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Major European stock markets were mixed Monday as a technical hiccup hit Paris and investors weighed the chances of a US stimulus package, dealers said. Following three hours of technical problems, Euronext said that it had annulled all trades after 5:30 pm  (1530 GMT), meaning the Paris benchmark CAC 40 index closed 0.14 percent higher, rather than 0.1 percent lower as originally calculated.  “Because of these issues, Euronext has decided to cancel all the trades that occurred after 5.30… Source link

Donald Trump in 2000 with, from left, his then-girlfriend Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. (Davidoff Studios Photography / Getty Images) At President Trump’s news conference Tuesday, which was supposed to be about COVID-19, he was asked an easy question. Not about the pandemic. Not about reopening schools. About Ghislaine Maxwell, alleged accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison by suicide one year ago, or so official reports say, before he could be tried on… Source link

As the coronavirus continues to spread at record pace in some parts of America, some have argued younger people shouldn’t fear COVID-19 because it doesn’t pose as large a threat to them if they contract it. Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman provided an emotional rebuttal to that argument on Saturday as he detailed his experience with the illness that caused him to report to summer camp late. Freeman told reporters that the experience was miserable enough that he started praying… Source link

At least seven ships have reportedly caught fire at Iran’s Bushehr seaport, marking what appears to be the latest in a series of fires and explosions around the country — some of which have hit sensitive sites. Iran’s Tasnim news agency says no casualties have been reported. The state broadcaster showed firefighters tackling clouds of smoke at a shipyard at the southern port on the Gulf. The cause is not currently known. There have been several explosions and fires around Iranian military,… Source link

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is having a rough day as the engine was hit with an outage from roughly 2:15PM to 2:45PM ET. If you were to head on over to Bing.com, during that time, you would have been greeted with the page above. Even though Microsoft’s Bing engine is much smaller than Google’s, according to Alexa, it is the 24th most visited site on the web which means that millions of users are likely to see this page instead of the daily images that the… Source link