With the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate taking a few steps forward on tax reform this week, one strategist told CNBC he has identified the biggest winners from a GOP tax plan. According to Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group, not only will tax reform pass before 2018, but the […]
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The stand-out feature of Google Pixel Buds is that they’re supposed to be able to translate spoken languages in near real-time. In my real-world tests, however, that wasn’t the case at all. I took the Pixel Buds out on the streets of Manhattan, speaking to a Hungarian waiter in Little Italy, multiple vendors in Chinatown […]
Read moreSaad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, arrived in Paris on Saturday as part of French mediation efforts aimed at trying to ease tensions across the region. Hariri’s resignation on November 4 threw Lebanon into political crisis and put it centre-stage in the Middle East’s overarching rivalry between […]
Read moreTraditional friendship between China and North Korea represents “valuable wealth” for their people, China said after its special envoy met a high-ranking North Korean official, but there was no mention of the crisis over North Korea’s weapons. Song Tao, who heads the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s international department, is visiting Pyongyang to discuss the outcome […]
Read moreAs Amazon encroaches on nearly all aspects of retail, CNBC’s Jim Cramer found himself asking a key question: “To be Amazon’ed or not to be Amazon’ed?” “It’s almost eerie that one company could play such a huge role in both the economy and, yes, for Cramerica, the stock market,” the “Mad Money” host said. “As […]
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