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Tech major Yandex has closed a deal to sell its Russian media platforms Yandex.news and Yandex.zen to internet company VK. The deal will allow Yandex to exit the Russian news aggregation sector, which was presenting the company with problems at home and abroad. According to a press release on… Source link

Donald Trump has assailed the government’s official economic data this summer by calling it “phony” or “fake news.” He likes to say the “actual” number for jobs statistics or the inflation rate would be much more flattering to him — and would look worse for President Joe Biden. It’s a return to form for the former president who called the unemployment rate “total fiction” during his 2016 campaign before flipping and touting that same data once he was in office. This time… Source link

U.S. stock futures dipped in a downbeat start to the trading week after equity markets rallied towards their longest winning streak in 10 months on Friday. Futures tied to the S&P 500 fell 0.6% after the benchmark index marked its fourth straight week of gains in the previous trading session, officially recouping half of its bear market losses this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 150 points, or roughly 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite was off by 0.4%. Data out of China on Monday… Source link

NBA schedule release: Latest news, key dates for 2022-23 season originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Almost time to mark your calendars, NBA fans. The schedule for the 2022-2023 season will soon be released. Which matchups might be circled are still to be determined with plenty of uncertainty remaining in the offseason.  Star players like Kevin Durant and Donovan Mitchell remain on the trade market, meaning the NBA could see a rare late-offseason shift in its balance of power…. Source link

The former head of Russia’s top tech firm Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan has challenged sanctions against him over the Ukraine war in a European Union court. Khudaverdyan filed a lawsuit on June 7 demanding the European Council lift its “discriminatory and disproportionate” sanctions against him. The lawsuit was first reported by TV channel RTVI on Monday evening.  Khudaverdyan quit as Yandex executive director and deputy CEO in March after being hit with an EU asset freeze and… Source link

News Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Hebrew and TheMarker Partnerships Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source link

Photo: B.O’Kane/Alamy Stock Photo For years, it looked like the James R. Thompson Center, Helmut Jahn’s postmodernist government building in downtown Chicago, might be demolished. The 1.2 million-square-foot structure, completed in 1984 and known for its dizzying 17-story public atrium, racked up $326 million in deferred maintenance and cost… Source link

Stocks opened Thursday’s trading session higher after new data showed the U.S. economy contracted for the second-straight quarter in Q2. Shortly after the opening bell, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were up about 0.3%, while the Dow was up closer to 0.2%. Data from the Commerce Department out Thursday morning showed GDP growth fell at an annualized rate of 0.9% in Q2, marking the second-straight quarter we’ve seen a drop in economic activity. Thursday’s early move served as a continuation of sharp… Source link

News Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Hebrew and TheMarker Partnerships Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source link

U.S. stock futures pointed to gains early Tuesday as investors geared up for another round of corporate earnings. Contracts on the benchmark S&P 500 index climbed 0.8% while futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 200 points, or roughly 0.6%. Nasdaq futures rose 0.9%. Tuesday’s moves come after a rally in the previous session was reversed in the final hour of trading amid a report from Bloomberg News that indicated Apple (AAPL) plans to slow hiring and curb spending next year… Source link