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☆ Apple stock price surge adds $135 billion to its market value after solid earnings beat. Here's what Wall Street is saying about the report.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple's latest earnings report exceeded analyst expectations and alleviated concerns of a slowdown in iPhone sales. The company launched a $90 billion stock buyback program and raised its quarterly dividend by 4%. While revenues declined for the second quarter in a row, falling about 3% year-over-year, the company's quarterly iPhone sales exceeded $51 billion, which beat analyst estimates by $2.5 billion. Also giving Apple investors confidence is the company's announcement of a new $90 billion stock buyback program and a 4% increase to the company's quarterly dividend, to $0.24 per share. Shares of Apple jumped more than 5% on Friday, adding $135 billion to the company's market value, which stood at about $2.77 trillion.

☆ PlayStation, treasure hunts and natural wonders: What life is like onboard a giant oil tanker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The movies, which feature ambushes, looting and a drunken captain, are far from real life, according to shipping veteran Ralph Juhl. The crew on board an oil tanker operated by Hafnia. Where the ship goes depends on where the demand for oil is and Dixon has sailed to every continent bar Antarctica, he said. An aurora borealis light display in the southern part of Norway, one of the natural spectacles seen by oil tanker captain DSA Dixon during his seafaring life. Oil tanker crew prepare mooring ropes to secure a bunker barge to their vessel for refueling.

☆ A Spanish Team Endures on a Toehold in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( James Montague | Samuel Aranda | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

CEUTA, Spain — From the top of Alfonso Murube Stadium, you can see the peninsula of Ceuta stretching out into the Mediterranean Sea. Out on the water, ferries shuttle back and forth across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the coastline of southern Spain, just 30 short minutes away. Ceuta, a sliver of land seven square miles in size, hangs on to the edge of Africa, as thin as a toenail. But it is not part of Africa, not officially. It is a rarity for Spain, too, as a city where the Muslim and Christian populations are of similar size.

☆ Biden Must Tread Rocky Path in Belfast Before Tending His Irish Roots
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Though Mr. Biden deplored I.R.A. The events became one of the most infamous episodes of the Troubles, known as Bloody Sunday. Mr. Powell said Mr. Biden had made his own contribution later on by pressing the British government to break an impasse with the European Union over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. In doing so, he fulfilled a promise he made to Mr. Biden when the two met last fall at a summit in Indonesia, during which the prime minister vowed to resolve the issue. “It is possible that Biden could be seen as adding more pressure on the unionists,” said Katy Hayward, a professor of politics at Queen’s University in Belfast.

☆ Jeff Bezos' rumored $500 million yacht has finally made its maiden voyage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A $500 million yacht believed to belong to Jeff Bezos has been delivered to the Amazon founder. The 417-foot vessel, the largest sailing yacht in the world, recently made its maiden voyage to Gibraltar, according to Boat International. At 417 feet long, the boat is believed to be the largest sailing yacht in the world. The request sparked public outcry, prompting more than 1,000 residents to threaten to throw eggs at the yacht if the bridge ended up being dismantled. Oceanco later nixed its request, and the yacht was towed under cover of night to another shipyard, without its masts, which were installed later.

☆ Mbappe looking to reach new heights with ambitious France
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DUBLIN, March 26 (Reuters) - Kylian Mbappe's rise continued as France started their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign with a 4-0 win against the Netherlands and the forward will be looking to reach new heights as Les Bleus face Ireland away in Group B on Monday. Mbappe has scored 38 goals for France and sits in fifth place overall in the list of the country's top scorers, three shy of former great Michel Platini and 15 behind all-time leader Olivier Giroud. Mbappe netted a double at the Stade de France last Friday as France crushed the Netherlands in seemingly casual, yet brutal fashion. "We want to show we can be a great team, that's the identity of this generation - this desire for greatness, a lot of players have that," said the 24-year-old Mbappe. To do that, France will rely on their pair of centre backs after Dayot Upamecano and Ibrahima Konate proved unbreakable last Friday.

