Trump’s address at 9:00 p.m. ET (0200 GMT) could touch on tax reforms, defense spending and his plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system. But on Wall Street, financial and consumer discretionary stocks dropped, pulling down the major indexes, according ...
Read More »Samsung Group chief charged with bribery and embezzlement
South Korean prosecutors charged Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee with bribery and embezzlement on Tuesday as the top conglomerate announced the dismantling of its corporate strategy office, the latest developments in a graft scandal that has rocked the country, ...
Read More »Ukraine Central Bank Liquidates Another Private Bank
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) under the proposal of the Personal Deposit Guarantee Fund has decided on February 21, 2017 to revoke the banking license and liquidate PJSC Fortuna-bank, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Ukrainska Pravda. The NBU classified ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump’s Perfume Soars on Amazon Bestseller List Despite Boycott
Sales for 35-year-old businesswoman’s self-titled perfume were so high that the product took the top two beauty spots, as of Saturday afternoon, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the US Magazine. A 3.4 ounce bottle of the eau de parfum spray ...
Read More »Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of crude oil
Russia pumped 10.49 million barrels a day in December, down 29,000 barrels a day from November, while Saudi Arabia’s output declined to 10.46 million barrels a day from 10.72 million barrels a day in November, according to data published Monday ...
Read More »Analysts show optimistic trends for Philip Morris International
The company Philip Morris International, Inc. reported the earnings of $1.1/Share in the last quarter where the estimated EPS by analysts was $1.12/share. The difference between the expected and actual EPS was $-0.02/share, which represents an Earnings surprise of -1.8%, ...
Read More »Turkish fabric manufacturers are important part of UK fashion industry
Turkey, whose factories have been manufacturing clothes for high street retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Karen Millen and Asda’s George for many years. The Turkish economy is heavily dependent on the fashion industry. Market research firm Euromonitor reports that ...
Read More »Brands all over the world are praying that Trump attacks them – CNN
Taking to Twitter to lambaste Nordstrom for withdrawing his daughter Ivanka’s clothing line, he unleashed an outpouring of consumer love. The store’s stock finished the day up 4%, CNN reports. Meryl Streep’s performance in “Florence Foster Jenkins” is not her ...
Read More »Ukraine Central Bank Significantly Lowered Hryvnia Official Rate
The National Bank of Ukraine has lowered the official hryvnia exchange rate by 0.18 hryvnia to UAH 27.20 per US dollar for Monday, February 13, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Ukrainska Pravda. The official hryvnia exchange rate of hryvnia per ...
Read More »Melania Trump plans to cash-in on trademarks, files new lawsuit
The suit, filed in New York Supreme Court, said the Mail Online, in its August article hit just as Trump was about to enter the White House and embark on a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person,” ...
Read More »Belk drops Ivanka Trump brand from website
A landing page for the name of President Donald Trump’s daughter – whose brand includes women’s apparel, shoes, and accessories – turns up an error message on Belk’s website. A customer service representative confirmed that the brand had been removed ...
Read More »10 Super Bowl Ads You Need To Watch
The One Everybody’s Talking About Building supplies company 84 Lumber ran what will undoubtedly be the most controversial ad of the Super Bowl, showing a Spanish-speaking mother and daughter traveling from Mexico into the United States. The shorter broadcast version ...
Read More »Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots, sees productivity spike
It’s been long discussed that robots and computers will start taking our jobs “in the near future” — well that near future is upon us and we’re not really prepared to deal with it. The Changying Precision Technology Company focuses ...
Read More »Nordstrom Drops the Ivanka Trump Brand
Nordstrom said on Thursday that it would stop selling Ivanka Trump items this season because of the controversial brand’s performance, a move that follows boycotts by some shoppers who are angered by her father, President Donald Trump, and his White ...
Read More »Australian VR archeology company to reconstruct ancient worlds
Melbourne based archaeological virtual reality startup, Lithodomos VR, has closed a $900,000 AUD (679,500 USD) seed funding round, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Haptic. The company is co-founded by two archeologists with the aim to create archaeologically accurate reconstructions of ...
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