Section: Business Insider (USA)
Arsenal revive Champions League hopes, Chelsea held
Paris (AFP) – Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil struck late on as Arsenal gave their Champions League hopes a shot in the arm with a stirring 2-0 win over Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Chelsea had to settle for a 0-0 draw away to Dynamo Kiev but reigning European champions Barcelona won in Belarus and Bayer...
IBM IS GETTING SMOKED: Here’s what a one-point move in IBM does to the Dow (DIA, IBM)
IBM is a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the 30-stock index that aims to be representative of the US economy. At $$141.16 right now, IBM is down $8.06, or 5.4%, since Monday’s market close. That is taking 53.84 points off the Dow. How’d we compute that? The Dow is peculiar in that it is a price-weighted index, meaning...
Poles eager to oust pro-market party in vote despite growth
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The ruins of an abandoned factory were chosen for effect. For this press conference, other spots in the Polish town of Nowa Sol would not do: not the modern industrial park, or the revitalized port, or the renovated old town.Beata Szydlo, a conservative campaigning to become Poland’s next prime minster, stood before...
Russia says crisis-hit economy slumped 4.3% in third quarter
Moscow (AFP) – Russia’s economy shrank 4.3 percent in the third quarter this year, the government said Monday, as a recession caused by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Ukraine continued to take its toll.Deputy economy minister Alexei Vedev told Russian news agencies that preliminary estimates put the year-on-year drop in...
Ousted president Yanukovych sues Ukraine in European court
MOSCOW (AP) — A law firm representing former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych says he is suing Ukraine for violating his human rights.Yanukovych fled to Russia in February 2014 following months of anti-government protests. He later insisted he was threatened and forced to leave the country.London-based Joseph Hage Aaronson said in a...
Chelsea’s Mourinho wary of ‘psychological issues’ in Kiev
Kiev (AFP) – Jose Mourinho’s erratic Chelsea team tackle Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine on Tuesday knowing defeat would seriously complicate their chances of progressing from Champions League Group G.Chelsea eased some of the pressure on Mourinho by beating Aston Villa 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday, but go into Tuesday’s game on...
Ireland draw Bosnia in Euro 2016 play-offs
Paris (AFP) – The Republic of Ireland will need to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina to reach the Euro 2016 finals in France next year following Sunday’s draw for the play-offs.Martin O’Neill’s side took third place in Group D behind world champions Germany and Poland, and that was enough to earn them a spot in one of the four...
Death toll in Ukraine excursion boat capsizing rises to 14
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — The number of people who died when a Ukrainian excursion boat capsized in the Black Sea has risen to 14.Emergency services say the accident was caused by the vessel being overloaded. The boat carried 37 people when it capsized, more than twice the maximum number of 15 people allowed.The boat’s captain has been...
Ibrahimovic’s Sweden faces Denmark in Euros playoff derby
NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s Sweden will face Denmark in a Nordic derby in the Euro 2016 playoffs.Norway, another Nordic nation chasing one of the remaining four spots at the expanded 24-team tournament, was drawn Sunday to play Hungary in the two-legged playoffs next month.Ireland, which qualified for Euro 2012 through the...
The Dutch Safety Board released this chilling animation of MH17 being hit with a missile
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, was hit by a Buk surface-to-air missile over the eastern part of Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board has concluded in a final report. “No scenario other than a Buk surface-to-air missile can explain this combination of facts,” the report said....
