DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Vance says ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was ‘dumb’ but his point stands
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Kit Maher | Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Not to have kids because of concerns over climate change? I think the more bizarre thing is our leadership, who encourages young women, and frankly young men, to think about it that way,” Vance said. Vance also claimed a new “pathological frustration with children” exists in American society, citing negative reactions to children on public transportation or restaurants as an example. We want to preserve the right of the states to make these decisions,” Vance said. He added: “I’m OK with the states making these decisions, even if they make decisions that JD Vance or Donald Trump might not make.”

Persons: Vance, Donald Trump, —, “, ” Vance, Tucker Carlson, Kamala Harris, ”, ‘, Carlson, Harris, Alexandria Ocasio, Pete Buttigieg, she’s, ’ Vance, Michael Brown, I’ve, Sophia Nelson, he’d, I’m, ’ ” Vance, Roe, Donald Trump’s, mistrusted, we’ve, Trump, JD Vance Organizations: CNN, Republican, The New York Times, Democratic Party, New York Rep, New York Times, Republicans Locations: Ohio, Alexandria, Cortez, San Francisco, India, California, Alabama

☆ It's Mark Zuckerberg's turn to have a hot yacht summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. While the Amazon founder made waves last year with the debut of his megayacht Koru, Zuckerberg is the name on the yacht world's lips this season. Rumors began surfacing in March that the Meta CEO had purchased Launchpad — a Dutch-built, 118-meter motor yacht originally built for a Russian oligarch. AdvertisementNow that summer is here, Zuckerberg has debuted Launchpad — and her support superyacht Wingman — on the biggest stage in the yachting world: the Mediterranean. It's likely the yacht will continue to crisscross the Mediterranean this summer.

Persons: —, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Koru, Zuckerberg, Launchpad, Zuckerberg's, Priscilla Chan, Feadship, Larry Ellison's Musashi, Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sanchez, Kim Kardashian, rebrands, he's, regrettably Organizations: Service, Meta, Business, SuperYacht Times Locations: Russian, Panama, Mallorca, Local, Corsica, It's, Aegean

☆ Arizona G.O.P. Picks New Leader After Scandal Creates a Vacancy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Michael Wines | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Arizona Republicans chose a new party chair on Saturday, a move that tightened the grip on the state party hierarchy by far-right supporters of former President Donald J. Trump and that came days after a scandal that forced the last chairman to resign. Ms. Swoboda, whom Mr. Trump endorsed on Friday, won an overwhelming majority of votes in an election of state party officials held at the party’s required annual meeting in Phoenix. The vote was delayed by a lengthy debate over a motion to ban the use of electronic tabulators — mistrusted by many election deniers in the party — to count the ballots. Kari Lake, a far-right candidate for U.S. Senate and close ally of Mr. Trump who had a central role in Mr. DeWit’s fall, took to the stage on Saturday to nominate Ms. Swoboda. But she was met with a din of boos and heckling from the crowd, an apparent rebuff to her involvement in the scandal.

Persons: Donald J, Gina Swoboda, Trump, Jeff DeWit, Swoboda, Kari Lake, DeWit’s Organizations: Arizona Republicans, Trump, Mr, U.S . Senate Locations: Arizona, Phoenix

☆ More questions than answers as Israeli PM Netanyahu seeks security control over Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( James Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/2] Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference with defense minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023. The challenges that are likely to confront any reshaped Israeli security mechanism have already been clearly demonstrated during more than 18 months of increasingly violent clashes in the nearby occupied West Bank. The PA used to run both Gaza and the West Bank, but was forcibly ousted from Gaza by Hamas in 2007, and now only governs sections of the West Bank, which is dotted with ever-growing Jewish settlements. Dermer said that while Israeli troops had physically entered West Bank towns, they had essentially been absent from Gaza for the last 17 years. Jordan's former deputy prime minister, Marwan Muasher, told Reuters he had seen no convincing initiative on how Gaza might be governed once the conflict ended.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Israel, Netanyahu, Gantz, Ron Dermer, Antony Blinken, It's, Ariel Sharon, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Dermer, Jordan's, Marwan Muasher, Muasher, James Mackenzie, John Geddie, Crispian Balmer, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Rights, U.S, NBC, United Nations, Israel, West Bank, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian, Reuters, Carnegie Endowment, International Peace, Thomson Locations: Tel Aviv, Israel, ABIR, Gaza, Palestinian, United States, Tokyo, West, Oslo, Nablus, Jenin, West Bank, Washington, Dubai

