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Our Opinion: Pakistan biggest threat? | It may be that the most critical foreign relations problem facing President Donald Trump, at least in the short term, is not Russia or China. It is Pakistan, which for years has been enabling terrorist groups in Afghanistan and thus, the rest of the world.
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Big second half carries St. John's past No. 4 Duke | Shamorie Ponds scored 33 points as St. John’s ended an 11-game losing streak by stunning fourth-ranked Duke 81-77 on Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Ponds, who tallied 31 points earlier in the week against Xavier, reached the 30-point mark for the fifth time this season.
Bashir Ahmed poured in 19 points and Tariq Owens had 17 points for St. John’s (11-13).
Owens made three of four free-throw attempts in the final 33 seconds after the Red Storm briefly gave up the lead.
Gary Trent Jr.’s 22 points and Marvin Bagley III’s 19 paced Duke (19-4), which had won six of its last seven games. The Blue Devils go into Thursday night’s matchup at rival North Carolina with losses in two of their previous three games.
Wendell Carter Jr. added 14 points and 15 rebounds, while Trevon Duval had 11 points for Duke.
St. John‘s, which trailed by 10 points in the first half, burst to a 64-53 lead with 8½ minutes to play.
But Duke was within four points a couple of times before Trent’s 3 with 2:15 left pulled the Blue Devils to within 72-71. His two free throws at the 1:35 mark put Duke ahead.
Ponds scored the next five points before a Grayson Allen 3-pointer for his only field goal of the game. After a couple of exchanges involving free throws, Allen missed a potential tying 3-pointer with 3.5 seconds to play.
Ponds shot 12-for-23 with four 3-point baskets.
Trent made four 3-point baskets in the first 16 minutes.
Duke built a 37-27 lead with 2:48 to play in the first half, then held a 39-32 lead at the break.
Duke shot 54.5 percent from the field in the first half, but the Red Storm checked in at 50 percent. St. John’s didn’t get to the free-throw line until the 1:11 mark of the half.
It was the 11th meeting at the Madison Square Garden between the teams. Duke is 7-4 in those matchups. Duke dropped to 34-19 overall in the current Madison Square Garden.
For St. John‘s, this was the middle game of a three-game stretch against teams ranked in the top six nationally. The Red Storm lost to No. 6 Xavier on Tuesday and go to No. 1 Villanova on Wednesday.
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Torture suit against Spokane psychologists Mitchell and Jessen could... | In this Dec. 2011, file picture the National Registry Office for Classified Information, behind railway tracks, also known as ORNISS, where between 2003 and 2006, the CIA operated a secret prison from the building's basement, bringing in high-value terror suspects for interrogation and detention, sits in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania's capital city Bucharest. Former Romanian president Ion Iliescu has acknowledged approving the CIA's request for a site in Romania, but said he would have refused had he known its destination, one of the CIA "black sites" - prisons outside the U.S. where suspected terrorists were held and subjected to harsh interrogation.
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Kenyan boat sinks off coast; politician's family missing | NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan media say a boat carrying a local politician and his family capsized in the Indian Ocean and that many of the dozen occupants are missing.
Rescuers on Monday searched for the vessel, which sank off coastal Lamu County amid reports of high tides.
The Standard newspaper quotes county commissioner Joseph Kanyiri as saying one body was found.
Some Kenyan media outlets say Shekuwe Kahale, a politician affiliated with Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, was on the boat but survived.
Odinga said last week's presidential election, won by President Uhuru Kenyatta, was rigged. Kenyan election officials and international observers say the vote was free and fair. |
CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-N.J. Democrats divided on renewing 'Bridgegate' probe into Christie | (Corrects 13th paragraph to note Prieto says Wisniewski, not Prieto, was acting for political reasons)
By Joseph Ax
NEW YORK, March 30 A day after two former allies of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were sentenced to prison in the "Bridgegate" scandal, a state lawmaker who helped uncover the scheme to cause massive traffic jams over a political slight wants to keep pushing for answers to the two biggest unanswered questions.
What did the governor know about the lane closures at the George Washington Bridge, and when did he know it?
To learn the truth, the legislature's Bridgegate probe should be resumed, with Christie subpoenaed and required to testify, said Democratic Assemblyman John Wisniewski, who co-chaired a special committee that unearthed the damning emails and texts revealing the plot. He also is campaigning to replace Christie as governor.
But fellow Democratic leaders in the state legislature offered a lukewarm response, saying it was not clear what further investigation would accomplish.
Bridget Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff, was sentenced on Wednesday to 1-1/2 years in prison. Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, got a prison sentence of two years.
Along with David Wildstein, another former Port Authority executive who pleaded guilty, they are the only officials charged in connection with the shutdown of access lanes at the bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in September 2013.
The resulting traffic nightmare was intended to punish the town's Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich, for declining to endorse Christie's re-election campaign.
Christie has denied any involvement, but the fallout damaged his unsuccessful 2016 presidential campaign and saddled him with historically low approval ratings at home. A spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
At trial, numerous witnesses, including close Christie advisers, testified that the governor and his inner circle were aware of the lane closures much earlier than they admitted publicly. Following her sentencing, Kelly said she refused to be a "scapegoat" and vowed to fight her conviction.
The criminal case might never have existed had it not been for the legislative committee, which used its subpoena power to secure communications between Kelly, Baroni and Wildstein. Those documents included the now-infamous email from Kelly to Wildstein saying, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
"We need to follow the facts wherever they go," Wisniewski said in a phone interview. He noted that Christie previously invoked executive privilege to avoid turning over texts and emails in what he called a "Nixonian" move.
But the assembly speaker, Democrat Vincent Prieto, said in a statement it was "unlikely after the federal trial that additional hearings or subpoenas will provide new information."
Prieto, whose approval would be needed to set up a new committee, also criticized Wisniewski for sending out a campaign statement calling for a renewed investigation, saying Wisniewski was using the issue for political reasons.
Christie cannot run for another term this year due to term limits.
Wisniewski, however, said leaving the investigation half-finished would allow such abuses to occur again.
State Sen. Loretta Weinberg, a longtime Christie foe who co-chaired the investigative committee, said she had "mixed feelings" about further action.
"I'm not sure what our goal would be," Weinberg, a Democrat, said in a phone interview. She said it was not clear whether the legislature could force Christie to testify under oath or gain access to his communications.
Christie's status as a lame-duck governor is another factor weighing against a renewed probe, as is the potential cost to taxpayers, Weinberg said.
The target of the scheme, Sokolich, the Fort Lee mayor, said it was obvious the plot extended beyond the three charged defendants.
"There were many others who were half a text or one email conversation away from getting indicted," he said, adding that Christie has already been found guilty in the court of public opinion.
"I guess we'll never know for sure," Sokolich said. "Welcome to Jersey politics." (Reporting by Joseph Ax; Editing by David Gregorio and Leslie Adler) |
Swiss stocks - Factors to watch on March 30 | ZURICH, March 30 The Swiss blue-chip SMI was seen opening up 0.11 percent at 8,671 points on Thursday, according to premarket indications by bank Julius Baer .
The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks:
NOVARTIS
The Swiss drugmaker said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to accelerate review of its CTL019 therapy for young patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, helping the company's oncology program reach another important milestone.
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LONZA
The Swiss pharmaceutical supplier will ask shareholders at next month's annual general meeting for permission to issue up to 2.3 billion Swiss francs ($2.3 billion) in new shares to finance its acquisition of U.S. capsule maker Capsugel.
The shares were seen opening 1.9 percent down, according to premarket indicators.
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SIKA
The founding family of the Swiss construction chemical maker will ask shareholders to reject the board's proposal to raise the dividend, intensifying a takeover battle involving France's Saint-Gobain.
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GAM HOLDING
Activist investor RBR Capital Advisors said on Wednesday that Swiss asset manager GAM Holding should cut 353 back office jobs, a third of its total 1,023 workforce, to help cut costs by 100 million Swiss francs ($100 million) annually.
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COMPANY STATEMENTS
* WISeKey said talks with OpenLimit on possible merger are not being further pursued.
* Evolva said its fully-year net loss widened to 35.8 million Swiss francs, as revenue slipped to 9.6 million francs, from 13.4 million in the year-earlier period.
* Georg Fischer AG said it won a major order in cruise ship sector worth more than 40 million euros ($43.01 million) over five years.
* Roche said the U.S. FDA's advisory committee recommended approval of subcutaneous Rituxan for certain blood cancers, with a decision due on June 26.
* Kuehne Und Nagel International AG said it had become the global transportation provider for Gruenenthal Group.
* Zurich Insurance shareholders on Wednesday approved expansion of company's authorisation to increase share capital.
* Norinvest said it expects to have booked a total consolidated income of around 59 million Swiss francs in 2016, for a net result of around 4 million francs, including the extraordinary income item announced on 28 December 2016.
* EFG International said $400 million of Tier 2 Resettable Subordinated Notes due 2027 issued by EFG International (Guernsey) Limited and guaranteed by EFG International AG on a subordinated basis have been placed with investors.
ECONOMY
The KOF indicator measuring expected performance of the Swiss economy is due at 1000 GMT. (Reporting by Zurich newsroom) |
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Fire damages West Valley City apartment complex, injures police officer | A West Valley police officer who helped evacuate residents had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at an apartment complex Sunday morning. The fire at the Aspenwood Apartments, 4139 S. 4080 West, started about 9 a.m. Investigators believe a trash can with discarded cigarettes on a second floor outdoor patio started the fire, said West Valley Fire Capt.
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East Manchester Leisure Centre | About Dementia Friendly Swimming - East Manchester Leisure Centre
The Dementia Friendly Swimming sessions provide people living with dementia and those who support them with a chance to enjoy swimming in a safe and supportive environment. Many of the staff at the centres are Dementia Friends and on hand to support people during their visit for a swim. These sessions are open supported swims, allowing people to enjoy a swim at their leisure whilst knowing support is available should they need it. |
China's SenseTime raises $620 million in latest funding round | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese facial recognition technology developer SenseTime Group Ltd has raised $620 million in its latest round of funding, valuing the company at more than $4.5 billion.
FILE PHOTO: SenseTime surveillance software identifying customers' movement patterns at a department store runs as a demonstration at the company's office in Beijing, China, October 11, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo
The financing was led by Fidelity International, Hopu Capital, Silver Lake and Tiger Global, it said in a statement. |
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BRIEF-Детский мир в I кв увеличил скорректированную чистую прибыль на 34,4% | UPDATE 3-Nestle takes food price rises in its stride
ZURICH, Aug 9 Nestle expects pressure from the rising price of ingredients for its products such as chocolate bars, coffee and soup to ease, helping it meet its target for increasing sales despite tough markets. |
Superhero showdown - Avengers: Infinity War reviewed | The Avengers sequel is here: Infinity War, bringing together Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and the Hulk for a spectacular Marvel Comics mash-up.
Here is what Press Association’s film critic Damon Smith thought of the latest blockbuster ahead of its release on Thursday.
"Destiny arrives." We're LIVE from the Hollywood red carpet premiere of Marvel Studios' "Avengers: #InfinityWar"! Watch for interviews with the cast and more: https://t.co/NEyQIAa4y9 — The Avengers (@Avengers) April 24, 2018
Who is in the cast?
