Asian shares are lower Friday as investors continued to watch the brewing trade conflict between China and the U.S., and any signs of what’s in store from central banks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 0.6% to 21,629.03 in afternoon trading. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.3% to 6,801.00. South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.6% to 2,062.34. Hong […]
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Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, perhaps best known for playing the replicant renegade leader in the sci-fi classic “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died in the Netherlands after an undisclosed illness. He was 75. Hauer died July 19. His family requested that the announcement not be made until after his services on Wednesday, his agent told
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Few can resist the allure of a sequel. Not even, it seems, in the investing world. SoftBank announced on Friday that it was planning to create Vision Fund 2, a follow-up to the Japanese conglomerate’s nearly $100 billion vehicle for investing in the technologies that it believes will shape the future. Since it started in
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Mariners second baseman Tim Lopes has been hit in the helmet by a pitch during his first major league start. Lopes staggered away from the plate after getting beaned by a 91 mph fastball from Detroit Tigers starter Drew VerHagen in the third inning Thursday night. The rookie initially stayed in the game, but was
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• The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, an effort that was largely undetected and more far-reaching than previously acknowledged. • Inequality and history are dominating the Democratic presidential race, as the two leading black candidates, Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, directly
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Oscar-winning actress Faye Dunaway was terminated from a Broadway-bound one-woman show after she allegedly slapped and verbally abused crew members, the New York Post reported, citing several unnamed sources. Dunaway, 78, was playing Katharine Hepburn in “Tea at Five” in Boston, but the “hostile” and “dangerous” environment she generated left staff members in fear, according
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Google parent Alphabet beat analyst expectations for the second quarter Thursday, sending its shares up sharply as it bounced back from a rough first quarter. The company comforted investors with advertising revenue growth that edged out last quarter and assurances that video streaming site YouTube and the company’s enterprise cloud business continue to drive growth.
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Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts had some special guests in town to see Boston open a critical series against the AL East-leading New York Yankees. They got to the park too late to see his three-run homer in the first inning. So Bogaerts hit another — a solo shot in the eighth to give the
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Railroads are warning investors that freight shipments will continue to fall this year as the Trump administration’s trade fights hamper exports and cheap natural gas causes coal deliveries to dwindle. CSX and Union Pacific both reported a slowdown in freight hauling during the second quarter. The railroads predicted freight volumes will fall further in the
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John Travolta, who has met a few starstruck followers in his time, turns the tables on the celebrity-obsessed masses for his latest film. In a trailer for “The Fanatic” posted recently, the “Pulp Fiction” star plays a man called Moose, who is stalking movie star Hunter Dunbar (Devon Sawa). With the help of a paparazzo
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