Новости за 19.01.2016

The U.K. life insurer’s home market will suffer from changes, but Asia and U.S. can still drive profits.

Nearly 20 million foreigners visited the islands last year, with Tokyo striving for more despite a shortage of rooms.

Bank of America said its fourth-quarter profit rose 9%, thanks in part to growth in its consumer bank and trading revenue holding up despite tough market conditions.

Twitter suffered a major interruption, with some users unable to log on to the social-media service for more than two hours.

Arctic shipper Primorsk filed for bankruptcy, and so did a Connecticut nursing home. Also, Puerto Rico is running out of money faster than it thought it would.

Just four days after the Oscar nominations were announced, the President of the Academy, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, says she’s “heartbroken and frustrated” by the lack of diversity among this year’s acting nominees. Mark Kelly reports. Image: Everett Collection

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

Global stocks rallied Tuesday despite a steeper-than-expected slowdown in Chinese growth, as sharp gains in oil prices lifted energy and mining shares.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. said profit declined in its latest quarter as the biggest U.S. health insurer struggles with its health-care exchange segment.

Plus, Hillary Clinton’s new position on abortion wins a key endorsement.

With its top-ranked mergers-and-acquisitions operation facing limited growth and debt trading under pressure from new regulations, Goldman Sachs has identified loans and bond underwriting as key profit sources.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said it swung to a profit in its final quarter of the year, again helped by drastically lower fuel costs.

The J.J. Abrams-produced movie, an apparent follow up to the 2008 monster movie 'Cloverfield,' generated the most heat among all trailers on Twitter last week.

Oil prices could fall further this year as the market faces an “enormous strain” on its ability to absorb new supplies from producers such as Iran, the International Energy Agency said.

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Matthias Müller is expected to receive the backing of Volkswagen’s key directors at a special meeting to discuss the CEO’s strained visit to the U.S., according to people close to the supervisory board.

The United Nations and the World Bank have declared the world can rid itself of extreme poverty by 2030. But reaching that goal will be an enormous challenge that will take strong economies, committed polices and the spread of affordable technology.

Pakistan this week restored access to YouTube, more than three years after the government blocked the video-sharing website.

In a world of turmoil, the euro is proving resilient. That isn’t good news for the European Central Bank, however.

The Middle East once had two types of countries: America’s allies, who usually abstained from fighting one another, and America’s foes, whom the U.S. helped contain or defeat. Today, after years of American disengagement, those distinctions have increasingly blurred. Columnist Yaroslav Trofimov explores the dynamics.

At least 11 people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle struck a crowded police checkpoint on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The attack was claimed by the Taliban. Photo: AP

A record 19.7 million foreign tourists visited Japan last year, up 47% from a year earlier. That is great news for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic policy, but the country is beginning to strain under the huge influx of people. Photo: Getty Images

Cnooc, China’s big offshore producer, said it would cut production. Discipline is now more than necessary.

The onetime "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star slams Jada Pinkett Smith for pledging to boycott this year's Oscar ceremony.

Sen. Ted Cruz has an especially heavy burden when it comes to defending himself against the charge of flip-flopping. He has built his entire GOP presidential campaign on the claim that he is an unwavering man of his word.