Wednesday, September 14, 2016

China has ratified Paris climate agreement, state media says and other top stories.

  • China has ratified Paris climate agreement, state media says

    China has ratified Paris climate agreement, state media says Posted September 03, 2016 14:14:46 China has ratified the Paris agreement on climate change, according to state media, a key move by the world's biggest polluter that brings the deal a major step closer to coming into force.The National People's Congress legislature voted to adopt "the proposal to review and ratify the Paris Agreement", the official Xinhua news agency said.The Paris pact calls for capping gl..
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  • China Antitrust Body Investigates Didi-Uber Deal

    China Antitrust Body Investigates Didi-Uber Deal
    China's dominant ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing announced in August that the company was buying Uber operations in China. Within a month, China's antitrust body has started investigating the deal. The Didi-Uber deal, which is worth $35 billion, is mainly aimed at reducing stiff competition in the ride-hailing service market in China. "With the addition of the strong talents and experience of the Uber China team, Didi Chuxing will be even better-positioned to serve the Chinese people. Didi Ch..
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  • Sorry, Folks, But Wall Street Won't Predict the Next President

    Sorry, Folks, But Wall Street Won't Predict the Next President
    These days, political journalists (including us) are all taking a pickaxe to the same election coverage problem. With polling so obviously in need of an update, where do you turn for a credible assessment of public opinion? People are unearthing new theories all the time, so you end up with a newsfeed awash with articles touting brand new, unconventional sourced data. Trouble is, not every bird in an the election prediction coal mine is a canary. Which brings us to this week’s hot would-be poll..
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  • Long Holiday Weekend Follows Jobs Data as Fed Hike Chances Seem to Recede

    Long Holiday Weekend Follows Jobs Data as Fed Hike Chances Seem to Recede
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  • Is Elon Musk trying to do too much too fast?

    Is Elon Musk trying to do too much too fast?
    If you deal in cars and rockets, you’re going to have crashes and blasts.But how many crashes and blasts before your business takes a fatal hit? That’s one of many questions facing Elon Musk, now engaged in one of the most fascinating stories in the history of business, a story playing out in real time.The spectacular explosion Thursday of a Falcon 9 rocket manufactured by SpaceX, a Musk company, inflames concerns about his management style -- that he’s trying to do too much too fast. “This r..
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  • Lowest Labor Day gas prices in 12 years good for wallet, bad for roads

    Lowest Labor Day gas prices in 12 years good for wallet, bad for roads
    Millions of Southern Californians are expected to take to the road this Labor Day weekend, spurred by record-low gas prices for the summer holiday. According the Automobile Club of Southern California, Labor Day gas prices haven't been this low since 2004, when the TV show "Friends" had just aired its final episode, Britney Spears was marrying for the second time and a little website called Facebook launched — open only to college students. While prices are slightly higher in Los Angeles than l..
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  • Ireland to join Apple in fight against EU tax ruling

    Ireland to join Apple in fight against EU tax ruling
    The Independent Alliance, a group of five lawmakers, fell in line after the coalition agreed to conduct a review of what tax multinationals pay and what should they pay. Transport Minister Shane Ross, an Alliance member, defended Apple up to a point. "I think they were acting legally. What they were doing was making use of extraordinary loopholes that existed there," he told reporters. "Multinationals provide absolutely vital jobs to the economy ... (but) multinationals should pay a ..
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  • Delta says it lost $100 million in revenue due to big outage

    Delta says it lost $100 million in revenue due to big outage
    ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines Inc. said Friday that last month’s computer outage, which caused it to cancel 2,300 flights, cost $100 million in lost revenue. The airline also said that a key revenue per mile figure fell sharply in August, partly because of the outage. A fire and failure of a piece of equipment at Delta’s Atlanta headquarters on Aug. 8 caused a massive outage of the airline’s computer systems, temporarily grounding flights and leading to three days of heavy cancellations and de..
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  • Korean shipper's bankruptcy sets off US retail fears

    Korean shipper's bankruptcy sets off US retail fears
    LOS ANGELES — The bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion, with giant container ships marooned and merchants worrying whether tons of goods will reach their shelves.The South Korean giant filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday and stopped accepting new cargo. With its assets being frozen, ships from China to Canada found themselves refused permission to offload or take aboard containers because there were no guarantees that tug..
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