☆ Gibraltar accuses Spain of 'gross violation of sovereignty' over customs operation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

MADRID, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Gibraltar on Friday accused Spain of a "gross violation of British sovereignty" after two customs officials entered the British overseas territory during an anti-smuggling operation. Early on Thursday, two Spanish customs agents were injured after rocks were thrown at them on a Gibraltar beach. In a video of the incident on Spanish daily El Pais' website, the smugglers are seen shouting "This is Gibraltar. The incident comes as Britain and Gibraltar seek to negotiate a treaty to settle Gibraltar's post-Brexit status and how to police the border with Spain. In 2002, 99% of voters in Gibraltar rejected the idea of Britain sharing sovereignty with Spain.

☆ Spanish police detain 23 for alleged soccer match-fixing in Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, Jan 31 (Reuters) - A group of 23 people, including soccer players, have been arrested as part of a probe into suspected match-fixing in non-professional Spanish, Andorran and Gibraltarian soccer leagues, Spanish police said on Tuesday. "A second layer of the scam comprised soccer players who took advantage of their position to organise the fixing in the teams under their influence," police said. No players were identified, but police said the ring targeted some 30 games in non-professional leagues such as Spain's third division and the local leagues of micro-state Andorra and British enclave Gibraltar. The investigation was carried out in 2021 and 2022 with the help of several organisations, including Spain's football federation RFEF, LaLiga, the Betting Market Global Investigation Service (SIGMA) and European governing body UEFA's Anti-Match-Fixing Unit. ($1 = 0.9246 euros)Reporting by Inti Landauro and Emma Pinedo; Editing by David Latona, Alexandra HudsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ 1 dead in Spanish church machete attacks, terror link probed
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The assailant then went to a second church, Nuestra Señora de La Palma, a five-minute walk away, where he attacked the sexton. Police gather outside the Church of San Isidro, in Algeciras, Spain on Jan. 25, 2023. Nono Rico / Europa Press via APThe Algeciras town hall said the sexton was named Diego Valencia and identified the wounded priest as Antonio Rodríguez. The town hall said he was hospitalized and in stable condition. The town hall declared a day of mourning when flags will fly at half-staff.

☆ DAVOS 2023: Spain says 'very close to deal' with Britain on Gibraltar
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( John Irish | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Spain's foreign minister said on Tuesday that Madrid and London were closing in on a deal to find a definitive solution settling the post-Brexit status of Gibraltar. The status of Gibraltar and how to police the border with Spain has been a point of contention since Britain's 2016 vote to leave the European Union. "I see a constructive spirit from the British side on the agreement related to Gibraltar," Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The European Commission and Spain sent Britain a proposal including keep Gibraltar's land border to Spain open in late 2022 and ensuring free flow of people between Spain and the enclave. In 2002, 99% of voters in Gibraltar rejected the idea of Britain sharing sovereignty with Spain.

☆ Apple is coming off a terrible year and Wall Street is torn on whether it's set for more pain or about to skyrocket.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

While the meeting minutes don't tell us exactly what the Fed will do next month, generally they are worth paying attention to for hints into the thinking of central bankers. Shares fell further on Tuesday and Wednesday after a Nikkei report said demand for MacBooks, AirPods, and Apple Watches is weakening. But Loup Funds' Gene Munster said Apple stock should be worth double its current value, given that it's one of the world's greatest companies. What's your outlook for Apple stock this year? This hedge fund manager has returned 163% over the last year, and he's anticipating more pain to come for stocks.

☆ Apple gets its price target slashed by nearly 13% at Wedbush, but it says the tech giant's demand story still looks more resilient than Wall Street believes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Apple's price target was cut by more than 12% to $175 at Wedbush Securities on Wednesday. Demand headwinds are creeping into Apple's growth story but the overall picture is more resilient than Wall Street is seeing, the firm said. It cut its price target on Apple by 12% to $175 from $200 and held onto its outperform rating. Meanwhile, Apple's underlying demand story still has more than 200 million iPhone units that haven't been upgraded in about four years. The new $175 price target reflects a more base-case valuation in an uncertain environment with some demand headwinds starting to creep into Apple's growth story, said Ives.

