Новости за 06.06.2017

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President Donald Trump's statements backing the diplomatic isolation of Qatar by several Gulf nations seem to depart from his own State Department's stance on the issue.

On Monday, the governments of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Bahrain announced they had severed diplomatic relations with Qatar.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was quick to urge representatives of each country to "sit down together and address these differences" and... Читать дальше...

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The Golden State Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, but after the game, one of the first thing some in the media noticed in the locker room was a certain recognizable scent.

Mark Wise of The Undefeated posted tweets saying that there was a scent of marijuana lingering in the air of the Cavaliers locker room.

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If you want to have a drink while watching former FBI director James Comey testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, you're in luck. 

Three bars in Washington, DC, and one in Houston, Texas, are opening early on Thursday to screen Comey's testimony, which is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EST.

"Come on... you know you want to watch the drama unfold this Thursday," Shaw's Tavern, which will be serving $5 Stoli vodka and "FBI" sandwiches, wrote on Facebook. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump's own national security team was reportedly blindsided after he did he did not explicitly endorse Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's founding document during his summit with NATO allies in Brussels last month.

Apple’s next big gadget is the HomePod, a miniature home speaker powered by the company’s Siri voice assistant. The natural comparison here is to “smart speakers” like the Amazon Echo and Google Home. That’s fair, given that you can use Siri to control certain smart home gadgets, tell you random info, and control your music.

Australia churned out another quarter of economic growth in early 2017, extending the nation's run without experiencing a recession for a record-breaking 103 quarters.

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Amazon and Walmart are battling for shoppers at the highest and lowest ends of the income spectrum, leaving the middle class in the dust.

Amazon, whose Prime service claims more than 70% of upper-income households in the US — those earning more than $112,000 a year — is suddenly going after customers on government assistance who earn less than $15,444 a year.

The retailer on Tuesday announced it would slash the cost of its Prime membership in half, to $5.99 a month... Читать дальше...

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Does the past predict the future? If you work in the regulated financial industry, you can only answer that question two ways:

• No
• Not necessarily

When I used to write commodity and hedge fund marketing materials, I typed the official phrase, “Past results are not necessarily indicative of future results” so often, I finally gave it a hotkey on my computer.

That’s not to say the past is irrelevant. It can tell us a lot. Читать дальше...

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It's a common scenario: you spend a couple hours constructing a cold email, making sure to include some persuasive details and a call to action that's practically irresistible. But days go by and you're finally forced to conclude that your email isn't getting read.

Did you check your subject line?

A solid 33% of people open an email based on the subject line. But soon, another 66% mark it as spam after reading those few words alone. If your response rates look dismal... Читать дальше...

Australian stocks ended the session where it began.

Today’s scoreboard:

• ASX 200: 5,667.20 -0.27 0.00%
• All Ordinaries: 5,707.80 -0.28 0.00%
• AUD/USD: 0.7537 +0.0030 +0.40%

The local market opened lower but regained ground in the afternoon, held up by slightly stronger banks, to close almost where it started, off just 0.27 of one point on the ASX200 index.

The ANZ closed 0.6% higher at $27.54 and Westpac 0.5% at $29.71.... Читать дальше...

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Recent boasting by government officials in Mexico about the country's success in capturing criminal bosses has reopened a longstanding debate about the strategic goals of Mexico's organized crime policies.

The administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto recently disclosed that during his five and a half years in office, 107 of 122 high-ranking members of organized crime groups have been either arrested or killed.

These include Sinaloa Cartel boss Joaquín "El Chapo"... Читать дальше...

Apple shared over 2 hours of new tech and software updates at its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference. Here are some of the more interesting highlights from the event. 

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Team New Zealand's catamaran capsized at the start of an America's Cup challenger semifinal race on Tuesday.

At least one crewman was tossed into the water, and according to the Associated Press, the 50-foot vessel was damaged

The incident came just at the start of the race, as the wing-sail catamaran, which have hydrofoils that will actually create lift like an airplane wing and raise the hulls of the boats out of the water to reduce the amount of drag, leaned forward, and eventually tipped over. Читать дальше...

