Posts by The Trend Letter
- Israeli warplanes hit dozens of Iranian targets in Syria. Read story
- Trump welcomes 3 Americans freed from North Korea, thanks Kim Jung-un. Read story
- Trump follows lead of South Korea’s Moon: What matters is the peace, not the prize. Read story
- New claims for unemployment benefits remain at 49-year low. Read story
- Startups like Uber decimated taxi companies, rental cars are next. Read story
- EU must give up ‘nightmares’ of United States of Europe: Hungarian PM. Read story
- Argentina could be headed for another currency crisis. Read story
- Bank of England holds rates as economy hits a ‘temporary soft patch.’ Read story
- Rolls-Royce reveals its ultra-opulent Cullinan SUV. Read story
- It’s taken six years and $27 billion for RBS to pay for its crisis-era sins. Read story
- Murder of 16-year old marks Baltimore’s 100th homicide of 2018. Read story
- Scientist David Goodall chooses to end his life at 104 due to deteriorating quality of life. Read story
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- Europe scrambles to save Iran deal after Trump reneges. Read story
- Iran MPs set US flag on fire in parliament, shouting ‘death to America’. Read story
- Boeing to lose out on $20 billion in Iran deals, as Airbus, GE impacted. Read story
- Trump says North Korea released three US detainees. Read story
- Bitcoin king Mike Novogratz teams up with Bloomberg to open new crypto index. Read story
- Why Bitcoin could rally more than 70% in the coming weeks, Fundstrat’s Lee says. Read story
- How will Europe’s new data rules impact blockchain start ups? Read story
- Red light: Ford facing hold-ups at China ports amid trade frictions. Read story
- Stormy Daniel’s lawyer says Trump’s attorney received $500,000 from Russian billionaire. Read story
- Meet the new team leading Facebook after the company’s biggest shakeup in history. Read story
- A decade later, Walmart’s secret e-commerce dreams in India are coming true. Read story
- Facebook’s new elections interference firewall got its biggest test yet – and failed. Read story
- Here’s a simple skin test you can do to tell if you drink enough water. Read story
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- US unemployment drops to 3.9%, a 17-year low. Read story
- Argentina hikes interest rates to 40% as Peso tumbles. Read story
- CIA director Gina Haspel’s Thailand torture ties. Read story
- What could Iran do if Trump pulls out of nuclear deal. Read story
- ISIS issues chilling threat to football fans ahead of Russia World Cup. Read story
- Alibaba’s sales surge continues. Read story
- Hawaii emergency declared over volcano eruption. Read story
- Giuliani may have exposed Trump to new legal and political perils. Read story
- Here’s what Warren Buffet empire looks like, in one giant chart. Read story
- Ferrari supercars are so hot they are sold out into 2019. Read story
- Mortgage rates tick down, giving buyers a break. Read story
- Elon Musk calls out Tesla skeptics 2 days after his confrontational earnings call. Read story
- Nobel Literature postponed amid turmoil over sex abuse scandal. Read story
- China’s huge celebrations of Karl Marx are not really about Marxism. Read story
- A third of European cities don’t care about climate change. Read story
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- Trump denies campaign funds paid off porn star. Read story
- Tesla doesn’t burn fuel, it burns cash. Read story
- Ethereum price will reach $15,000 this year: Reddit co-founder. Read story
- Is Ethereum a security? The answer could upend the crypto world. Read story
- Nouriel Roubini says bitcoin is ‘bull s**t’ and only attracts suckers. Read story
- The FBI is in crisis. It’s worse than you think. Read story
- Countries where workers pay the highest taxes. Read story
- High housing prices causing surge in California exodus. Read story
- 5 things all great company names have in common. Read story
- Trump praises Xi as US trade team arrives for trade talks. Read story
- Robots and drones take on dangerous offshore oil work. Read story
- The unexpected beauty of China’s bicycle graveyards – in pictures. Read story
- How criminals steal $37 billion a year from America’s elderly. Read story
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- Ford announces drastic restructuring with $25.5 billion in cuts. Read story
- Impeachment looms large in White house midterm plans. Read story
- Trump sending team who don’t even agree with each other, to negotiate with China. Read story
- The surprise in Apple earnings: Big growth in China. Read story
- Snap crashes to record low after earnings disaster. Read story
- When will Tesla run out of cash? Read story
- Facebook to rank news organizations based on ‘trustworthiness’. Read story
- Clean energy sector switches to Republican with campaign donations. Read story
- Mueller raised possibility of Trump subpoena: former Trump lawyer. Read story
- Venezuela offers India 30% discount on oil, but only if it pays in cryptocurrecy. Read story
- China reiterates call to continue Iran nuclear deal. Read story
- Meet the tech founders building the anti-smartphone. Read story
- Foreign students continue to turn away form US universities. Read story
- Smelly, seat-kicking, or straight up rude, these are the worst people to travel with. Read story
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- Israel’s PM Netanyahu: ‘Iran lied’. Read story
- The US dollar hits its best level since January. Read story
