Posts by The Trend Letter
- Facebook shares down 4% after enormous data breach. Read story
- “We want to listen to you.” Austin Tex hit with fourth explosion as police make appeal to bomber. Read story
- Mueller looking to nail Trump on obstruction, attacks on FBI. Read story
- The UK and EU agree on terms for Brexit transition. Read story
- Putin secures record win in Russia presidential election. Read story
- Apple is looking to make its own display screens for the first time. Read story
- Democrats widen advantage over Republicans in mid-term election poll. Read story
- Republicans push for ‘phase two’ of tax cuts. Read story
- ECB shifting to interest rate path from QE. Read story
- Here’s the No.1 tech stock, according to money flows. Read story
- Congress braces for battle over massive spending bill. Read story
- All of Xi’s men: The names you need to know in China’s government reshuffle. Read story
- Hindu priests are burning 50 tonnes of wood to fight pollution. Read story
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- Damn the torpedoes – what could take the S&P 500 to 3,000. Read story
- Trump may fire AG Sessions, potentially jeopardizing Mueller’s Russia probe. Read story
- Senate votes to roll back Dodd-Frank banking law. Read story
- Indonesia makes criticising politicians a crime. Read story
- Stephen Hawking’s latest Reddit post is going viral over its ominous warning about robots. Read story
- Balancing act: Chip giant Qualcomm caught between Washington and Beijing. Read story
- Toys ‘R’ Us goes out of business, 30,000 jobs at stake. Read story
- Largest US radio company iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy. Read story
- Don’t ever do this with your credit card. Read story
- Russian spy: Allies condemn nerve gas attack. Read story
- You can now 3D-print a house in under a day. Read story
- Bitcoin recovers after dropping below $8,000. Read story
- Blackberry says CEO Chen to stay on through 2023. Read story
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- Russian spy: UK expels 23 Russian diplomats, freezes Russian assets, suspends high-level contacts. Read story
- Russia warns Britain ‘should not threaten a nuclear power.’ Read story
- Visionary physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76. Read story
- Pennsylvania House race still too close to call. Read story
- New Jersey budget would raise taxes on almost everything. Read story
- The mysterious crypto billionaires taking over Puerto Rico. Read story
- Philippines drug war: Duterte to withdraw from ICC. Read story
- Corporate corruption is everywhere. Can data catch the criminals? Read story
- In China, an eye-roll goes viral, censors put a lid on it. Read story
- Home sellers using spycams to gather intel on prospective buyers during open houses. Read story
- Buying a home this spring? Brace yourself for some tough decisions. Read story
- China just got one step closer to ending family-planning policies. Read story
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- Trump fires Tillerson after clashes, replaces him with CIA Chief Pompeo. Read story
- Trump considers making media personality Larry Kudlow top economic advisor. Read story
- Trump blocks Broadcom take over of Qualcomm on security grounds. Read story
- Russian spy: Russia demands nerve agent sample from UK. Read story
- Trump’s personal assistant McEntee fired for unspecified security issue. Read story
- ‘This bull market is only half way through,’ says top investment analyst. Read story
- With these patents, Apple could win the next major platform war. Read story
- Rockefeller estate sells for 50% over its $22 million asking price. Read story
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people waste too much time doing one thing. Read story
- Russian military says it will respond if US strikes Syria. Read story
- Blast hits Palestinian PM’s convoy in Gaza. Read story
- NASA says a design error behind the failure in of a SpaceX mission. Read story
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- Altered documents turn up heat on Japanese leader Abe, in cronyism scandal. Read story
- White House backs arming teachers but not raising age limit for gun buyers. Read story
- Mueller may delay decision on obstruction. Read story
- Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla alive ‘by the skin of their teeth.’ Read story
- Schwarzenegger to sue big oil for ‘knowingly killing people all over the world.’ Read story
- China scraps Presidential term limits, clearing the way for Xi’s indefinite rule. Read story
- Cuba’s likely next president pledges more responsive government. Read story
- Gender-neutral Mother’s Day cards, ‘Happy You Day’. Read story
- US government says Broadcom violated order in Qualcomm merger bid. Read story
- Chinese exchange CEO says governments will continue to regulate cryptocurrencies, ‘So get used to it’. Read story
- How Social Security has shortchanged widows and widowers out of millions. Read story
- Drones ready for delivery. Read story
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- US adds 313,000 jobs in February, but wage gains cool. Read story
- Canada loses 39,300 full-time jobs, generates 54,700 part-time jobs. Read story
- Trump accepts offer to meet Kim Jong-un. Read story
- Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong-un is another pledge to do what no body else can. Read story
- Oil up after sell-offs amid optimism about Trump meeting Kim. Read story
