Since the beginning of the year, the value of USA stocks has increased by $2.1 trillion, or 7.74%, according to Wilshire Associates. In an expected move, the US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday. Of course, the Fed didn't specifically say that its campaign to bring interest rates back to more normal levels was over. The slight downgrade in the Fed's language around rate increases included a change in its description of economic growth from "strong" to "solid", and ...

Chipmaker Nvidia , meanwhile, cited slowing demand in China as one of the reasons for slashing its forecast for fourth-quarter revenue . Wall Street is keyed in on China and how its slowing economy will play out for companies ranging from Caterpillar to Apple .

Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month plus referral fees to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android "Facebook Research" app . At TechCrunch's request , internet security company Guardian Mobile Firewall's expert Will Strafach looked into the Facebook Research VPN to see what could it be doing.

He was speaking in his first interview since his arrest in November on financial misconduct charges. Ghosn said he had discussed a "plan to integrate" Nissan with Renault and their smaller alliance partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. After Ghosn's arrest, Saikawa referred to the "dark side" of his former mentor's tenure and accused him of having accrued too much power. "People translated strong leadership to (mean) dictator, to distort reality", he told the Nikkei .

The postal service initially said that because of the risky temperatures and wind chills gripping the region it was suspending regular mail service in Kansas and Missouri. It's going to be even colder in the upper Midwest where wind chills could reach as low as -40 to -50. And more than 83 million Americans - about 25% of the United States population - will suffer subzero temperatures at some point between Wednesday and Monday.

Sanctions announced on Monday by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump , aimed at driving President Nicolas Maduro out of power after his contested re-election a year ago, have barred PDVSA's U.S. A motorcyclist drives past a painting of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on a wall in Caracas on January 29, 2019. That followed the United States' decision to hand control of Venezuela's U.S.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said he was prepared to hold negotiations with the US-backed opposition and added he would support early parliamentary elections, RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. Maduro, who accuses Guaido of staging a USA -directed coup against him, still has the support of the top military brass, and is unlikely to back down unless that changes.

Addressing reporters at a press briefing Monday, national security adviser John Bolton carried a notebook scribbled with the words "5,000 troops to Colombia". Storchak said Venezuela owes Russian Federation $3bn, with repayments twice a year of around $100m. "Otherwise, we will not be buying it", he said.

Tuesday's votes are not a rerun of the January 15 vote on whether to approve May's Brexit deal, but a chance to discover what sort of changes would be required to win the support of parliament, so the prime minister can try to renegotiate the agreement in Brussels.

The firm had blamed the issues partly on an economic slowdown in China. "When you look at foreign currencies and then particularly those markets that weakened over the past year those ( iPhone price) increases were obviously more", Cook told Reuters .

But they definitely need a wall or a barrier in the high traffic areas", Perez said. As part of the deal, a bipartisan committee of House and Senate lawmakers is being formed to review border security recommendations. "Bills don't stop, so we were feeling like we were forgotten", Perez told the show. She emphasized that elected representatives should meet with the agents on the ground to get a more accurate understanding of the need for physical barriers and to see the actual work being ...

A new government report projects that the budget deficit for 2019 will be close to $900 billion (4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)) and predicts that economic growth will slow as the effects of President Trump's tax cut on business investment begin to drop off.

Huawei officials also provided assurances to the US Congress that its business didn't run afoul of any US law pertaining to Iran. The Justice Department also charged that when Huawei became aware of the US investigation in 2017, the company's American affiliate tried to obstruct that work by trying to move witnesses with knowledge about Huawei's Iran-based business back to China, where FBI agents could not interview them.

Prosecutors say that Huawei stole trade secrets from T-Mobile, and that it offered bonuses to employees who were successful in obtaining technology from rivals. Huawei operates (at a small scale) in the U.S., uses banking services here, and acquires technology from U.S. companies. The Huawei case has set off a diplomatic spat with the three nations, which has threatened to complicate ties between the U.S.

Andrea Romero Xinhua News Agency/NewscomPresident Donald Trump's full-fledged backing of Juan Guaido , who declared himself interim president of Venezuela last week, was met with bipartisan support among American political leaders. Oil fell about 3 percent on Monday, its biggest one-day percentage drop in a month, after an increase in USA crude drilling pointed to further supply growth amid continuing concerns about a global economic slowdown.

Many in the global community condemned that vote and now consider the National Assembly , which Maduro has stripped of its power, the only legitimate institution. Guaido's supporters made their case directly to soldiers on Sunday, handing them leaflets that urged they reject the socialist leader and explaining how they could be eligible for amnesty if they help return Venezuela to democracy.

He didn't think much of it. until two days later, when a fellow trucker called him. He opted to take a single lump sum payment of $180 million which equals $114 million after taxes according to a statement from the New York Lottery . David Johnson is a couple hundred million bucks richer thanks to a quick fill up. "I went, got back in my vehicle, I turned my music up and zoomed on home", he told NBC New York .

Despite this obvious solution, Facebook decided that it would harm revenue and elected to continue fighting refund requests for the foreseeable future , the documents show. The lawsuit that led to the release of the documents was eventually settled in 2016, when Facebook agreed "to dedicate an internal queue to refund requests for in-app purchases made by United States minors".

So what was announced? Huawei doesn't feel like waiting for chip companies to get their act together on 5G so it has chose to make one of its own. "We're leading the commercial roll-out of 5G, and building a mature industry ecosystem", he said. These include home broadband devices, vehicle-mounted devices and 5G modules.

Pelosi was also dismissive of what Trump thinks of her, according to the Daily Beast, when she was asked about being with the president when the cameras aren't rolling. Carrey's latest artwork, clearly siding with the Democratic House speaker, isn't the only artwork he's created about the shutdown. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote Saturday on Twitter that the agency would send back pay to staffers no later than Thursday.

Prices remain subdued, however, with benchmark Brent crude oil futures trading around $60.79 a barrel Thursday morning and West Texas Intermediate ( WTI ) at $52.33 a barrel. Venezuelan oil exports to the USA have declined steadily over the years, falling particularly sharply over the past decade as its production plummeted amid its long economic and political crisis.

Boeing bought Manassas-based Aurora Flight Sciences previous year to speed development of a fleet of autonomous air vehicles. Boeing's prototype is powered by an electric propulsion system, has a range of 50 miles (80.47kms) and features an advanced airframe and wing systems to allow it hover efficiently and transition to forward flight .

Her gaffes when talking to the press have become legendary. The Congresswoman noted that under Dwight Eisenhower's Republican administration, some of the nation's wealthiest members faced 90 percent marginal tax rates. They're just leading their party over a cliff. Well, Mr Hutchins, we appreciate your money. "Do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires?" Those days are.

Workers with Brazilian mining company Vale were eating lunch Friday afternoon when the dam collapsed, unleashing a sea of reddish-brown mud that knocked over and buried several structures of the company and surrounding areas. Officials urged the residents in the low-lying areas of the town of Brumadinho to evacuate. Brazilian mining company Vale SA said in a statement that the flow reached the community of Vila Ferteco and an administrative office, where employees were present, which ...

The Financial Times reported that the search engine was blocked on Wednesday, per a government order. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter have always been blocked by authorities using a censorship apparatus known as the " Great Firewall ". Following complaints by users via social media, Microsoft investigated and confirmed that Bing is inaccessible on mobile devices. The block comes despite Microsoft's efforts to build a local operation on Beijing's terms.