Markets
Irish manufacturing growth moderates amid signs of capacity constraints - PMI
IHS Markit's final manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for the euro zone fell to 58.6 in February from 59.6, just beating an earlier flash estimate of 58.5 and comfortably above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction. Where employment increased, this was mainly linked to higher output requirements. On the price front, input price inflation eased to a five-month low, while out... [Full Article...]
Canadian whistleblower at centre of privacy scandal testifies in UK
Facebook must do more to address allegations of large-scale data mining, the European Union has said , warning that the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal threatens democracy and has diminished trust in the social media giant. A report from Channel 4 News claims that some of the data may not have been deleted and that they have directly seen data troves that date back to 2014. [Full Article...]
Waltzing Stock: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)
Topeka Capital Markets maintained it with "Buy" rating and $142 target in Monday, November 16 report. Jpmorgan Chase owns 2.38 million shares. It has outperformed by 97.18% the S&P500. 172,504 are held by Campbell Newman Asset Mgmt Inc. Navellier & Associates Inc now owns 3,991 shares of the Internet television network's stock valued at $766,000 after buying an additional 309 shares during the per... [Full Article...]
Walmart reportedly set to acquire health insurance behemoth Humana
Ever. In 1999, Walmart spent $10.8 billion to acquire United Kingdom retailer Asda Group. Shares of Humana surged 10% to $297 in after-hours trading after The Wall Street Journal first reported the talks. The rising cost of health care has captured the attention of some of corporate America's biggest titans. It already runs a large pharmacy business which has outlets in many of its stores, w... [Full Article...]
Air New Zealand trolls Steve Smith & Co
Cricket Australia received a massive jolt as well. That deal was due to run until the end of the 2019 Ashes series in England, but now Lehmann has joined the casualties of Australia's Cape Town debacle. "I know (it's) really hard for a lot of people and it's going to take a lot of time, and I accept that, but forgiveness", Clarke said in comments from a TV interview posted, interestingly, on Cri... [Full Article...]
Can Coffee Cause Cancer?
He dominated in an earlier phase of proceedings that companies had not displayed the menace from the chemical was unimportant. The nonprofit Council for Education and Research on Toxics filed suit in 2010, claiming that coffee companies were violating California's Proposition 65 , which requires warnings about potential exposure to cancer-causing chemicals . [Full Article...]
Toyota, Suzuki to share hybrid, other models in India
Toyota is one of the pioneers in alternate vehicle technologies worldwide and has the best selling hybrid model in the world in the Prius. The deepening partnership between the two automakers will enable Suzuki to tap into Toyota's R&D firepower to develop lower-emission vehicles and self-driving cars - areas which Suzuki has admitted it is struggling to keep up with. [Full Article...]
Watch SpaceX Launch 10 Satellites on a Used Rocket Today!
It's an unprecedented move. If the project is successful, people around the world would get internet that's about 40 times as fast as current satellite internet providers, even in very remote and rural areas. So how is SpaceX going to do that? Then they deployed parafoils, a type of parachute, which helped slow the fairing halves down as they hurtled back toward Earth. [Full Article...]