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Finnair Oyj to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell

Apr 01, 2016 14:00 pm UTC| Business

ADVISORY, April 01, 2016 -- What:Finnair Oyj (Nasdaq Helsinki: FIA1S) – parent company of Finnair, the flag carrier and largest airline in Finland – will visit the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square in celebration of...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) to Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell

Apr 01, 2016 14:00 pm UTC| Business

ADVISORY, April 01, 2016 -- What:Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:REGN), a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company based in Tarrytown, New York that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and...

Double Crown Resources Announces Launch of New Website and 2016 Macro Marketing Initiative

Apr 01, 2016 13:45 pm UTC| Business

HENDERSON, NV, April 01, 2016 -- Double Crown Resources, Inc. (DDCC), a fully reporting company, invites everyone to visit our new website at www.doublecrownresources.com which has just been launched. The redesigned...

Guggenheim CurrencyShares® Exchange Traded Products Declare Monthly Distributions

Apr 01, 2016 13:35 pm UTC| Business

NEW YORK, April 01, 2016 -- Guggenheim Investments, the investment management division of Guggenheim Partners, today announced the distribution declarations for CurrencyShares® Australian Dollar Trust (NYSE:FXA). NYSE...

Mondo introduces Mondorun with Nike Grind sports flooring at NIRSA

Apr 01, 2016 13:10 pm UTC| Business

KISSIMMEE, Fla., April 01, 2016 -- Mondo, the global leader in the track and field, indoor sport and contract flooring markets, will introduce its new Mondorun with Nike Grind sports flooring at the NIRSA Conference and...

New College Entrance Exam Raises the Bar

Apr 01, 2016 13:01 pm UTC| Business

CLT Exam Proves Superior to ACT and SAT in Content, Assessment, Delivery ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 01, 2016 -- Jeremy Tate, president and founder of Classic Learning Initiatives, today announced the public launch of a...

Griffin Announces Stock Repurchase Program

Apr 01, 2016 13:00 pm UTC| Business

NEW YORK, April 01, 2016 -- Griffin Industrial Realty, Inc. (NASDAQ:GRIF) (“Griffin”) announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized a program under which the Company may repurchase up to $5,000,000 of its...

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Economy

Nigerians throw naira notes around to show love: but it could land you in jail

The legal implication of physically damaging the naira, Nigerias currency, came into focus recently with the prosecution of at least two celebrities by the countrys Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Nigeria has a...

The US is one of the least trade-oriented countries in the world – despite laying the groundwork for today’s globalized system

Given the spate of news about international trade lately, Americans might be surprised to learn that the U.S. isnt very dependent on it. Indeed, looking at trade as a percentage of gross domestic product a metric...

Beyond the spin, beyond the handouts, here’s how to get a handle on what’s really happening on budget night

Three weeks from now, some of us will be presented with a mountain of budget papers, and just about all of us will get to hear about them on radio, TV or news websites on budget night. The quickest way to find out what...

Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility

Ivan Vladislavić is Johannesburgs literary linkman. He tells us, in the first pages of his new book, The Near North, that before cities were lit, first by gaslight and later electricity, people of means paid torchbearers...

Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget

With Jim Chalmerss third budget on May 14, Australians will be looking for some more cost-of-living relief beyond the tax cuts although they have been warned extra measures will be modest. As this weeks consumer price...

Politics

Taiwan is experiencing millions of cyberattacks every day

Taiwan stands out as a beacon of democracy, innovation and resilience in an increasingly autocratic region. But this is under growing threat. In recent years, China has used a variety of grey zone tactics to pressure...

How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa

Political history scholar Jonny Steinbergs 2023 book Winnie Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africas most famous political figures Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela and their role...

Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab and Islamic identity

The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the countrys governing structure thats been present since it gained independence from the...

South Africa’s youth are a generation lost under democracy – study

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa recently painted a rosy picture in which the countrys youth democracys children had enormous opportunities for advancement, all thanks to successive post-apartheid governments led...

Sadiq Khan on track for third term as London mayor – but nearly half of Londoners dissatisfied with performance

Polls have consistently shown that the incumbent mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, appears to be on track to win a third term in office at the upcoming mayoral elections on May 2. One poll we commissioned as part of our...

Science

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. Created during the Big Bang, these relic neutrinos exist throughout the entire universe, but they cant harm you. In fact, only one of them is...

The Mars Sample Return mission has a shaky future, and NASA is calling on private companies for backup

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this...

Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are...

A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars

While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, Nasas Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to...

The rising flood of space junk is a risk to us on Earth – and governments are on the hook

A piece of space junk recently crashed through the roof and floor of a mans home in Florida. Nasa later confirmed that the object had come from unwanted hardware released from the international space station. The 700g,...

Technology

K9 Finance Joins Shibarium Puppynet, Unveils Major Bone Crusher Update

K9 Finance has unveiled significant upgrades to its Bone Crusher product and secured a spot on the Shiba Inus Shibarium Puppynet allowlist. This milestone marks a pivotal advancement in their decentralized finance (DeFi)...

House Overturns SEC Crypto Ban, Biden Threatens Veto Amid Regulatory Clash

In a significant bipartisan move, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to overturn the SECs Special Accounting Bulletin (SAB 121), which had barred banks from holding cryptocurrency assets. The resolution, facing a...

EU Seizes Two Tesla Cybertrucks at Belarus Border Amid Russia Smuggle Attempt

In striking enforcement of EU sanctions, Lithuanian authorities at the Salčininku border crossing with Belarus confiscated two Tesla Cybertrucks. These vehicles, not yet released in Europe, were suspected of being smuggled...

Sam Altman Warns: AI's Economic Impact Greater Than Anticipated

During a recent panel at the Brookings Institute, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, expressed deep concerns about the rapid socioeconomic changes driven by AI technologies. Altman highlighted the potential for significant job...

Shiba Inu Insider Drops Major Shiba Eternity Update; Community Anticipates Enhancements

Shiba Eternity: Lucies Tease Unveils Play-to-Earn Features and Breeding Mechanics The Shiba Inu community is buzzing with excitement following a recent announcement from a critical team member about Shiba Eternity, as...