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☆ Stock futures are little changed ahead of big bank earnings: Live updates
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Tanaya Macheel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Stock futures were little changed Thursday evening as investors awaited earnings reports from a slate of big banks. Futures tied to the S&P 500 were down by 0.04%. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures inched lower by 27 points, or 0.08%, and Nasdaq 100 futures were flat. In regular trading, the S&P 500 climbed 0.85%. The S&P 500 is up 2.5% on the week, while the Dow is up 1.9%.

Persons: Bill Merz, we'd, Baird's Ross Mayfield, Dow, Wells, UnitedHealth Organizations: Futures, Dow Jones Industrial, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Dow, Investors, U.S, Bank Wealth Management, Federal Reserve, JPMorgan, Citi, BlackRock, University of Michigan Locations: Wells Fargo

☆ Icelandic volcano erupts near capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Nora Buli | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Smoke billows and lava spurts after the eruption of a volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula, near the capital Reykjavik, in southwest Iceland, July 10, 2023, in this picture obtained from social media. Juergen Merz - Glacier Photo Artist/via REUTERSOSLO, July 10 (Reuters) - A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland, near the capital Reykjavik, following intense earthquake activity in the area, the country's Meteorological Office (IMO) said on Monday. "At the moment, it's a very small eruption," said Matthew Roberts of the service and research division at the IMO. Reykjanes Peninsula is a volcanic and seismic hot-spot southwest of the capital Reykjavik. "This is not a volcanic eruption with any ash.

Persons: Juergen Merz, Matthew Roberts, IMO's Roberts, Nora Buli, Barbara Lewis Organizations: REUTERS, country's Meteorological, Reykjavik's, Keflavik, Thomson Locations: Reykjavik, Iceland, REUTERS OSLO, Reykjanes, Oslo

[1/3] German parliamentary group co-leaders of Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla attend a plenary session of the lower house of parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany May 25, 2023. In France, the far-right has become a stronger rival at the ballot box, while in Italy and Sweden, they are now are in government. Germany's domestic spy agency has branded the AfD's youth wing "extremist", saying it propagated "a racial concept of society". Some AfD initiatives have won backing from mainstream voters on the more local level. Wolfgang Buechner, a Scholz government spokesman, said he was confident the coalition could whittle away at AfD support.

Persons: Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's, Stefan Marschall, Michael Kretschmer, Friederich Merz, Nancy Faeser, Marc Debus, Matthias Grahl, Wolfgang Buechner, Scholz, whittle, Sarah Marsh, Andreas Rinke, Madeline Chambers, Edmund Blair Organizations: Bundestag, REUTERS, Government, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social, University of Duesseldorf, Christian Democratic Union, CDU, Greens, Scholz's, Mannheim University, Thomson Locations: Germany, Berlin, BERLIN, Scholz's, Europe, France, Italy, Sweden, Nazi, Russia, Ukraine, Germany's, Saxony, Thueringen, Brandenburg, Bautzen

CNN —Dutch police arrested over 1,500 people after Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked a motorway in The Hague on Saturday. Hundreds of police were deployed to “maintain public order” during the climate protest, Dutch police said in a press release Saturday. Oscar Brak/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesActivists are arrested after blocking the A12 motorway in The Hague. Michel Porro/Getty ImagesVideos of the protest posted in social media showed protesters dressed in swimsuits and raincoats, prepared for the water cannons. Forty people were arrested for other criminal offenses including obstructing, blocking, vandalism, and insulting, according to the press release.

☆ ‘Unrest’ Review: The Times Are Not A-Changin’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Amy Nicholson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The film punctures that airless sense of fate which can suffocate period pieces and restores this moment of upheaval to immediacy. Yet, to Schäublin, this story is more personal than his strictly anthropological movie lets on. His grandmother worked at a Swiss watch factory, and said her own grandmother had, too. Outside the building, the real-life Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin (Alexei Evstratov) tangles politely with a smiling, implacable gendarme (Laurent Ferrero). In Swiss German, Russian, French and English, with subtitles.

☆ Martina Merz seeking to step down as Thyssenkrupp CEO, shares tank
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

April 24 (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) Chief Executive Martina Merz, who launched the conglomerate's largest structural overhaul, is seeking to step down, the German industrial group said on Monday, without providing a reason for the move. Shares in the submarines-to-car parts firm plunged after the announcement and were down 9.2% at 1250 GMT. This is challenging, but necessary," Thyssenkrupp Chairman Siegfried Russwurm said. "Martina Merz has taken over a very difficult task at a challenging time and since then has initiated a fundamental change process at Thyssenkrupp with great commitment and expertise," Russwurm said. Reporting by Tristan Veyet in Gdansk, Editing by Friederike HeineOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Thyssenkrupp gives investors wrong kind of breakup
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, April 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - An abrupt CEO departure adds yet more problems for Thyssenkrupp’s (TKAG.DE) long-suffering investors. Merz was drafted in after her predecessor Guido Kerkhoff himself left after just 14 months, amid an aborted steel spinoff. Progress on a listing of Thyssenkrupp’s hydrogen business or a steel spinoff has been slow, despite a plan to hive off weaker units. Thyssenkrupp says it will continue its transformation, and appointed a former Siemens (SIEGn.DE) executive, Miguel Ángel López Borrego, to replace Merz. Yet investors still smarting from a minus 37% total return under its last bold CEO now seem to be expecting more of the same.

