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(CNN) — Hikers looking to summit Scotland’s highest mountain and other peaks in the area are being sent up “potentially fatal” routes by Google Maps, the region’s mountaineering organizations have warned. The John Muir Trust said Thursday that growing numbers of people using Google Maps to navigate up Ben Nevis risk being directed via a route that is “highly dangerous, even for experienced climbers.” Ben Nevis, a popular tourist destination, is the highest mountain in the British Isles,… Source link

Scottish mountaineering charities have criticised Google for suggesting routes up Ben Nevis and other mountains they say are “potentially fatal” and direct people over a cliff. The John Muir Trust, which looks after the upper reaches of the UK’s highest mountain, said attempts to contact the company over the issue had been met with silence. The charity said certain searches for routes up Ben Nevis on Google Maps directed users to the car park nearest the summit as the crow flies, and… Source link

Today we’ll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) as an investment opportunity by estimating the company’s future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model is the tool we will apply to do this. Models like these may appear beyond the comprehension of a lay person, but they’re fairly easy to follow. Companies can be valued in a lot of ways, so we would point out… Source link

Goldman Sachs thinks it’s time to back up the dump truck on still fundamentally beat up industrial giant General Electric (GE).  The call: GE may not be so fundamentally beat up for much longer.  “We view GE as the ultimate self-help, re-opening levered story in Industrials,” said Goldman Sachs analyst Joe Ritchie in a new research note on Tuesday. The analyst slapped a $16 price target on GE’s stock, representing about a 22% upside from current levels.  Shares rose 1.3% to $13.06 in early… Source link

Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) by taking the forecast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today’s value. This will be done using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. Don’t get put off by the jargon, the math behind it is actually quite straightforward. Remember though, that there are many ways to estimate a company’s value, and a DCF is just one method. Anyone interested in learning a bit more… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas—Eight high-ranking employees of the Texas attorney general’s office reached out to law-enforcement authorities in September with a bold accusation, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. They claimed that their boss, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, had illegally used his office to interfere with an FBI investigation into a campaign donor. In the weeks after the employees notified the attorney general’s office of their claims, all eight were… Source link