Новости за 16.02.2018

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government nominated Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda to a new five-year term, a move that indicates monetary conditions will be kept ultra-loose for now.

The board of Thomson Reuters recently pressed ahead with plans to sell a piece of its business to Blackstone Group despite its chairman’s concerns that the company might not be getting the best price.

A federal inspector general has agreed to investigate actions by federal regulators that might benefit Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. in its efforts to buy Tribune Media Co., according to a top congressman who requested the probe.

A veteran terrorist leader was indicted for ordering attacks from his prison cell, including a deadly assault in Indonesia’s capital that showed Islamic State had spread to the world’s most-populous Muslim-majority country.

A federal judge has rejected a $550 million loan to keep Puerto Rico’s troubled electric utility in operation, threatening the island with more power outages at a time when it is trying to recover from last summer’s devastating hurricanes.

Mapped timeline showing how the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School unfolded.

Kraft Heinz Co. hinted at plans to do more deals. In a presentation to investors, Chief Executive Bernardo Hees said big food makers like Kraft Heinz face pressure to consolidate to confront changing consumer demands for fresher food and more snacks.

The largest investor in Avis Budget Group Inc. is launching a fight to shake up the car-rental car company’s board of directors, a ratcheting up of several years of tension between the two.

CBS Corp.’s revenue rose 11% as it pulled in more money from pay-TV distributors, content licensing and its own direct-to-consumer streaming services.

The one solution that works is shooting back at shooters.

The mortgage ward of the state needs $3.7 billion from taxpayers.

Nobelist Frank Wilczek ponders why we haven’t encountered extraterrestrial advanced societies. Why the answer may be: “Good thinks come in small packages.”

Trump will never get a victory if he won’t ‘take the heat.’

Hostility to half of America isn’t good business—or politics.

What’s gone wrong with our culture that produces such atrocities? It’s a very long list.

His thoughts on faith and economics also had an influence on Pope John Paul II.

Getting it through Congress was the easy part. Now come the regulations.

Ten years after our independence, there’s amazing progress.

Colombia’s government said Thursday that some of the deadly bombings recently carried out by the country’s last guerrilla group strikes were planned in Venezuela, Colombia’s increasingly lawless neighbor, and that Venezuelans have participated in them.

Most deaths occur during the first five minutes. Preparing teachers and students would save lives.

To make the bureaucracy more accountable, leaders in Brussels consider a plan for a quasi-president.

James Damore is coming to Portland State, and ‘intersectionalists’ are issuing threats.

She arrived from Italy in 1911 and then at age 14 went to work in a factory sewing ladies’ coats.

The White House blamed Russia for a massive cyberattack last year that crippled computer networks at multinational firms worldwide, vowing the hack would be met with “international consequences.”

General Electric reached a deal to sell parts of its overseas lighting business to a former executive for an undisclosed amount, the first move for the conglomerate to separate with one of its oldest and most iconic businesses.