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Huffington Post'Biodegradable' Plastics Are A Big Fat Lie
Huffington Post
A prediction that the world's oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050 is likely to intensify the push for sustainable, environmentally friendly alternatives. Biodegradable plastics have long been touted as a “greener” technology, but a new ...
Global plastics industry outlines plans to reduce marine litterRecycling Today all 18 news articles » -
ReutersAsian stocks near 10-week lows; dollar bounces on Fed rate view
Reuters
HONG KONG Asian shares fell to near 10-week lows on Tuesday and the U.S. dollar pared some of its recent losses as investors worried about the likelihood of a U.S. interest rate increase in coming weeks. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares ...
Bond market stares down the FedCNBC
How The US Dollar Influences Oil PricesSeeking Alpha
Fed Funds At Two Percent Or More? Get Used To The Idea.Forbes Market Realist -StreetInsider.com -Nasdaq -Yahoo News all 55 news articles » -
CNBCAsia markets stumble as Fed watched for further cues
CNBC
Asian markets traded broadly lower on Tuesday, led by declines in Japan and China, as investors await further cues from next month's U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting. The Nikkei 225 closed down 0.94 percent, or 155.84 points at 16,498.76, ...
Asian Stocks Decline as Yen Weighs on Japan, Fed Hawks SpeakBloomberg
US Stocks Slip on Light VolumeWall Street Journal
Asian markets slump amid expectations Fed will raise ratesWashington Post Nasdaq -Reuters -The Australian Financial Review -Citywire.co.uk all 27 news articles » -
New York TimesGawker Founder Suspects a Common Financer Behind Lawsuits
New York Times
Hulk Hogan, center, won a $140 million jury award in his defamation case against Gawker over the publication of a sex tape. Credit Eve Edelheit/Tampa Bay Times, via Associated Press. At first, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, thought it an ...
Gawker seeks rematch with Hulk HoganKITV Honolulu
Gawker Founder Thinks a Mystery Billionaire Is Bankrolling Lawsuits to Ruin CompanyTheWrap all 7 news articles » -
Las Vegas Review-JournalLas Vegas-based resident agent tied to Panama Papers resigns; fine assessed
Las Vegas Review-Journal
An office building that has a suite used by Mossack Fonseca, the Panama-based law firm accused in a global corruption scandal, seen Sunday, April 3, 2016, on Pecos Road in Las Vegas. Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @rookie__rae.
Vegas business linked to Panama Papers firm drops clientsSCNow
Panama Papers Firm to Shutter Wealth Management UnitWealthManagement.com (blog)
Longtime US diplomat Thomas Pickering's role with Russian firm surfaces in Panama PapersFox News Idaho Statesman -Ceylon Daily News -Signal Magazine -ITProPortal all 15 news articles » -
FortuneSnapchat Is Reportedly Seeking $20 Billion Valuation In New Fundraising
Fortune
The ephemeral messaging app is reportedly seeking a blockbuster valuation. Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat's success doesn't appear to be fleeting: The startup is reportedly raising new funding and lifting its valuation. Snapchat, which lets users ...and more » -
FortuneHere's What You'll Pay for Gas This Memorial Day Weekend
Fortune
AAA expects more than 38 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend. Gas prices during the busy Memorial Day weekend will likely be the lowest since 2005, according to the latest projections from the American Automobile Association.
Nearly a record-setting travel weekend expected over Memorial DayColorado Springs Gazette
AAA Carolinas expects record Memorial Day travel by North CaroliniansWinston-Salem Journal
Gas Prices Jump Another 8 Cents in MassachusettsPatch.com The Denver Post -The News Tribune -The Times and Democrat -MLive.com all 100 news articles » -
ReutersAsian shares trade languidly, dollar edges up
Reuters
TOKYO Asian shares were nearly flat in early trading on Tuesday, while the dollar rebounded from steep losses against the yen in the previous session. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS did not stray far from its ...
