(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Tuesday after the major indexes posted near-record closing highs in the previous session and investors remained cautious ahead of an impending employment rate revision. A preliminary estimate of the nonfarm payrolls benchmark published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is due at 10 a.m. ET, with economists…
A school bus carrying an Oklahoma City-area softball team crashed Monday evening, leaving several people severely hurt, officials said. Kevin Sims, superintendent of schools in Minco, Oklahoma, said in a statement on Facebook that it was “a serious accident west of Minco. Multiple individuals on the bus were severely injured. We will be closing school…
Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features The phrase “useful idiots” is often attributed to Lenin, though the provenance is uncertain. In the Cold War, it described Westerners who, knowingly or not, advanced Soviet interests while imagining themselves independent actors. The insult…
JennyFax, a Japanese fashion brand, is making headlines for turning women’s underwear into expensive hair accessories. Is this a fashion trend you could jump on? Basically, the hair accessories are made up of a pair of women’s panties with a hair clip glued to them. It’s that simple. Wearing underwear on your head is a…
Kenan Yildiz, whose breakthrough season earned him praise from plaudits and interest from Premier League clubs, has yet to sign a new Juventus contract but it could happen soon. His electrifying performances for the Bianconeri last term have earned him a nomination for the Kopa Trophy Ballon d’Or award. Yildiz’s representative, super agent Jorge Mendes,…
Taking Stock: Nifty closes above 24,850, Sensex gains 314 pts; IT stocks shine More than 130 stocks touched their 52-week highs on the BSE, including Cummins India, Maharashtra Scooters, Eicher Motors, Muthoot Finance, Aditya Birla Capital, Maruti Suzuki, Bosch, M&M, Endurance Technnologies, Manappuram Finance, among others. Source link
China’s growing investments in clean energy are pushing its use of fossil fuels into decline. Renewable forms of electricity provided more than 80 percent of new demand in China last year, according to new research by Ember, a global energy think tank. Then, in the first half of this year, it met all new demand…
China’s exports to Russia plummeted by 16.4% in August compared to the previous year, according to data from China’s customs agency. The decline, reported by Reuters, is the steepest since February, with exports amounting to $6.34 billion in August, a decrease of 5.8% from July. Similarly, Russian shipments to China dropped 17.8% year-on-year to $7.37…
The market-leading industrial technology company are based in Atlanta, Georgia and they also have operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The company employs approximately 13,000 people and they use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through their two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces…
Vladimir Putin is on a roll the past few weeks. First President Trump invited him to Anchorage. Then he got a three-way hug with China’s President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China. And an invitation to a grand military parade in Beijing. Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea,…