"Ayan has established business contracts to sell Iranian oil worth hundreds of millions of dollars to buyers," in China, the United Arab Emirates and Europe, the statement says, adding that he then funneled the proceeds back to the Quds Force. The Treasury action will freeze any U.S. assets of those designated and generally bar Americans from dealing with them. Washington maintains sweeping sanctions on Iran and has looked for ways to increase pressure as efforts to resurrect a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran have stalled. The 2015 agreement limited Iran's uranium enrichment activity to make it harder for Tehran to develop nuclear arms in return for lifting international sanctions. Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk Editing by Don Durfee and Howard GollerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Spain, EU propose to keep Gibraltar land border open, Spain says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MADRID, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Spain and the European Commision have sent Britain a proposal to keep the Gibraltar land border open as part of a definitive solution settling the post-Brexit status of the enclave, the Spanish foreign ministry said on Friday. Spain, Britain and the European Union agreed on Dec. 31, 2020, hours before Britain's full exit from the bloc, that Gibraltar would remain part of EU agreements such as the Schengen Area and Spain would police the port and the airport, pending a definitive solution. "This requires Spain to take control, on behalf of the Schengen area, of Gibraltar's external borders and, to this end, to be able to exercise certain functions and powers necessary to protect the integrity and security of the Schengen area," it added. About 15,000 people commute daily from Spain to Gibraltar, which has a population of about 32,000. Spain has agreed to put aside the issue of its sovereignty claim over Gibraltar to focus on the opportunity to keep the border open, the Foreign Minister said.

It culminated on Wednesday, with Binance pulling out of its deal and throwing FTX's future into uncertainty. Bankman-Fried told Reuters on Tuesday that "I'll probably be too swamped" to do interviews. Voyager filed for bankruptcy protection the following month, with FTX's U.S. arm paying $1.4 billion for its assets in a September auction. Daily withdrawals normally totaled tens of millions of dollars, Bankman-Fried told his employees. Bankman-Fried signed a non-binding letter of intent for Binance to buy FTX’s non-U.S. assets.

☆ A petition calling for a sanctioned Russian oligarch's superyacht to be used as a hotel for Ukrainian refugees has gained almost 30,000 signatures
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Stephen Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A petition is calling for a seized superyacht to become a hotel for Ukrainian refugees. A retired engineer set up the petition to reuse Amore Vero, which is linked to oligarch Igor Sechin. The 80-foot Amore Vero was seized by French authorities in March and is being held in the port of La Ciotat, east of the city of Marseille on France's southern coast. The owner of the Amore Vero is not publicly known, although it has been heavily linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of the Russian oil giant PJSC Rosneft. In September, officials in Gibraltar completed the first sale of a seized superyacht since the beginning of the war.

☆ This man says he lost all his savings gambling online in China, where players visit 'mirror' websites that change URLs daily and fake 'friends' recruit gamblers in chat groups
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Gambling is illegal in most parts of China, apart from the state-owned national lotteries, and recognised gambling sites are blocked from Chinese users. It is one of many gambling companies that have mirror sites. Experts told Insider mirror websites are a "common" practice by betting companies in countries that don't allow gambling. A virtual armyHuang said it was easy to find a link to a new mirror gambling site once an old one has been blocked: his friends sent him the URL. They make friends with people and claim that they have won money gambling, and encourage other users to visit mirror sites.

In Spain, six vessels were frozen following sanctions imposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The "majority" of the owners are paying their maintenance, crew, docking and insurance fees, a source with knowledge of the matter said. In March, Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez vowed, when announcing the freezing of one yacht in Spain, to hit Putin's allies "decisively" and "hard". read more read moreProposals by the United States and European Union to sell seized Russian assets and give the proceeds to Ukraine have stalled. In France, five yachts have been frozen.