FRANKFURT, April 5 (Reuters) - Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) may pick June to list its hydrogen business Nucera, provided equity markets are robust, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be a multi-billion euro initial public offering. Plans to list Nucera, a 66%-34% joint venture between Thyssenkrupp and Italy's De Nora (DNR.MI), were put on the backburner last year due to unfavourable market conditions following the war in Ukraine and subsequent energy crisis. Nucera makes the electrolysers that are needed to produce green hydrogen - a sector that is currently benefiting from the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act and European Union initiatives to support the green energy transition. Thyssenkrupp Chief Executive Martina Merz, under pressure to deliver on her pledge to turn the sprawling conglomerate into a leaner and more focused holding, said last month that the group would make a new effort to list Nucera, without elaborating. When plans for a listing of the business were first communicated in 2021, analysts valued Nucera at between 3 billion and 6 billion euros.

☆ Jump or be pushed: German conservatives turn on ex-Nazi hunter over race comments
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BERLIN, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Once he was Germany's top Nazi hunter. Now the conservative opposition want to kick former domestic security chief Hans-Georg Maassen out of their party for allegedly repeating anti-Semitic and racist tropes. But the long-time member and one-time parliamentary candidate of former Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) lost that job after being accused of ignoring video evidence of far-right gangs chasing immigrants in riots. Maassen, who has always strongly denied charges of racism, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Under German party democracy laws introduced to prevent the re-emergence of dictatorial parties like Hitler's Nazis, expulsion can only follow a series of quasi-judicial hearings to establish whether a member is in conflict with the party's values.

☆ Tesla shares rise on Citi upgrade, Elon Musk talk of a new factory in Asia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla shares jumped almost 8% on Wednesday after hitting a 52-week low a day earlier. The rally followed an upgrade by analysts at Citi and an indication from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that South Korea is a top candidate for a new factory the company hopes to build in Asia. Some dips in Tesla shares followed massive stock sales by Musk as he liquidates in part to finance the Twitter deal. Earlier this month, Musk sold another $3.95 billion in Tesla shares, telling Twitter employees he was doing so to save the social media company. The firm still recommends buying Tesla shares and has a $330 price target.

Nov 16 (Reuters) - A panel of advisers to the U.S. health regulator on Wednesday recommended the approval of Ardelyx Inc's (ARDX.O) drug for chronic kidney disease patients on dialysis, more than a year after it was initially rejected. The Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel voted 9-4 in favor of the drug, tenapanor, to be administered as a single therapy for treating high phosphate levels in the blood of patients on dialysis. The advisers also voted 10-2 in favor of the drug's use alongside existing treatment. It is probably better than nothing," said a panel member C. Noel Bairey Merz from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The FDA had called the advisers' meeting due to Ardelyx's appeal against the drug's initial rejection.

☆ Centristul Armin Laschet, ales şef al Uniunii Creştin-Democrate (CDU) din Germania
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-16 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Armin Laschet, premierul landului Renania de Nord-Westfalia, poziţionat ca moştenitor al cursului centrist al cancelarului Angela Merkel, a fost ales sâmbătă la conducerea Uniunii Creştin-Democrate (CDU) din Germania, ceea ce îl plasează în pole position pentru a deveni următorul cancelar german, relatează Reuters şi DPA. Laschet a fost ales într-un tur de scrutin împotriva conservatorului Friedrich Merz cu 521 de voturi împotriva 466, pentru a rezolva un concurs în trei direcții care a apărut și în afara Norbert Röttgen. Dintre cei trei candidați, Laschet, care din 2017 este premierul celui mai populat stat german din Renania de Nord-Westfalia, este cel care susține cel mai puternic continuarea cursului Angelei Merkel. În discursul său de victorie, Laschet a promis că va face totul pentru ca partidul să se descurce bine în viitoarele alegeri regionale și să păstreze funcția de cancelar.

Persons: Armin Laschet, Angela Merkel, Laschet, Friedrich Merz, Norbert Röttgen, Angelei Merkel Organizations: CDU, Reuters, Angelei Locations: landului Renania de Nord - Westfalia, poziţionat, Democrate, Germania, german, Renania de Nord - Westfalia

☆ Armin Laschet a câștigat șefia CDU; În septembrie ar putea fi noul Cancelar al Germaniei
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-16 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: 1 min

După alegerile generale care vor avea loc în toamnă, având în vedere poziția dominantă a CDU pe scena politică de la Berlin, Laschet va fi, cel mai probabil, viitorul Cancelar al Germaniei. Laschet este premierul celui mai populat land german, Renania de Nord-Westphalia. El i-a înfrânt pe cei doi contracandidați ai săi, Friedrich Merz și Norbert Roettgen în cadrul unei conferințe virtuale a partidului, scrie Digi24. El se află acum într-o poziție bună și pentru a o urma pe Angela Merkel și în fotoliul de cancelar. Merkel își încheie ultimul mandat la conducerea Germaniei, după 16 ani, în septembrie.

Persons: Laschet, Germaniei, Friedrich Merz, Norbert Roettgen, Angela Merkel, Merkel Organizations: CDU Locations: Berlin, Laschet, german, Renania de Nord, Germaniei

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