Section: Business Insider (USA)
10 things you need to know before the opening bell (spy, spx, qqq, dia, etsy, aapl)
Reuters/Pavel RebrovHere is what you need to know. The British pound is below 1.40 for the first time in seven years. The British pound is worth less than $1.40 for the first time since 2007. While many reasons have been given as to why the pound has slumped nearly 5% since early January, many believe it is due to the uncertainty related to the...
Kerry: Iran is getting less than $50 billion in cash after nuclear deal
Brian Snyder, Pool/APU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the amount of cash Iran will receive due to the implementation of the nuclear agreement is below the $50 billion level. “It’s below the $50 billion (level),” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, when he was asked about varying reports about...
Ex-Guantanamo detainee with alleged ISIS ties arrested same day as Obama’s big prison-closure announcement
REUTERS/Michelle Shephard/PoolSpanish and Moroccan police on Tuesday arrested four suspected members of a jihadi cell that sought to recruit fighters for the Islamic State group, including one described as a former Guantanamo detainee who once fought with militants in Afghanistan. Three people were arrested in Spain’s North African enclave...
Putin’s defense budget is in danger of getting slashed
Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP PhotoAs governments across Europe pour additional money into their defense budgets, wary of an increasingly aggressive Russia, it looks as though the Kremlin’s military build-up might be slowing. Recent reports suggest a possible 5 percent cut in defense procurement as Russia struggles with extraordinarily low...
Facebook is using its photo-tagging technology to create incredibly detailed maps of where you live
FacebookArtificially-intelligent machine learning technologies that allow computers to “learn” to recognize patterns and make judgments have been used to translate languages, recognize objects in photos, and filter email. Now, Facebook is using its own expertise in computer vision — the image-analysis technology that powers the social...
The US government is evaluating sanctions against Russia that could destroy SpaceX’s biggest competitor
NASA/Kim ShiflettA prime SpaceX competitor — United Launch Alliance (ULA) — might be banned from flying one of its most important rockets, which could spell ruin for the company. Right now, the US Government is determining whether importing Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines — which power ULA’s Atlas V rockets — violates sanctions against...
Russia wants to fly over the US with advanced digital cameras
Russian Air Force/Wikimedia CommonsRussia will ask permission on Monday to start flying surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras amid warnings from U.S. intelligence and military officials that such overflights help Moscow collect intelligence on the United States. Russia and the United States are signatories to the Open...
US rejected North Korean peace plan proposal before latest nuclear bomb test
KCNA/ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said on Sunday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made the comment in response to a Wall Street Journal report...
Kerry: ‘Provisional agreement’ reached with Russia on cessation of hostilities in Syria
Thomson ReutersAMMAN (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than ever before. But he indicated there were still issues to be resolved and he did not...
Everyone’s trying to score one of Russia’s new warplanes
REUTERS/Host Photo Agency/RIA NovostiThe jet fighter war between the United States, China and Russia expanded this week when Moscow unveiled a new, export version of its Sukhoi-30 warplane. “The Su-30SME aircraft (the export version of the Su-30SM fighter jet) has been shown on the international market for the first time,” a source in...
