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...In the winter, Google DeepMind researcher Pablo Samuel Castro wakes up at 4.30am, sometimes to -20C temperatures, and skis cross-country from Ottawa for up to 40 minutes before boarding a train to Montreal...
...Here’s the description of the “Top Reselling” community, AK CHEFS ($50/month): 2) MEOW ($1mn for 1.16 per cent stake) Meow, a platform which allows corporate treasures to pump their companies’ spare cash...
...The yield on the two-year Treasury note climbed to 1.16 per cent — its highest level since February 2020. The yield on the 10-year note rose 0.09 percentage points to 1.87 per cent....
...Here’s the rest of today’s news — Gordon Five more stories in the news 1....
...The number of Americans actively collecting state jobless aid hit 4.6m for the week that ended on January 23, marking a decline from 4.8m in one week....
...Diego Maradona, all 1.65 metres of him, played with the joy of the individual beating the system....
...While the overall increase in the US was below 60,000 for the first time in a week, 16 states reported single-day increases of more than 1,000 cases on Monday, according to Financial Times calculations using...
...The latest Hill/HarrisX poll also put Mr Buttigieg in joint sixth place with only 1 per cent, along with Mr Booker and former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro....
...The minimum wage and national living wage are each going up by well over 4 per cent from April 1....
...Volkswagen’s September sales were down 4.8 per cent from a year ago to 30,555....
...Cuba reported 4.7m tourist arrivals in 2017, an increase of 16.2 per cent on the previous year....
...Net profit for 2017 slipped 16.4 per cent to to $1.36bn, compared to 2016, while revenue rose 32.7 per cent to $7.85bn....
...The number of drug overdose deaths has soared in recent years, the figures show, climbing to 63,632 last year, compared with 52,404 in 2015. In 1999, the number was 16,849....
...Cuba braced for life after Castro...
...However, this year, returns of 13.4 per cent have fallen short of the 16.3 per cent posted by the US equities barometer....
...The New York-listed company rose 1 per cent to $82.54 in New York on Wednesday, adding to a 16.6 per cent surge late on Tuesday....
...Germany’s Dax index is gaining 0.4 per cent to 12,688, less than 1 per cent shy of its own record touched in mid April....
...In New York, the S&P 500 closed 0.25 per cent higher at a record 2,404.4 on Wednesday....
...The Xetra Dax in Frankfurt slipped 0.1 per cent but the UK’s FTSE 100 rose 0.4 per cent — helped to some degree by a further retreat for sterling away from the $1.30 level....
...December 1: Cubans line the streets as Fidel Castro’s funeral cortege makes its cross-country journey from Havana to Santiago de Cuba....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.1 per cent to 2,170.84, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.1 per cent to 18,404.51 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.4 per cent to 5,184.20....
...The latest planting data in Canada showed that the seeded area for dry peas in 2016-17 is forecast to rise by 14 per cent from 2015-16 to a record 1.7m hectares, while that for lentils is forecast to increase...
...A similar trend was seen in Japan, where dividends were down 7.1 per cent on the weak yen but up 16.8 per cent on an underlying basis as payout ratios rose and earnings growth was strong....
...The offer represents a premium of 16.4 per cent on Bwin.party’s share price on May 14, the day before the company announced discussions about a possible tie-up....
...DJIA up +59.66 (+0.33%) at 18,037 Nasdaq down -10.96 (-0.22%) at 4,977 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -7.34 (-0.45%) at 1,640 FTSE100 up +10.96 (+0.16%) at 7,075 CAC 40 down -36.06 (-0.69%) at 5,218...
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