Yen rises against the dollar after Japan's surprisingly strong trade surplusMarketWatch
How The Investing Climate Has Been EvolvingNasdaq
Dollar Nearly Unchanged Against Euro After Early Gains ErodeRTT News Appeal-Democrat -The Fiscal Times -BK Asset Management -Seeking Alpha all 151 news articles » -
Dallas Morning NewsLyft experimenting with reservation feature for passengers with a plan
Dallas Morning News
Attendees at a job fair in Seattle sponsored by the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, an organization backed by Starbucks and other companies, talk at a booth hosted by the Lyft app-based ride sharing service, Thursday, May 5, 2016, in Seattle. The ...and more » -
CNNMoneyMillionaires chalk success up to hard work and family values
CNNMoney
Most high net worth Americans say they worked their way up from a lower class. That's according to a report released by U.S. Trust on Monday, based on a survey that asked 684 adults in the U.S. with $3 million or more of "investible assets" hundreds of ...and more » -
TechCrunchSources: Snapchat is raising more money at about a $20 billion valuation
TechCrunch
Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Snapchat ...
Snapchat raises $$$ for $20B valuation--reportUSA TODAY
Snapchat Is Reportedly Seeking $20 Billion Valuation In New FundraisingFortune all 4 news articles » -
NDTVLego Toys Have Become Increasingly More 'Violent,' Study Says
ABC News
Pictured in this undated photo is a scene of Bad Cop from "The Lego Movie." 0 Shares. Email. LEGO, the popular Danish maker of children's construction toys, has steadily included more weapons and violent imagery in their products over the past 30 years ...
Lego Sets Are Becoming Much More ViolentHuffington Post
Toy 'arms race' turns Lego violent: studyThe Japan Times
Is Lego stuck in an arms race to make children's play more violent?Chicago Tribune Quartz -BBC News -Mashable -The New Daily all 44 news articles » -
Minneapolis Star TribunePuerto Rico Unveils Budget That Includes $200M Debt Payment
ABC News
Puerto Rico's governor unveiled a stark budget Monday that sets aside more than $200 million for a critical bond payment as the U.S. territory sinks into a deep economic crisis. The proposed $9.1 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year is $700 ...
Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis Rooted in History of Feds' Anti-Trade PoliciesSomewhat Reasonable - Heartland Institute (blog) all 4 news articles » -
US stocks decline amid focus on interest rates, looming data
Chicago Tribune
U.S. stocks slipped amid a late-day pullback, with the S&P 500 holding in the narrowest range in five weeks as investors awaited further direction on the health of the economy and prospects for higher interest rates. The benchmark index wavered in ...and more » -
Wall Street JournalMoody's Cuts Credit Ratings on Deutsche Bank
Wall Street Journal
Moody's Investors Service on Monday downgraded Deutsche Bank AG's credit ratings, citing the bank's challenges in overhauling operations. The rating firm cut the bank's senior unsecured debt rating to Baa 2, two notches above junk territory, as it ...
Deutsche Bank Post-Crisis Mortgage Positions Probed by SECBloomberg
Will Deutsche Bank Survive This Wave Of Trouble Or Will It Be The Next Lehman Brothers?Smarter Analyst
BRIEF-Moody's downgrades Deutsche Bank's ratings; outlook stableReuters Business Insider -HousingWire -StreetInsider.com -Benzinga all 18 news articles » -
GizmodoGood God, What Was Variety Thinking With This Marissa Mayer-as-Jesus Cover?
Gizmodo
Late on Monday afternoon, Variety co-editor-in-chief Andrew Wallenstein sent a tweet out into the world. This wouldn't be a particularly noteworthy action, except that it included an image of what appears to be Variety's upcoming cover, depicting ...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faced 'Specific Security Threats' in 2015TIME
Biz Break: Marissa Mayer bears her 'cross' as Yahoo sets shareholder meeting dateSiliconBeat
Yahoo says Marissa Mayer faced 'specific security threats' throughout 2015Business Insider all 7 news articles » -
AL.comMore tainted Montco and Bucks wells closed after EPA tightens rules
Philly.com
Eight more wells that supply public drinking water have been shut down in Bucks and Montgomery counties and dozens of private wells called into question after the Environmental Protection Agency issued more stringent guidelines on water contamination ...
