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☆ Yanomami health crisis in Brazil can only be solved by expelling miners, official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BRASILIA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The medical emergency the Yanomami people of Brazil are suffering can only be overcome if illegal gold miners that invaded their reservation are evicted, an indigenous health official said on Tuesday. We believe the reopening of medical units can only be done when the miners are all removed," Indigenous Health Secretary Ricardo Weibe Tapeba told a news conference. About 20,000 wildcat miners on the Yanomami reservation in the state of Roraima in northern Brazil have brought malaria and severe food shortages that caused the death of starving Yanomami children, he said. Some 700 patients have been airlifted to the state capital of Boa Vista and are being treated at the CASAI indigenous health center hospital and a field hospital set up there, Weibe added. Their mineral-rich lands attracted wildcat miners for decades, especially after a military government built a road through the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s.

☆ Illegal miners in Yanomami reservation seek Brazil government help to leave
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BRASILIA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Illegal gold miners blamed for causing a humanitarian crisis on Brazil's largest indigenous reservation are asking authorities to help them leave, one of their leaders and a Brazilian senator said on Monday. In a video he posted on social media, Mesquita asked the government to unblock rivers for 10-15 days for the miners to leave the reservation in the northern state of Roraima. "What matters is that the miners leave peacefully and protected," he said. Some of the miners that are beginning to leave the Yanomami reservation are expected to head across the border into neighboring French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana. Their mineral-rich lands have attracted wildcat miners for decades, especially after a military government built a road through the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s.

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☆ Why are Brazil's Indigenous Yanomani being decimated by diseases, mining?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

BOA VISTA, Brazil — Severe malnutrition and disease, particularly malaria, are decimating the Yanomami population in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and on Jan. 20 the federal government declared a public health emergency. An estimated 30,000 Yanomami people live in Brazil’s largest indigenous territory, which covers an area roughly the size of Portugal and stretches across Roraima and Amazonas states in the northwest corner of Brazil’s Amazon. Illegal gold miners were first present in Yanomami territory during the 1980s, but then were largely expelled. Their numbers surged to 20,000 during Bolsonaro’s administration, according to estimates from environmental and Indigenous rights groups. Miners destroy the habitat of animals that the Yanomami hunt, and occupy fertile land that the Yanomami use to farm.

☆ Brazil's Yanomami region looks like ‘concentration camp,’ says official
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba, a doctor appointed to the position by Brazil’s new government, said in a radio interview. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, visits the Yanomami Indigenous Health House (Casai) in the Boa Vista rural area, Roraima state, Brazil, on Saturday. “It’s an extreme calamity, many Yanomami are suffering from malnutrition and there is a total absence of the Brazilian state,” Tapeba said. This can only be resolved by removing the gold miners and that can only be done by the armed forces,” he said. Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the removal of the gold miners.

☆ Watch CNBC’s full interview with Merrill and BoA Private Bank's Chris Hyzy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC’s full interview with Merrill and BoA Private Bank's Chris HyzyChris Hyzy, Merrill and BoA Private Bank CIO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to offer his case for stocks having a rough first half this year.

☆ Investors should stay balanced and not get overly defensive, says Merrill's Chris Hyzy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailInvestors should stay balanced and not get overly defensive, says Merrill's Chris HyzyChris Hyzy, Merrill and BoA Private Bank CIO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to offer his case for stocks having a rough first half this year.

☆ Morning bid: Who let the hawks out?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

It's a good opportunity for policy hawks at the European Central Bank to get their message across. The ECB is likely to raise interest rates by 50 basis points in February and March and will continue to increase rates in the months after, ECB governing council member Klaas Knot said at the weekend. ECB chief Christine Lagarde meanwhile has reiterated the central bank will keep raising rates at a brisk pace to bring inflation down to its 2% target. Euro at nine-month highs vs dollarThe Bank of Canada, meanwhile, is expected to hike interest rates by 25 bps on Wednesday. Trade in U.S. stock futures suggested a flat open for Wall Street , , although the signals from other major stock markets boded well for U.S. trading later on.

☆ Brazil declares emergency over deaths of Yanomami children from malnutrition
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BRASILIA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country's largest indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports of children dying of malnutrition and other diseases caused by illegal gold mining. In four years of Bolsonaro's presidency, 570 Yanomami children died of curable diseases, mainly malnutrition but also malaria, diarrhea and malformations caused by mercury used by wildcat gold miners, the Amazon journalism platform Sumauma reported, citing data obtained by a FOIA. Lula visited a Yanomami health center in Boa Vista in Roraima state on Saturday following the publication of photos showing children and elderly men and women so thin their ribs were visible. In recent violent incidents, men on speed boats on the rivers have shot with automatic weapons at indigenous villages whose communities oppose the entry of gold miners. Lula said the new government will put an end to illegal gold mining as it moves to crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon, which surged to a 15-year high under Bolsonaro.

☆ The best indoor and outdoor cycling shoes of 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Harry Rabinowitz | Harry Rabinowitz Is A Reporter For Select On Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

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☆ 4-foot boa constrictor found in luggage at Tampa airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Workers at Tampa International Airport discovered a 4-foot boa constrictor packed in a passenger’s luggage, authorities said Friday. A 4-foot boa constrictor was recently discovered in a passenger's carry-on at Tampa International Airport. TSA via Instagram“Our officers at Tampa International Airport didn’t find this hyssssssterical!” the agency said. In 2019, a loose 15-inch ring-necked snake was discovered near a TSA checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport when a passenger seemingly left it behind, the agency said. The year before, at Miami International Airport, TSA workers found a python wrapped in what appeared to be a stocking that was hidden in a computer hard drive.

