The world’s media went critical, thermo-nuclear critical, when Mike Hearn – a former core developer in the open-source project that is Bitcoin, deemed it a “failed experiment” and revealed he was done with the cryptocurrency.
USA stock markets were closed for a public holiday, leaving trade lighter in Europe. A weakening of China’s currency at the start of the year had spooked investors, who are concerned about the impact of a weaker yuan on China’s trading partners.
Democratic Party leaders were expecting jabs, barbs and an exchange of blows at the Gaillard Center in Charleston as the gap narrowed between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in Iowa down to just a point or two.
The yearly reading was down from 1.3-percent growth for the first 11 months and 2-percent growth for the Jan.-Oct. period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said.
“Another large trade surplus provides a cushion for the People’s Bank of China in the face of soaring capital outflows”, Capital Economics’ Martin said.
The 60 stores shuttered in Brazil, a market in which the world’s largest retailer has made a big push in recent years, were losing money and represented only 5 percent of Walmart’s sales in that country, the release said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said the store closures will affect 16,000 workers, 10,000 of them in the U.S. Its global workforce is 2.2 million, 1.4 million in the U.S. alone.
Qualcomm has struck a US$280 million joint venture with the government of China’s Guizhou Province that will see the two organisations design server chips in China.
But when over 55,000 users do the same thing, you can’t help but think that the claims have some truth to them. The Supreme Court petitioned the lower court for documents related to the case in October, and agreed Friday to rule on the specific issue of class status.