Horsham Water Authority Issues Statement As Public Wells Shut DownPatch.com
Martinsburg, Vienna Respond to Drinking Water WarningsWest Virginia Public Broadcasting
VAW water system under health advisory, temporarily switches to Cullman water supplyCullman Times Online WaterWorld all 13 news articles » -
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionToss it or eat it? Congress looks to update food-expiration labeling
Atlanta Journal Constitution
WASHINGTON - AUGUST 20: A customer scans the expiration date on gallons of milk sitting on a cooler shelf at a Safeway grocery store August 20, 2007 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images). Torpy at large: Delta sends Fox a ...and more » -
Chicago TribuneMayor floats plan to fix city's smallest pension fund
Chicago Tribune
Mayor Rahm Emanuel answers questions from the press after the meeting of the Chicago City Council on May 18, 2016. Mayor Rahm Emanuel answers questions from the press after the meeting of the Chicago City Council on May 18, 2016. (Nancy Stone ...
Emanuel cuts new deal to save Laborers Pension FundChicago Sun-Times
Chicago, unions reach deal to rescue city pension fundReuters
City reaches new pension deal with laborersCrain's Chicago Business (blog) Pensions & Investments all 6 news articles » -
NDTVBillions in US taxes may go unreported, study finds
Washington Post
The Internal Revenue Service has been so slow to adapt to the emerging peer-to-peer economy that billions of dollars in taxable income a year are probably going unreported, according to a study being delivered to Congress this week. More than 2.5 ...
Airbnb, others pay out billions beneath IRS's radar, study findsWalla Walla Union-Bulletin all 10 news articles » -
CBS NewsUS stocks are little changed as investors wait for Fed
The Telegraph
Stocks were mixed in quiet trading Monday as investors sat on the sidelines waiting to see where the Federal Reserve might move interest rates next month. Energy stocks fell along with the price of crude oil. FILE - This Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, file ...
Dow Jones Industrial Average Today Flat as AAPL Stock RalliesMoney Morning
How the Dow Jones industrial average fared on MondayWashington Post
US markets close slight lower as investors wait on news from FedToronto Star Schaeffers Research (blog) -Economic Calendar -DailyFX all 25 news articles » -
US Stocks End Lower, Materials Rise 1.2%
TradingGods.net (blog)
US stocks ended slightly lower on Monday, as investors remained largely on the sidelines in anticipation of a deluge of economic data later this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEARCA:DIA) closed up 22 points or 0.1% after trading within a ...and more » -
Santa Monica Bay Red Cross Celebrates Outstanding Volunteers and 100 years of Red Cross in LA
Santa Monica Mirror
As recent wildfires in Canada have shown, disaster can strike anywhere at any time. The Red Cross is always there when it matters most, thanks to the support of local volunteers and donors. That is why the Santa Monica Bay Red Cross Chapter recognized ...and more » -
BloombergBanks Must Defend Libor Lawsuits After Judges Warn of Impact
Bloomberg
Sixteen of the world's largest banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. must face antitrust lawsuits accusing them of hurting investors who bought securities tied to Libor by rigging an interest-rate benchmark, a ruling that an appeals ...
Big banks lose as US appeals court revives Libor lawsuitsReuters
Civil Antitrust Lawsuits Reinstated Against 16 Banks in Libor CaseWall Street Journal
2nd Circuit in Libor case v. banks: Rigging rates is price-fixing collusionReuters Blogs (blog) The Guardian -Courthouse News Service -StreetInsider.com -Seeking Alpha all 14 news articles »
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO: let's stack the deck for companies with 'charitable intent' - WWNO
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private foundation in the world. Launched in 2000, the organization aim to enhance healthcare and extreme poverty, as well as expand educational opportunities. Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann has served as ...
Gates Foundation Admits Bungling Common Core, But Vows To 'Double Down'
Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Guide of the Gates Foundation
Why a sewage survey gives the Gates Foundation's CEO new hope for eliminating diseases through innovation
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