Bank earnings may reveal ugly-looking loan portfolios for the second quarter, but the industry hopes to defend its investment banking and cost-cutting efforts to squeeze earnings. The earnings season will kick off on Tuesday when JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC) report earnings before the market bell, …
Read More »Fighting breaks out on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia
BAKU / YEREVAN (Reuters) – Several Azeri soldiers have been killed and Armenian soldiers and police wounded in border clashes, the two countries said on Monday, accusing each other of invading their territory. The two former Soviet republics have long been in conflict over the separation of Azerbaijan, mainly the …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell court filing: Prosecutors want her jailed, saying she is a flight risk
“There will be no trial for victims if the defendant has a chance to flee the jurisdiction, and there is every reason to think that is exactly what he will do if he is released,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing Monday. Prosecutors at the United States Attorney’s office in …
Read More »Immunity to Covid-19 against antibodies may last only a few months, UK study suggests
The document, published on the medrxiv.org medical server on Saturday and not yet published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, suggests that antibody responses may begin to decline 20 to 30 days after symptoms of Covid-19 arise. . Antibodies are proteins that the body produces to fight infection. “We showed that …
Read More »New warnings about rapid melting on the Antarctic ‘end of the world glacier’
British Antarctic Study Scientists Drill Thwaites Glacier (BAS) Scientists have issued new warnings about a glacier in Antarctica that is described as “the glacier at the end of the world” because its collapse could lead to a rapid rise in sea level. Even now, the ice that drains from the …
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