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Global arms transfers are at the highest since the end of the Cold War. The United States is the top exporter of arms in the world, accounting for 33% of the world's arms exports, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Here are the countries the US sold the most weapons to.

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Good morning! Here are the plays everybody will be talking about on Thursday:

The Barcelona comeback. With seven minutes to play in the second leg of Barcelona's knockout stage matchup against Paris Saint-Germain, they found themselves down two goals on aggregate. PSG also held the tiebreaker with more away goals meaning Barςa needed three more goals to advance. An impossible task. But in the 88th minute Neymar scored on a gorgeous free kick. Three minutes later... Читать дальше...

HBO

Although HBO has attempted to separate itself from television — "It's not TV; it's HBO" — the premium cable network has brought us some of the greatest TV of all time, like "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones," throughout its history of original programming, which started in the early '80s.

We ranked its shows according to their ratings on Metacritic, which aggregates critics' reviews and assigns each season of a show a score. (For shows with multiple seasons, we averaged their... Читать дальше...

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Shares of Staples are down almost 4% in pre-market trading Thursday after missing on both earnings and revenue.

The office supplies retailer reported a net loss of $615 million, or $0.94 per share, for the fourth quarter of 2016 against a profit of $86 million, or 20 cents per share, for the same period last year.

Adjusted non-GAAP earnings came in at $0.25 per share, one cent below the consensus estimate.

Total sales stood at $4.6 billion, a drop of 3% from the same period last year... Читать дальше...

Sarah Jacobs

First, Miki Agrawal encouraged women to toss their tampons.

Agrawal is the brains behind Thinx, the "period-proof underwear" startup that makes garments out of a special fabric designed to prevent menstrual blood from leaking and staining.

Now, the serial entrepreneur is taking on toilet paper.

Her new venture, Tushy, sells a portable bidet that attaches to a regular toilet and transforms it into, as Agrawal says, a "booty washer." Agrawal and cofounder... Читать дальше...

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Democrats have begun their fight against the GOP's replacement for the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare law better known as Obamacare.

As the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday held its first day of debate over the GOP replacement, the American Health Care Care Act, Democrats introduced a series of largely symbolic amendments to add to the bill. While the amendments will be considered by the committee, they have to be approved by a majority... Читать дальше...

Chinese consumer price inflation (CPI) fell sharply in February, driven down by sharply lower food prices.

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Brussels (AFP) - EU leaders are set to ignore bitter opposition from Warsaw and re-elect Poland's Donald Tusk as the bloc's president Thursday in a row that underscores the difficulties of post-Brexit unity.

A summit that was meant to focus on plans for the future after Britain leaves has instead become mired in a Polish political drama with wider implications for looming east-west splits in the European Union.

The row threatens to overshadow talks on the economy... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on a pivotal House committee scored an initial triumph in their effort to scuttle former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, using a pre-dawn vote Thursday to abolish the tax penalty his statute imposes on people who don't purchase insurance and reshaping how millions of Americans buy medical care.

Yet the a panel's approval of health care legislation only masked deeper problems Republican backers face. Hospitals, doctors... Читать дальше...

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Bobigny (France) (AFP) - Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and right-wing Francois Fillon on Wednesday lashed out at the French government a day after a mob of school children in a Paris suburb assaulted police and smashed public property.

Chaotic images of tear gas being fired outside a secondary school in the tough northern suburb of Saint-Denis on Tuesday quickly became a political issue less than seven weeks from presidential elections. Читать дальше...

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Istanbul (AFP) - Tens of thousands of women took to the streets across Turkey on Wednesday, marching for women's rights while some also rallied against expanding the president's powers.

In Istanbul over 10,000 people, mostly women, walked the long Istiklal Avenue, chanting "end male-perpetrated violence" and "Tayyip, Tayyip, run, run, we are coming".

"Tayyip" refers to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is seeking to create an executive presidency which would see the post of prime minister abolished. Читать дальше...

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Good morning. Here's everything you need to know in the world of advertising today.

1. DDB temporarily renamed itself DDB&R for International Women's Day. As reported by Adweek, the additional letter is to honor the agency's first female copywriter.

2. Kansas City-based creative agency Barkley acquired a consulting company. Adweek reports the creative shop acquired the design and strategy consultancy XperienceLab for an undisclosed sum.

3. Читать дальше...

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SEOUL (Reuters) - The head of South Korea's Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, denies all charges against him, his lawyer said on Thursday, at the start of what the special prosecutor said could be the "trial of the century" amid a political scandal that has rocked the country.

Lee has been charged with bribery, embezzlement and other offences in a corruption scandal that has already led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye.

