Section: Business Insider (USA)
Unique memorial, ceramic poppies to mark end of devastating WWI
Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) (AFP) – President Francois Hollande opened a huge, elliptical memorial Tuesday carrying the names of nearly 600,000 fallen soldiers of all nationalities in an emotional ceremony in northern France marking the end of the devastating First World War.Several hundred kilometres away across the Channel in London, a...
Here’s John McCain’s Response To Critics Who Say He’s Too Eager To Go To War
Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) has a simple response to those who accuse him of always advocating for war: Tell me when I’ve been wrong. During a WNYC radio interview promoting his new book, “Thirteen Soldiers,” on Tuesday, McCain was pressed by a caller on his hawkish foreign policy views. “It seems to me whenever our...
Russia Could Soon Make The Crisis In Ukraine ‘Explode’
With the world distracted by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “flirtatious” moves on China’s first lady, Russia has been slowly but surely escalating the crisis in Ukraine and stretching the limits of a proverbial ceasefire — to the point where the crisis could, in the words of one pro-Kremlin political analyst,...
OSCE observers fear rising violence in eastern Ukraine
Kiev (AFP) – International observers issued a stark warning over escalating violence in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as Dutch investigators hoping to recover debris from a doomed airliner left the MH17 crash site empty-handed.The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said there was a “rising” risk that unrest...
Merkel says EU not planning new sanctions against Russia
Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that the European Union was not planning new sanctions against Russia over a fresh spike in violence in Ukraine. Merkel reiterated that EU member states were considering adding pro-Russian separatists to existing sanction lists imposed on Moscow.But she added at a news conference...
What Are Traders Chatting About Right Now? Metals…
JonesTrading’s Dave Lutz has a roundup of what traders are chatting about right now. Good Morning! US Futures are tracking higher, led by Tech and Biotech – but liquidity is expected to be light as Credit markets in US and Europe are closed today to honor Veteran’s / Armistice Day commemorations. That said, Equity markets are trading...
Obama and Putin meet amid tensions: White House
Beijing (AFP) – US President Barack Obama met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin three times on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit on Tuesday, with their conversations covering Iran, Syria and Ukraine, the White House said.Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their lowest ebb since the Cold War, with Russia under...
Anyone Who’s Expecting The Rouble To Bounce Back Will Be Gutted By This Chart
Since the mid-1990s, the Russian rouble has suffered two major shocks from which the currency has never fully recovered: the Asia crisis in the late-90s and then the global financial crisis in 2008. The fate of the rouble after the latest hit — the ongoing Ukraine crisis — should not prove any different. The chart below from Bank of America...
A Russian Military Plane Nearly Collided With A Swedish Passenger Jet Last March
The London-based European Leadership Network released a report today on the “dangerous brinkmanship” between Russia and the West, one instance of which could have resulted in a passenger plane crash. The report collates 40 incidents over the past eight months, the most alarming of which was a near-collision in March between a Russian...
This Is Facebook’s Plan To Conquer Russia (FB)
Facebook is planning to take over as Russia’s No.1 social network, and it’s enlisting an army of app developers to help it get there. In an interview with Business Insider, the man in charge of the Facebook platform in Europe, Julien Codorniou, explained that the company has been working with Russian developers to try and convince...
