MINEOLA, N.Y. – The New York Islanders hockey team may be returning to the New York suburbs after a move to Brooklyn floundered. Continue Reading Below Several news organizations including Newsday reported Tuesday that the team won a bid to build a new arena on the grounds of the Belmont […]
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Fighting in eastern Ukraine worst since February: OSCE
December 20, 2017 By Alessandra Prentice and Oleksandr Klymenko KIEV/NOVOLUHANSKE, Ukraine (Reuters) – Fighting in eastern Ukraine has escalated to the worst level in months, officials monitoring the conflict said on Tuesday, after the shelling of a frontline village wounded eight civilians and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes. A […]
Asian shares slip as investors await US tax reforms, dollar steadies
FILE PHOTO: People walk past an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo December 20, 2017 By Lisa Twaronite TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Wednesday, taking their cues from Wall Street with investor enthusiasm toward U.S. tax changes ebbing […]
Oil edges up on North Sea pipeline outage, expectation of lower US crude stocks
A driver looks at the price as he fills the tank of his car at a gas station in Shanghai, China November 17, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song December 20, 2017 By Henning Gloystein SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices inched up on Wednesday, supported by expectations of a fall in U.S. crude […]
iRobot Wipes the Floor With Another Competitor
iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT) is best known for a single product in its popular Roomba robotic vacuums, so it’s easy to forget the company has one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the world. But on Monday, the home robotics specialist reminded investors of as much. Continue Reading Below […]
Augmented Reality Stocks: What to Watch in 2018
Augmented reality made some huge strides in 2017. On the mobile side, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) updated iOS so that developers could build augmented reality (AR) apps and games, which instantly gave millions of mobile users access to AR like never before, all without having to buy a new device. Continue […]
Death in Louisiana is 20th caused by Takata air bags
An unidentified person in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is the 20th to die worldwide due to exploding Takata air bag inflators. The person was driving a 2004 Honda Civic when the crash occurred on July 10, 2017, according to Honda. The inflator apparently had been salvaged from a 2002 Civic and […]
Honda reports 20th death from exploding Takata air bag
DETROIT – A faulty Takata air bag inflator has killed another person, this time in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Honda said Tuesday night. Continue Reading Below The unidentified person is the 20th death worldwide attributed to the faulty inflators, which can explode with too much force and hurl shrapnel into car […]
11 blue state Republicans vote against tax bill
Twelve House Republicans, including 11 from districts in states won by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, voted against the GOP‘s ambitious $1.5 trillion measure that would rewrite the nation’s tax code. The 11 blue state Republicans who voted “no” are from California, New York or New Jersey and […]
Infamous short-seller Andrew Left scrambling for ways to bet against bitcoin
Short-seller Andrew Left can’t find enough ways to short, or bet against, bitcoin. “If you’re a short-seller right now and you’re cautious and you want to short something that’s related to bitcoin and not bitcoin, you have limited opportunities,” the Citron Research founder said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.” “But […]