General Manager Daryl Morey of the Houston Rockets. Bill Baptist | National Basketball Association | Getty Images Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey apologized on Twitter over a now-deleted tweet that spoke in support of the Hong Kong protests, after his remarks were attacked by the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston […]
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Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong warn protesters as emergency rules fail to quell unrest
Police fire from the Mongkok police station toward protesters after they marched from the Tsim Sha Tsui district to Mongkok in Hong Kong on October 6, 2019. – A Hong Kong judge on October 6 rejected a challenge to an emergency law criminalising protesters wearing face masks as democracy activists […]
Trump allies pressed Ukraine over gas firm
A woman walks past the Naftogaz headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine, on September 11, 2019. Sergii Kharchenko | NurPhoto | Getty Images As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump‘s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his […]
Unilever says it wants to halve its use of ‘virgin’ plastic by 2025
Unilever will halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025, the consumer goods giant said Monday. The business, whose brands include Dove, Ben & Jerry’s and Lipton, said it would achieve this by cutting its “absolute use of plastic packaging” by over 100,000 tonnes and “accelerating its use of recycled […]
A new smaller, cheaper iPhone could boost sales in early 2020, top Apple analyst Kuo predicts
An attendee takes a photograph of the new Apple Inc. iPhone SE smartphone after an event in Cupertino, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple’s iPhone shipments could be up 10% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2020, according to a new estimate from TF Securities analyst […]
China is reportedly reluctant to agree to a broad US trade deal with talks set to restart
President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the start of their bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. Kevin Lemarque | Reuters Chinese officials are growing hesitant to pursue a broad trade deal with the U.S. in negotiations set to begin […]
These stocks could have the most to lose if a progressive Democratic agenda takes hold in 2020
2020 presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, from left, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, stand on stage during the Democratic presidential candidate debate in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. […]
Tech ‘break-up value’ analysis seeks to make the stocks look cheap, even if they stay together
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during a hearing “Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collection, Use and Filtering Practices” on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on Dec. 11, 2018. Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images […]
There’s a theory that stingy millennials are to blame for the sluggish economy
Millennials — the selfie obsessed, avocado toast-loving generation — might be behind slower economic growth, according to a research note last week from Raymond James. This new generation, scarred by the financial crisis, is saving more than the free-spending boomers did before them, and it’s causing an economic imbalance. According […]
UAW says GM labor talks ‘have taken a turn for the worse’
Striking United Auto Workers (UAW) walk the picket line in Hamtramck, Michigan, September 25, 2019. Rebecca Cook | Reuters DETROIT – The United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors could continue for the foreseeable future, as the union on Sunday said talks between the sides have “taken a turn for […]