Ghislaine Maxwell speaks at the Arctic Circle Forum in Reykjavik, Iceland October 2013. The Arctic Circle via Reuters Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite criminally charged with facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls, is asking for bail of $5 million, and argues that her prosecution is barred by a non-prosecution deal that the now-dead...
Via Yahoo Finance By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global equity benchmarks struggled for direction and bond yields flat-lined on Friday as investors weighed a record number of new coronavirus cases in the United States against improving economic data in Europe. More than 60,500 new coronavirus infections were reported across the United States on...
By Editorial Dept – Jul 10, 2020, 11:00 AM CDT Back in May, I wrote a piece here recommending buying fuel cell stocks, specifically FCEL and BLDP. My logic then was that, while the market hunger for risk made no sense to me given the trajectory of the coronavirus news and the state of the...
Via RT Iran has vowed consequences for any foreign power that might have been involved in the recent incident at the Natanz uranium-enrichment site. The blast came amid a series of incidents at other Iranian vital sites. “It is still too early to talk about and make any judgment regarding the main cause and reason...
With its decisions on Donald Trump’s financial records on Thursday, the Supreme Court sounded a note it has played more than once this term: it would not simply dance to the president’s tune. The US high court’s rulings in two cases concerning records held by Mr Trump’s accountant and bankers dismissed arguments that he was...
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Imagine you’re standing across the street from a house that’s on the verge of falling apart, a condemned building, an edifice devoured by rot from bottom to top. Now imagine you see a construction crew arriving to repair it, and they start to fix the...
Article Thesis BG Staffing (NYSE:BGSF) is a small-cap company with a solid growth performance over the past decade. Management growth strategy through acquisitions has worked out successfully so far, and the company has been increasing revenue at a five-year average rate of 11.4%. However, BGSF is still a small player in a highly competitive industry...
FILE PHOTO: The logo for electric vehicle startup Rivian is seen on the hood of its new R1T all-electric truck in Mill Valley, California, U.S., January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino (Reuters) – Electric vehicle startup Rivian, which is backed by Amazon (AMZN.O) and Ford Motor (F.N) and aims to put an electric pickup and SUV...
Students and teachers around the world have attacked the International Baccalaureate after receiving grades awarded using a system introduced because of disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. Schools this week demanded explanations from the foundation that administers the IB, with thousands of the 170,000 students who entered saying they had received marks below their expected grades...
Authored by Jonathan Turley, Earlier, we discussed the formal censuring of a conservative student at Georgetown for his criticism of Black Lives Matter as an organization and his objections to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court. Georgetown University has remained silent as the student has been declared a racist and the student government called for...
As oil markets are slowly recovering from the oil price bust in April, big oil is facing a set of new challenges in the next couple of years. The Covid-19 pandemic has simply magnified what was already plaguing the industry before the downturn. Eyeing the future, the oil majors have made bets on other sectors,...
President Donald Trump said Friday that he isn’t currently thinking about a possible next stage of the U.S. trade deal with China, adding that the relationship between the two nations has been “severely damaged” by the coronavirus pandemic. “They could have stopped the plague. They could have stopped it. They didn’t stop it,” Trump said...
An explosion at the heart of Iran’s nuclear programme in the dead of night. An obscure group called the Cheetahs of the Homeland takes credit for it. Then there are fires and gas leaks at key infrastructure around the country. In recent days, speculation has flourished about what exactly happened at Natanz, an assembly plant...
Following ten years of dismal performance (“oddly” starting with the outlawing of insider trading platforms known as “expert network”), 2020 has been another dire year for the 2 and 20 crowd, with more hedge funds going of business during the first three months of 2020 than at any other time since 2015 as the coronavirus...
Jul 11th 2020 FOR MORE than 4,000 years Stonehenge has stood on Salisbury Plain in southern Britain. The landscape surrounding the Neolithic monument contains many secrets, with features dating back to much earlier times. Having surveyed more than 18 square kilometres in the vicinity, archaeologists continue to make surprising discoveries. The latest, a series of...
The Oakmark Global Select Fund had a strong quarter of absolute and relative performance, returning 23.1%. The benchmark MSCI World Index returned 19.4% for the same period. The Fund has returned an average of 6.4% per year since its inception in October 2006, outperforming the MSCI World Index, which has averaged 5.6% per year over...
FILE PHOTO: Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett seen at the annual Berkshire shareholder shopping day in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S., May 3, 2019. REUTERS/Scott Morgan (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) has reduced its share count by 1.2% since April 23, a regulatory filing shows, suggesting that Chairman Warren Buffett might have become more aggressive in...
In a series of tweets this morning, President Trump escalated his attacks on US universities by threatening the tax-exempt status of colleges that are too focused on “Radical Left Indoctrination”… Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status…...
It has become the preferred mode of transport and the pastime of choice for millions of people in the coronavirus era. But the cycling revolution has been stopped in its tracks — by a worldwide shortage of bikes. Many stores around the world have been selling out as soon as new bikes are delivered, leaving shop...
Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Before our Black Lives Matter moment, one had not thought of the NBC networks as shot through with “systemic racism.” Yet, what other explanation is there for this week’s draconian personnel decision of NBCUniversal chairman Cesar Conde. According to Conde, the white share of NBC’s workforce, now 74% and...