Archive for September, 2015
Russia: Trading Halted Across All Markets
September 8th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Moscow Exchange PJSC, Russia’s main bourse, said stocks and bonds trading will resume at 4:50 p.m. Moscow time after a nearly two-hour outage. Equities, ruble, bonds and derivatives trading was shut down due to a network equipment failure, the bourse said earlier on its website. Money-market operations have already resumed, while derivative trading […]
Qatar Sends 1,000 Troops Into Yemen
September 7th, 2015Via: BBC: Qatar has reportedly deployed troops to Yemen for the first time, according to the Doha-based al-Jazeera news. One-thousand ground troops, supported by armoured vehicles and helicopters, are reportedly headed for the province of Marib. Last week, 60 soldiers from the Saudi-led coalition were killed at a base in Marib.
Asia’s Smartphone Addiction
September 7th, 2015Really? Via: BBC: Nomophobia – or no mobile phone phobia – the onset of severe anxiety on losing access to your smartphone has been talked about for years. But in Asia, the birthplace of the selfie stick and the emoji, psychologists say smartphone addiction is fast on the rise and the addicts are getting younger. […]
China Dumps a Record $94 Billion In US Treasurys In One Month
September 7th, 2015Via: ZeroHedge: On Monday we got the official data from China and sure enough, we find out that the PBoC liquidated around $94 billion in reserves during the month of August and as Goldman argues (see below), the “real” figure might have been closer to $115 billion. Whatever the case, it’s a staggering burn rate […]
17,500 Refugees Arrived in Germany Over Weekend
September 7th, 2015Via: CNN: The massive flood of refugees in Europe is pushing Germany and Austria to a tipping point. Thousands of refugees have poured into the two countries in just the past two days, trying to escape the bombings, terrorists and dire conditions ravaging their homelands. More than 16,000 have streamed into Austria since Saturday, Burgenland […]
The Oil-Sands Glut Is About to Get a Lot Bigger
September 4th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: The last place oil producers want to be when prices plummet to profit-demolishing lows is midstream on a billion-dollar project in one of the costliest parts of the planet to extract crude. Yet that’s exactly where half a dozen oil sands operators from Suncor Energy Inc. to Brion Energy Corp. find themselves with […]
Pentagon Halts Work with Bioterror Germs at 9 Labs
September 4th, 2015Via: USA Today: The discovery of live anthrax outside a containment area at a military lab in Utah prompted military officials to order an immediate freeze on operations at nine biodefense laboratories that work with dangerous viruses, toxins and bacteria, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The moratorium, first reported by USA TODAY, came after officials took […]
“The mission I have to educate everybody is really an attempt to delay what AI will eventually do to us”
September 4th, 2015In ten or twenty years, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the majority of paid work in companies, that is, work that isn’t done by machines, being done by these “certificate” holders. —Top U.S. Colleges to Offer Free Classes Online And now: “Nanodegrees.” Yeah, that’s the ticket. Also see: Humans Need Not Apply: Via: The […]
60,000 Antelopes Died in 4 Days — And No One Knows Why
September 3rd, 2015Via: Live Science: It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling antelope, veterinarians in the area had already reported dead animals on the ground. “But since there happened to be die-offs of limited extent […]
Refugees Pour Into Budapest Train Station
September 3rd, 2015If you’re going to run for your life, it’s best to do so before everyone else tries to do the same thing. Via: Reuters: Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest’s main railway station on Thursday but authorities canceled all trains to western Europe, triggering chaos and confusion. Hundreds of people, many […]
