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For an equity bull market, overconfidence can be the kiss of death.

This can be seen in a cycle that's played out repeatedly throughout history. At a certain point during an extended stock rally, investors get cocky and continue to pile head-first into positions with little regard for risks. Читать дальше...

With both houses of  Congress and most state governments captured by the Republican Party, those opposed to Trump and Trumpism are looking to cities. This strategic choice is increasingly being made not only by the Left, but by the careful center as well, a fact shown nowhere more clearly than in The New Localism by Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak, urban policy experts at the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think tank.

Visitors to Phuket International Airport were terrified to witness a naked man strolling around the departure hall, yelling and throwing his own poo at staff.

"Buy when everyone is selling" explains one of the principles of Warren Buffett, the world's most celebrated investor, who is known for his "value investing". Fitting this maxim in the Indian context could be ITC, which investors may want to look at.The ITC stock has been a clear underperformer, lagging the S&P BSE Sensex in the past 12 months. Compared to a rise of 27 per cent in the Sensex, ITC is up just about six per cent, because of a negative tax surprise for its key cigarettes business. Читать дальше...

Facial recognition is China's hottest new technology, but it raises issues concerning personal security as the communist government works to track individuals, create detailed profiles, and assign "social credit" scores.

The post CNN’s Chris Cillizza on Oprah Winfrey Speech at Golden Globes: ‘You Can Close Your Eyes and Imagine That Speech Being Given in Iowa’ appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

Don Komarechka captures astonishing photographs of snowflakes. His book Sky Crystals is a survey of snowflake science, a monograph of his macrophotography masterpieces, and a tutorial on the techniques. At Petapixel, Komarechka explains the surprising pop of color sometimes seen through the lens when he's shooting a snowflake:

Storms, fires, floods, and heat caused at least $306 billion in destruction last year.

CT Taunton MA Zone Forecast for Monday, January 8, 2018 _____ 887 FPUS51 KBOX 081816 ZFPBOX Zone Forecast Product for Southern New England National Weather Service Taunton MA 115 PM EST Mon Jan 8 2018 CTZ002-082100- Hartford CT- Including the cities of Hartford and Windsor Locks 115 PM EST Mon Jan 8 2018 .THIS AFTERNOON...Numerous snow showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Not as cool. Near steady temperature in the upper 20s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent. Читать дальше...

The family of Italian designer Gianni Versace has distanced itself from a long-awaited US television series about his violent death. The nine-part series, made by 21st Century Fox and premiering next week, stars Spanish actress Penelope Cruz and Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. Versace was gunned down in 1997 at the entrance gate of his Miami beach mansion by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. The Versace company "did not authorise and was not involved in the television series," it said in a statement on Monday. Читать дальше...

Benefiting from losses among most of the top teams, Villanova returns to the spot it lost when the Wildcats fell to Butler two weeks ago.

Could Oprah Winfrey run for president and beat Donald Trump? Hollywood, liberals and ardent fans are abuzz with speculation that the billionaire chat show queen is harboring White House ambitions after an impassioned Golden Globes speech.

Oprah Winfrey, Laura Dern, and others made the Globes into an opportunity to call for change.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the federal criminal case against a Nevada rancher accused of leading 2014 armed standoff against U.S. land management agents (all times local): 10:08 a.m. Criminal charges have been dismissed against a Nevada rancher and his sons accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ruled Monday in Las Vegas that federal prosecutors acted with willful disregard for constitutional due process rights of 71-year-old Cliven Bundy... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the federal criminal case against a Nevada rancher accused of leading 2014 armed standoff against U.S. land management agents (all times local): 10:08 a.m. Criminal charges have been dismissed against a Nevada rancher and his sons accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ruled Monday in Las Vegas that federal prosecutors acted with willful disregard for constitutional due process rights of 71-year-old Cliven Bundy... Читать дальше...

“Jackass” personality Bam Margera was arrested for DUI on Sunday morning, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol told TheWrap. Margera, whose real name is Brandon Margera, was arrested at 8 a.m. Sunday morning at the intersection of Venice Blvd. and Cadillac Ave., the CHP spokesman said. The CHP made contact with Margera after he was spotted on his cell phone in his vehicle. After the CHP detected the odor of alcohol, Margera was administered a field sobriety test and was subsequently arrested, according to the CHP. Читать дальше...

I give my two young daughters loads of screen time. iPads, tablets, phones, TVs, Playstations, laptops, smartwatches and elevator floor readouts. The result? A couple of gibbering, scrambled, psychopathic mini-banshees who can whip anyone at MarioKart. Okay fine, that’s not strictly true. I’m the best at MarioKart and they’re only mildly psychotic, usually after I’ve...

Team will compete in the lower division of the Liberian National Football League system

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has lashed out at the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John Odigie-Oyegun, for absolving the ruling party of blame for the controversial appointments into the federal boards.

General Electric Co.'s stock slumped 1.7% in afternoon trade Monday, to be the Dow Jones Industrial Average's biggest decliner, after J.P. Morgan analyst C. Stephen Tusa cut his price target, saying there were "too many risks" to change his bearish view on the industrial conglomerate. He after taking a "fresh" look into GE's potential this year, after the stock's extremely poor relative performance last year, he said the consensus analyst outlook for earnings per share of about $1 is "reasonable,"... Читать дальше...

FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) — A construction worker at Razorback Stadium was hospitalized Monday (Jan. 8) afternoon due to a “personal health issue,” according to University of Arkansas officials. Emergency crews initially responded to the construction site at the stadium’s north end zone for a possible carbon monoxide poisoning, but the incident was unrelated to the job site, said Steve Voorhies, university spokesman. Ralph Livingston, safety director for CDI Contractors — one of the companies involved in the construction project ... Читать дальше...