APNewsBreak: US moves to block mining near Yellowstone
FILE- In this Dec. 9, 2015, file photo, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Natural Resources Oversight Committee hearing on the Animas River Spill in Colorado. U.S. officials are blocking new mining ...>> view originalPolice clash with North Dakota pipeline protesters, arrest one
Hundreds of protesters opposed to a North Dakota oil pipeline project they say threatens water resources and sacred tribal lands clashed with police who fired tear gas at the scene of a similar confrontation last month, officials said.An estimated 400 protesters mounted the Backwater Bridge and attempted to force their way past police in what the Morton County Sheriff's Department initially described as an "ongoing riot," the latest in a series of demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipe..>> view originalWalmart Starting Post-Black Friday Online Sales Earlier to Fight Amazon
Walmart wmt is trotting out post-Black Friday online deals a day earlier this year to avoid any lull during the crucial upcoming shopping weekend. With its eyes firmly on Amazon.com amzn , the world’s largest retailer said on Monday it will start a new batch of what it calls “Cyber Week deals” on Friday, November 25 a minute after midnight Eastern time, to keep the momentum going. Such deals started last year on the Saturday of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Walmart hasn’t ..>> view originalTrump's Vow to Revive Coal Country Is Met With Measured Hope
The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has something to prove: that he'll help bring back Appalachian mining, as he promised time and again on the campaign trail. Nobody thinks he can revive it entirely — not economists, not ex-miners, not even those recently called back to work. But for the first time in years, coal towns are seeing a commodity that had grown scarcer than the coal trains that used to rumble through arou..>> view originalIraq Will Offer Proposals to Help OPEC Reach Oil Freeze Deal
Iraq, OPEC’s second-biggest producer, will offer proposals this month to help the producer group reach an agreement on an output freeze to shore up prices.Details of the proposals were not provided in an e-mailed statement from the Iraq Oil Ministry on Monday. The nation’s “legitimate demands” shouldn’t be considered as obstacles to reaching an accord, Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said in the statement.Iraq has sought an exemption from joining any production cuts, arguing that its fight agains..>> view originalAPEC Leaders May Be Looking to China After Donald Trump's Win
Pacific Rim leaders vowed on Sunday to fight protectionism and Chinese officials said more countries are looking to join a China-led trading bloc after Donald Trump’s election victory raised fears the United States would scrap free trade deals. Trump campaigned for U.S. president on a promise to pull out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, and also threatened to impose steep tariffs against China and Mexico. Regional leaders responded on Sunday, saying they would push a..>> view originalAsia shares shaky as Trump bets keep emerging markets under pressure
TOKYO Asian shares were on the defensive on Monday, undermined by fears that the strength in the U.S. dollar and rising U.S. bond yields since Donald Trump's election to president could accelerate fund outflows from the region back to U.S. markets.Asian markets were steady to slightly lower, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI flat, Australian shares down 0.2 percent and South Korea's Kospi .KS11 falling 0.3 percent.But Japan's yen-sensitive Nikkei .N225 bucked the trend, rising 0.8 percent to hi..>> view originalSymantec Is Acquiring LifeLock for $2.3 Billion
Symantec said it was acquiring U.S. identity theft protection services company LifeLock for an enterprise value of $2.3 billion. It expects to finance the transaction with cash on balance sheet and $750 million of new debt, Symantec said in a statement. Reuters first reported earlier on Sunday that Symantec was in the lead to acquire LifeLock. The deal will expand Symantec’s consumer offerings after its $4.65-billion purchase in August of Blue Coat, which helps companies maintain security over ..>> view originalAsia shares listless but China, Japan rise on dollar's gain
Kelvin Chan, AP Business Writer 3:22 a.m. EST November 21, 2016Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as Janet Yellen, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, is seen on a television screen during her congressional testimony in New York, on Nov. 17, 2016.(Photo: JUSTIN LANE, EPA)HONG KONG - Shares in Japan and China rose Monday as the dollar’s strength lifted the outlook for their exporters but other Asian shares were listless as investors increasingly factored in a Dece..>> view originalSelf-Driving Cars Will Soon Hit the Streets of Boston
Self-driving cars will very soon hit the streets of Boston. Cambridge, Mass.-based self-driving car startup nuTonomy will begin to test its vehicles in the city by the end of the year, the company said on Monday. The startup, which spun out of MIT, started testing its cars in Singapore in August, and is now expanding those tests to the U.S. Initially, nuTonomy’s tests in Boston will involve just one car, a Renault Zoe electric car equipped with nuTonomy’s self-driving software. The trial will t..>> view original
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