Wall Street rebounds as US & China hold talks to prevent full-blown trade war

US stocks recovered on Tuesday following the publication of a report that Washington and Beijing are seeking to de-escalate the trade spat that could rock the global economy. Read more All the three key US indices – the Nasdaq, Dow Jones and S&P – were trading in the green zone, all growing just shy of […]

A full-blown trade war between America and China looks likely

IT IS becoming increasingly likely that the phoney trade war between America and China will develop into the real thing. On June 15th the Trump administration published two lists of Chinese products it plans to hit with tariffs of 25%, worth $ 50bn in 2018. The first will come into force on July 6th. The […]

Genesis Confirms It’s Working on a Full-Blown Sports Car with Help from Former BMW M Honcho

– Genesis, the luxury brand spun off from Hyundai in 2015, so far has just two sedans in showrooms with a third on the way, although an ambitious plan to fill out the lineup with SUVs and a coupe by 2020 is underway. But did you know that Genesis was planning something even bigger—something like a halo sports […]

The pilot shortage is real and airlines must change before it becomes a full-blown crisis

AP Editor’s note: Patrick Smith is a commercial airline pilot who currently flies Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft. Smith is also a travel blogger and author of the book “Cockpit Confidential. THE PILOT SHORTAGE is here, and it’s been making headlines. Last month, Horizon Air, the Seattle-based affiliate of Alaska Airlines and one of the […]

Kodi: Open source TV app inspires full-blown copyright panic in the UK

You know a technology’s gone mainstream when the tabloids start yelling about it. This year the Sun, the Mirror, the Express, and the Daily Star have run splashes ranging from “Kodi Crackdown” through “Kodi Killers” to “Kodi TOTAL BAN!”. It’s not that they’ve stumbled on an underground hack scene; the stories have been briefed by copyright […]

PIMCO: The odds of a ‘full-blown trade war’ are lower than they were 4 months ago

Thomson Reuters Pimco, the investment-management firm, has released its latest cyclical outlook for the global economy during the next 12 months. The firm’s outlook, which is released three times per year, “analyzes business cycle dynamics across major developed and emerging market economies with an eye toward identifying potential changes in monetary and fiscal policies, market risk […]