Новости за 21.06.2017

A global stock benchmark provider's decision to add mainland China-listed shares to its widely followed stock indexes did little to boost risk appetite as the decision was widely expected. Global stock benchmark provider MSCI decided to include 222 large Chinese companies in 2018 to its Emerging Markets index, which is closely followed by fund managers. Adding Chinese shares to the MSCI Emerging Markets index will reduce South Korean shares in the index, which could trigger outflows of at most... Читать дальше...

Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm is scheduled to address spinners and other fad items when the nonprofit organization presents its annual list of unsafe summer playthings on Wednesday.

TOKYO (AP) — Toshiba says a Japanese-US consortium is its preferred bidder for the sale of its memory chip business.

Two days after she was fatally shot by police at her Sand Point apartment, family members and supporters of Charleena Lyles made sure everybody knew her name.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said Tuesday that the Star Wars spinoff is parting ways with directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller due to different creative visions on the film. Lord and Miller have developed a stellar reputation in Hollywood for their smart and profitable adaptations of creaky or impossible properties like "The Lego Movie" and "21 Jump Street" and its sequel. Over the past six months the directors have been widely engaged on social media, drumming up interest in the project ... Читать дальше...

Amazon and Wal-Mart are engaged in battle for your retail dollars, and the stakes seem to be getting higher.

Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., celebrated passage of the Affordable Care Act with a big rally at the Boeing Aerospace Machinists hall in Seattle.  Seven years later, they are helping lead Senate Democrats' die-hard bid to save "Obamacare" against a Republican-written health care bill that senators have not even seen.

Dazed by the unrelenting digital demolition on screen, thoughts go through your head like: 'Can this movie literally crush me?' 'Is death by Dolby possible?' and 'You know, it's really time to get the car washed.' The fifth in the franchise and second in the "Wahlberg Years" (Mark Wahlberg replaced Shia LaBeouf as lead in the last installment), "The Last Knight" continues the Hasbro toy adaptations and expands further into the alien machines' mythology. The script by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and... Читать дальше...

Cheers to the Washington Beer Commission for throwing another awesome beer festival! Last weekend’s Washington Brewers Festival saw over The post Washington Brewers Festival followup: Which breweries got the most tokens appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

Brain surgeon charged with child sex abuse gives up license Several women who had relationships with Kohut said he wanted to have children with them to create " 'taboo' families where the parents raise their children sexually," Assistant District Attorney Steven Moore said in court documents. Kohut's attorney Jay Rorty argued in court Monday that the previous FBI investigation was a sting operation in which Kohut says was guilty only of a "thought crime" and had not acted on sexual compulsions... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — At least 10 passengers aboard a United Airlines jet were injured when the plane hit turbulence during a flight from Panama to Houston. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says the Boeing 737 encountered turbulence about 80 miles east of Cancun, Mexico.

CHICAGO (AP) — An investor group headed by a former Chicago city council member and labor unions has submitted a bid to buy the Chicago Sun-Times — a move that, if successful, would prevent the paper's biggest rival from purchasing it. The bid led by former Alderman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor comes a month after the owner of the Sun-Times, Chicago-based-Wrapports LLC announced it had agreed to enter into discussions with Tronc, which owns the rival Chicago Tribune and several other major newspapers... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time, part of a push to recast itself as a company with a conscience and a heart. Besides the built-in tipping announced Tuesday, Uber is giving drivers an opportunity to make more money in other ways too. The attempt to smooth over its sometimes testy relationship with drivers is part of a broader effort to reverse damage done to Uber's reputation by revelations of sexual harassment in its offices... Читать дальше...

Mattel is introducing 15 new looks for the male doll, including different skin tones, body shapes and hair styles. Barbie had a similar makeover more than a year ago, both part of the toy company's plan to make its dolls more diverse and appealing to today's kids. Mattel is trying to fight falling sales of its iconic doll line at a time when many kids would rather play with an iPad. Some of the new $10 Ken dolls were being rolled out to shops and online stores Tuesday, Mattel Inc. said, and all... Читать дальше...

Transcripts show that the officers who fired at Charleena Lyles during a burglary call Sunday morning weren't carrying Tasers that could have been used before resorting to gunfire. But the Seattle Police Department won't say what type of weapons they were carrying when they approached a woman who had exhibited delusions in front of police before.

(AP) — Shares of FedEx Corp. rose in late trading Tuesday after the company's latest quarterly profit beat Wall Street expectations on higher rates and an increase in deliveries. FedEx is being lifted by the growth in online shopping, and executives predicted another season of record pickups and deliveries later this year. Excluding pension valuations, restructuring costs and other items, the Memphis-based company said it earned $4.25 per share. In FedEx's express air-delivery business, revenue... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials in New York City say a straphanger on a subway train stalled in a tunnel during Tuesday's morning rush hour jumped off the cars and walked on the tracks. Kevin Ortiz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the agency received reports of one man jumping onto the tracks from the space between subway cars. The stress of a crumbling subway system with more passengers than ever — 5.6 million weekly in 2016 — has caused the number of train delays to triple in the past five years... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the most widely respected actors of his generation and a three-time Oscar-winner, says he's retiring from acting. The 60-year-old actor announced Tuesday that he has shot his last film and performed in his last play. [...] Day-Lewis has also long been an exceptionally deliberate performer who often spends years preparing for a role, crafting his characters with an uncommon, methodical completeness. A five-time Academy Award nominee, Day-Lewis is the only one to ever win best actor three times.

[...] the two presidents posed for photographs in the Oval Office and made brief remarks following Poroshenko's more extensive meetings with Vice President Mike Pence and the administration's top national security advisers. Trump has maintained that he hopes to establish better ties with Moscow, repairing ill will from the Obama era that resulted from Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region and its widely condemned support of Syria's President Bashar Assad, despite his attacks against civilians. Читать дальше...