Shares of gun stocks rose in premarket trading Monday after at least 50 people died in Las Vegas in what was apparently the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. Sturm Ruger rose 4 percent. American Outdoor Brands, formerly Smith & Wesson, rose nearly 5 percent. Stephen Paddock, age 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire late Sunday […]
Read moreCheck out which companies are making headlines before the bell: MGM Resorts – The company owns the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, where the suspect in last night’s Las Vegas mass shooting was located when the shots were fired. The incident could also pressure promoters of live events, such as Live Entertainment. Cal-Maine Foods – […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump is threatening to “decertify” the 2015 agreement that froze Iran’s nuclear program — and if he follows through, it could hurt Boeing. The U.S. aircraft maker has an agreement to sell 80 new planes to Iran Air and another 30 to Iranian carrier Aseman. The total value of those deals is about […]
Read moreShares of casino operators fell in the premarket Monday after the Las Vegas massacre, the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. MGM Resorts International, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel near where the shooting occurred, fell more than 5 percent in premarket trading Monday. Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts lost nearly 2 percent each. Officials […]
Read moreHewlett Packard Enterprise allowed a Russian defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, according to Russian regulatory records and interviews with people with direct knowledge of the issue. The HPE system, called ArcSight, serves as a cybersecurity nerve center for much of […]
Read moreFintech start-up Curve will now let users claim business expenses across multiple bank cards through its app. The London-based firm’s app allows its users to link all of their bank cards to one contactless MasterCard. Curve said it hopes to automate the tedious process and remove any friction associated with business expenses. It is predominantly […]
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There were riots, smashed doors, and rubber bullets in Spain after Catalonia voted for independence
Police fired rubber bullets, wrestled protesters, smashed doorways and carted off ballot boxes in several parts of Barcelona on Sunday, as long lines of people voted in an independence referendum that could radically reshape politics across a divided region. The outbreaks of police violence at a handful of polling locations served to heighten tensions in […]
Read moreRelations between Catalonia’s separatist government and Madrid have hit their lowest point in years following an outlawed referendum vote Sunday, deepening a constitutional crisis in Spain. Political analysts and economists are now questioning what could happen next following the vote in Catalonia, which saw Spanish riot police clash with pro-independence voters, leaving hundreds injured. Catalan […]
Read moreGoogle announced on Sunday that subscription news websites would no longer have to provide users three free articles per day or face less prominence in search results, relaxing its rules following complaints from media giants like News Corp that their sales were suffering. For the last decade, Google’s “first click free” policy helped ensure that […]
Read moreFacebook Inc. said it plans on Monday to turn over to the U.S. Congress copies of some 3,000 ads that the social network says were bought on Facebook likely by people in Russia in the months before and after the 2016 U.S. election. Last month, in response to calls from U.S. lawmakers, Facebook Chief Executive […]
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