Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Technology|US Accuses Tech Firm Palantir of Bias Against Asian Engineers and other top stories.

  • Technology|US Accuses Tech Firm Palantir of Bias Against Asian Engineers

    Technology|US Accuses Tech Firm Palantir of Bias Against Asian Engineers
    Photo Palantir offices in Palo Alto, Calif. The Labor Department sued the tech company on Monday, claiming that it discriminated against Asians. Credit Peter DaSilva for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The United States Department of Labor sued Palantir Technologies, a prominent data analytics start-up, claiming systemic discrimination against Asian job applicants. The move again raises questions about diversity in Silicon Valley.In its suit, filed on Monday, the Lab..
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  • Algeria Holds Out for OPEC Output Deal

    Algeria Holds Out for OPEC Output Deal
    Sept. 27, 2016 5:17 a.m. ET ALGIERS—OPEC is holding its latest gathering to bolster oil prices this week in a country that exemplifies the economic squeeze gripping the cartel’s poorest nations. Algeria gets about 95% of its export revenue from oil and gas sales and needs prices as high as $87 a barrel to cover government spending. The price of crude is currently around $48 a barrel. The country’s gross domestic product is expected to drop 3% this year, the International Monetar..
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  • Trump Advisers Detail How Economic Plan Would Boost Revenue

    Trump Advisers Detail How Economic Plan Would Boost Revenue
    Donald Trump’s economic team offered more math behind his assertion that his tax cuts will mostly pay for themselves, saying trade policy would generate most of the additional wages and corporate profits that feed government revenue.The Republican presidential nominee’s economic-policy proposals will generate $2.37 trillion in tax receipts over 10 years, according to a paper issued Monday by Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California at Irvine, and billionaire investor ..
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  • World Trade Seen Growing at Weakest Pace Since Financial Crises

    World Trade Seen Growing at Weakest Pace Since Financial Crises
    World trade will this year grow at the slowest pace since the global financial crisis, a development that should serve as a “wake-up call” as anti-globalization sentiment builds, the World Trade Organization warned Tuesday. The Geneva-based body responsible for enforcing the rules that govern global trade cut its forecast for the growth of exports and imports this year and next, and now foresees an increase of just 1.7% in 2016 and...
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  • AP FACT CHECK: Clinton on jobs - Yakima Herald

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A claim from the presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: CLINTON: "Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's proposed, and basically they've said this: that if his tax plan...were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession. They've looked at my plans and they've said...we will have 10 million more new jobs." THE FACTS: The numbers come from one expert, Moody's Analytics chief econo..
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  • How Twitter Could Change Under the Umbrellas of Disney, Salesforce, or Google

    How Twitter Could Change Under the Umbrellas of Disney, Salesforce, or Google
    With speculation mounting that Twitter twtr will soon have a new corporate owner, the 10-year-old social networking service – which has long struggled to define its core purpose – may end up heading in one of several distinctly different directions depending on who ends up paying for it. Companies including Salesforce.com crm , Walt Disney dis and Alphabet’s Google goog have shown interest in Twitter, which is working with investment banks to evaluate its options, acc..
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  • Air France workers on trial over ripping off bosses' shirts

    Air France workers on trial over ripping off bosses' shirts
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  • China industrial profits rise most in three years as economy shows signs o...

    China industrial profits rise most in three years as economy shows signs o...
    BEIJING Profits in China's industrial sector rose at the fastest pace in three years as the world's second-biggest economy showed more signs of stabilizing, though some private forecasters say the improvement may be more fleeting than real. Profits of industrial firms in August jumped 19.5 percent from a year earlier to 534.8 billion yuan ($80 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday. That was the largest increase since August 2013. China's economy grew 6.9 percent las..
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  • Mylan's EpiPen Pretax Profits 60% Higher Than Number Told to Congress

    Mylan's EpiPen Pretax Profits 60% Higher Than Number Told to Congress
    Updated Sept. 26, 2016 7:40 p.m. ET Mylan NV on Monday clarified the profit it said it made from its lifesaving EpiPen drug, days after House members badgered the company’s CEO to justify the device’s steep price increases. Testifying before a congressional committee last week, CEO Heather Bresch said Mylan’s profit was $100 for a two-pack of the injectors, despite a $608 list price. But in response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, Mylan said Monday that the profit f..
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  • ADB says developing Asian economies are holding steady - Omaha World

    ADB says developing Asian economies are holding steady - Omaha World
    MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Developing economies in Asia are holding steady and will grow at the earlier forecast rate of 5.7 percent this year and next, buoyed by resilience in the region's two largest economies, China and India, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday.The region's developing economies grew 5.9 percent in 2015, and the bank was retaining its March forecasts, an ADB report said.China's economy — the second largest in the world — is forecast to grow by 6.6 percent in 2016 and 6.4..
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