The line-up of stars is impressive. It includes: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Josh Brolin, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Holland, Zoe Saldana, Chadwick Boseman, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch.
It’s directed by Joe Russo, Anthony Russo
How does the narrative unfold?
War demands sacrifices: civility, morality, compassion, responsibility and, ultimately, torn flesh and innocent blood.
There are many heart-breaking sacrifices – far more than expected – in Avengers: Infinity War, a blockbuster battle royale choreographed at dizzying speed by directors Joe and Anthony Russo to unite characters from across the sprawling and sinewy Marvel Comics franchises.
The head-on collision of The Avengers with protagonists from Black Panther, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor promises an eye-popping spectacle.
In three days, be there when destiny arrives. Get tickets to Marvel Studios' "Avengers: #InfinityWar" now: https://t.co/kctg8VkHan pic.twitter.com/x0UhyuE4x4 — The Avengers (@Avengers) April 24, 2018
What about the action?
A small army of special effects wizards conjure some truly jaw-dropping set pieces, razing New York, Edinburgh and otherworldly realms in the process.
They bring to life a hulking supervillain in Thanos (Josh Brolin), who continues his quest to claim the six Infinity Stones, which will allow him to exterminate half of all living organisms in the universe with a single snap of his digitally rendered fingers.
Scriptwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely bolt together the outlandish action sequences with comical interludes peppered with snarky humour, pop culture references and an obligatory Stan Lee cameo to the thunderous beat of composer Alan Silvestri’s score.
Their method is crude but largely effective, propelling the linear narrative to a point of supposed no return.
An additional scene, languishing at the end of the credits, teases the identity of one figure who may shift the balance of power before the sun sets on the superhero dream team.
It has been two years since Steve Rogers, aka Captain America (Chris Evans) went toe-to-toe with billionaire inventor Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr).
“The Avengers broke up, we’re toast,” Stark informs Bruce Banner, aka Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).
“Like the Beatles?” responds the scientist.
Thanos exploits these divisions to hunt the missing Infinity Stones including the Mind Stone embedded in Vision (Paul Bettany), the Time Stone concealed within an amulet worn by Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the Space Stone inside the Tesseract stolen by Loki (Tom Hiddleston).
To defeat Thanos, Stark and Rogers must put their ideological differences aside and pool resources with Wakandan king T’Challa, aka Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and his wise-cracking posse.
Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr make up the cast of Avengers: Infinity War (AP)
Final verdict
Avengers: Infinity War would be a physically exhausting assault on the eyes and ears without welcome pauses for pithy banter, replete with knowing winks to Alien and Footloose.
Brolin’s arch-nemesis could be truly formidable if he weren’t fashioned almost entirely in computer hard drives.
The character’s lack of raw emotion in close-up diminishes the film’s most memorable and shocking sequence.
A spry script affords the biggest personalities sufficient room to scene-steal and relegates other characters to just a couple of lines of dialogue.
Perhaps their time to shine will dawn in the concluding chapter, also directed by the Russo brothers, due for release in April 2019.
Rating: 7/10 |
Pakistan calls India's bid to ban Masood Azhar 'politically motivated'29 min ago | Islamabad, Jan 1: Pakistan today said India's bid at the UN to ban Masood Azhar was "politically motivated" and "replete with frivolous information", two days after its close ally China blocked the proposal to get the JeM chief and Pathankot attack mastermind listed as a global terrorist. Responding to reports on India failing to put Azhar on the United Nations Security Council's 1267 Sanctions Committee, Foreign Office spokesperson Nafees Zakaria said, "The 1267 Sanctions Committee related to ISIS/Al-Qaeda has rejected a politically motivated proposal by India.
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Murder charge dropped against former UGA student in death of fellow student | For two years an Athens attorney argued that his client was not criminally responsible for the murder of his friend and fellow University of Georgia student Min Seok Cho. The attorney appeared to have finally swayed prosecutors because the case against 22-year-old Lucas Amsler Raposo last week was presented to a grand jury for a second time, with the panel returning a new indictment that did not include a murder charge..
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BRIEF-Beijing Honggao Creative Construction Design to implement delisting risk warning | UPDATE 2-U.S. regulators still reviewing Fiat Chrysler diesel vehicle fix -lawyer
WASHINGTON, June 14 A U.S. Justice Department lawyer said at a court hearing on Wednesday it could take "weeks or months" before regulators decide whether to approve a software fix for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV diesel vehicles. |
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BRIEF-Ideal Group FY 2016 profit before taxes shrinks at 0.7 million euros | YouTube singer Austin Jones arrested on child pornography charges
LOS ANGELES, June 14 A 24-year-old YouTube singer with a teen fan base has been charged with using social media to solicit explicit videos from two young female fans. |
Texas university cancels white supremacist rally | White nationalist Richard Spencer has asked sympathizers to invite him to speak on campuses
A Texas university canceled Monday a planned white supremacist rally on its campus next month, citing safety concerns following the deadly violence at a rally in Virginia at the weekend.
Texas A&M University, one of the most prestigious public colleges in the United States, scrapped a September 11 rally at which known white supremacist leader Richard Spencer was scheduled to speak.
Spencer was one of the leading figures in a rally that saw hundreds of white supremacists gather Saturday in the town of Charlottesville, triggering violence that left one person dead and 19 others injured.
The university's decision to cancel the event came after it emerged that organizers were billing the event as "Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M."
"Linking the tragedy of Charlottesville with the Texas A&M event creates a major security risk on our campus," the university said in a statement.
Spencer has asked sympathizers to invite him to speak on campuses, and he has been invited to speak at the University of Florida on September 12, although authorities have yet to give their approval.
In an open letter to students, University of Florida president Kent Fuchs indicated how the college was torn over whether to give the event the green light.
"For many in our community, including myself, this speaker's presence would be deeply disturbing," Fuchs wrote, before adding that "we must follow the law, upholding the First Amendment not to discriminate based on content and provide access to a public space." |
BRIEF-Fedha buys 15.1 mln of Vantage Development shares in tender offer | March 31 Vantage Development SA
* Fedha sp. z o.o. (Fedha) has bought 15.1 mln shares in the tender bid for Vantage Development shares, the intermediary in the transaction DM PKO BP said on Thursday
* In Feb. Fedha announced the tender offer for 18,783,120 shares representing 30.08 pct stake in Vantage Development
* On March 24 Fedha hiked the price for the shares to 3.70 zlotys per share from 3.25 zlotys
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BRIEF-Shanghai Baosight Software's 2017 Net Profit Up 26.7 Pct Y/Y At 425.3 Mln Yuan | March 19 (Reuters) - Shanghai Baosight Software Co Ltd :
* SAYS 2017 NET PROFIT UP 26.7 PERCENT Y/Y AT 425.3 MILLION YUAN ($67.18 million) Source text in Chinese: bit.ly/2DCRKOr Further company coverage: ($1 = 6.3312 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Hong Kong newsroom) |
Armenian opposition says talks with ruling party canceled | YEREVAN (Reuters) - Talks between Armenia’s ruling Republican party and the opposition planned for Wednesday have been canceled, opposition spokesman Tigran Avinyan said.
Talks were planned after the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan on Monday following almost two weeks of street protests that plunged the impoverished ex-Soviet republic into political crisis. |
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BRIEF-S&T to increase capital due to planned Kontron merger | May 2 S&T Ag
* Says decides increase of capital by way of contribution in kind due to planned Kontron ag merger
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Monte Carlo Masters Results | 'I didn't trust them': Demi Lovato opens up about not having any female friends at the start of her career She's known for her bubbly personality and catchy pop tunes. |
FOREX-German inflation data pushes euro lower | * Euro hits 9-day low after drop in German annual inflation
* Euro zone short-term rates pulled low by ECB sources report
* ECB policymakers speaking on Thursday back existing guidance
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
By Patrick Graham
LONDON, March 30 Low readings for German inflation drove the euro back to nine-day lows against the dollar on Thursday.
Dollar bulls are still recovering from the collapse in faith in the "Trumpflation" trade caused by last week's defeat for the White House on healthcare and the greenback was again struggling to make progress past 111 yen.
But against the euro it gained a quarter of a cent, trading as strong $1.0731 after several German states reported a slump in annual inflation to well below the ECB's 2 percent target.
That later delivered an overall national number of 1.5 percent and added to signals from sources close to the bank on Wednesday that ECB officials were unhappy at a shift in market expectations towards tighter monetary policy and higher euro zone interest rates.
"That sort of off the record briefing that came through yesterday and German inflation this morning do seem to have pulled the rug from under the euro," said Nick Parsons, a strategist with National Australia Bank in London.
"More generally it has been pretty quiet this morning. We are in one of those awful periods where we cannot decide which currency we dislike the least. And that tends to lead to lower volatility."
The fall for the euro, down from a 4-1/2-month high of $1.0906 scaled on Monday, helped the broader dollar index into positive territory, up 0.1 percent at 100.15.
Sterling, knocked back by the dollar's recovery as Prime Minister Theresa May lodged Britain's formal request to leave the European Union on Wednesday, was also down 0.1 percent at $1.2414.
Several ECB policymakers said on Thursday the bank should stick to its already laid out policy path.
Reuters on Wednesday reported ECB sources as saying that policymakers had been taken aback by moves to price in an interest rate hike early next year and would be keen at their April meeting to reassure investors that their easy-money policy was far from ending.
"It’s a bit soon to draw conclusions but yesterday’s ECB sources piece put a dampener on front end rates and that has weakened sentiment towards the euro somewhat," said Citi G10 currencies strategist Josh O'Byrne.
"The mood around the dollar has softened a lot. On balance I think most people still buy into this stronger global demand story but it may be a bit late in the day to be chasing this theme."
For Reuters Live Markets blog on European and UK stock markets see reuters://realtime/verb=Open/url=http://emea1.apps.cp.extranet.thomsonreuters.biz/cms/?pageId=livemarkets (Editing by Jeremy Gaunt) |
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Bank of Canada warns of hit from U.S. trade protectionism | OTTAWA Changes to U.S. trade policy and protectionist measures under U.S. President Donald Trump will certainly be negative for Canada and could be a major shock, Bank of Canada officials said on Thursday, warning of a hit to already sluggish productivity.
Governor Stephen Poloz and Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins took turns warning a Senate committee of the possible impact of as-yet unknown changes to U.S. trade policy, saying it is the greatest risk to Canada's economic outlook.
"The threat of U.S. protectionism, that's something that is very, very significant for Canada and ... it's very difficult to analyze it in advance because it could take so many different forms. It certainly will be negative and it could even be a major shock," Poloz told the committee.
Poloz and Wilkins were in a second day of testimony after releasing the bank's closely watched monetary policy report on Wednesday, which bumped up growth forecasts but argued it was too early to conclude Canada's economy was on a sustainable growth path.
The Bank of Canada held interest rates steady on Wednesday, keeping them near historic lows amid uncertainty over the economic outlook. [L1N1HK0AQ]
Canadian exporters have shuddered at the prospect of a border adjustment tax targeting Canadian goods destined for the U.S. market, and Canada's Liberal government is lobbying to protect trade relationships that have developed under the North American Free Trade Agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants to fix NAFTA to protect U.S. jobs.