- ECB’s Draghi: ‘If you put tariffs against your allies, one wonders who the enemies are.’ Read story
- Elon Musk on Trump tariffs: like running an ‘Olympic race wearing lead shoes,’ Read story
- Bitcoin falls to lowest level in three-and-a-half weeks. Read story
- India’s top court upholds passive euthanasia, allows living wills in landmark judgement. Read story
- Xi Jinping says China’s authoritarian system could be a model for the world. Read story
- A new report says Egypt is secretly forcing citizens to mine cryptocurrency. Read story
- US Interior Dept. spent nearly $139,000 to fix doors in Ryan Zinke’s office. Read story
- Obama goes Hollywood; in talks to develop series for Netflix. Read story
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- Trump to offer temporary tariff exemption for Canada and Mexico. Read story
- Steel tariffs are nothing compared to the looming war over intellectual property theft with China. Read story
- Eleven nations, but not the US, to signTrans-Pacific trade deal. Read story
- US is calling for $100 billion reduction in bilateral trade gap with China. Read story
- Crypto bull John McAfee says SEC is striking out ‘in panic’ at digital currencies. Read story
- Documents show FBI paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad staff to turn over customer data. Read story
- ECB drops pledge to increase bond buying if needed, another step to reduce stimulus. Read story
- Silvio Berlusconi, not the kingpin after Italy election, backs League party. Read story
- Italy’s first black senator: my election shows far right party in not anti-immigration. Read story
- The Billionaires: Meet the members of the Three-Comma Club. Read story
- Nerve gas attempted murder of Russian spy was “brazen and reckless attack.” Read story
- Bitcoin’s famed “Tokyo Whale’ says he sold $400 million and he’s not done yet. Read story
- Samsung’s new TVs are almost invisible. Read story
- Amazon working to fix Alexa after complaints of random ‘creepy’ laughter. Read story
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- Trump’s key economic advisor Gary Cohn resigns. Read story
- What market players are saying about Cohn’s resignation. Read story
- Trade wars: US bourbon, juice and peanut butter face new EU tariffs. Read story
- Fuel for fire: US trade deficit in January hits nearly 10-year high. Read story
- Man becomes first person convicted of ‘sexism’ under new Belgian law. Read story
- Trump tariffs may be a backdoor way of getting out of the WTO. Read story
- South Korea’s Moon says North Korea sanctions to stay, too early for optimism. Read story
- Foreign investment into Canada drops 26% in 2017; lowest level in a decade. Read story
- Can South Africa stop cycles of corruption? Read story
- Here’s how much it will cost to mine a single bitcoin in your country. Read story
- GE value could slip to lowest among large US industrials. Read story
- KimJong-Un’s remarkable peace offer may exploit Trump’s temper to benefit North Korea – Here’s how. Read story
- India carries out raids against billionaire Gupta brothers. Read story
- Exodus from Puerto Rico grows as island struggles to rebound after Hurricane Maria. Read story
- Sri Lanka: Social media shut down amid communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims. Read story
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- Wall St opens higher on signs of North Korea talks. Read story
- Kim Jong-un vows to write a ‘new history of national reunification’ with South Korea. Read story
- Bank of Japan’s tough task: navigating the long road toward stimulus exit. Read story
- UK’s Johnson warns Russia over collapse of spy. Read story
- 42% of Americans are at risk of retiring broke. Read story
- Target earnings miss, outlook weak despite online sales growth. Read story
- Former Trump aide Nunberg waivers over defying Mueller’s ‘witch hunt’ inquiry. Read story
- China’s runaway Tiangong-1 space station will crash to earth within weeks. Read story
- France to set age of sexual consent at 15. Read story
- One of the most sought after jobs for rural Chinese women is to become a mistress. Read story
- Oscars drop to all-time low viewer rating. Read story
- What’s going to happen inside your car once you don’t have to drive. Read story
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- Italian election: Populist Five Star and League vie for power. Read story
- Trump says Canada, Mexico could win tariff exemption if fair NAFTA deal signed. Read story
- Left behind: Italy’s election is the latest rebuke for Europe’s flailing centre-left. Read story
- Oscars: Shape of Water and Frances McDormand rule. Read story
- NRA posts controversial ‘Times Up’ ad targeting ‘every lying member of the media’ and every ‘Hollywood phony.’ Read story
- IEA sees US oil output surge stealing OPEC share in five years. Read story
- Israel corruption case: Close Netanyahu aide turns state witness. Read story
- Amazon Bank: Amazon in talks with banks on creating chequing-account type product. Read story
- Ripple price roars past $1.05 as Korean FOMO kicks into gear. Read story
- China’s 36-page official report on its goals for 2018, in four charts. Read story
- It could be crunch time for word’s third most indebted country. Read story
- More millennials reported losing money to scam in 2017 than senior citizens. Read story
- China’s growth target ‘around 6.5%’ in 2018. Read story
- Trump spends night with ‘crazy media’ at white-tie Grid Iron Dinner. Read story
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