is the first known offensive use of such a chemical weapon on European soil since World War Two.
Russia has denied any involvement in their poisoning.
UK counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation, though Basu said it was unclear how the two people came into contact with the nerve agent or whether they had been specifically targeted.
“I don’t have any intelligence or evidence that they were targeted in any way,” Basu said. “There is nothing in their background to suggest that at all.”
Amesbury is located seven miles (11 km) north of Salisbury, where Skripal - a former colonel in Russian military intelligence who betrayed dozens of agents to Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service - and his daughter were found slumped unconscious on a bench on March 4.
Around 100 counter-terrorism officers are working on the case and police have cordoned off at least five different areas, including a park and a property in Salisbury, as well as a pharmacy and a Baptist church community center in Amesbury.
The March attack prompted the biggest Western expulsion of Russian diplomats since the Cold War as allies in Europe and the United States sided with Prime Minister Theresa May’s view that Moscow was either responsible or had lost control of the nerve agent.
Mystery surrounds the attack and the motive is unclear, as is the logic of using such an exotic nerve agent which has overt links to the Soviet military during the Cold War.
Russia, which is currently hosting the soccer World Cup, has denied any involvement in the March incident and suggested Britain had carried out the attack to stoke anti-Moscow hysteria.
Moscow also hit back by expelling Western diplomats, questioning how Britain knows that Russia was responsible and offering rival interpretations, including that it amounted to a plot by British secret services. Russian officials questioned why Russia would want to attack an aging turncoat who was pardoned and then traded in a Kremlin-approved 2010 spy swap.
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Health chiefs said on Wednesday the risk to the public was low, though the exposure of two people apparently unconnected to espionage or the former Soviet Union will stoke fears that traces of the nerve agent remain in the area.
“As the country’s chief medical officer, I want to reassure the public that the risk to the general public remains low,” England’s Chief Medical Officer Sally Davies told reporters.
Prime Minister May’s spokesman said the government’s emergency response committee had met to discuss the incident. Home Secretary Sajid Javid will chair a meeting of the emergency response committee on Thursday.
Police officers stand in front of Amesbury Baptist Church, which has been cordoned off after two people were hospitalised and police declared a 'major incident', in Amesbury, Wiltshire, Britain, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
“The working theory is currently that this exposure was accidental, rather than a second attack along the lines of that on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury earlier this year,” Javid said.
After the Skripal poisoning, police investigators in protective hazmat suits scoured the ancient English cathedral city of Salisbury. Basu cautioned that police in protective clothing would return to the area.
Paramedics were called on Saturday morning to a house in Amesbury after the woman, named by media as Dawn Sturgess, collapsed and returned later in the day when the man, Charlie Rowley, also fell ill.
The pair, who are being treated at Salisbury District Hospital, were initially believed to have taken heroin or crack cocaine from a contaminated batch, police said.
But tests showed they had been poisoned with Novichok.
“We are not in a position to say whether the nerve agent was from the same batch that the Skripals were exposed to,” Basu said. “The possibility that these two investigations might be linked is clearly a line of enquiry for us.”
The hospital is where the Skripals also spent weeks in a critical condition before slowly recovering and being discharged.
Yulia told Reuters in May: “We are so lucky to have both survived this attempted assassination. Our recovery has been slow and extremely painful.”
Russia has said it does not possess such nerve agents, did not develop Novichok, and President Vladimir Putin dismissed as nonsense the notion that Moscow would have poisoned Skripal and his daughter.
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WASHINGTON, June 14 A U.S. Justice Department lawyer said at a court hearing on Wednesday it could take "weeks or months" before regulators decide whether to approve a software fix for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV diesel vehicles. |
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BRIEF-Pinnacle Financial Partners obtains regulatory approvals to acquire BNC Bancorp | NRG Energy's GenOn unit files for bankruptcy
WILMINGTON, Del., June 14 NRG Energy Inc's GenOn business filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday with an agreement with bondholders to cut $1.75 billion of its debt and restructure the power generator as a standalone business, according to a securities filing. |
The new look in floral arrangements: wilder, seasonal, local | This 2017 photo provided by Chronicle Books shows Erin Benzakein's book, "Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden," and is surrounded by tulips, one of the first bloomers each spring, in San Francisco, Calif.
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SEATTLE, June 14 General Electric Co said on Wednesday it will combine its power and energy distribution businesses to create its largest unit by revenue as the top executive at GE Power announced his retirement after failing to win the conglomerate's CEO job. |
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Chancellor Hammond says Brexit deal with EU will need 'give and take' | LONDON Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said on Wednesday that Britain would need to make concessions to the European Union in order to secure the best deal for the country to leave the bloc.
"Every negotiation is about give and take on both sides and we have to go into this discussion understanding and accepting that we will have to do some give and take to get the best possible deal for Britain," Hammond told broadcaster Sky News.
Later on Wednesday Prime Minister Theresa May plans to formally notify the EU that Britain wants to leave, starting two years of exit talks.
"It has to be a deal that works for Britain and for its European Union partners, that's the only way you can get a deal done. But I'm confident as we've explored over the last nine months with our EU partners that we have a sufficient meeting of minds on this issue," Hammond said.
Hammond said leaving the EU would ensure Britain regained control over immigration, as well as reasserting the supremacy of Britain's parliament and court.
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