Facebook and Google logos Peter Foley / Bloomberg | fake pictures Google and Facebook may be forced to pay Australian news publishers to distribute their content, in a landmark regulatory move by the country’s competition regulator. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission was tasked with the government earlier this year to …
Read More »euro area earnings and GDP in focus
European stocks traded higher on Friday morning as investors monitored corporate earnings and economic data in the last trading session of the month. The pan-European Stoxx 600 Index rose 0.35% with tech and bank stocks leading the way. BNP Paribas reported a decrease in net income of around 7% for …
Read More »Supreme Court prevents Idaho group from collecting signatures of online voting initiatives
The Covid-19 age voting process order comes when the conservative majority of the court has rejected other attempts to ease voting-related restrictions due to the pandemic. The case stems from the actions of Reclaim Idaho, a political action committee that seeks to increase funding for K-12 education. He tried to …
Read More »European stocks rise as investors juggle technological optimism and economic sadness
European stocks rose on the last trading day of the month, fueled by better-than-expected results and after big gains from top US tech companies. That joy helped investors sideline, for now, the signs of increasing global economic problems due to the pandemic. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP Index, + 0.57% …
Read More »Obama warns that Trump’s actions threaten American democracy
But Thursday’s extraordinary speeches by two presidents, whose legacies will be intertwined forever, suddenly underlined how this election, in the words of the quadrennial cliche, will truly be the most important of our lives. Obama’s praise was not just his most public intervention in the 2020 campaign or his most …
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