☆ Small caps are the best place to be once the market bottoms, says BoA Securities' Jill Carey Hall
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSmall caps are the best place to be once the market bottoms, says BoA Securities' Jill Carey HallJill Carey Hall, Bank of America Securities, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to offer her reason for investors to invest in small caps.

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☆ Growth constraints to shackle industrial metals for a few more months
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Pratima Desai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Nickel and tin have slumped 50% and 70% respectively. Spiralling inflation, COVID lockdowns in top consumer China and aggressive interest rate rises are behind economic weakness and dwindling demand growth for industrial metals such as copper, used in the power and construction industries. However, BoA noted that metals prices had already fallen significantly and that they would outperform energy in the first half of next year. For soldering material tin, a major theme is consumer belt tightening, which has hit demand for electronic goods. "Slowing (tin) demand is perhaps best illustrated by global semiconductor billings, which had retraced 18% by September, since reaching an all-time high in February," Macquarie analysts said in a note.

☆ Markets will test new bottoms early next year, says BoA's Chris Hyzy
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMarkets will test new bottoms early next year, says BoA's Chris HyzyChris Hyzy, Merrill and Bank of America Private Bank CIO, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss market outlook for Big Tech, growth and earnings.

☆ Fed bringing inflation down a lot faster than market expects, says BoA's Chris Hyzy
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailFed bringing inflation down a lot faster than market expects, says BoA's Chris HyzyChris Hyzy, Merrill and Bank of America private bank chief investment officer, joins the 'Halftime Report' to discuss his 2023 investment playbook.

☆ Emergency-response technology with a 5G upgrade is having an impact in places like hurricane-battered Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Clara Mcmichael | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It's likely to become commonplace that tools used by first responders and police will run on 5G networks. This article is part of "How 5G Is Changing Everything," a series about transformational 5G tech across industries. In June, from a remote farmer's field in Missouri, where cows wandered through the grass, AT&T tested its first 5G drone. Helped along by 5G, new technology designed to speed up disaster response is under development. In the meantime, though, networks and companies say they're continuing to innovate and expect 5G to have a profound impact on disaster response.

☆ High energy prices will be a tailwind for aluminum, says BoA's Francisco Branch
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHigh energy prices will be a tailwind for aluminum, says BoA's Francisco BranchFrancisco Branch, Bank of America head of global commodity and derivatives research, joins 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss the collapse of crude oil and why he thinks that could reverse.

☆ We think small caps are more adequately pricing in a recession, says BoA's Jill Carey Hall
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe think small caps are more adequately pricing in a recession, says BoA's Jill Carey HallJill Carey Hall, Bank of America Securities head of U.S. small and mid cap strategy, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the sell-off in the broader market and her strategy heading into the new year.

☆ Enerza is developing a robot named Boa that uses 5G to snake across power lines and report looming problems to utility companies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Karen Fischer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Toronto startup Enerza built a robot named Boa that uses 5G to report problems to utility companies. "Remote areas suffer quite a bit from utility outages," said James Aein, CEO of Enerza, a 5G startup based in Toronto. Enerza is prototyping and patenting a robot named Boa that snakes across power lines to report back to utility companies on looming problems — and potentially prevent mass outages before they start. "That leaves a five kilometer radius of where the precise power line experiencing the problem could be." In some Canadian provinces, like Yukon, a major culprit behind power outages are iced power lines.

☆ Watch CNBC’s full interview with NewEdge's Cameron Dawson, BoA’s Marci McGregor and Key Financial's Patti Brennan
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC’s full interview with NewEdge's Cameron Dawson, BoA’s Marci McGregor and Key Financial's Patti BrennanNewEdge's Cameron Dawson, Bank of America’s Marci McGregor and Key Financial Patti Brennan, join 'Closing Bell: Overtime' to discuss the pause in the markets, their respective market outlooks and tech earnings from Zoom.

☆ Donald Trump Jr posts 'Paul Pelosi Halloween costume' image mocking hammer attack on House Speaker's husband
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Donald Trump Jr. shared a joke image mocking the attack on Paul Pelosi. He retweeted an image late Sunday night that shows a hammer lying on top of a pair of white underpants with the comment: "Got my Paul Pelosi Halloween costume ready." Trump Jr. wrote: "The internet remains undefeated … Also if you switch out the hammer for a red feather boa you could be Hunter Biden in an instant." San Francisco Police said Paul Pelosi was "violently assaulted" in the couple's California home early on October 28. Paul Pelosi was hospitalized with a fractured skull and is expected to make a full recovery, Pelosi's office said.

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☆ I'm a pawnbroker. Here's how I deal with shady customers, fakes, and the occasional boa constrictor.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Ingrid Cruz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I've been the president of the Mississippi Pawnbrokers Association for four years, and prior to that, I was a board member. Gas prices are also a common reason why people sell or pawn items now. When setting prices to buy an item, the pawnbroker has to make sure the client doesn't want to return for it. If a person wants to sell an item, we only have to hold onto it for 14 days. You used to have to check newspapers on Sundays to check an item's worth.

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