By Bruce Schreiner and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn – Associated Press LOUISEVILLE, Kentucky (AP) – US Senator Rand Paul rarely targets his potential Democratic rival by name, but the Kentucky Republican campaign attacks clearly target Charles Booker’s agenda – in what is shaping up as a populist-themed battle featuring entirely different ideas to win the people … Read more
By ELAINE KURTENBACH – AP أعمال Business Writer Stocks in Asia were mixed on Wednesday as Chinese indexes pressed higher after a rally in technology companies helped reverse most of the early slide on Wall Street. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.7% to 19967.25 and the Shanghai Composite rose 1.5% to 3,082.50. This came after … Read more
Brussels (AFP) – International donors on Tuesday pledged $6.7 billion to help Syrians and neighboring countries hosting refugees, but fell short of a United Nations goal of providing aid to millions of people from conflict-torn Syria who depend on aid for survival. The European Neighborhood Commissioner, Oliver Varheli, has acknowledged that the war in Ukraine … Read more
Citizens Financial Group Inc. launched Citizens Pay iPhone upgrade plan in 2015 as an early form of the buy now, pay later concept that has become popular in the payments space. The idea was to take Citizens CFG, -1.19% Branding as a credit provider and integrating it with Apple’s AAPL, + 2.60% iPhone to help … Read more
STOCKHOLM (AP) – Join or not join? The NATO issue comes to a head this week in Finland and Sweden, where Russia invaded Ukraine It shattered the firm belief that staying out of the military alliance was the best way to avoid trouble with their giant neighbor. If the president of Finland and the ruling … Read more
Zaporizhia, Ukraine (AFP) – Russian forces have bombed the vital port of Odessa, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, in an apparent attempt to disrupt supply lines and arms shipments. On the other end of the southern coast, they have destroyed a steel plant where Ukrainian fighters are denying Moscow full control of another important port. Days … Read more
Seoul, South Korea (AFP) – Yoon Seok-yeol, a conservative political novice, took office Tuesday as South Korea’s new president with a pledge to pursue a negotiated settlement of North Korea’s threatened nuclear program and offer a “bold plan” to improve Pyongyang’s economy if it gives up its nuclear weapons. . Yun begins his solo five-year … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks took further losses on Wall Street on Monday, leaving the S&P 500 index at its lowest point in more than a year. The sell-off came as renewed concerns about the Chinese economy piled up on top of global financial markets already hit by rising interest rates. The S&P 500 fell … Read more
Fanatics, a $27 billion sports marketing company, has brought in the former Airbnb marketing expert to help the company develop its brand identity as it looks to go public as soon as next year. The company founded by Michael Rubin in 2011 began selling official sports team merchandise but in recent years has expanded to … Read more
On April 28, Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, announced that it would begin displaying the locations of users’ IP addresses on their profile pages and in all responses posted to the site. company framed Feature as a necessary measure to “maintain a healthy and orderly environment for discussion”. According to the official Weibo community … Read more
