1. Brussels has confirmed that its retaliation measures against Donald Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs will take effect on Friday, targeting some €2.8bn of US...
      


  2. Snap is laying off around 100 employees that are part of its engineering staff. The company expects to lay off as many as 100 people...
      


  3. That's because every car sold in America is at least partly imported.The Commerce Department is considering tariffs on cars assembled at foreign plants and...
      


  4. T-Mobile and Sprint on Sunday announced a plan to merge in a deal that would combine the third- and fourth-largest telecommunications companies in the...
      


  5. Argentina’s current economic troubles are likely to get worse before they get better. And with the second highest inflation rate in South America, behind...
      


  6. Lower interest rates and resurgent investor and central bank buying are expected to help gold prices cement recent gains and hold above $1,400 an...
      


  7. The global economy is set to slow down in 2019 and stabilize thereafter, the European Central Bank said on Thursday, while still expecting prices...
      


  8. Who wants to live on a hill? They're inconveniently high and hard to climb.  Also, most hills are really ugly like this one: https://envirobites.org/2019/04/22/saving-the-scrub-in-defense-of-ugly-landscapes/ Stay away...


  9. ... and also Engie, OMV, and Windershall--all companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 project. Now, I shouldn't say this but I would really...
      


  10. Apple and Goldman Sachs have been working for months on a new credit card product that would bear the Apple Pay brand. The product would...
      


  11. The fate of the global economy lies in the hands of Washington and Beijing. That’s the view of Oxford Economics, which found that the...
      


  12. The European Union published proposals on Monday for reform of dispute settlement at the World Trade Organization that it has agreed with China, India...
      


  13. I'm not sure I know the answer to this but I'm trying to follow this to its logical conclusion. We have mined 17 million...
      


  14. This benchmark spread is killing it right now. Any insights on the nature of the spread. It's hit over $11 for the first time...
      


  15.  ...and more workers are quitting. U.S. job openings surged to a record high in March, suggesting that a recent slowdown in hiring was probably the result...


  16. Apparently, Amazon is planning to split its second headquarters between two cities. Reports are saying Amazon is holding advanced discussions about opening HQ2 in...
      


  17. The advisors of the Venezuelan government have recommended that the country’s oil-backed cryptocurrency, the Petro, be sold in private placements at a discount of...
      


  18. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said  she would back a lowering of EU tariffs on U.S. car imports, responding to an offer from Washington to...
      


  19. I'm utterly confused about Washington's comments on the dollar at Davos. Wall Street isn't sure how to take Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's statement that...
      


  20. Slow user growth brings Facebook down 20% for the day - $100 billion off it's market cap in one day. The slide is set to...
      


  21. U.S. President Trump will reject a U.S.-China trade deal that is not perfect, but the United States would still keep working on an agreement,...
      


  22. Like half.  Then wait a week and buy with other half if S&P hits 2000.   Your average will be 2200, which is decent.  Pretty sure...


  23. https://www.turkeytrotchicago.com/2017/10/09/hills-hills-hills/ Lovely.  Gorgeous and breezy.  Relaxing.  Excellent viewpoint.  Good exercise.  Wonderful. Who doesn't love a hill? 


  24. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the government was completing a study about increasing import tariffs on cars from the European Union and...
      


  25. Bitcoin’s massive price run-up late last year may have been the result of a price manipulation campaign, according to a new study released.  According...
      


  26. India’s economy grew 8.2 per cent in from April to June of this year, its fastest pace of expansion since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...
      


  27. ''Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'' - George Santayana. Current investors must be at least 60 years old to have...
      


  28. According to data out this morning, the US trade deficit with China last year was $337 billion, up 9 percent from 2016! In his...
      


  29. U.S. trade officials will immediately focus on resolving steel and aluminum tariff issues with the European Union, while a broader trade agreement between the...
      


  30. Much fanfare has been heard and done by the venezuelan government and people connected with it about the so called Petro, "the first sovereign...
      

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