Aug 25 China opposes Canada’s stance that bilateral ties can not be improved until a dispute over Canadian canola exports has been settled, the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said in a statement on Thursday. British Columbia instituted a tax on foreign real estate buyers, a move...
UnitedHealth, Aetna, and Humana have all left the Obamacare exchange, and additionally many smaller insurance companies have left. The real choice in the future is either a hugely expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people...
United States authorities have launched an investigation into the hacking of Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones’ website after intimate photos of the actress were posted online. One theory is that the person behind Jones’ hack was a Yiannopoulos fan acting in retaliation....
For many California residents, this sort of fire is becoming business as usual. The advisory remains in effect through Thursday. It was, however, a threat to vegetation in watersheds important to supplies on the south coast of Santa Barbara County.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday that the case for raising interest rates has strengthened in light of a solid job market and an improved outlook for the USA economy and inflation.
The Republican candidate, perhaps unaware of what’s he’s said in the recent past, responded, “I said that it’s something that has been done at a very strong manner”.
Following Yellen’s speech, prices for fed funds futures implied investors see roughly a 60 per cent chance of a December hike, up from just above 50 per cent on Thursday. Friday’s data on the second estimate of USA gross domestic product was put on the back burner...
“The Fed served notice that a rate hike is still a possibility this year, and the markets had gotten a little complacent”, said Anthony Valeri, investment strategist for LPL Financial in San Diego. In addition to the Dow’s 100 point gain, the benchmark S&P...