Asked what impact a 10 percent border adjustment tax would have on Canada's economy, Wilkins said it could be a "major" negative hit.
"It would not be good news for the United States or for us ... there will be an impact on demand but also an impact on supply and on Canada's growth potential that would be fairly significant," Wilkins said.
"You can expect supply chains that will be much less productive, so there could be a shock to our productivity rate, which is already not very high," she added.
Still, Wilkins said the potential impact need not be entirely negative, if Canadian business and manufacturers adjust by diversifying beyond the United States.
"They might find other markets, they might find other value chains elsewhere in the world that don't involve the United States," Wilkins said. "I can tell you there are base cases that could be very negative for Canada."
(Reporting by Andrea Hopkins and Leah Schnurr; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) |
Egypt's Beltone Financial to launch $1 billion fixed income fund: CEO | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Beltone Financial will launch a $1 billion investment fund in fixed income instruments in September, its chief executive officer told Reuters on Monday.
The investment bank aims to raise $150-200 million in the first phase of the investment fund, Bassem Azzab said.
Beltone aims to acquire brokerages in Egypt and frontier markets, Azzab said. He expects the company to manage the initial public offering of a pharmaceutical company worth over 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($56.37 million) on the Egyptian stock market before the end of 2017.
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Thousands protest against government in Togo | Togolese women dressed in black, some banging on pots, are pictured protesting in the capital city of Lome during a protest rally against Togo's president on January 20, 2018
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Togo's capital Lome on Saturday, against President Faure Gnassingbe and his government.
The protest came the day after mediators from Ghana and Guinea said that Togo will enter talks on controversial constitutional reform February 15, in a move aimed at ending a crippling political stalemate.
A rolling series of demonstrations against President Gnassingbe have been unfolding for several months, and the country has been rocked by striking teachers and health workers.
The opposition parties want to restrict presidents to a maximum of two, five-year terms of office, and introduce a two-round voting system.
Gnassingbe has been in power since 2005. He took over from his father, who ruled the country for 38 years.
While the mediators said Friday that the leaders of the 14 opposition parties had agreed to "suspend" the public protests, the leaders themselves carried on with Saturday's protest.
"It's our constitutional right to protest. If we want to protest then we will, " said opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre.
The marchers clogged up several main roads in the capital, chanting slogans against the regime.
Such demonstrations have become an almost weekly event since early September.
"I don't expect anything from the upcoming dialogue, because the regime in place is not sincere," said one of the marchers, Kossi Djivo.
West African leaders in November called for both sides in Togo to enter talks mediated by President Nana Akufo-Addo, from neighbouring Ghana, and Guinea's Alpha Conde.
The opposition coalition has demanded "measures for de-escalation", including the release of detained prisoners and the withdrawal of security forces. |
Wallaby Fardy rails at 'faceless men' running Super Rugby | MELBOURNE, April 18 (Reuters) - Former Australia loose forward Scott Fardy has criticised Super Rugby's governing body SANZAAR as an organisation of "faceless men in suits" far removed from the players on the pitch who are worried about their livelihoods.
The ACT Brumbies flanker will head overseas after the current season to play in Ireland but fired a parting shot early to the competition's managers who have presided over a bungled expansion that will end with one Australian team and two South African sides culled for next year.
One of either the Melbourne Rebels or Western Force will be cut from the Australian conference but the final decision may be delayed further by legal action launched by the teams against the Australian Rugby Union.
Local media and pundits have slammed SANZAAR and the ARU for the protracted process that has kept players in the dark about their futures two months into the season.
But Fardy was unsurprised.
"It's disappointing it's taken this long but is anyone surprised? This is the game we're in, it's been like this for a long time," the 39-test loose forward told local media on Tuesday.
"The officialdom in this game has always been like that.
"Obviously everyone looks at the ARU at the moment but you wouldn't know who the head of SANZAAR is at any point -- I wouldn't know what he looks like," Fardy said of SANZAAR CEO Andy Marinos.
"In other sports, especially in Australia, you have a head we can look at. In SANZAAR rugby we don't know who is running it.
"It's faceless men in suits in board rooms."
In its statement announcing the competition's contraction a week ago, SANZAAR defended its handling of the protracted process.
"This has been a long and complex piece of work and we make no apology for that," Marinos said in the statement.
Along with Force and the Rebels, the twice champions Brumbies were the third team the ARU weighed cutting from the competition but the Canberra side's future was confirmed last week.
Fardy sympathised with the Rebels and Force players who continue to compete with doubts over their futures. Contract talks for players at other clubs have also been held up.
"It's guys' livelihoods," Fardy said. "It's incredibly tough for players to have go through that.
"I'm hoping that with all that stuff we get change so we're not having these conversations in five or 10 years' time.
"Hopefully we see changes for the benefit of rugby and this competition gets better from it." (Reporting by Ian Ransom; editing by Sudipto Ganguly) |
SHOWCASE-Soccer-Conte urges Chelsea to seek win at Old Trafford | April 10 Premier League leaders Chelsea cannot afford to become complacent during the title run-in and must target victories to stay clear at the top, manager Antonio Conte said ahead of his side's trip to Manchester United on Sunday.
Chelsea's 3-1 win over Bournemouth on Saturday helped them maintain a seven-point lead over second-placed Tottenham Hotspur but the latter's run of six consecutive wins has put the leaders under increasing pressure to pick up points.
"It's important now in every game to try and take three points, including at Old Trafford. We know this game will be very tough but we are in good form and the players have the right confidence," Conte told British media.
Conte believes Tottenham have an easier game this weekend as they host 15th-placed Bournemouth and the Italian also knows that fifth-placed United will be keen to prove they can both beat the leaders and keep up their fight for a top-four spot.
"If you compare these two games -- we face United away and Tottenham face Bournemouth at home -- I think that it's easier for Tottenham to take points in their home stadium," Conte said.
"I think Manchester United for sure will have good motivation because they are playing against Chelsea... We know our schedule is not easy.
"We are having a good season but we want it to become a great season. To become a great season and to write history you must win."
Chelsea have beaten United twice this season with a 4-0 win at Stamford Bridge in October and a 1-0 win in an FA Cup quarter-final last month but last won a league game at Old Trafford in 2013. (Reporting by Aditi Prakash in Bengaluru) |
China-backed buyout fund founder guilty of insider trading: U.S. court | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A partner of a private equity firm with Chinese state backing was found guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday of insider trading related to the attempted acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor Corp (LSCC.O), prosecutors in New York said.
Benjamin Chow, who co-founded Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy by a jury in Manhattan federal court, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a statement. Chow is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 20 by U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods.
Lawyers for Chow, 45, could not immediately be reached for comment.
“While we have been informed of the verdict, we have not had the opportunity to review the court’s ruling,” Canyon Bridge said in an emailed statement. “We will be assessing the situation.”
Canyon Bridge’s financing can be traced back to China’s State Council, the top decision-making body of the Chinese government, Reuters had previously reported
Prosecutors charged Chow, a U.S. citizen born in China, with tipping a friend in 2016 about Canyon Bridge’s planned acquisition of Oregon-based Lattice before it was announced, allowing the friend to make about $5 million in profits.
The friend was identified in a separate lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year as Michael Yin, a former Hong Kong-based private equity executive who had become a hedge fund manager.
U.S. President Donald Trump blocked the Lattice deal in September.
Since then, Canyon Bridge has set its sights on acquisition targets outside of the United States. It closed on the purchase of British chipmaker Imagination Technologies Group Ltd (IGNMF.PK) for 550 million pounds ($718 million) late last year. The sale did not include a unit of the company, U.S. chip designer MIPS, which was divested to an investment firm.
According to Canyon Bridge’s website, Chow previously ran semiconductor investments for private equity firm Warburg Pincus in Asia, and was a managing director of China Reform Fund Management, a private equity investment firm financed at least in part by China’s government and its state-owned firms.
Two former business partners of Chow who declined to be named said he is a native of Tianjin, a port city 30 minutes from Beijing by high-speed train, and has relatives who work in the Tianjin government. |
Fr Sirju: Bring back forefathers' virtues | GO TO YOUR forefathers to find your virtues, Roman Catholic priest Fr Martin Sirju said to worshippers yesterday in San Fernando. He said that slavery and indentureship and the struggles made by those who lived in those harowing years, must serve as a lesson for Trinis facing unprecendented crime levels.
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GreenBelt cycling is a wonderful ride | I am an avid runner. Actually, I am a plodder. Those speed days are long gone, but I enjoy getting out and running sections of the GreenBelt.
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South Australia state follows Telsa battery project with thermal solar plant | SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian state leading a push for renewable energy over fossil fuels is backing a new solar thermal plant costing A$650 million ($512 million) to replace a coal-fired generator.
The 150-megawatt (MW) facility located in the city of Port Augusta is the second large-scale renewable power project planned for the state of South Australia.
In July, Tesla Inc was awarded a contract to install the world's biggest grid-scale lithium-ion battery in the state, in what experts say will be a litmus test for the reliability of large-scale renewable energy storage.
California-based SolarReserve will build the thermal solar plant, which will be operational in about three years. Its standard output under normal conditions will be 135 MW, with the capability of exceeding that during the evening peak demand in favorable conditions, according to SolarReseve.
SolarReserve's bid for the government tender was the lowest-cost options of the shortlisted offers, the state's premier, Jay Weatherill said during a press conference broadcast by Sky News TV, with the state to pay no more than A$78 per megawatt hour for power from the facility.
Thermal solar plants use mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a tower that heats molten salt to generate power for up to eight hours after sunset.
Construction on the plant is scheduled to begin in 2018, according to Weatherill.
Over the past three years, South Australia has shifted from coal-fired power stations to energy from wind, solar and gas.
It has raced ahead of the rest of the country particularly in turning to wind power, which supplies 40 percent of the state's energy.
"The Port Augusta story is a stark example of the transition of the South Australian economy, with the closure of a dirty coal-fired power station, and now the commissioning of this world leading renewable energy project," Weatherill said.
While being applauded by environmentalists, critics claim the shift to renewable energy leaves the state prone to outages.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a political foe of Weatherill, on Saturday called his pursuit of renewable energy projects "ideology and idiocy in equal measure".
In September, South Australia's 1.7 million residents were without power, some of them for up to two weeks, when the grid overloaded and collapsed during a storm.
Still, South Australia managed to secure an offer for a A$110 million loan for the thermal solar project from the federal government. |
Smaller farms can cope better with climate change in India, say analysts | MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India’s small farmers are better equipped than large landowners to deal with climate change, but need more support to find innovative ways to minimize the impacts of higher temperatures, uneven rainfall, floods and droughts, analysts said.
About 60 percent of India’s population of 1.3 billion depends on agriculture for a living. More than three quarters of farmers cultivate than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land each.
While the small size of the land holding is often seen as a challenge to raising incomes, it is an advantage when it comes to tackling extreme weather and rising temperatures, said Arindom Datta, Asia head of sustainability banking at Rabobank.
“Large farmers tend to do mono cropping, which is far more vulnerable to climate change, and more difficult to change and adapt as the situation demands. Plus they need more water, another resource under threat from warmer weather,” he said.
“Small farmers are far more versatile; they usually plant multiple varieties of crops, so they are more flexible and better able to adjust and adapt,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to double farmers’ incomes over the next five years, with reforms including better irrigation, crop insurance and higher prices for crops.