☆ Sanctioned Russian billionaire's superyacht sells at auction for $37.5 million, far less than its $75 million value, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Stephen Jones | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A five-deck superyacht seized from Russian steel tycoon Dmitry Pumpyansky has been sold. The Axioma, which had previously been valued at $75 million, sold for $37.5 million, per Reuters. The 236-foot vessel named the Axioma had been owned by steel tycoon Dmitry Pumpyansky and had an estimated value of $75 million, per Superyachtfan. It was seized after a legal request by the US investment bank JP Morgan, according to documents seen by Reuters. The seizure came after Pumpyansky defaulted on a 20.5 million euro ($19.6 million) loan payment made to one of his companies, Reuters added.

☆ How crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried survived the market wreckage and still expanded his empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Kate Rooney | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

FTX also extended $500 million to struggling Voyager Digital, which later declared bankruptcy, and was in discussions to acquire South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb. While Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange FTX is suffering from the downturn in digital assets, he said market share growth helped offset the pain. FTX Trading Ltd. is headquartered in Antigua, with FTX Derivatives Markets based in the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried lives. FTX Trading has acquired companies in Switzerland, Australia, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, Singapore, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, among other countries. watch nowLike Buffett, Bankman-Fried signed the Giving Pledge: a promise by the world's wealthiest individuals to donate the majority of their wealth to charity.

LISBON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Heavy tug boats on Tuesday sprayed water on a ship off the coast of Portugal's Azore Islands which went on fire nearly a week ago carrying thousands of Porsches and Bentleys, an incident insurance experts said could result in $155 million in losses. The 22 crew members on board the ship, called the Felicity Ace, were evacuated the same day the fire broke out. Two large tug boats equipped with firefighting gear arrived from Gibraltar on Monday, and were working with another patrol boat to spray water at the Felicity Ace and cool it down, MOL said. "When conditions are safe the salvage team will board the Felicity Ace for an initial assessment," MOL added. Two other tug boats with more firefighting equipment were scheduled to arrive Feb. 23 and Feb. 26.

☆ Locuitorii din Gibraltar au votat pentru schimbarea legii care interzice avortul
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaLocuitorii din Gibraltar au votat pentru schimbarea legii care interzice avortulLocuitorii din Gibraltar au votat pentru modificarea unei legi stricte a avortului, printr-un referendum. Aproximativ 62% dintre alegătorii care au participat la referendum au ales schimbarea legii care pedepsește femeile care fac avort cu o pedeapsă maximă de până la închisoare pe viaţă. Majoritatea locuitorilor din Gibraltar au aprobat relaxarea unei legi stricte asupra avortului, printr-un referendum, a anunţat vineri parlamentul local, citat de Reuters. 62% dintre alegătorii care au participat au susţinut schimbarea, în cadrul referendumului desfăşurat joi pe teritoriul britanic situat în extremitatea sudică a Spaniei. Legea penală a Gibraltarului a interzis până acum avortul în toate circumstanţele, cu o pedeapsă maximă, în teorie, de până la închisoare pe viaţă.

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☆ Noua listă a țărilor cu risc epidemiologic; Grecia, Italia, Spania rămân pe lista verde
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-25 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +3 min

Sursa foto: ProfimediaNoua listă a țărilor cu risc epidemiologic; Grecia, Italia, Spania rămân pe lista verdeGuvernul a actualizat lista țărilor cu risc epidemiologic, în funcție de incidența cazurilor de COVID-19, pe coduri – verde, galben și roșu. Marea Britanie rămâne în zona roșie, din cauza variantei Delta de coronavirus, care se răspândește acolo cu repeziciune. Pe lista verde rămân Spania, Italia, Grecia. Persoanele care au trecut prin infecția cu COVID-19, cele vaccinate și cele care au test negativ sunt scutite de carantină, transmite Digi24. Din lista galbenă fac parte Emiratele Arabe Unite, Panama, Malaysia, Georgia, Tunisia, Sint Maarten, Guyana, Cuba, Capul Verde, Irak, Insulele Virgine Britanice, Insulele Virgine ale Statelor Unite, Sri Lanka, Zambia.

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