SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Amazon has become America's second $1 trillion company.
Amazon's total market value passed $1 trillion on Tuesday, following Apple's ascent into 13-digit territory at the beginning of August. Amazon and Apple now make up more than 8% of the entire value of the S&P 500, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst for S&P.
A trillion dollars may be...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Snapping its three-day rising streak, gold prices edged lower by Rs 100 to Rs 31,250 per 10 gram at the bullion market on Monday, reported news agency Press Trust of India (PTI). Gold prices dropped today amid weakening global trend and easing demand from the local jewellers. Meanwhile, silver also slumped below the Rs 38,000-mark by plunging Rs...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman recorded her widely disseminated White House conversations using her personal phone, according to Axios.
A source told the news outlet that Manigault Newman often put her phone on "record mode" before conversations about work or professional meetings. She reportedly carried her phone in her purse or pocket.
The source said Manigault Newman wanted to "cover her...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
LONDON, ENGLAND - Alastair Cook has announced he will retire from international cricket after the Oval Test against India. Cook, the sixth highest run-scorer in the history of Test cricket, is only 33-years-old but, after a grim run of form which has seen him average just 18.62 in nine Tests this year, he has decided to end...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
The rupee, which lost 10 paise against the US dollar in late afternoon trade on Monday, ended at a new record low of 71.10. - (Illustration: CR Sasikumar)
The rupee collapsed to a new lifetime low of 71.21 against the US dollar, while petrol prices rose to a new high of Rs 86.56 a litre in Mumbai on...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Days after the GDP growth rate for the first quarter of 2018-19 was pegged at the highest in three years, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar has blamed former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan for a succession of declining growth rate over the last three years. Rajiv Kumar said that the GDP growth rate was declining for over half-a-dozen...
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
The goal of a nonstop flight from Sydney to London -- half the way around the planet -- took a leap forward as the world’s top planemakers convinced Qantas Airways Ltd. they can make the 20-hour route a reality.
A year after Qantas Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce publicly Boeing Co. and Airbus SE to design a plane...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Brief Scorecard: England 246 (Curran 78) and 271 (Buttler 69, Shami 4-57) beat India 283 (Pujara 132*, Moeen 5-71) and 184 (Kohli 58, Rahane 51, Moeen 4-63) by 60 runs
September 2, 2018: England v India, 4th Test, Southampton, 4th day And the game hung on the battle between Kohli and Moeen Ali - Getty Images
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Bloomberg News has denied being the source of a leak of off-the-record comments President Donald Trump made to the organization.
Trump's uncompromising stance on Canadian trade negotiations sparked an 11th hour firestorm last week.
Bloomberg News on Sunday denied being the source of an off-the-record interview remark made by President Donald Trump that complicated already tense negotiations...
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
Mr. Modi is unsure he can do business with Mr. Trump, a foreign policy analyst said. - Edgar Su/Reuters
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There have always been irritants in relations between India and the United States. But few have been as perplexing to New Delhi, or left as bitter a taste, as President Trump’s tendency to mock Prime Minister...
