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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Standard & Poor’s financial services firm on Friday revised Russia’s ratings up to ‘BBB-/A-3’ from ‘BB+’ with a stable outlook. The New York-based ratings agency cited the country’s prudent policy and improved monetary transmission. Also, Fitch ratings…
President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Robert Kaplan says US monetary policy is set to maintain its current trajectory, characterized by gradual rate increases, this year, given current macroeconomic fundamentals and the effects of the Trump administration’s fiscal stimulus…
“I mean if I’m a child and I’m 10 years old and they say we’re gonna have an active shooter drill and they say ‘what’s that?’ and I say ‘well, people may come in and shoot you,’ I think that’s…
Many student survivors of the shooting have started a campaign for gun control that targets the NRA, including demands that Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio refuse NRA campaign money. If those blaming the NRA want to give the organization the…
Dutch anti-smoking activists vowed to fight on Thursday after prosecutors rejected their call for a criminal investigation into four major tobacco companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter, on the grounds that such a case would be unlikely to…
Qualcomm is raising its takeover bid for NXP Semiconductors by nearly 16 percent to about $43.22 billion, citing in part NXP’s strong results since the companies first announced their merger in October 2016. The move announced Tuesday comes as Qualcomm…
