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Published time: 30 Dec, 2017 10:50 Economic losses from natural and man-made disasters have soared by 63 percent in 2017 to an estimated $ 306 billion, according to a report from reinsurance firm Swiss Re. Read more The company estimates, insured losses from natural and man-made disasters around the world was approximately $ 136 billion, […]
Bristol City’s Icelandic international Magnusson became a friend, Playstation rival, interpreter and team-mate of Pogba when he joined Juventus in 2012. Magnusson, who was in Juve’s youth academy at the time, never had a chance to play in the senior side alongside Pogba but they had plenty of “virtual” action – and he almost always […]
Russell Boyce/Reuters Tourbillon Capital is a $ 3.4 billion New York hedge fund led by Jason Karp. Karp has been warning of “frothy speculation,” in the markets and has been preaching patience. The firm’s flagship fund is down more than 10% for the year to November 17. Tourbillon Capital, a $ 3.4 billion hedge fund firm led […]
Amazon’s cloud business has become the company’s golden egg. For much of the last two years, Amazon Web Services — the company’s cloud computing unit — has accounted for a sizeable chunk of Amazon’s overall profits. But, as we can see in this chart from Statista, in three of Amazon’s last five quarters it’s done even more — […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Aetna missed on the top line, but beat on the bottom line. The company says it trimmed losses in its Obamacare business. Aetna raised its full-year earnings forecast. (Reuters) – Aetna Inc cut losses in its Obamacare business in the third quarter, helping the U.S. health insurer post a higher-than-expected profit […]
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The US Postal Service has seen record losses as traditional mail is replaced by electronic means. Without enough money to pay for years of employee benefits, the agency is calling for legislation to enable them to raise their prices. On Thursday, the USPS reported losses of $ 2.1 billion in the third fiscal quarter of […]
Aug 2 (Reuters) – Electric-car maker Tesla Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and backed its delivery guidance for the second half of the year. Shares of the company, which said it was averaging over 1,800 net reservations per day for its mass-market Model 3 since the handover of the launch vehicles last week, rose as […]
Comedy Central “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah focused on a different target during a segment of his show Tuesday night, ripping into the Democratic Party’s series of nationwide election losses since November. “As the health care effort lurches through the Senate, it shows the importance of momentum in politics,” Noah said. “And you know […]
(Reuters) — A major, global cyber attack could trigger an average of $ 53 billion of economic losses, a figure on par with a catastrophic natural disaster such as U.S. Superstorm Sandy in 2012, Lloyd’s of London said in a report on Monday. The report, co-written with risk-modeling firm Cyence, examined potential economic losses from […]