Lee, who is being detained at Seoul Detention Centre... Читать дальше...

BI Intelligence

Over the past year, there has been a significant uptick in the number of connected cars on the road. And as internet integration becomes more commonplace, the automobile as we know it will transform.

Over the next five to 10 years, this internet integration is expected to change the car ownership model, create a new platform for consumers to access content, lead to fully autonomous vehicles, and revolutionize the auto industry.

The market position of the car... Читать дальше...

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Monday, March 6 was a historic day of sorts. At least for those in financial markets.

It was the day that the current bull market in US stocks began, born out of the depths of despair of the global financial crisis.

On March 6, 2009, the S&P 500 hit a low of 666.79 points, a somewhat appropriate level that heralded the start of what has been a remarkable run. It would have been a devil of a day for anyone who sold, or who went short, that day. Читать дальше...

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In the wake of the stellar ADP National Employment report released in the US on Wednesday, a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve is now seen as a certainty.

It’s a lock, baked in the cake, say markets. In the absence of a Black Swan event, they’re almost certainly correct.

The question now is how many other hikes will arrive this year? Will there be one, two or three, or perhaps none?

According to the Fed’s latest projections released in December last year... Читать дальше...

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It’s not been a good session for crude oil prices, and that’s putting it mildly.

They’ve copped a shellacking, undermined by the combination of another enormous inventory build in the US, renewed US dollar strength and near record-long positioning among speculative traders.

Both front-month WTI and Brent crude futures tumbled by around 5%, leaving them sitting at lows not seen since mid-December last year.

The percentage decline in WTI was the largest since February 9 last year. Читать дальше...

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Foreign investors continued to scoop up emerging market bonds and stocks in Asia last month, no doubt encouraged by modest US dollar weakness on the back of declining US treasury yield.

According to ANZ, inflows totaled $US8.6 billion in February, building upon the $US6.3 billion inflows seen in January.

$US3.5 billion flowed into stocks, outpaced by a $US5.1 billion investment in bonds.

As seen in the chart below from ANZ, the recent trend... Читать дальше...

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating a outage of 911 emergency service that affected some AT&T Wireless customers in several states on Wednesday night.

The outage, which lasted about an hour, prevented affected customers from making 911 calls. FCC chairman Ajit Pai announced that FCC public safety staff would look into the cause.

It was not immediately clear how many customers were affected by the outage.

During the outage... Читать дальше...

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People around the world went on strike and took part in demonstrations for International Women's Day and A Day Without a Woman marches on Tuesday, which were organized by the activists behind the Women's March on Washington.

Events were organized in countries like Yemen, the Philippines, and Pakistan among many others. Here are some photos of rallies that were held around the globe.

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CNN commentator Van Jones said there is a risk with President Donald Trump that no one is talking about.

"There's a danger that we all start to become Trump — that we normalize Trump emotionally. There's a danger that we all become fear-based and fear-driven and that we give in 100% to this us-against-them hysteria," Jones said on his program, "The Messy Truth" on Wednesday night.

Jones pointed to criticism he received over remarks he made about Trump last... Читать дальше...

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In 1989, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett decided to buy preferred stock in USAir, a predecessor to today's American Airlines.

The investment quickly went downhill. For 25 years thereafter, Buffett repeatedly criticized the airline industry as being a terrible place to invest.

Thus, most investors were shocked when Berkshire Hathaway revealed that it had invested in several airlines last summer.

Buffett continued his buying spree in the fall... Читать дальше...

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Airbnb might be getting into the long-term rental business.

The home-sharing startup has asked McKinsey & Co. to research the market and conduct a competitive analysis of Craigslist, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.

The $31 billion company has a sublet section on its website since 2011, which lists apartments and houses to rent by the month in more than 5,000 cities. But the feature isn’t advertised on the website, and is not exactly fine-tuned. Читать дальше...

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Just over half of Americans get professional help when filing their taxes, the IRS says. That can be a smart move, especially if your taxes are complicated or you’re not confident in your ability to self-file.

But tax help also comes at a price. Tax preparers earn on average $176 for helping with a basic Form 1040 and state return with no itemized deductions, per the National Association of Accountants, although that rate can vary depending on the complexity of the taxes. Читать дальше...

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OPEC’s coordinated effort to curtail global supply has so far managed to put a floor under oil prices, which have been sitting modestly above US$50 since the deal was announced at the end of November last year. But resurging U.S. shale has been capping the upside, and Brent has not breached US$58 per barrel. Analysts and experts are now mostly predicting that oil prices will remain below US$60 this year.

The supply-cut deal has so far resulted in a surprisingly high OPEC compliance of more than 90 percent... Читать дальше...