Oil prices held steady on Monday as fears of conflict between the United States and Iran eased, with investors shifting their focus to this week’s scheduled signing of an initial U.S.-China trade deal, which could boost economic growth and demand. Brent crude was down 2 cents at $64.96 per barrel at 0438 GMT, while West […]
The United States, China and the European Union account for one half of the world economy. With the magnitude and scope of their trade and financial flows, those three large economic systems are fully capable of setting the pace of global business cycle dynamics – especially if they effectively coordinate their demand management policies. Unfortunately, […]
Houston (AFP) – Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan. The Marine Corps major, MIT graduate and college basketball player can now add another accomplishment to her burgeoning resume: the first Iranian-American astronaut. Speaking to AFP after graduating […]
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro ordered the eleventh minimum wage hike in 24 months yesterday, boosting the basic salary by 67% to 250,000 bolivars ($3.61) plus a 200,000 “food bonus” as the country struggles to deal with hyperinflation. When Maduro last raised the wage to 150,000 bolivars in October, a month of work could buy about […]
Kissimmee, FL — Everyone knew the sale of the 1968 Highland Green Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in the film Bullitt would be big. After hammering sold today (Jan. 10) at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction, we know just how big — $3.4 million, a new auction record. The highest previous auction price for a Mustang was $2.2 million for a 1967 Shelby […]
New research suggests running a marathon for the first time could help people reduce their vascular age — the age of one’s arteries — by up to four years. According to a new study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers found that training for and completing a marathon, even […]
Can you hear it? That elemental thrumming emerging just beneath the engulfing din of everyday city and suburban life? Well, chances are you’re not losing your mind or developing some extrahuman ability akin to comic book superheroes. Better odds are that it’s Mother Earth’s growing pains in the form of loud volcanic stirrings, as revealed in a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today laid out a range of topics on which he and his company will focus over the next decade. By 2030, he says, AR and VR telepresence could allow employees to work remotely from anywhere in the world, alleviating the affordable housing crisis of increasingly populated cities. In a post on […]
The last U.S. employment report of the 2010s out Friday had few surprises, but it wrapped up a decade that featured some notable milestones in a job market that has changed dramatically in the space of 10 years. RECORD DECADE FOR JOB CREATION The 2010s will go into the record books – for at least […]
Amazon has a beef with the start-up PayPal recently acquired, Honey. During the height of the holiday shopping season, the e-commerce giant warned some users that the browser extension could be a “security issue.” “Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history and items saved, and can read or change any […]
Skywatchers have been enjoying the January full moon, known as the “wolf moon,” as well as a partial lunar eclipse in parts of the world. People from a number of countries across the globe, such as the U.K. and the Philippines, have been posting stunning images of the wolf moon and lunar eclipse on social […]
The delivery service is adding a “common sense step” to phone ordering Last year, a Philadelphia restauranteur filed a lawsuit against Grubhub, alleging the delivery service charged restaurants for phone calls that weren’t even food orders. Grubhub takes a cut of all its restaurants’ orders, and its phone ordering system sets up a proxy number […]