Poor prices for grains and cereal have led to mounting piles of debt for Indian farmers, triggering thousands of suicides every year. More than two-thirds of farmers who committed suicide were small and marginal farmers, data show.
The average size of land holdings in rural India has halved over the past two decades as land is passed down from father to son, and as more land is surrendered for development projects.
While a law caps the amount of land that can be owned by individual farmers, several states have introduced leasing laws to enable farmers to increase the land under cultivation.
But smaller land holdings are better suited if the government invests in training - particularly for women - on topics such as traditional grains such as millets, said Ishira Mehta, founder of CropConnect Enterprises, which links farmers to markets.
“With rising temperatures, we may not be able to grow basmati rice or wheat 20 years from now; we need to revive traditional grains that are more climate resilient,” she said.
“Women farmers in particular are more adaptable, more willing to learn about new harvest and marketing methods. But they cannot tackle the problem on their own.”
Farmers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu are already returning to indigenous varieties of rice and traditional seeds as the region suffers more frequent droughts. |
Fargo gas average at 12-year low for month of June | The current gasoline average in Fargo and other area communities is at a point last seen more than a decade ago. The last time Fargo-area motorists paid a lower price during the month of June was in 2005.
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Trump may halt insurer payments to force Democrats to table on healthcare | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he might consider withholding billions of dollars of Obamacare payments to health insurers to force Democrats back to the negotiating table on healthcare.
Insurers and major medical groups have warned that not funding the payments, called cost-sharing reduction subsidies, which help cover out-of-pocket medical expenses for low-income Americans, could wreak havoc in the individual insurance markets. Trump told The Wall Street Journal that by withholding the payments, Democrats will call him to negotiate.
Major medical and insurance groups penned a letter to Trump on Wednesday urging him to maintain funding for the subsidies, which amount to about $7 billion a year and are paid directly to insurers. They help cover premiums, deductibles and other medical expenses for about 7 million people who purchase health insurance on the individual health insurance market. [n1N1HK25D]
House of Representatives Republicans sued the Obama administration for funding the subsidies, which they argue have to be appropriated by Congress. A federal judge in May 2016 ruled in favour of the Republicans, prompting an appeal by the Obama administration. The case is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Major insurers, including Humana Inc and Aetna, have left or announced their intention to leave the Obamacare exchanges, citing multi-million-dollar losses and patient populations that are far costlier and sicker than they expected. They warned that withholding the subsidies would destabilise the market further and leave millions of consumers with little or no choice in picking a health insurance plan.
(Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Leslie Adler) |
Trump warns Iran against restarting nuclear program | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Iran would face bigger problems if Tehran restarts its nuclear program and called the nuclear accord with Iran “insane.”
“They will have bigger problems than they have ever had before,” Trump said of Iran at the start of a White House meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, who told reporters he wants to contain Iran in the region. |
BRIEF-Eshraq Properties says IC transferred 171.5 mln shares of co to Ajman Bank | Aug 13 (Reuters) - ESHRAQ PROPERTIES COMPANY
* INTEGRATED CAPITAL (IC) HAS TRANSFERRED 171.5 MILLION SHARES OF CO FROM IC'S ADX NATIONAL INVESTOR NUMBER TO IC'S ACCOUNT WITH AJMAN BANK
* INTEGRATED CAPITAL CONFIRMS THAT IT REMAINS OWNER OF THESE SHARES, IC'S TOTAL DIRECT, INDIRECT SHAREHOLDING IN ESHRAQ REMAINS 11.511 PERCENT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
BRIEF-Home BancShares Q1 earnings per share $0.33 | CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-China to sell 1st dollar bonds since 2004, after Moody's downgrade
BEIJING/HONG KONG, June 13 China will sell its first U.S. dollar denominated sovereign bonds since 2004 in coming months along with yuan bonds, in its first overseas issuance of national debt since Moody's downgraded its sovereign credit rating in May. |
Home Searched, Yard Dug Up In 4-Year-Old Missing Woman Case | Home Searched, Yard Dug Up In 4-Year-Old Missing Woman Case Police are searching a southwest Pueblo home and digging in the backyard as they look for a missing woman from Pueblo. 'Mamma Mia' Actress Shares Theater Experiences Actress from the touring show of "Mamma Mia" shares her theater experience with students at Cherry Creek High School.
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Bob Harper arrives on Broadway after recent heart attack | Bob Harper is lucky to be alive.
And the Biggest Loser host is making the most of his new lease on life as he arrived for a fun-filled evening on Broadway.
The 51-year-old trainer looked in great health as he stopped by the opening of the musical Groundhog Day on Monday night.
Bounce back: Bob Harper, 51, looked in great health as he stopped by the opening of the musical Groundhog Day on Monday night
Harper had suffered a major heart attack on February 12 of this year.
He was working out at a gym in New York when he suddenly doubled over and lay unconscious.
Fortunately, two doctors were at the gym and were able to perform CPR on him and use Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
Health scare: Harper had suffered a major heart attack on February 12 of this year
Harper had technically died as there is a doctor's report that reads: 'Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest’
He then slipped into a two-day coma — suffering short term memory loss when he first woke up.
Harper is in much better condition now and looks at life differently as he told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live last week.
Ghost story: Harper had technically died as there is a doctor's report that reads: 'Cause of Death: Cardiac Arrest’
Gym scare: Harper was working out at a gym in New York when he suddenly doubled over and lay unconscious
'I just think that for me, it changes my whole approach,' Harper said. 'But I am so happy to be around.'
As for ignoring the signs something was wrong, he said: 'I started having these dizzy spells. And I just kind of overlooked them and just adapted. Which is the dumbest thing — I kick myself over and over again about it.'
The fitness guru went on to say he will enjoy his life more. As in catching the latest Broadway offering.
Groundhog Day is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, and a book by Danny Rubin. It's based on the 1993 film of the same name. |
BRIEF-Verizon to increase waterfall cap in its tender offers | Aug 14 (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc
* Verizon announces an increase to the waterfall cap in, early participation results of, and election of early settlement for, its tender offers for 29 series of notes of Verizon and certain of its subsidiaries
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BRIEF-Grzegorz Kiczmachowski resigns from post of CEO of iAlbatros Group | Bank of America to lay off more workers
June 15 Bank of America Corp has begun laying off employees in its operations and technology division, part of the second-largest U.S. bank's plan to cut costs. |
Auld Lang Syne | Here we are, at the end of another year. Now that all the hustle and bustle of Christmas is done, it's time to focus on winding up the year in style.
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FDA clears Pfizer's Xeljanz for inflammatory bowel disease | (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it had approved Pfizer Inc’s drug, Xeljanz, to treat adults with moderate-to-severe active ulcerative colitis.
The Pfizer logo is seen at their world headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
The effectiveness of Xeljanz in treating ulcerative colitis was shown in three controlled clinical trials, including two trials that showed the drug caused disease remission in about 17-18 percent of the patients.
The drug is already approved by the FDA to treat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
Xeljanz is expected to bring in sales of $2.16 billion in 2019, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. It had generated sales of $1.35 billion in 2017.
Ulcerative colitis is a chronic, inflammatory bowel disease that affects the colon and causes recurrent flares of abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea.
More than 900,000 people suffer from the disease in the United States, according to the FDA.
Pfizer’s shares were up 1.1 percent at $36.11 in afternoon trading. |
B.C. public elementary schools show improvement: Fraser Institute | Out of the 61 schools to show improvement since 2011/2012, 57 of them were public schools. However, independent schools continue to outrank public schools.
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Disturbing Numbers | Most West Virginians already understand the entrenched bureaucrats in Charleston - and the elected officials who should be keeping an eye on them -have no interest in making the necessary changes to state government that would cut it and its spending so they can serve the state without bankrupting it.
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UPDATE 1-Eni CEO says Mexico oil find likely bigger than estimates | (Recasts lead, adds CEO comments, background)
By Stephen Jewkes
RAVENNA, Italy, March 29 Italy's Eni said on Wednesday it expected that its recent discovery off the coast of Mexico would hold more than the 800 million barrels of oil it originally estimated.
"This is an important find and we've found new layers of good light oil that make us think there's more," Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi said at an oil and gas conference.
Eni said earlier this month it had found "meaningful" reserves of oil off the coast of Mexico after becoming the first international oil company to drill a well in the country after a 2013 reform opening up the sector to investors.
State-controlled Eni, which in recent years has made major gas finds in Mozambique and Egypt, holds one of the best discovery track records in the industry.
Its organic reserve replacement ratio -- a measure of its ability to find hydrocarbons -- stood at 193 percent in 2016 compared to a 35 percent peer average.
"Eni's Zohr discovery is a game changer," Egypt's oil minister Tarek El Molla said on Wednesday, referring to Eni's discovery in Egyptian waters of the biggest gas field ever found in the Mediterranean.
Descalzi said Eni would follow the same strategy in Mexico as it had adopted in Egypt, using infrastructure already in place to help speed up time to market.
He said the discovery, some 6-7 km from the coast, was close to installations owned by Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex. He added he would speak to Pemex in coming months to discuss using some of their infrastructure in the area.
Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and Exxon Mobil have recently signaled the oil industry's return to Mexico's deep waters with high bids in a government auction.
Since taking over as Eni CEO in 2014, oil veteran Descalzi has streamlined the company, focusing attention on the upstream job of finding oil and gas.
Asked about the group's retail gas and power business which serves 11 million clients, he said a decision would be taken this year on whether or not to sell all or part of it. "There is a lot of interest from industrial players and funds," he said.
Descalzi, former head of Eni's upstream activity, is set to be re-appointed CEO of Eni in April for a second three-year mandate.
(Editing by Edmund Blair) |
Ontario set to slap foreign buyers tax to cool Toronto property market -report | TORONTO, April 20 Canada's Ontario province is set to announce a series of measures including a 15 percent non-resident foreign buyers tax on property purchases to rein in runaway housing prices, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) News reported on Thursday.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne will unveil the measures on Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m. local time, including a ban on flipping of pre-construction units by speculators and a rebate of development cost charges to encourage more rental housing, the CBC News report said, citing people with knowledge of the announcement.
The government is also planning to expand the province's existing rent control system to cover all tenants, ending the exemption that currently allows unlimited rent increases, it added.
The steps to cool Toronto's hosing markets comes after Canada's top federal and provincial officials agreed this week that moves were necessary to bring in Toronto's roaring housing sector under control.
The average price of a home in Toronto rose by 33 percent to C$917,000 in March from a year earlier, recent data showed, adding urgency to the need for government action. A report this week also showed national prices were up 18.6 percent from a year earlier as strength in Toronto spilled over into nearby cities.
Toronto is Canada's biggest city, and the runaway house prices have become a headache for the government with many first home buyers priced out of the red-hot market. With public frustration growing, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau met with Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa and Toronto Mayor John Tory earlier this week.
Premier Wynne's press secretary was not available for an immediate comment. (Reporting by Denny Thomas; Editing by Bernard Orr) |
New drug approvals fall to six-year low in 2016 | New drug approvals fall to six-year low in 2016
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Last year turned out to be a disappointing one for new drug approvals with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearing just 22 new medicines for sale, the lowest number since 2010 and sharply down on 2015's tally of 45.
