Новости за 13.08.2017

A security company has found businesses that use Uber for their employees are risking having their private data exposed.

A security company has found businesses that use Uber for their employees are risking having their private data exposed.

Australian shares closed higher.

Today’s scoreboard:

• ASX 200: 5,730.40 +37.26 +0.65%
• All Ordinaries: 5,778.60 +35.08 +0.61%
• AUD/USD: 0.7885 -0.0010 -0.13%

The local market opened the week with a strong run, supported by the major banks and the big miners.

The NAB added almost 1.8% to close at $30.71 and Westpac 1.1% to $31.98.

Fortescue Metals rose 1% to $5.56 and BHP 0.4% to $25.65.

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Seoul (AFP) - In many ways the two leaders on either side of North Korea-United States missile stand-off could not be more different. In others they are startlingly similar.

After months of simmering beneath the surface, geopolitical surrounding the Korean Peninsula flared yet again last week.

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The scent of baked goods wafts towards you as the supermarket doors glide open. Your stomach rumbles and your mouth waters at the sight and smell of so much food.

Approximately 40,000 products are available in an average North American supermarket.

Despite your best intentions, you succumb to the deals and offers that you don't really need. Hey, why not get two bags of chips for the price of one?

Before you know it, your shopping cart is full and... Читать дальше...

The act of "going on a diet" usually works in the short term, but rarely lasts. Oftentimes, people gain the weight they lost back soon after "going off" their diet.

On Monday, President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure that will initiate an investigation into IP violations against American companies by Chinese firms. The investigation will be seen as an act of aggression because it is based on a law that fell into obsolescence with the formation of the World Trade Organization. This will not help US efforts to deescalate tensions with China's ally, North Korea. On Monday President Trump is expected to to sign a memo that will initiate an investigation... Читать дальше...

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(Reuters) - Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday.

The 32-year-old paralegal wanted to send a clear message to the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan sympathizers who planned to stage one of the largest far-right rallies in recent U.S. history that people abhor their views in the city where she was born, he said. Читать дальше...

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You would be forgiven for thinking — hoping — that Fox News Channel would improve after the ouster of Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, its late founding CEO and biggest star, respectively, in a massive sexual harassment scandal. It’s true that Fox now takes such allegations more seriously — host Eric Bolling was just suspended after being accused of emailing pictures of his penis to female colleagues.

So perhaps Fox is becoming a less hostile environment for women. Читать дальше...

Taylor Swift took the stand on Thursday in a Denver federal courthouse to describe the moment in 2013 when she says she was "violated" by a then–country radio DJ in a way she "had never experienced before."

The lower-than-expected build in natural gas inventories (28 bcf vs. expected 37 bcf) in the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report released Thursday, August 10, goosed the price of the nat gas futures.

Our technical work anticipated the move, and we still see continued upside for the futures as well as for the VelocityShares 3x Long Natural Gas ETN (UGAZ).

The positive juxtaposition of our nearer-term momentum gauges with the sideways price action on the nat gas futures chart (July contract) was one of the indicators we used... Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists on Saturday resulted in hours of somewhat muddled messages from the White House, as officials attempted to justify and repeatedly clarify the president's statement.

After violence erupted at a white nationalist and neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, the president issued a brief statement on Saturday in which he decried the "display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many... Читать дальше...

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Less-than-stellar Wall Street trading results will likely have an impact on this year’s bonuses.

While investment bankers will probably see big jumps in their annual bonus, securities traders likely won’t get the same increase — and could even see a 5% drop, according to a new report from HR consulting firm Johnson Associates.

The data was first reported by Bloomberg News’ Sarah Ponczek:

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You may not know his name, but chances are you’ve used a service or watched a channel with connections to John C. Malone.

The largest individual landowner in the US, Malone is the chairman of Liberty Media and has interests as wide ranging as race cars, the Discovery Channel, and the Atlanta Braves.

Here's a taste of his diverse interests:

• He is largest stakeholder of Liberty Media, which is worth $24 billion.
• He owns 28% of Discovery Communications... Читать дальше...

Chinese property buyers are turning away from Australian housing as efforts by regulators in both countries to slow investment begin to bite.

The once high-flying US dollar has had a year to forget in 2017.

The US dollar index, or DXY, has fallen by more than 10% since hitting a multi-year high in early January this year, undermined by a combination of political gridlock in Washington, soft US economic data and improved economic activity elsewhere in the world.

It's been a remarkable turnaround from what was seen in late 2016.

Gone is the enthusiasm to what a Donald Trump presidency could bring, replaced by growing... Читать дальше...

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Uniform advertisements are nothing new in sports, but the University of North Carolina football team is taking the concept to a new level with their practice uniforms.

The Tar Heels football team have revealed new practice uniforms for the 2017 season, and it looks like the folks at Jordan Brand , the Nike-owned subsidiary buoyed by one of the greatest basketball players of all time, will get some nice publicity out of them.

Take a look:

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Violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia took a deadly turn on Saturday when a driver plowed his vehicle through the crowd, killing a 32-year-old woman and injuring several others.

The police on Saturday evening identified the suspected driver of the car as 20-year-old James Fields. The police told media they were holding him on suspicion of second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one hit-and-run count. Читать дальше...

New Zealand's internal affairs minister, Peter Dunne, has confirmed Australian deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce is a New Zealand citizen under his country's 1948 Citizenship Act.

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• Millennials are driving the nearly $9 trillion sustainable investing market, according to a survey of 1,000 investors by Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing.
• Despite recent strides in the space, the belief that sustainable investing solutions deliver weaker returns remains prevalent.

Millennials aren't just eating avocado toast and snapchatting; they're also driving the growth of a $9 trillion market on Wall Street: sustainable investing. Читать дальше...

If the Nationals lose their leader and nation its deputy prime minister, then Fairfax Media's health and industrial relations correspondent, Adam Gartrell, will be the lightning rod for any anger Coalition supporters will feel about the dual citizenship saga that's landed Joyce in hot water today.

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US companies are absolutely on fire this earnings season.

Even amid lofty expectations, they're beating analyst forecasts for both sales and profit to a degree not seen in 13 years.

This surely means their stocks are surging, right? After all, aren't corporate earnings the number one driver of share appreciation?

Well, it's not working out that way.

Companies beating on both revenue and earnings have performed completely in line with the S&P 500... Читать дальше...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection campaign released its first television advertisement on Sunday, a 30-second spot that attacks Democrats and touts the accomplishments of his first seven months in office.

The ad's release comes amid intense criticism of Trump's response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a planned rally by white supremacists led to violence that killed a counter-protester.

Speaking on Saturday from his golf resort in Bedminster... Читать дальше...

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In the early 1900s, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel, a Ford Model T could fetch $290 and some apartment rents dipped as low as $4 a month.

So it might sound intuitive that now we’d have larger bills to make the purchasing process more convenient, more efficient.

That’s why listener Rabin’ Monroe wrote in with the question, “Why aren't we using $1,000 bills anymore? Seems more appropriate to use them now than back in the early 20th century.”

The highest... Читать дальше...