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The optimism sparked a week ago by better-than-expected results from some of U.S. banking’s big beasts has faded. The first quarter earnings season now might generously be described as mixed. If news on corporate profits can’t push the S&P 500 SPX, -0.10% through the top of its five-month range between…
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Eurocontrol, the website for Europe’s air-traffic control agency, said it has been under attack from Russian hackers since April 19. “The attack is causing interruptions to the website and web availability. There has been no impact on European aviation,” the agency said in a notice on its website. Air traffic in…
U.S. stocks finished lower on Thursday, with disappointing earnings report from Tesla Inc. weighing on technology stocks, while a slump in oil prices dragged down shares in the energy sector. The debt ceiling debacle in Washington also continued to worry investors. On Wednesday, the Dow fell 80 points, or 0.2%,…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday criticized China’s aid to companies as she set out how the U.S. is approaching competition with the world’s No. 2 economy in what she said was a “tense moment” in bilateral relations.In a speech Thursday at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International…
Nokia shares fell as much as 4% on Thursday as the telecom equipment maker reported worse-than-forecast profit, guided its sales outlook lower, and said customers are beginning to delay spending. Nokia NOKIA, -8.66% NOK, -9.09% said its first-quarter profit fell 32% to €289 million ($317 million) while sales rose 10%…
After he retired from teaching in public high schools on Chicago’s South Side in 2002, Jim O’Connor, 77, discovered a new calling, as a volunteer for ecological restoration projects. “I started volunteering when I was teaching in the late 1980s,” O’Connor says. “After retirement I obtained an [herbicide] applicator’s license…
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One-day theme park tickets to Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., and its sibling, Disney California Adventure Park, start at $104 per person, so calling Disneyland cheap is about as believable as saying an elephant can fly. But at Disneyland, elephants do in fact fly (Dumbo, anyone?) — and successfully planning…