Janet Yellen is starting to warm to a policy the Fed once regarded as radical
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen had a surprising answer to the question of what she thought of a recent proposal by 22 prominent economists for the central bank to raise its 2% inflation target...
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The Fed’s 4th rate hike could challenge a popular assumption investors make...
The assumption that rate hikes are bad for stocks could be challenged yet again. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates for the fourth time in this cycle. Fed Chair Janet Yellen said...
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Don’t expect the market’s hottest stocks to cool down any time soon
FANG stocks rule the stock market right now. The influence of the group – consisting of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google – can be felt daily, whether that means giving indices additional upward...
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Grenfell Tower fire victims ‘may never be identified’ as death toll rises to 17
Police say they may never be able to identify the bodies from the Grenfell Tower fire. At least 17 people died in fire. A further 69 were injured, with 17 in critical condition. Emergency services are...
View Article10 things in tech you need to know today
Good morning! Here’s the tech news you need to know to end your week. 1. A woman who was raped in India by an Uber driver has sued the company. She says executives mishandled her medical records,...
View ArticleDe Bitcoinbubbel is kleiner dan de tulpenmanie, maar lijkt er wel veel op
ANALYSE – Om mij heen gaat het gesprek de laatste tijd bijzonder vaak over de digitale munt bitcoin. Afgelopen zaterdag op een Amsterdams terras hoorde ik bijvoorbeeld zowel links als rechts twee...
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5 tips om een betere bestuurder te worden in afwachting van de zelfrijdende auto
Er is een goeie kans dat we in onze levens auto’s zullen meemaken die zichzelf besturen. Maar gezien alle wetgeving die nog moet worden aangepast is het onwaarschijnlijk dat zelfrijdende auto’s op...
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Spotify will now help you find and buy concert tickets
You can now use Spotify to help get concert tickets. Spotify on Thursday announced a partnership with Eventbrite and AXS that will let you find concert tickets at nearby venues. You can find...
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Wall Street is seeing money pour in at a near record-setting pace
Add last week’s sharp tech sell-off to the list of things stock traders are willing to overlook. They poured a whopping $24.6 billion into equities in the week ended June 14, the most since the US...
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Who is Otto Warmbier, the college student held prisoner in North Korea
After serving a year of a 15-year prison sentence for stealing a poster from a hotel in North Korea, American detainee Otto Warmbier was released and returned to his family in the US. Warmbier has...
View Article‘Grave concerns’ over the Trump administration’s view toward civil rights...
An independent, bipartisan federal commission tasked with advising President Donald Trump and Congress on civil-rights issues approved a two-year investigation that will examine how the Trump...
View Article3 Republican governors sign on to letter rejecting ‘Trumpcare’
Three Republican governors – John Kasich of Ohio, Brian Sandoval of Nevada, and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts – signed onto a letter sent to congressional leaders Friday rejecting the current...
View ArticleGunman who opened fire on congress members had a list with at least 3 more...
The gunman who opened fire on Republican congress members at a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, critically wounding Rep. Steve Scalise and injuring others, had a list with the names of three...
View ArticleThe US government wants a court to hand over millions of Palantir shares...
The US government has filed a lawsuit asking to take ownership of 2.5 million shares of preferred Palantir stock that were allegedly caught up in Malaysia’s massive 1MDB scandal. On Thursday, the US...
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This new animation shows how close Antarctica is to losing an iceberg the...
A block of ice about the size of Delaware could break off of Antarctica “within days,” researchers suggest. And a new animation shows just how close the humongous iceberg is to calving. Antarctica’s...
View ArticleMay called a ‘coward’ by circling crowds while visiting Grenfell Tower fire...
LONDON – Prime Minister Theresa May had to virtually flee the church she visited in order to meet survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, which has killed 30 people and injured scores of others. May was...
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Een arts legt uit waar je bij vaccinaties voor je vakantie op moet letten
Wie op reis gaat, kan voor advies, recepten en vaccinaties terecht bij de lokale GGD, maar daarnaast zijn er vele andere klinieken en ‘thuisprikkers’ die inentingen verzorgen. Waar moet je op letten?...
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Rhode Island’s ‘sassy’ Teacher of the Year posed next to Trump with a black...
Nikos Giannopoulos, Rhode Island’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, posed next to President Donald Trump while holding a black lace fan and wearing a rainbow LGBTQ pride pin on his jacket. And Trump “loved...
View ArticleEten bij IKEA is zo belachelijk goedkoop dat het bedrijf er verlies op maakt
Het eten in de IKEA is spotgoedkoop. Het bedrijf maakt geen winst op je Zweedse gehaktballetje, wel op die dure bank die je koopt. Wie ‘s ochtends vroeg het IKEA-restaurant binnenstapt, kan al hele...
View ArticleRep. Steve Scalise has improved to ‘serious condition,’ is responsive and...
Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot in the hip Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire on a congressional baseball practice, “continues to show signs of improvement” after an additional surgery on...
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