On paper, it checks all the boxes. It provides a defined amount of income in retirement that’s adjusted to a standard-of-living index. You get to contribute as much or as little as you want toward your retirement nest egg. And there’s liquidity and transparency. The only problem? This near-perfectRead More →
MILAN (Reuters) – Atlantia (MI:) risks going bankrupt if Italy’s government revokes its motorway license with limited compensation, the infrastructure group’s CEO told an Italian daily on Saturday, adding an alternative compromise could be found. Atlantia has come under fire after the collapse of a concrete bridge operated by itsRead More →
Tossing a pizza box into the recycling bin seems like a guilt-free chaser to America’s favorite dining shortcut. Yet a standard cardboard pizza box, with its greasy remnants, is large enough to contaminate other recyclables in the bin. Pizza boxes are one of the biggest recycling sins among many committedRead More →
ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS (S:) wants Iqbal Khan, co-head of its wealth management business, to drop his criminal complaint over a spying scandal that emerged after he left cross-town rival Credit Suisse (S:), the SonntagsZeitung newspaper reported on Sunday. UBS’s board would welcome it if Khan abandoned his complaint againstRead More →
There has been a persistent but largely uneventful conversation about climate change over the last several years. But in 2019, we may finally be seeing the beginning of real action. Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a “Green New Deal” last spring. While it was voted down, allRead More →
ATHENS (Reuters) – Hard Rock International will bid for a casino license in a long-delayed tourist development in Athens and plans to spend more than 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion) on the project, the U.S. firm’s chairman said in a newspaper interview. The casino will be part of a plannedRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Guido Kerkhoff, CEO of steelmaker Thyssenkrupp AG, gestures during the annual shareholders meeting in Bochum FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Thyssenkrupp (DE:) will still seek partners for its steel operations after abandoning a European merger with India’s Tata Steel, Chief Executive Guido Kerkhoff said in comments published onRead More →
© Reuters. China’s Hebei province to offer financial incentives to firms seeking IPOs: paper BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s northern Hebei province will offer financial incentives to companies seeking to raise capital in equity markets, state media reported, in a move coinciding with a renewed push to kickstart financing for projectsRead More →
‘We apologise unreservedly to the first lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations. As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs. Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.’ That’s how the Telegraph acknowledged the “number of falseRead More →
