President Putin called for immediate talks on Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean Moscow endorsed rebel calls for independence.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Why The Energy Markets May Be At A Turning Point
The energy markets may be turning around after this summer’s rout.
Hong Kong braces for protests
Pro-democracy activists vowed to bring Hong Kong's financial hub to a standstill after China rejected their demands to choose the next leader in 2017.
The Italian Shoe Designer Who’s Rebranding The Image Of "Made In China"
On a side street near Milan’s Porta Venezia, it is an office loft with bright white walls, that makes for the Italian headquarters of 28-year-old shoe designer Charles Philip Pozzi (the other one being in Shanghai). Having a mother that is the former editor-in-chief of French and Italian Harper’s Bazaar [...]
The Italian Shoe Designer Who’s Rebranding The Image Of "Made In China"
On a side street near Milan’s Porta Venezia, it is an office loft with bright white walls, that makes for the Italian headquarters of 28-year-old shoe designer Charles Philip Pozzi (the other one being in Shanghai). Having a mother that is the former editor-in-chief of French and Italian Harper’s Bazaar [...]
Here’s What Else You Could Buy For The Price Of An Apple iWatch
Apple employees operate under a policy of secrecy so severe it makes even the most furtive of NSA agents seem like loose-lipped blabbermouths. So although everyone with even the vaguest interest in tech is talking about the semi-mythical iWatch just now, we don’t know for sure what it will look [...]
Is BP Too Big To Punish?
BP was fined $4 billion for the 2010 Macondo Well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, pleading guilty to eleven felony counts of manslaughter, one count of felony obstruction and various misdemeanor charges under the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. This amount is trivial to BP. But will they get debarred, a much bigger punishment?
Car driven into Birmingham home
The Birmingham Police Department is responding to reports of a car driven into a local home.The incident occurred at 16th Place Southwest and Grant Avenue in Birmingham.Police have not released any information
Here’s what’s keeping traders up at night
With the S&P 500 Index poised for only modest gains this year, analysts and economists have told CNBC that plenty more shocks could be on the horizon before year-end.
China real estate: A bubble bursting?
A downturn in China's once red-hot property market poses one of the greatest threats to the world's second biggest economy.