“I saw the power of what it did last night,”said senior IOC member Angela Ruggiero as she called for North and South Korea’s joint women’s ice hockey team to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. It certainly seems the team’s efforts have been having positive ripple effects. IOC President Thomas Bach told Reuters he plans to visit North Korea after the Games and comments by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence suggest the United States may be looking more favorably at diplomatic engagement with the North.
World shares staggered higherafter suffering their worst week in two years, attempting to brush off fresh rises in global bond yields while equity futures pointed to a firmer Wall Street session ahead.
Emergency workers in Russiasearched snow-covered fields outside Moscow, looking for body fragments and clues after a fatal plane crash a day earlier killed all 71 people on board.
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Amazon.com paid about $90 million to acquire the maker of Blink home security cameras late last year, in a secret bet on the startup’s energy-efficient chips, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox said it would commit to maintain Sky News in Britain for at least five years and would establish an independent board for the channel to try to secure its takeover of pay-TV operator Sky.
“Chocfinger” made his name and his money by taking bold bets on cocoa markets. But after nearly four decades of trading, Anthony Ward threw in the towel. Ward blames the rise of computer-driven funds and high-frequency trading for forcing him and some other well-known commodities investors to close their hedge funds and look for opportunities where machines can’t make a difference.
With years of austerity in their rear-view mirrors, the world’s biggest oil companies are locked in a beauty contest to lure investors with promises of growth and greater rewards.