- Trump delays tariffs on Canada, EU, & Mexico, exempts others. Read story
- How Tesla “shot itself in the foot” by trying to hyper-automate its factory. Read story
- Mueller questions for Trump leaked to NY Times. Read story
- Amid rising interest rates, nearly half of all Canadian mortgages are up for renewal in 2018. Read story
- Why Chinese companies including Alibaba and Tencent have an edge over US rivals.Read story
- We’re about to find out if the iPhone X really is the future of Apple. Read story
- CBO sees US budget deficit rising to $1 trillion by 2020. Read story
- In Venezuela, 5 years of severance pay now buys a coffee. Read story
- Zuckerberg faces angry Facebook developers. Read story
- Brazil high-rise collapses after catching fire. Read story
- Vancouver gasoline prices highest in North America. Read story
- New Cigna study reveals loneliness in US at epidemic levels. Read story
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- Trump says stock market could be up 60% – here’s why it might still happen. Read story
- Democrats lose ground with millennials – Reuters/Ispos poll. Read story
- China prepares hard-line stance on Trump’s trade demands. Read story
- Netanyahu to address Israel with ‘dramatic news about Iran’ tonight. Read story
- Apple may have lost half its market share in China. Read story
- Migrant caravan stuck at US-Mexican border. Read story
- Missile strikes ‘kill pro-Assad fighters.’ Read story
- Leak, candy, and big pancake: The slang Chinese crypto traders use to hide from authorities. Read story
- Gourmet burgers, global sales drive McDonald’s results beat. Read story
- ‘We can build a real business’: YouTube’s betting you’ll be watching it on the big screen in your living room. Read story
- Harvard scientists says these 5 things can prolong your life by a decade. Read story
- T-Mobile and Sprint are coming together to form a $146 billion company to take on Veriizon and AT&T. Read story
- Australia’s $400 million plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is too little, too late. Read story
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- Korean leaders aim for end of war, ‘complete denuclearization’ after historic summit. Read story
- US GDP blows past estimates despite slowdown in consumer spending. Read story
- JP Morgan AM says 10-year bond bear market has begun. Read story
- Time to worry? Trading volume is rising when stocks are falling. Read story
- Trump: Russia probe ‘must end now.’ Read story
- 800,000 people are about to leave New York and California becasue of taxes, says economists. Read story
- “They think it’s over”: Zuckerberg’s former mentor says Facebook will get away with everything. Read story
- Major US cities headed for coldest winter in recorded history. Read story
- The founder of Litecoin says selling his entire stake ‘feels like it’s not the right decision’. Read story
- Starbucks didn’t lose money in its race scandal – and may even profit from it. Read story
- Callaway Golf’s stock soars toward 11-year high as earnings beat prompts price target increases. Read story
- ‘America’s dad’, Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault. Read story
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- Macron thinks Trump will scrap Iran deal, calls US policy turns ‘insane.’ Read story
- Kim Jong-un to cross border for Korea talks. Read story
- Understanding Kim: Inside the US effort to profile the secretive North Korean leader. Read story
- US jobless claims fall to lowest level since 1969. Read story
- US trade deficit drops for first time in seven months. Read story
- Iran’s navy commander threatens to sink US ships. Read story
- Deutsche Bank fired 300 US-based investment bankers on Wednesday. Read story
- Ronny Jackson withdraws as VA nominee after allegations of professional conduct. Read story
- Trudeau under fire for funding anti-pipeline opponents. Read story
- Facebook earnings beat despite backlash, shares surge. Read story
- Rudy Giuliani reopens talks for a Trump interview with Robert Mueller, Read story
- Trump’s allies are drowning in legal fees from probes. Read story
- Beijing’s semiconductor dreams may be fulfilled by Alibaba. Read story
- Jeff Bezos says he liquidates a whopping $1 billion of Amazon stock every year to pay for his rocket company Blue Origin. Read story
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- Here’s the threat to the stock market from rising bond yields. Read story
- Trump’s travel ban faces US Supreme Court reckoning. Read story
- Trump, Apple CEO to meet as US-China trade row roils tech sector. Read story
- Iran’s Rouhani rejects Trump-Macron nuclear proposal. Read story
- Twitter tops earnings projections as turnaround gains steam. Read story
- The Winklevoss twins are teaming up with NASDAQ to sniff out bad actors on their cryptocurrency exchange. Read story
- China assigns every citizen with a ‘Social Credit Score’ to identify who is trustworthy and who isn’t. Reads story
- Madrid’s leader reigns over shoplifting allegations, weeks after being accused of faking master’s degree. Read story
- NBC owner Comcast gate-crashes Fox’s takeover bid of Sky with $30.7 billion bid. Read story
- Amazon workers booed Bezos in Berlin. Read story
- North Korea’s nuclear test site is largely unusable, Chinese scientists say. Read story
- These are the fastest growing jobs in every state. Read story
- Loud noises knocked out computers that run stock exchanges across Northern Europe. Read story
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