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It's official: Sales employees care the most about their jobs.

At least that's what a recent survey of more than 169,000 workers across the US from employee engagement software company Quantum Workplace indicates.

More than 80% of sales employees who participated in the survey were found to be engaged in their work, while about 66% of all workers surveyed were found to be engaged.

In this study, engaged employees are defined as having and expressing highly favorable views of their organization... Читать дальше...

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While President Donald Trump has often been at odds with the media, there's one publication his administration seems particularly fond of: Breitbart News.

Breitbart is a right-leaning publication that was founded by Andrew Breitbart, who also cofounded The Huffington Post. Breitbart died in 2012 from heart failure, but one of his former Huffington Post cofounders, Jonah Peretti, remembers what he was like to work with.

Peretti spoke to Business... Читать дальше...

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US-led coalition forces destroyed what were reportedly pro-Syrian regime forces near al Tanf in southeast Syria on Tuesday, Operation Inherent Resolve officials said in a release.

According to the release, pro-Assad forces, consisting of a tank, artillery, antiaircraft weapons, armed technical vehicles, and more than 60 troops, entered the "well-established de-confliction zone."

That zone covers a 34-mile radius around al Tanf, which is located near the intersection of the Syrian... Читать дальше...

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Stocks slipped on Tuesday as uncertainty mounted ahead of upcoming testimony from former FBI director James Comey.

All three major indices fell more than 0.2%, declining further from record highs reached on Friday.

First up, the scoreboard:

• Dow: 21,136.23, -47.81, (-0.23%)
• S&P 500: 2,429.33, -6.77 (-0.28%)
• Nasdaq: 6,275.06, -20.63 (-0.33%)
• US 10-year yield: 2.15%, -0.04
• WTI crude: $48.31, +0.91, (+1.9%)

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This week is "infrastructure week," according to President Trump. 

Since Monday, the president has been pushing one of the cornerstone policy proposals of his presidential campaign: a $1 billion plan to repair America's failing bridges, roads, and airports. He will make the case for his plan during a rally on Wednesday in Ohio.

Infrastructure spending has long been seen as a policy area in which the administration can score a win, given its popularity among both Democrats and Republicans. Читать дальше...

Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America," explains how American presidents have historically been naive about the Russians. Following is a transcript of the video.

Walmart is trying to make it easier to pick up online grocery orders.

The retailer is testing a giant self-service kiosk in the parking lot of a supercenter in Warr Acres, Oklahoma, where customers can pick up online grocery orders without interacting with employees.

Customers purchase and pay for groceries online, then Walmart employees pick and pack their orders and store them in bins in the 20-foot-by-80-foot kiosk.

The kiosk has refrigerators and freezers inside that keep the groceries fresh. Читать дальше...

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When I set personal goals, I keep them just that: personal.

I don’t discuss business projects with family or close friends, and when it comes to stuff closer to the heart (like dropping a few pounds or saving more money), I tell no one. 

Why all the secrecy?

Because communicating your goals tricks the brain into thinking you’ve already achieved them.

Sharing your plan makes you less likely to put in the work necessary to achieve it, even when the people you tell are supportive. Читать дальше...

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Work meetings are a notorious waste of time.

You've got to be smart to keep them from needlessly eating up your day. Those are precious minutes that you or your employees could be spending doing something useful.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes a point of steering clear of unnecessary meetings. When a meeting is absolutely unavoidable, though, he has one tip that boosts their productivity and usefulness. He calls it the "two pizza rule."

It's simple. Читать дальше...

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Do you ever have those dreams where you’re back in high school and fear failure because you haven’t studied for a test? Many people have the same uneasy feeling about their personal finances when they don’t know the language of money.

Such a lack of knowledge can do a lot more harm than just one bad grade.

Here are 10 essential terms you must know so you can improve your financial literacy and take control of your money.

1. APR

You’ve likely... Читать дальше...

In order to protect astronauts from harmful radiation, NASA developed a unique technology for spacecraft windows. Now, the California-based company Eagles Eyes is using the same technology in their sunglasses.