Costco (COST) stock could be nearing a key inflection point after a challenging holiday season, provided execs finally reveal a long-rumored profit-boosting member fee increase. “We believe we may reach a compelling tactical inflection point at some time in the next 2-3 months ahead of a potential membership fee increase in the spring,” John Heinbockel, analyst at Guggenheim, wrote in a new client note on Tuesday. Costco’s last membership fee increase took place on June 1, 2017. The warehouse… Source link
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Last month, amid the latest surge of migrants crossing the southern border, U.S. officials in the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector in Texas contacted officials in the Mexican government to request their assistance to defer migrant traffic away from the sector’s overwhelmed ports of entry. According to a government document obtained by Yahoo News, Mexican officials agreed to help and enlisted the state police in the Mexican state of Coahuila, which borders Texas, to activate “tactical… Source link
Read More »Apple and Google bow to pressure in Russia to remove Kremlin critic’s tactical voting app – TechCrunch
Apple and Google have removed a tactical voting app created by the organization of jailed Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, from their respective mobile app stores in Russia. Earlier this week Reuters reported that the Russian state had been amping up the pressure on foreign tech giants ahead of federal elections — appropriating the language of “election interference” to push US companies to censor the high profile political opponent to president Putin. On Twitter today, a key… Source link
Read More »Russian search engine delists Navalny’s tactical voting site after ban
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters, who were detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow, Russia September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech firm Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election… Source link
Read More »Russian search engine delists Navalny’s tactical voting site after ban
MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech firm Yandex said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election this month. Navalny and his allies want to use the website and a separate app to organise a tactical voting campaign at the Sept. 17-19 contest to land a blow against the ruling United Russia party. The campaign urges followers to sign up so they can be allocated… Source link
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