Across the Atlantic, the European Medicines Agency recommended 81 new prescription products against a 2015 total of 93. Unlike the FDA, the EMA includes generic drugs in its list.
The slowdown suggests the pharmaceuticals industry may be returning to more normal productivity levels after a spike in approvals in 2014 and 2015, when the haul of new drugs reaching the market hit a 19-year high.
Several factors led to the fall in the approval rate in 2016, John Jenkins, the FDA's director of the office of new drugs, told a conference last month.
Notably, five new drugs that had been scheduled for approval in 2016 ended up winning an early green light at the end of 2015. There was also a decline in drugs being filed for approval and the FDA rejected or delayed more applications in 2016 than in the previous two years.
Some of the delayed drugs may yet go on to win approval in 2017, including Roche's multiple sclerosis treatment Ocrevus and Sanofi and Regeneron's sarilumab for rheumatoid arthritis.
Most industry executives remain upbeat about the hunt for new medicines, given recent advances in fighting cancer and an improved understanding of the genetic basis of other diseases, which has resulted in full development pipelines at many firms.
But it remains challenging to get new drugs through the approval process and to secure a decent financial return once they are launched, given resistance from healthcare insurers and governments to the rising cost of medical treatment.
According to consultancy Deloitte, returns on research and development investment at the top 12 pharmaceutical companies fell to just 3.7 percent in 2016 from a high of 10.1 percent in 2010.
Increasing political pressure over the high prices of many modern medicines is a growing challenge at a time when biotech and pharma companies are developing more drugs targeted at niche patient populations.
The issue is exemplified by the last drug to win FDA approval in 2016. Spinraza, from Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals, is the first medicine to treat patients with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare and often fatal genetic disease. It comes at a huge cost of $125,000 per dose.
That price, implying a total cost of $625,000 to $750,000 for patients in the first year and $375,000 in subsequent years, is likely to invite "a storm of criticism, up to and including Presidential tweets", according to Leerink analysts.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to bring down drug prices. |
Opposition leader denies treason charge in case that has rattled Zambia | LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, a longtime rival of President Edgar Lungu, denied plotting to overthrow the government when he appeared in a Lusaka court on Monday in a case that has heightened political friction in the country.
Government and legal sources told Reuters on Sunday the government planned to drop the treason charges against Hichilema and release him from prison under a deal brokered by the Commonwealth secretary-general.
But a government source said later that the application to discontinue the case would now be made on Wednesday.
Hichilema -- commonly known as HH -- and five others were arrested in April and charged with treason after Hichilema's convoy failed to make way for Lungu's motorcade.
He was initially charged with treason for obstructing the motorcade then was later accused of plotting to overthrow the government between Oct. 1 last year and April 8 this year.
An amended indictment said he plotted to unseat the government between April 5 and 8 by mobilizing his supporters for a ceremony to give him the status of Zambian president.
"HH and the other five co-accused have taken plea and denied the charge of treason," UPND spokesman Charles Kakoma told reporters on Monday.
The case has raised political in tension in Zambia, Africa's second-largest copper producer and traditionally a stable democracy. Amnesty International has said the treason charges are trumped up and called for his release, as have local church leaders.
Hichilema and Lungu have long been rivals. His United Party for National Development (UPND) lost an election to Lungu's Patriotic Front (PF) in August last year but his legal challenges claiming the poll was rigged failed.
In June, parliament suspended 48 opposition lawmakers for boycotting a speech by Lungu.
In July, Lungu imposed a state of emergency to deal with what he called acts of sabotage by the opposition, including
arson attacks on market places and court-houses. Critics say
the emergency powers will be used to harass political opponents.
Back to Jail
Police in riot gear stood outside the High Court precinct on Monday and reporters for foreign news agencies were not allowed to cover the court proceedings.
Defense lawyer Jack Mwiimbu told Reuters that the adjournment was procedural.
"Our defense team has just prepared for trial but if there will be any such gestures, they will be welcome," Mwiimbu said when asked whether the prosecution had indicated their plans to discontinue the case.
Hichilema, an economist and businessman, has been held in prison since his arrest. The six were detained in custody after taking their plea. |
U.S. soy processors build new capacity at fastest rate in 20 years | CHICAGO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. agricultural cooperatives are building new soybean crushing plants at the fastest rate in two decades as farmers in the world’s top producer prepare to sow another record area with soy.
The growth worldwide in the number of consumers with income to spend on pork and chicken has led to a rapid rise in demand for food to raise animals. Crushing plants produce high-protein soymeal feed for livestock and soyoil for food and fuel.
U.S. processors are expected to open plants with capacity to process at least 120 million bushels of soybeans in 2019, up around 5 percent from existing capacity of an estimated 1.9 billion bushels.
The last time outright capacity grew that much was in 1997-98, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture and soy industry data.
Strong demand for feed has boosted crushing margins, the measure of profitability for the plants. Margins stand at more than a $1 per bushel, the strongest for 18 months, according to the CME Group.
The margins have encouraged processors to build more plants.
“Margins on soybean processing were very good, some of the best we’ve had in many years. And when the industry has good margins, you expand production,” said Mark Sandeen, vice president of product marketing at farmer cooperative Ag Processing Inc (AGP).
Growth in feed demand means crushing capacity worldwide will need to expand further.
Global soy production would have to increase by 20 percent over the next decade to keep up with feed consumption, said Tom Hammer, president of industry group National Oilseed Processing Association.
U.S. soy plantings totaled a record 90.2 million acres this year and the USDA in a preliminary forecast set plantings next year at 91.0 million acres. And while industry capacity could reach 2 billion bushels in under two years, the USDA said crushings likely will not reach that level until 2020-21.
AGP broke ground earlier this year on a new soy plant in Aberdeen, South Dakota, that will have annual capacity to process 40 million bushels.
Another cooperative, North Dakota Soybean Processors, planned to build a similarly sized facility for an estimated $287 million near the town of Spiritwood.
The plants will increase demand for local soybeans, potentially pushing up prices that farmers nearby will receive for their crops, and reducing transport costs.
Ryan Wagner, who grows soybeans about 50 miles away from the new soy plant in South Dakota, said the processor could add 10 to 15 cents to the local soybean price - an amount that might mean the difference between making or losing money.
Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures on Friday were $9.89-3/4 per bushel, down 2-1/4 cents.
“That basis will be nice but in the long run I think the greater economic impact will be the attraction of more opportunities for raising livestock because of the new supply of soybean meal,” Wagner said.
“We are already starting to see interest in our area for more pork and poultry production since the announcement.”
Family-owned Zeeland Farm Services plans to build the second plant in the state of Michigan with capacity of 40 million bushels, to open in 2019. The company built Michigan’s first soybean processor in 1996 in Zeeland.
The company will supply soybean meal to hog, turkey, dairy and aquaculture farms in Michigan and export both soymeal and soyoil, said Cliff Meeuwsen, president of Zeeland.
Due to a lack of processing plants in Michigan, much of the soybeans there are shipped to Ohio where merchant giants Archer Daniels Midland Co, Bunge Ltd and Cargill Inc have plants.
Soymeal then gets shipped back to Michigan to feed animals, raising costs.
“We hope to cut those costs out, thereby raising the price of soybeans to producers and cutting the cost of feed and protein to livestock producers,” Zeeland’s Meeuwsen said.
Earlier this year Perdue Farms opened a processor with capacity for 17.5 million bushels in Pennsylvania, that state’s first large-scale soy crushing plant.
Many of the new facilities are in places outside the central U.S. Midwest soy belt, taking advantage of increased supplies from farmers in those areas that have switched to soybeans from less profitable crops such as wheat.
Grain handlers will increase their profits by building the plants, as the margins are bigger for crushing than they are for simply buying and shipping soybeans, said Mike Steenhoek, executive director of the Soybean Transportation Coalition.
“The old adage is it’s better to export meat than (soy) meal and better to export meal than soybeans. You are always trying to export that higher-value product,” Steenhoek said. (Additional reporting by Karl Plume; editing by Simon Webb and Chizu Nomiyama) |
BRIEF-TransGlobe Energy reports Q2 funds flow of $0.23 per share | Aug 14 (Reuters) - TransGlobe Energy Corp -
* TransGlobe Energy Corporation announces second quarter 2017 financial and operating results
* Q2 production averaged 16,465 boepd (19,259 boepd sales) versus 11,472 bopd (11,783 bopd sales) in Q2-2016
* Q2 funds flow of $16.9 million or $0.23 per share
* Qtrly loss per share $0.78 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
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BRIEF-Eylea (Aflibercept) Injection Demonstrates Positive Topline Results In Phase 3 Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy Trial | March 19 (Reuters) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc:
* EYLEA® (AFLIBERCEPT) INJECTION DEMONSTRATES POSITIVE TOPLINE RESULTS IN PHASE 3 NON-PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY TRIAL
* REGENERON PHARMA-PHASE 3 TRIAL EVALUATING EYLEA INJECTION IN MODERATELY SEVERE TO SEVERE NON-PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY MET PRIMARY ENDPOINT
* REGENERON PHARMA - 58 PERCENT OF EYLEA-TREATED PATIENTS EXPERIENCED TWO-STEP OR GREATER IMPROVEMENT FROM BASELINE ON DIABETIC RETINOPATHY SEVERITY SCALE (DRSS) AT WEEK 24
* REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC - THERE WAS ONE CASE OF MILD INTRAOCULAR INFLAMMATION (IOI) IN A PATIENT TREATED WITH EYLEA IN TRIAL
* REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS - EXPECT U.S. REGULATORY SUBMISSION FOR DIABETIC RETINOPATHY LATER THIS YEAR Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |
SCoC Draft Profiles: Nick Suzuki is a hard working, smart, two way point-getter | This world, with all the good and ill within it, happens to favor the idea that Nick Suzuki could be within Boston's reach. You should get excited if he stays on the board.
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2 inmates remain on run after 2 prison guards killed | A Georgia sheriff said officers were "desperate... . This photo provided by the Elbert County Sheriff's Office taken on Oct. 13, 2015 shows inmate Ricky Dubose.
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BRIEF-Xiamen Xiangyu says change of accounting policy | April 24(Reuters) - Xiamen Xiangyu Co Ltd :
* Says it changed the accounting policy due to national policy requirement
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Bulls beat Celtics 101-94; Thomas plays after sister's death | Boston Celtics' Isaiah Thomas battles Chicago Bulls' Robin Lopez for a rebound during the first half of a first-round NBA playoff basketball game, Sunday, April 16, 2017, in Boston. Chicago Bulls' Rajon Rondo goes up to shoot in front of Boston Celtics' Kelly Olynyk during the first quarter of a first-round NBA playoff basketball game Sunday, April 16, 2017, in Boston.
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Blac Chyna sends statement with 'All I need is love' bag | She's currently embroiled in a lot of drama with ex Rob Kardashian.
And Blac Chyna, 29, was pictured carrying a slogan bag which had the words: 'All I need is love' emblazoned on the front when she arrived at LAX on Thursday.
Wearing a flower-emblazoned camouflage jacket and curve hugging black leggings, she shielded her eyes with large diamante sunglasses.
