Новости за 11.02.2016

The risk of the U.S. tilting into a recession is rising due to the tumble in financial markets, according to The Wall Street Journal’s latest survey of economists, which also lowered growth estimates.

Online dating: it's not just what the kids are doing these days. Grandma and Grandpa are getting in on Internet-based romance.

Obama will meet with 10 Southeast Asian leaders in California to coordinate U.S. interests in a region where China is the dominant power.

Avon Products, in the process of remaking itself and spinning off its North American business, said its fourth-quarter loss edged deeper as results missed analysts’ expectations.

North Korea said it would put an inter-Korean joint industrial park under military control and cut its military hotline with South Korea, in an escalation of tensions on the peninsula.

Some homeowners looking to expand in hot real-estate markets like New York and Los Angeles are finding creative ways to buy the home next door

Executives for Alphabet’s Google business defended their settlement with the U.K.’s tax authority before a panel of British lawmakers Thursday, trying to stanch criticism of a deal that critics say let the search giant off too lightly.

Online dating: it's not just what the kids are doing these days. Grandma and Grandpa are getting in on Internet-based romance.

Online dating: it's not just what the kids are doing these days. Grandma and Grandpa are getting in on Internet-based romance.

The brand-new, 13-episode season will find time-traveling nurse Claire and her Scottish Highlander husband, Jamie, infiltrating the upper echelons of 18th century Parisian society.

After buying a house in London's Battersea neighborhood, Austin-born Teal Triggs began a renovation that incorporated the modernist aesthetic of her childhood home into the 130-year-old property. Photo: Dylan Thomas for The Wall Street Journal

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell last week, another sign of the domestic job market’s resilience in the face of economic turmoil overseas.

Thomson Reuters said it is moving to sell its intellectual property and science business as part of the company’s bid to stabilize its core businesses.

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A roundup of venture-capital news and analysis from VentureWire and around the Web.

An influential group of British lawmakers said Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans for a major overhaul of surveillance laws lacked clarity and need more work, particularly in the area of encryption.

Qualcomm Inc. on Thursday plans to announce a cellular chip that can transmit a billion bits of data a second, hoping to bring mobile users speed comparable to today’s most advanced wired services.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

The French bank will struggle to hit 2016’s profit targets, but its capital position should see it deserve a better valuation.

The fourth season of the Emmy-nominated drama premieres on Netflix March 4.

A growing number of luxury homeowners are paying top dollar to snatch up their neighbors' properties, annexing them to build their dream homes. Photo: Kelly Marshall for the Wall Street Journal

Candidates who give up their bids for the White House nearly universally declare they are “suspending” their efforts, rather than admitting outright they are quitting. Here's why.

Investors pulled nearly $300 million out of an Asian stock fund last month, extending a dramatic exodus from a fund that was for years the biggest of its kind in Asia.

The Anglo-Australian miner has introduced a new dividend policy, shifting toward a payout linked to earnings. That looks a sensible move given the continuing commodities downturn.

The shell of Targus International filed for bankruptcy, SunEdison is facing more woes, and KKR knows the hard way that oil and debt don't mix.