After a year that saw democracy advocates in Hong Kong jailed and ousted from public office, thousands marched through the streets of Hong Kong on New Year’s Day to warn China not to meddle further in the city’s affairs and undermine its autonomy. Over the past year, Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned […]
Read moreMajor indexes stateside finished 2017 with a losing day ahead of Asia’s first trading session of the new year, with the dollar touching its lowest levels in three months. Equities in the region had run up significantly last year, with MSCI’s broad index of shares in Asia Pacific excluding Japan finishing the year with gains […]
Read moreIranian protesters attacked police stations late into the night on Monday, news agency and social media reports said, as security forces struggled to contain the boldest challenge to the clerical leadership since unrest in 2009. Videos on social media showed an intense clash in the central town of Qahderijan between security forces and protesters who […]
Read moreFirst it was the stock market. Now, it’s bitcoin. David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan’s former director of the Office of Management and a relentless Wall Street bear, is warning investors that the cryptocurrency boom will end disastrously. “It’s basically a class of really stupid speculators who have convinced themselves that trees grow to the sky,” […]
Read more“Alexa, I’m home!” Smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home exploded in popularity in 2017, and we can expect households to continue getting “smarter” in 2018. Eleven million Amazon Echos were sold in 2016, and that number is expected to double when the final numbers come in for 2017, according to Forrester Research. The […]
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