'All I need is love': Blac Chyna sent out a message with slogan bag as she arrived at LAX airport on Thursday... after ex Rob Kardashian filed a lawsuit
The model is known for constantly changing her hair style, and was platinum blonde for the low-key trip.
Chyna donned a black T-shirt with a daringly low neckline, and let her accessories do the talking, adding a number of diamond bracelets and rings.
Chyna became a household name after giving birth to Rob Kardashian's daughter Dream.
Leaving LA: The model is known for constantly changing her hair style, and was platinum blonde for the low-key trip
On Tuesday, she shared a picture of herself with Dream, 11 months, to her Instagram account.
The photo comes after Rob filed a lawsuit against the former stripper alleging that she 'strangled him with an iPhone charging cable' in December 'after consuming drugs and alcohol,' according to The Blast.
For the Instagram picture, the ex of Tyga donned a plunging gray dress with sheer panels for the throwback shot- she originally shared it on Snapchat in late September.
Interesting outfit: Blac Chyna shared a revealing picture of herself with Dream, 11 months, to her Instagram account on Tuesday.
Chyna flashed her upper thigh and hip tattoos through the sheer portion of the skirt.
The former reality star's frock had a plunging neckline with bell sleeves.
She also took some time to share adorable clips of Dream on her Snapchat account.
Cutie pie: The photo comes after Rob filed a lawsuit against Chyna, according to The Blast; Rob and Blac Chyna's daughter pictured
Baby love: She also took some time to share adorable snaps of Dream
In one clip, the baby girl dons a shirt that says 'Dream Team' before reaching out to to be picked up by her mom.
Another shows Dream with a Snapchat filter - with an animal nose and ears digitally placed over her face.
In the lawsuit, he alleges that Chyna had 'lunged at him in an attempt to strangle him with an iPhone charging cable' and then 'chased him and repeatedly hit him in the face and head,' reports The Blast.
Kardashian, 30, also claimed that he had suffered injuries to his neck and even documented the whole thing including rips in his shirt according to The Blast.
Before that Chyna FaceTimed with two of his friends and was 'brandishing Rob's gun' according to Kardashian.
So much drama: In the lawsuit, he alleges that Chyna had 'lunged at him in an attempt to strangle him with an iPhone charging cable' and then 'chased him and repeatedly hit him in the face and head,' reports The Blast
Rob's sister Kylie Jenner is also part of the lawsuit.
Kylie, who dated Blac Chyna's baby daddy Tyga, owns the house Rob and Chyna temporarily lived in.
The 20-year-old is suing Chyna for damaging her property, saying it was about $100,000 worth of damages, The Blast reports.
Chyna agreed a custody arrangement with Rob, which would give her $20,000 a month in child support, TMZ reported.
In return for the payment, she agreed to drop her allegations of abuse against him.
Happier times: Kardashian, 30, also claimed that he had suffered injuries to his neck and even documented the whole thing including rips in his shirt according to the report from The Blast; seen in May 2016 at Sky Beach Club in Las Vegas, Nevada
However, TMZ reports that she is still seeking 'a seven figure' sum to settle with her former fiance over his social media postings in July of explicit photos and his x-rated rant against her.
RadarOnline claimed Tuesday that Chyna wants more than $10 million from Rob and attempts at mediation have failed, prompting her lawyer Lisa Bloom to tweet a picture of her with her client.
Bloom captioned the picture with Chyna: 'Do not disrespect my client. I got your back, @BlacChyna. Stay tuned for chapter 2, y'all.'
Rob and Chyna began dating in 2016 before getting engaged in April 2016; they confirmed the pregnancy one month later.
They welcomed Dream in November 2016; they were on and off for several months before calling it quits for good earlier this year.
Chyna also has a four-year-old son King Cairo with ex Tyga; Tyga was previously dating Kylie until they split in March. |
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COLUMN-Robust China iron ore imports in March may be highwater mark: Russell | (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)
By Clyde Russell
LAUNCESTON, Australia, April 3 China's appetite for iron ore is likely to have continued unabated in March, but it seems increasingly likely that the first quarter of 2017 may prove to be as good as it gets this year for imports of the steel-making ingredient.
China imported 90.3 million tonnes of iron ore in March, according to vessel-tracking and port data compiled by Thomson Reuters Supply Chain and Commodity Forecasts.
If the estimate is matched by official customs figures, due next week, it will be only the fifth time that monthly imports have exceeded 90 million tonnes, the other occasions being January this year, November and September last year and in December 2015.
The vessel-tracking and port data is typically more conservative than customs data, undercounting by 3.5 percent over 2016, meaning that the risk is that March imports are higher than suggested by the data.
China's imports of iron ore in the first quarter of 2017 have been robust, mainly on the back of strong steel prices and optimism about the resilience of the construction and infrastructure sectors, the main steel consumers.
But there are already signs that the market is realising it got ahead of itself, with spot iron ore prices .IO62-CNO=MB ending last week at $80.39 a tonne, down 15 percent from the peak this year on Feb. 21.
The spot price is now virtually flat from the $78.87 at the end of last year, showing that the rally from December 2015 to February, which resulted in prices more than doubling, is starting to unwind.
Much of the focus on why the price gains were unsustainable has been on the rapid build-up of iron ore inventories at Chinese ports, with industry consultants SteelHome saying stockpiles at 46 ports SH-TOT-IRONINV reached a record 132.5 million tonnes in the week to March 31.
This is some 65 percent higher than the 80.5 million tonnes recorded in October 2015, just prior to the start of the strong rally in prices.
While an overhang of inventories was always likely to eventually cause prices to stumble, it also means that imports may be subdued in the coming months as traders and steel mills work through some of the stockpiles.
STEEL DRAG
Chinese steel demand may also become a headwind for iron ore imports and prices, with the China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute estimating it will drop to 660 million tonnes in 2017, a decline of 1.9 percent from 2016.
"We think China's steel consumption will decrease step by step by step -- maybe increase some years, like last year. That's our situation," Li Xinchuang, the institute's president, told an industry conference in Perth on March 30.
Such a decline in domestic demand, coupled with likely lower steel exports, would likely lead to steel mills lowering output, thereby cutting their need for imported iron ore.
China's steel exports were 13.17 million tonnes in the first two months of 2017, down 25.7 percent from the same period last year.
If this pace is maintained for the rest of the year, steel exports will reach around 80 million tonnes, well below the 108.5 million recorded in 2016.
Steel prices in China are also feeling the pressure of possible lower domestic demand and exports, with the benchmark Shanghai rebar contract, ending last week at 3,166 yuan ($459.50) a tonne, down 6.2 percent from its recent closing peak on March 15.
For iron ore, it appears the combination of a softer demand outlook and record high inventories is finally weighing down prices.
While this has yet to show up in China's imports of iron ore, the risk is that these too start to moderate from the breakneck pace seen in the first quarter.
(Editing by Joseph Radford) |
In Iraq minefields, an old war leaves a menacing legacy | BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqis who pick over their country’s old battlefields for military scrap metal and wiring have few other ways to make a living, but the task comes with enormous risks.
Prosthetics are seen at the Artificial Limb Centre in Basra, Iraq February 28, 2018. Picture taken February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani
So numerous are the wounds inflicted by mines and ordnance in Jurf al-Milh that the southern Iraqi village is better known as al Bitran, which means “the amputees” in the local dialect.
Hundreds of villagers have lost limbs to mines and unexploded ordnance from the Iraq-Iran war of 1980-1988.
Al-Bitran, east of the city of Basra, is near the Shatt al-Arab waterway which marks the border with Iran.
A worker prepares prosthetics at the Artificial Limb Centre in Basra, Iraq February 28, 2018. Picture taken February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani
The first victims were mainly sheepherders who took their herds to graze in areas not marked as minefields, even though they were strewn with unexploded bombs and artillery shells.
Sheno Abdullah is one of those who lost a leg in an explosion. “In 1980, when the war began, Iranian planes dropped bombs on our region at dawn, everybody left but a few,” he said.
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“When the war ended, people returned, but they didn’t know that the land was full of mines,” he said, speaking at the small mosque where he serves sometimes as muezzin, the one who makes the Muslim call to prayer.
In 1991, the village, like the rest of Iraq, descended deeper into poverty as a result of international sanctions imposed on the country following the occupation of Kuwait.
Collecting scrap metal and electric wires from military hardware left on the battlefields became a means of livelihood for many in the village, and the result was in increase in the number of people maimed.
“I was out (in the field) to seek my living from God, collecting iron and copper; the kilogram of flour had become so expensive,” said Falih, who lost leg and five finger tips in an explosion.
As the number of amputees grew in southern Iraq, a prosthetics and orthotics workshop opened in 1995 in Basra with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, providing artificial limbs to around 8,000 patients.
The workshop makes up to 50 prosthetic parts a month. About a third of the patients who come to the center lost limbs because of diabetes, 10 percent suffered various kinds of accidents, with the rest mainly war and war-related casualties, including al-Bitran villagers, said one of the centers’ directors, Mohsen al-Sayed.
Shi’ite paramilitary groups known as Popular Mobilisation began a demining campaign last month near al-Bitran, using bulldozers and specialized vehicles to clear the desert area. |
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BRIEF-Harbin Churin Group Jointstock says change of accounting auditor | Dec 12 (Reuters) - Harbin Churin Group Jointstock Co Ltd
* Says it appoints WUYIGE Certified Public Accountants LLP as new accounting auditor for FY 2017, to succeed RUIHUA CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Source text in Chinese:goo.gl/VXmqRh
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Russia blocks UN Security Council meeting on human... | UNITED NATIONS, March 19 (Reuters) - Russia on Monday blocked a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the human rights situation in Syria.
"We do not see any justification for this meeting since human rights is not a subject on the agenda of the security council," said Gennady Kuzmin, deputy permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations.
Russia is the largest international backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
France and six other members had called for the meeting, which was expected to include a briefing from Zeid Ra´ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
"Our council needs to have all necessary information to understand the crisis that it is examining, including those pertaining to human rights. And this is particularly the case in Syria," said French U.N. ambassador Francois Delattre.
Kuzmin asked for a procedural vote and only eight delegations voted in favor of having the meeting, one short of the number required.
China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan voted with Russia to prevent the meeting, while Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia were abstentions.
Those who voted to hold the meeting alongside France were the United Kingdom, Sweden, Poland, Holland, the United States, Peru and Kuwait. All except Kuwait later hosted an informal meeting in which Zeid was expected to speak.
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Cause of death released in fall at Colorado ski resort | A Texas woman who fell from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski resort last week died from a rupture of the aorta and other traumatic injuries, an autopsy has concluded. Kelly Huber, 40, of San Antonio fell 20 feet from the lift on Thursday at Granby Ranch Ski Resort about 90 miles west of Denver.
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RPT-Baidu video streaming unit iQiyi launches $2.4 bln U.S. IPO | (Repeats to additional subscribers, no change to text)
By Brenda Goh
March 18 (Reuters) - Chinese video streaming service provider iQiyi Inc, a unit of search engine giant Baidu Inc , has launched an initial public offering in New York worth up to $2.4 billion, seeking to expand its range of content.
The listing is expected to give the firm extra financial muscle as it squares off against rivals in the Chinese market, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s service Youku Tudou Inc.
