Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump and other top stories.

  • The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump

    The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump
    Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this year (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he’s having trouble finding takers. In recent days, the Facebook board member and PayPal cofounder - who is also a member of the Trump transition - has been appealing to fel..
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  • Find hot Black Friday deals online -- same as stores

    Find hot Black Friday deals online -- same as stores
    Courtney Jespersen, NerdWallet 6:26 a.m. EST November 22, 2016 Now you know just when to hit the store's for 2016's Black Friday. Buzz60's Keleigh Nealon (keleighnealon) has the story! Buzz60Shoppers line at the counter of a Target store in Queensbury, New York(Photo: ANDREW GOMBERT, EPA)More consumers are expected to shop online for gifts this holiday season, which is coaxing retailers to make sure their best Black Friday deals aren't just offered in stores.Many sales will ..
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  • Donald Trump Plans a Pre-Thanksgiving Meeting With The New York Times

    Donald Trump Plans a Pre-Thanksgiving Meeting With The New York Times
    A preholiday focus on the cabinetMr. Trump will hunker down in Trump Tower on Tuesday for one last day of cabinet deliberations before heading to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., for Thanksgiving.For a second day in a row, Mr. Trump will spend part of his day in meetings with news organizations that he sparred with frequently during the 18-month presidential campaign. On Monday, he met with big names in the television news industry, criticizing their coverage of the campaign and calli..
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  • Daimler chief removed after 'racist rant' in China

    Daimler chief removed after 'racist rant' in China
    Image copyright Getty Images German carmaker Daimler has apologised and removed a senior executive from his job after he allegedly made racist remarks in a row over parking in China.Rainer Gaertner, Daimler's trucks and buses president in the country, also allegedly used pepper spray on bystanders who intervened.Chinese media said the incident took place in a Beijing car park on Sunday.Daimler said it was "a purely private issue, which has now been resolved in an amicable manner".The argume..
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  • TransAsia Airways of Taiwan Shuts Down After Pair of Deadly Crashes

    TransAsia Airways of Taiwan Shuts Down After Pair of Deadly Crashes
    Photo A TransAsia plane crashed into the Keelung River in Taiwan in February 2015. In July 2014, one of its planes hit a building while landing during stormy weather. Credit Wally Santana/Associated Press HONG KONG — TransAsia Airways, the Taiwan-based airline that had two fatal crashes in seven months, said on Tuesday in a stock exchange filing that it would wind itself down.Its shares and flights had been suspended since Monday.The company has continuously lost money,..
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  • Tyson Foods Q4 Earnings, Sales Miss Estimates

    Tyson Foods Q4 Earnings, Sales Miss Estimates
    Tyson Foods, Inc.(TSN - Free Report) offers a wide array of meat products and commands a strong presence in all beef, pork, chicken and processed food products categories.Continuous product innovations and strong momentum in most of its business segments is driving sales of the company since past many quarters. With a general shift of demand among health conscious consumers from red meat to low-calorie chicken and processed chicken food items, Tyson's endeavor to offer low-calorie protein fo..
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  • Fidelity Investments' Longtime Chairman to Retire

    Fidelity Investments' Longtime Chairman to Retire
    Long-time Fidelity Investments Chairman Edward C. Johnson III will retire next month and will be succeeded by his daughter, Abigail Johnson, the company said on Monday. During his nearly 40-year run as chairman of Boston-based Fidelity, Johnson turned the family-controlled company into a mutual fund powerhouse with $2.1 trillion in managed assets. His innovations include creating the first money-market fund with a check writing feature. But over the past decade Fidelity's advantage has slipped ..
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  • Volkswagen puts conquering Americas at heart of turnaround plan

    Volkswagen puts conquering Americas at heart of turnaround plan
    By Andreas Cremer | WOLFSBURG, Germany WOLFSBURG, Germany Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) is putting the Americas at the heart of the turnaround plan for its core VW brand, pinning its hopes on new higher-margin SUVs and electric cars to rebuild its image following the diesel emissions cheating scandal.Europe's biggest carmaker is battling to recover from the biggest business crisis in its history after admitting last year to cheating U.S. diesel emissions tests. Key to this will be a turnaround plan..
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  • Nigerian Farmers, Fishermen Sue Shell in UK Over Pollution

    Nigerian Farmers, Fishermen Sue Shell in UK Over Pollution
    LONDON — Britain's High Court will begin hearing lawsuits filed by a group of Nigerian farmers and fisherman alleging that decades of oil spills have fouled the water of the Niger River Delta, where a Shell subsidiary has operated since the 1950s.The claims were brought Tuesday by two communities located in Ogoniland, part of the oil-rich southern Niger River Delta. They argue Shell, incorporated in the U.K., is responsible for the actions of its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Developmen..
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  • Record highs for Wall Street quartet send other stocks higher

    Record highs for Wall Street quartet send other stocks higher
    LONDON World stocks on Tuesday rode the slipstream of the first joint all-time high for Wall Street's four main markets since 1999, while oil prices hit their highest level since October.A powerful earthquake hitting the same part of Japan that suffered a nuclear disaster in 2011 nudged up the safe-haven yen. The dollar slipped off a six-month high as the rally in oil and metals prices also drove up commodities-linked currencies such as the Australian dollar. [FRX/] Asia's top bourses had made..
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