NEW YORK (Reuters) – Crude prices and global equity markets fell on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump upped the ante in a trade dispute with China that added to investor jitters about the potential impact the heated rhetoric may have on the world economy. MSCI’s gauge of worldwide stock indexes fell 0.65 percent, and […]

When Donald Trump announced punitive tariffs on some $50 billion of Chinese imports two weeks ago, the business world held its breath in expectation of the Chinese response. When China hit back this week with tit-for-tat tariffs on $50 billion of American goods, no one in the business world was surprised. The business press went into full panic mode, […]

IBM has partnered with non-profit Sovrin Foundation to build a global blockchain network. IBM will serve as a “founding steward,” supplying hardware, security, and network capacity towards a digital identity network for individuals and businesses, Sovrin foundation chair Phil Windley told Reuters in an interview. Other international IT firms are already involved in the project, with Deutsche […]

Company plans to spend $100,000 to $200,000 per investment Interests include ‘stablecoins’ and decentralized exchanges The best-known U.S. cryptocurrency exchange is forming Coinbase Ventures, a team that will focus on providing funding to crypto and fintech startups as the San Francisco-based company looks to nurture the development of new products and services “We’re not wedded […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean court jailed former President Park Geun-hye for 24 years on Friday over a scandal that exposed webs of corruption between political leaders and the country’s conglomerates. Park became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office last year when the Constitutional Court ordered her out over […]

Design Army has made the chicken. Now it’s going back to the egg. The Washington, D.C., agency, perhaps best known for its gorgeously crafted ads for Georgetown Optician, is planning to open a new space in a warehouse district over on the Maryland border. But it’s not another office, or even a traditional workspace. It’s intended to […]

Scientific research is increasingly revealing that whales form highly complex societies that are comparable, in many ways, to our own. Now, a new study of beluga whales conducted by an international team of researchers has demonstrated that the animals value culture, ancestral roots and family ties just as much as humans do. The scientists found that related […]

esearchers assessed dietary and exercise patterns to determine why metabolic syndrome occurs in some obese individuals and not in others. Obesity is linked to metabolic syndrome, which is a collection of risk factors that increase the likelihood of disorders such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Some of these risk factors include high blood pressure and an […]

And let me tell you how big of a deal that is. On a good day, my combination skin is acne prone if I switch up my routine in the slightest. Forget to take off my makeup after one night of going out? Chin zit. Try the new moisturizer everybody’s raving about? Double chin zit. […]

SAO PAULO – A former shoeshine boy and steelworker who rose to become one of Brazil’s most popular presidents, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s downfall has been just as dramatic. At 72, the lifelong fighter finds himself on the ropes following a Supreme Court ruling that could see him soon sent to prison. The two-term former […]