It plans to offer 125 million American depositary shares priced at $17 to $19 each, the company said in a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Underwriters have an option to sell an additional 18.75 million shares, which if exercised in full could bring the value of the deal to about $2.7 billion.
IQiyi, which will list on the Nasdaq, said it expects to use about half of the proceeds to broaden and enhance its content offering while 10 percent would be earmarked to strengthen technology. The rest would go towards general corporate purposes.
Baidu owns 80.5 percent of the Netflix-like video platform and will continue to be its controlling shareholder upon completion of the offering. At the end of February, iQiyi had 60.1 million subscribers, over 98 percent of whom were paying members, it said.
IQiyi saw its 2017 revenue jump to 17.38 billion yuan ($2.7 billion), a gain of 55 percent over the previous year. It made a net loss of 3.74 billion yuan.
Bilibili, another Chinese video streaming company, also set tentative pricing for its New York listing, seeking to raise as up to $525 million.
Its depository shares will be offered in a range of $10.50 to $12.50 each. The deal includes an option for an additional 6.3 million shares to be sold. |
BRIEF-LED packaging firm MLS sees Q1 net profit more than doubling after capacity increase | Western Digital expects ruling on injunction request by mid-July -source
TOKYO, June 15 Western Digital Corp expects a ruling on its request for a court injunction to stop the sale of Toshiba Corp's chip unit by mid-July, a source familiar with the situation said on Thursday. The California-based firm presented a revised offer for the chip unit that met Toshiba's requests on Wednesday but did not receive a positive response, a separate source said. |
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BRIEF-Grammer says plans strategic partnership with Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts | Feb 14 Grammer AG:
* Grammer and Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts plan strategic partnership
* Ningbo Jifeng associated company subscribes to a 60 million euros ($63.7 million) mandatory convertible bond Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: ($1 = 0.9423 euros) (Gdynia Newsroom) |
Tesla, Australia to turn 50,000 homes into power... | South Australia plans to partner again with Elon Musk's Tesla which has already built the world's largest battery in the state
Some 50,000 homes in South Australia will receive solar panels and Tesla batteries, the state government announced Sunday, in a landmark plan to turn houses into a giant, interconnected power plant.
South Australia is already home to world's biggest battery in an Elon Musk-driven project to provide electricity for more than 30,000 homes.
The state government has since been looking for more ways -- particularly through renewables -- to address its energy woes after an "unprecedented" storm caused a state-wide blackout in 2016.
Under a new plan unveiled on Sunday, a network of solar panels linked to rechargeable batteries will be provided free to households and financed by the sale of excess electricity generated by the network, the government said.
"My government has already delivered the world's biggest battery, now we will deliver the world's largest virtual power plant," state Premier Jay Weatherill said in a statement.
"We will use people's homes as a way to generate energy for the South Australian grid, with participating households benefitting with significant savings in their energy bills."
A trial phase will begin with 1,100 public housing properties, each supplied with a 5kW solar panel system Tesla battery.
Following the trial, the systems will be installed at a further 24,000 public housing properties before the scheme is opened up to other South Australians over the next four years.
The government is also set to look for an energy retailer to deliver the programme to add more competition to the market.
The rollout will be supported by the state government through a Aus$2 million (US$1.6 million) grant and a Aus$30 million loan from a taxpayer renewable technology fund.
Tesla said in a statement to AFP that the virtual power plant would have 250 megawatts of solar energy and 650 megawatt hours of battery storage.
"At key moments, the virtual power plant could provide as much capacity as a large gas turbine or coal power plant," the company added.
Australia is one of the world's largest producers of coal and gas but the South Australian blackout raised questions about its energy security.
Several ageing coal-fired power plants have closed, while strong demand for gas exports and a rise in onshore gas drilling bans have fuelled concerns of a looming domestic energy shortage in the next few years.
More than 60 percent of electricity generation in Australia is from coal, with 14 percent from renewables, according to government data published in 2016. |
IDB, Central America line up $2.5 bln of infrastructure plans | MEXICO CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have lined up $2.5 billion to fund infrastructure projects, the IDB said on Wednesday.
The plans would use up to $750 million of funds from the IDB plus commitments for another $1.75 billion from private and public sources in the three countries, known as the Northern Triangle, the IDB said in a statement.
The announcement came ahead of a meeting on Thursday and Friday in Miami of top U.S., Mexican and Central American officials to discuss how to cut migration and improve conditions in the three poor countries that have seen rising violence.
"The key over the next five years will be to tap the private sector to help build critical infrastructure that will generate jobs, improve competitiveness, and create the conditions that encourage people to build prosperous lives in their homelands," IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno said in the statement.
The Miami summit was an initiative of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly, who helped former President Barack Obama design his Alliance for Prosperity that sought to curb Central American migration with development projects and security spending to crack down on local gangs.
Billionaire Carlos Slim's charity will fund initiatives to help tackle crime in Central America and find new ways of slowing migration, according to a draft document about the summit seen by Reuters. (Reporting by Michael O'Boyle; Editing by Richard Pullin) |
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China firms accused of impeding, detaining pollution inspectors | SHANGHAI, April 18 (Reuters) - China has punished firms in the provinces of Shandong and Hebei, suspending operations and detaining employees after pollution inspection teams were impeded and apprehended while carrying out their duties, the environment ministry said on Tuesday.
China has identified law enforcement as one of the biggest priorities in its three-year long "war on pollution", but local governments are still struggling to crack down on firms that flout standards and regulations.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said inspectors in Jinan, the capital of Shandong, were detained for an hour on Sunday by employees of the Shandong Lujie Environmental Protection Co Ltd. The firm manufacturers energy-efficient boilers and kilns but was accused of using obsolete equipment and exceeding emissions standards.
The firm was forced to suspend production and undergo "rectification" on Sunday night, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) said in a notice. Four people are now being investigated for impeding inspections.
A sales manager with the firm confirmed the company had already suspended operations, but denied the charge that they had deliberately prevented inspectors from doing their job.
"It was just that they came on a Sunday, and they weren't wearing environmental protection department uniforms or driving special law enforcement vehicles," he said. "Our chairman thought they weren't genuine, and had come to swindle us."
In Xingtai in Hebei, one of China's smoggiest cities, the ministry said two people were also detained after environmental inspectors had their credentials "seized" by employees of a firm accused of violating pollution regulations.
The two cities have been ordered to conduct investigations into the two incidents and impose the appropriate punishment.
The ministry has embarked on what it has described as its biggest inspection campaign in history as it bids to ensure it meets its 2017 pollution targets following a substantial deterioration in air quality in the first two months of the year.
By Friday last week, the ministry's 28 inspection teams had already investigated 1,335 companies, with 917, or 68.7 percent of the total, found to be in violation of state environmental standards, according to Reuters calculations.
The environment ministry has also been investigating regulatory lapses on the part of local governments, and last week accused Beijing officials of failing to take responsibility and blaming pollution on "external factors". (Reporting by David Stanway and the Shanghai newsroom; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) |
BRIEF-Chongqing New Century Cruise to change company name to Giant Network Group | UPDATE 3-Nestle takes food price rises in its stride
ZURICH, Aug 9 Nestle expects pressure from the rising price of ingredients for its products such as chocolate bars, coffee and soup to ease, helping it meet its target for increasing sales despite tough markets. |
Geely's Volvo says sales rose 10.5 pct yr/yr in April | STOCKHOLM May 3 Geely-owned Volvo Car Group said its sales rose 10.5 percent year-on year in April as its United States business returned to growth and China sales rose sharply.
* Volvo Cars reports global retail sales growth of 10.5 pct in April.
* Says total sales for the month amounted to 46,895 cars, compared to 42,434 cars a year earlier.
* Says growth for the first four months of 2017 amounted to 8.0 pct.
* Says firm demand for the new 90 series cars remains an important factor in Volvo’s positive sales performance, while the original XC60 remains the best-selling model overall.
* Saw sharpest growth in Asia Pacific, up 29.5 pct, with China, Volvo's largest market, up 38.3 pct.
* Says Americas region returned to growth in April, with sales up 14 pct yr/yr. Sales in the United States rose 15.4 pct, after a string of monthly declines.
* Says sales in the EMEA region increased by 3.7 pct. (Reporting by Johannes Hellstrom) |
Off Beat: He enlisted for WWI despite being too young | Willis Earl receives a medal from the Veterans of Underage Military Service in 2001. Earl, a World War I veteran who died in 2003 at age 103, was 16 when he enlisted in the Army on May 1, 1917.
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Tin openers, knives and other kitchen utensils | If you don't know where to start, just answer a few questions to find information best suited to your needs.
Find out how you can adjust everyday kitchen utensils, such as knives and tin openers, so your relative can continue to cook their favourite food even if they've developed physical problems.
Being able to prepare their own meals can allow your relative to continue to feel confident and independent while also helping them to keep to a healthy diet, so it’s important to encourage him or her to continue to be active in the kitchen.
On this page you can find information on:
1. Sitting down to prepare food
2. Positioning of utensils
3. Opening jars and cans
4. Using knives and scissors safely
5. Other kitchen utensils and non-slip mats
Sitting down to prepare food
If your relative is struggling to move around and stand in the kitchen, the first thing to consider is whether it’s possible for them to sit down while preparing their food.
If there isn’t already a table and chair in the kitchen, you may be able to install a small set in one corner if there’s space.
Perching stool
Alternatively, consider a perching stool, which can be very useful in the kitchen as long as there is space for your relative’s knees under at least one work surface. This can help your relative prepare food at the work surface without getting too tired or losing their balance.
If a perching stool is to be used for washing up, there should ideally be knee room under the sink. These stools are available with and without padded arms.
Positioning of utensils
Chat with your relative about where food and utensils are usually stored. Any items used fairly regularly should be easy to access – not too high up or low down, and not too far back within a cupboard.
If your relative sometimes forgets where certain items are stored, add labels to each cupboard or drawer.
Opening jars and cans
If your relative has trouble gripping or has little strength, opening jars and cans can be a trial. A few simple products can make a big difference in the kitchen.
There are openers designed to help those with a painful or limited grip, and others that are made to boost leverage. They’re suitable for use on a range of differently sized jars and all kinds of bottles - including both plastic and glass.
Opening cans with a pull lever can be tricky for people with painful fingers. You can buy specifically designed larger-handled ring pulls to help. For tins without ring-pull lids, electric tin openers can be incredibly beneficial if your relative finds it difficult to use a manual one.
Using knives and scissors safely
Sometimes fear about using knives and scissors in particular is a source of anxiety that puts older people off cooking. However, there are items available that can help your relative stay safe and reduce the risk of injury.
Scissors, peelers and graters
Consider buying scissors that are lightweight or self-opening, as these will take pressure off painful fingers. Your relative might also benefit from easy-open safety tools with protected blades that can be used to slice open paper and plastic food wrappers.
For peeling fruit and vegetables, there are ergonomic peelers that can help your relative if he or she has problems gripping conventional peelers. Also, some graters have specially designed handles so there’s never a risk of scraped fingertips.
Knives and cutting boards
It’s possible to find knives with longer and angled handles, from bread knives to carving knives. A spiked chopping board that will hold items in place can also be very beneficial.
There are several products available that can help hold the knife in place when slicing bread, vegetables and meat. These can be useful if your relative’s eyesight is poor or they’re finding it difficult to hold the food and cut at the same time.
