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Hedge fund Third Point praises Nestle chief in letter to investors
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FILE PHOTO: Nestle Chief Executive Mark Schneider attends the opening of the 151st Annual General Meeting of Nestle in Lausanne, Switzerland April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo BOSTON (Reuters) – Hedge fund Third Point told investors in a letter on Thursday that it was happy with progress at some of its biggest holdings, including Nestle Read More
China bans Australian coal imports as diplomatic tensions over Huawei intensify
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One of China’s biggest ports has put restrictions on shipments of coal from Australia, its top supplier of anthracite, casting a shadow upon Australia’s second largest export earner. The Port of Dalian is set to cap overall coal imports from all sources at 12 million tons until the end of 2019, according to an official Read MoreNike stumbles into social media storm after basketball star's shoe splits
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Nike Inc sneaker worn by a college basketball superstar split in half less than a minute into a highly anticipated game between Duke University and North Carolina, prompting an outcry on social media as the company sought to figure out what caused the malfunction. Zion Williamson, a 6-foot-7-inch freshman forward Read More
Musk’s ambitious new ‘Starship’ project might be undone… by bird poop
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SpaceX’s new launch vehicle system, called Starship, will replace its current rockets, and may be the first craft to bring humans to Mars. The high tech ship has one potential weakness, however: bird poop. Starship will reportedly be fully reusable and extremely cheap to launch. Musk has made the rather bold claim that round-trip tickets Read MoreSwedish and Estonian watchdogs open joint Swedbank probe
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s and Estonia’s financial watchdogs have opened a joint investigation following a media report linking Swedbank to a Baltic money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank, they said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: Swedbank’s logo is pictured on its Lithuanian headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, in this May 10, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo Read More
Empty supertankers reveal truths about today's oil market
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By Firat Kayakiran on 2/21/2019 LONDON (Bloomberg) — They are slowly plowing their way across thousands of miles of ocean toward America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline. As they do, twelve empty supertankers are also revealing a few truths about today’s global oil market. In normal times, the vessels would be filled with heavy, high sulfur Read More
Former teacher & mother of 4 becomes Russia’s 2nd female billionaire
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The owner of Russia’s biggest web retailer, Tatyana Bakalchuk, has entered the list of Russian billionaires. She managed to build her company, Wildberries, from scratch into a US$1.2 billion firm. This year, Wildberries – the leader of Russian online retailing, where you can find hundreds of thousands of items from clothing to electronics – has Read MoreHow personal finance guru Jill Schlesinger got smart about money
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Jill Schlesinger got her start on Wall Street, and that is where she learned a lot of what she knows about the financial world. But she has built a career dishing out personal finance advice by pulling back the curtain on myths about investing, and showing how average people can make a Read More