The 2017 Equifax hack affected more than 145 million people. The hotel operator also said that some 25.55 million passport numbers were stolen in the attack on the Starwood Hotels reservation system, 5.25 million of which were stored in plain text. [Full Article...]
Instead, workers will spend nights and weekends repairing one tunnel at a time, leaving the other free for L trains to travel their entire route, Cuomo said . Experts were projecting crippling congestion on the Williamsburg Bridge, and even more packed trains on the few other options for the North Brooklyn neighborhood. [Full Article...]
What's next?: There will be more pressure on President Donald Trump and lawmakers to strike a deal now that Americans won't receive their refunds. During the shutdown, the IRS can do many of its activities, such as protecting government property, process returns that come with payments and conduct criminal investigations. [Full Article...]
While President Trump's trade war with China isn't helping Apple and other USA technology companies, Mr Ives believes Apple miscalculated by continuing to roll out high-priced phones in China, creating an opening for rivals with less costly alternatives that still worked well. [Full Article...]
Pelosi also said that she will seek to work with Republicans in the House, as well as with the Republican-controlled Senate and the president, who is a Republican. "And this is not a wall between Mexico and the United States that the President is creating here". Only the Department of Homeland Security is left out of a megabus bill that Democrats are teeing up for a vote. [Full Article...]
Two homes that both sold for $7 million in West Vancouver previous year had very different assessments, he added - one was assessed at just more than $6 million, the other at more than $9 million. BC Assessment's 2019 notifications to homeowners across the province will begin arriving in mailboxes over the coming days, but the new assessments have already been published online, and are searchable... [Full Article...]
On Monday, the benchmark S&P 500 Index settled at 2506.85, up 21.11 or -0.80%. The S&P is down roughly 9.5 percent so far in December, on pace for its biggest monthly drop since February 2009 and its worst December since the Great Depression. [Full Article...]
Futures traders on Friday were pricing in a small chance of a rate hike this year, versus no chance seen before Powell began speaking. US stocks were pummelled on Thursday after Apple slashed its revenue forecast due to weak demand in China and a report showed US manufacturing activity slumping to a two-year low, reviving fears about a global economic slowdown in the wake of the US-China tra... [Full Article...]