If chopping with knives is too painful or time consuming, there’s a variety of small choppers on the market that will chop or dice vegetables more readily and safely.
Other kitchen utensils and non-slip mats
There is also a good range of kitchen utensils for mashing vegetables, stirring pans and measuring ingredients. These all have larger handles and text that’s easier to read for people who may struggle with conventional tools.
Non-slip matting is invaluable in the kitchen when preparing food. It helps keep mixing bowls still when stirring, and can secure cups and other items in place on a tray when carrying from one room to another.
For information on where to buy kitchen utensils, see our Useful organisations and websites.
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Magic trade Ibaka to Raptors for Ross, first-round pick | Jan 31, 2017; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Raptors forward Terrence Ross (31) drives to the basket against New Orleans Pelicans guard E'Twaun Moore (55) win the second half at Air Canada Centre. Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 13, 2017; Miami, FL, USA; Miami Heat forward Luke Babbitt (5) defends against Orlando Magic forward Serge Ibaka (7) during the first half at American Airlines Arena. Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports
(The Sports Exchange) - Serge Ibaka is headed north of the border after the Orlando Magic agreed to trade the three-time All-Defensive First Teamer to the Toronto Raptors for Terrence Ross and a 2017 first-round pick, The Vertical reported Tuesday.
Ibaka was traded to the Magic last offseason after spending his first seven seasons with the Oklahoma City Thunder. The 27-year-old averaged 15.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 blocks in 56 games with Orlando.
During his time with the Thunder, Ibaka led the league in blocked shots twice (2012, 2013) and averaged 11.6 points, 7.4 boards and 2.5 swats in 524 games while helping lead Oklahoma City to an appearance in the NBA Finals.
The Magic were reportedly concerned about their ability to retain Ibaka, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer.
Ibaka and Raptors president Masai Ujiri have a longstanding relationship, and Ibaka loves the city of Toronto, according to Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun.
Ross, 26, is averaging 10.4 points through 54 games in his fifth season in Toronto.
The Raptors (32-23) are six games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers for the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
(Editing by Steve Keating in Toronto) |
the Civil War Musical to Run at Schwartz Center in Dover This Month | Celebrate the City of Dover's 300th Anniversary with this outstanding lineup of Delaware actors and musicians, produced by Delaware's own Tommye Staley. A local production of the Broadway musical, THE CIVIL WAR will be presented during the weekends of April 21-23 and April 28-30, 2017.
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Timeline: Brighton´s long battle back to the big time | Brighton will be playing top-flight football for the first time in 34 years next season.
The Seagulls, who almost dropped out of the Football League two decades ago, were assured of a top-two finish in the Sky Bet Championship after beating Wigan and then seeing promotion rivals Huddersfield held by Derby.
Here, we look at Brighton’s eventful journey over the last couple of decades.
Thirteen years after their drop from the top flight – the same season they were also FA Cup finalists – Brighton came close to liquidation, with the club’s board selling the Goldstone Ground to pay off debts. They were in the fourth tier and seemed set to lose their Football League status as they were 13 points adrift at the bottom at one stage. But a late run of form under Steve Gritt led to a final-day shoot-out with Hereford United at Edgar Street, where they needed to avoid defeat to stay up. The game ended 1-1, condemning their hosts to the drop. The Bulls, who briefly made it back to the Football League, went out of business in 2014 and are currently playing as Hereford FC in the Southern League.
Playing at Gillingham’s Priestfield Stadium under the ownership of Dick Knight, another poor campaign saw Brighton register a second successive 23rd-place finish, but Doncaster’s Football League record low of 20 points meant relegation was never in danger.
Now playing at the Withdean Stadium, things finally began to take an upward curve as Peter Taylor delivered promotion, with the Seagulls crowned Division Three champions.
Brighton's Bobby Zamora gets away from Southampton's Jo Tessem and Rory Delap during this September 2001 Worthington Cup Second Round game between Brighton and Southampton, at the Withdean Stadium (Tom Hevezi/PA)
Taylor’s impressive worked continued and he masterminded back-to-back rises with another title.
After several years of yo-yoing between the second and third tiers, Gus Poyet delivered promotion back to the Championship, just in time for the opening of their new 30,000-seater Amex Stadium.
The Seagulls enjoyed their highest finish since 1983 as they ended fourth in the Championship, before a play-off semi-final loss to Crystal Palace.
More play-off heartache followed as, under Oscar Garcia, Brighton were semi-final losers against Derby.
Brighton's Inigo Calderon battles for possession with Derby County's Craig Forsyth in May 2014 (John Walton/Empics Sport)
Beginning the campaign with a 21-game unbeaten run, Chris Hughton’s side missed out on automatic promotion on the final day as they needed to beat Middlesbrough in another winner-takes-all clash, but could only manage a 1-1 draw and Boro went up. They suffered more misery in the play-offs as Sheffield Wednesday beat them over two legs.
Brighton and Hove Albion's Anthony Knockaert celebrates
Brighton and Hove Albion fans celebrate promotion on the pitch
Brighton’s 2-1 home win over Wigan on Easter Monday, secured with goals from Glenn Murray and Solly March, put them on the brink of promotion and an 88th-minute Derby equaliser against Huddersfield in the day’s late match assured the Seagulls of a place in the Premier League. |
Iraq's oil exports fall so far in April amid port work, OPEC cut | * Southern exports so far in April drop about 140,000 bpd
* But exports could rise after repairs finished at jetty-source
* Exports also fall from northern Iraq
By Alex Lawler
LONDON, April 20 Oil shipments from Iraq's southern terminals have fallen so far in April, according to loading data and an industry source, reflecting a temporary drop in export capacity and Iraqi efforts to comply with OPEC production cuts.
OPEC's second-largest producer has curbed output this year as part of an OPEC-led supply reduction deal, although OPEC figures show that until March Iraq had delivered a smaller cut than other members such as top exporter Saudi Arabia.
Exports from southern Iraq - the outlet for most of the country's crude - in the first 19 days of April averaged 3.10 million barrels per day (bpd), according to shipping data tracked by Reuters and by an industry source.
That would be down from last month, when shipments averaged 3.24 million bpd through March 30, according to figures given by Iraq's state oil marketer, SOMO.
While Iraq has cut production, the drop in April shipments is also related to reduced export capacity after a tanker collided with a jetty due to strong winds, the industry source said. Repairs were completed on Sunday.
"It's just come back online this weekend, so exports could rise again," the source said. Iraq said the incident did not affect shipments.
Oil traders have been sceptical about compliance with the OPEC supply deal by Iraq, which in negotiations last year had argued it should be exempt due to a need for cash to fight Islamic State militants.
The supply cut led by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries started on Jan. 1. Iraq says it is committed to and complying with the deal.
It is not possible to draw firm conclusions about production from export data, not least because the deal among OPEC and other independent producers applies to output, not exports.
Iraq's exports are often volatile day-to-day, affected by weather and technical snags among other factors.
The bulk of Iraq's oil is exported via the southern terminals. Smaller amounts are shipped from northern Iraq via Ceyhan in Turkey, mostly by Iraq's Kurdish region.
Northern exports have averaged about 420,000 bpd so far in April, shipping data shows, versus Kurdish exports of about 515,000 bpd in March according to SOMO figures. (Editing by Dale Hudson) |
Fitness: Take it outdoors, and make it fun | People celebrate World Health Day by exercising outdoors in Kiev, Ukraine, on April 7, 2017. Set a goal of spending at least 25 per cent of your weekly exercise minutes enjoying fresh air and natural light, Jill Barker recommends.
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The Olympianist, Anthony Hewitt. | THE international star, Ian Bostridge, joins the finest period instrumentalists and singers of Armonico Consort to bring Bach's masterpiece, the St Matthew Passion, to life in a four venue tour which takes in Malvern. Bach's offering has been described as a work of genius, combining the most perfectly formed recitative with his most beautiful arias and will ensure the St Matthew Passion reflects on the emotional drama from the story of the Passion of Christ.
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Shubhankar Sharma wins Joburg Open | Shubhankar Sharma held his nerve to sign for a closing 69 and win a first European Tour title at the weather-delayed Joburg Open.
Heavy storms on Sunday forced the event at Randpark Golf Club into a fifth day, with Sharma holding a four-shot lead with his ball on the eighth green when the hooter sounded.
The Indian returned early on Monday morning to make his par and he birdied the next before finishing with nine pars to finish at 23 under, three shots clear of South African Erik van Rooyen.
Shubhankar Sharma celebrates with the winner's trophy after triumphing in the Joburg Open
A place at next year's Open Championship was up for grabs for the top three players in the field not already exempt and South Africa's Shaun Norris grabbed his spot at Carnoustie due to his higher world ranking after finishing alongside Finn Tapio Pulkkanen at 17 under.
Sharma has five wins on the Professional Golf Tour of India but this is the 21-year-old's first victory on a major circuit after eight top-10s on the Asian Tour.
'It feels absolutely wonderful to have won this week,' he said at the trophy presentation. 'I actually wasn't going to come here about a week ago and I decided to come so I'm really happy that I came. This is my first time in South Africa and I don't think I'm ever going forget my first time in South Africa.
Marcus Armitage of England was the best of the Brits finishing fifth on 15 under
'I hit the ball good and I putted really well but the key up-and-downs I made over the first three days, I think I only missed two up-and-downs over the whole week. Even today, the up-and-downs I made on the 10th, the 13th and the 15th were very crucial.
'Once in a while you just have to make a few par saves to get a round going and I did just that the whole week.'
Van Rooyen was left with a tap-in on the ninth when he resumed his round and while he also birdied the 12th, he could not make any further progress as he signed for a 66.
England's Marcus Armitage was the leading British performer at 15 under, two shots clear of compatriot James Morrison and three ahead of another Englishman in Charlie Ford. |
Run for Veterans Awareness | Eight runners in bright yellow tank tops came through downtown Southern Pines Monday afternoon as part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness about veteran issues. While most college students are spending their summers lounging at the beach and taking a break, cadets from the University of Delaware, current Army officers, and members of Reviresco, are running 1,400 miles from New York City to Miami to help raise veteran awareness.
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Iowans say budget would be devastating for farmers, students | Iowans are asking GOP lawmakers to reconsider proposed budget cuts they say would be devastating for the state's farmers, students and most vulnerable citizens. Members of the public and lobbying groups spoke Monday at a Capitol hearing, criticizing proposed reductions they say will hurt vital services.
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BRIEF-Archer Daniels Midland Reaches Agreement To Sell Bolivian Oilseeds Operations | Dec 11 (Reuters) - Archer Daniels Midland Co:
* ADM REACHES AGREEMENT TO SELL BOLIVIAN OILSEEDS OPERATIONS
* SAYS UNTIL CLOSE OF DEAL, ADM WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE ITS OILSEEDS BUSINESS IN BOLIVIA
* SAYS REACHED AN AGREEMENT TO SELL ITS OILSEEDS OPERATIONS IN BOLIVIA TO INVERSIONES PIURANAS S.A.
* SAYS SALE ENCOMPASSES CO‘S PROCESSING FACILITY IN SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA, 9 GRAIN SILOS & BOLIVIAN DISTRIBUTION BUSINESS Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: |