☆ How 2020 election denialism greases the path to power in the Republican Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Johnson, who played a leading role in the effort to block the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win, benefited in his ascent to the speakership last week from the approval of pro-Trump lawmakers. His tortured explanations of his constitutionality correct decision – that he lacked power to overturn Biden’s 2020 election win in Congress – failed to convince grassroots Republicans bought into the ex-president’s false claims that he won the election. An alternative lesson that the ex-president’s rivals might draw is that forceful condemnations of Trump’s 2020 election denialism are likely to be fatal to their campaigns. There was evidence last week that Johnson’s maneuvering after the 2020 election helped secure his rise to the speakership. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, said that Emmer’s vote to certify the 2020 election “played a big role” in her vote against him.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Mike Pence, Donald Trump, Johnson, Joe Biden’s, Pence, Biden’s, –, Liz Cheney, Utah Sen, Mitt Romney, Trump’s, Trump, ”, ’, Vladimir Putin, thrall, Ronald Reagan, trekked, —, Chris Christie, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Kevin McCarthy, Biden, Tom Emmer, Marjorie Taylor Greene, “, ” Greene, Republicans “ Organizations: CNN, Republican, Trump, White House, Republicans, Wyoming, Utah, Trump Organization, GOP, New, New Jersey Gov, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, Fox News, Capitol, Louisiana Republican, House Republicans, Electoral, Georgia, Democrats, Democratic Congressional, MAGA Locations: New York, autocrats, Iowa, United States, “, New Jersey, “ State, New Hampshire, Louisiana, Texas, Minnesota

☆ Next questions for markets center on its skinny rally and the chance of a Fed derailment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Scott Schnipper | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"The underlying numbers in the report today show that the Fed can probably feel comfortable with maybe one more rate hike, and then pausing." Or, at least those concerns were true until Friday's explosive rally, when more than six New York Stock Exchange issues rose for every one that fell, and all 11 sectors in the S & P 500 gained. Friday's advance carried the S & P 500 to its highest since Aug. 18, 2022, when the benchmark closed at 4,283.74. Another favorable straw in the wind may simply be the fact that the 11.2% rally in the S & P 500, just since the mid-March lows accompanying the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, is so hated and mistrusted. Week-ahead calendar Monday 9:45 a.m.: S & P Global Services PMI (May) 10 a.m.: Durable goods and factory orders (April) 10 a.m.: ISM services PMI (May) Tuesday Earnings: J.M.

Persons: Megan Horneman, Canaccord Genuity, JC O'Hara, Roth MKM, Ross Mayfield, Baird, Savita Subramanian, Subramanian, Brown, Forman, — CNBC's Alexander Harring, Fred Imbert, Michael Bloom Organizations: Federal Reserve, Verdence Capital Advisors, Nvidia, New York Stock Exchange, Silicon Valley Bank, Bank of America, P Global Services PMI, PMI, Growers, Ciena, GameStop Locations: Broad, 2H23, Silicon

☆ Melania Trump distrusted her husband's advisors, including his own son, Donald Trump Jr, Stephanie Grisham told the Jan. 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Melania Trump mistrusted many of her husband's closest advisors, Jan. 6 committee transcripts show. These included his son, Donald Trump Jr, former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham told the committee. Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House press secretary and as a senior aide to Melania Trump, told the committee in her testimony that the former first lady was skeptical of the intentions of some of the president's children. Grisham claimed in her 2021 memoir that the first lady also didn't get along with Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump. Former Attorney General Bill Barr described staff members President Donald Trump brought on after the November election as the "clown car."

☆ Ukraine slaps sanctions on senior clerics in pro-Moscow church
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Ukraine is slapping sanctions on 10 senior clerics linked to a pro-Moscow church on the grounds they agreed to work with Russian occupation authorities or justified Moscow's invasion, the security service said on Saturday. The announcement is the latest in a series of steps against a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church linked historically to Moscow. The Orthodox Church in Russia itself backs the war. The Ukrainian branch formally severed ties with the Russian Orthodox Church last May, but is still mistrusted by many Ukrainians and accused of secret co-operation with Russia. Since the collapse of Soviet rule, competition has been fierce between the Moscow-linked church and an independent Ukrainian church proclaimed soon after independence.

☆ Ukraine security service searches monastery, warns of 'subversive activities'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KYIV, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine's SBU security service conducted a fresh search of a monastery in the west of the country on Wednesday in what it said was an operation to counter suspected "subversive activities by Russian special services." The historically Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church announced a formal severing of ties with Moscow in May, but is still mistrusted by many Ukrainians and frequently accused of secret co-operation with Russia. The SBU said last week it had searched 350 buildings belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and carried out checks on 850 people. It said it found "dubious" Russian citizens, large sums of cash and pro-Russian literature in a raid on a 1,000-year-old Kyiv monastery which Moscow denounced as "godless". Russia's Orthodox Church said last week the search was an "act of intimidation".

☆ In Argentina, controls spawn soybean and 'Netflix' currency rates
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Lucila Sigal | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The blossoming of parallel foreign exchange rates has gained pace in recent weeks, becoming the target of memes online, one calling the array a "tutti-frutti". But it also reflects a serious risk the government faces to protect dwindling dollar reserves needed to pay back debt. The government and central bank argue that the controls are needed to protect foreign reserves and stabilize the economy. "All these different exchange rates shows a political desperation for dollars," said Eduardo Maehler, 37, a self-employed worker in Buenos Aires. "We know the cost of imposing these controls over time: it always ends in a very deep crisis," he said.

Search resuls for: "mistrusted"

10 mentions found