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FINANCIAL MARKETS
Asian markets beforehand afterwards able Bank Street week
BEIJING (AP) — Most Asian markets are up today afterward a able anniversary on Bank Street as Chinese trading resumes afterwards a holiday.
The Shanghai Blended Basis is up 1.1 percent and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 has acquired 0.6 percent. Markets in Japan and South Korea are bankrupt for holidays. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is bottomward 0.4 percent and Singapore is additionally down. Benchmarks in New Zealand, the Philippines and Indonesia accept advanced.
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U.S. stocks achromatic Friday as telecom and activity shares sank but concluded the anniversary abreast almanac highs. Absorption centered on government jobs abstracts that were abundant weaker than expected. Economists cautioned not to apprehend too abundant into them, because they were adulterated by hurricanes that disrupted business from Texas to Florida.
The S&Ps 500 index, advancing off a almanac high, absent 0.1 percent to 2,549. The Dow Jones automatic boilerplate slipped beneath than 0.1 percent from its aerial to 22,774. And the Nasdaq blended added 0.1 percent to 6,590.
TRUMP-HEALTH CARE
White House to adjustment amplification of bloom affliction option
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is finalizing an controlling adjustment that would aggrandize bloom affairs offered by associations to acquiesce individuals to basin calm and buy allowance alfresco their states. That move follows bootless efforts by Congress to check the bloom affliction system.
President Donald Trump has continued asserted that affairs allowance above accompaniment curve would activate antagonism that brings bottomward premiums for bodies affairs their own policies. Experts say that’s not guaranteed, partly because bloom allowance reflects bounded medical costs, which alter broadly about the country.
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Trump was accepted to assurance the controlling adjustment abutting week.
TRUMP-IMMIGRATION
Trump links clearing demands to DACA support
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is cogent aldermanic leaders that his awkward clearing priorities charge be allowable in barter for extending aegis from displacement to hundreds of bags of adolescent immigrants.
Trump’s account of demands includes afterlight the country’s green-card system, a crackdown on unaccompanied amateur entering the country, and architecture his promised bank forth the southern border.
Many are behavior Democrats accept said absolutely are off the table and corruption to derail advancing negotiations over legislation absorption adolescent immigrants accepted as “Dreamers.” They had been accustomed a abatement from displacement and the adeptness to assignment accurately in the country beneath President Barack Obama.
The check of the green-card arrangement would absolute family-based blooming cards to spouses and the accessory accouchement of U.S. citizens and allowable abiding residents.
GAS PRICES
Average US gas prices abatement 7 cents acknowledgment to awkward costs
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The boilerplate amount of a gallon of regular-grade gasoline fell 7 cents nationally over the accomplished two weeks to $2.56.
Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the bead comes as awkward oil prices bead and abounding refineries on the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast acknowledgment to operation.
Lundberg says she expects added amount cuts as refiners accomplish cheaper “winter grade” gasoline.
The accepted amount is 27 cents aloft area it was a year ago.
Gas in San Francisco was the accomplished in the abutting United States at an boilerplate of $3.11 a gallon. The everyman was in St. Louis at $2.20 a gallon.
The U.S. boilerplate agent amount is $2.76, bottomward a penny from two weeks ago.
FILM-BOX OFFICE
‘Blade Agent 2049’ pulls in earlier guys, but few others
NEW YORK (AP) — “Blade Agent 2049” had the pedigree, the stars and the arch reviews. But alike admitting the awful accustomed aftereffect had acutely aggregate activity for it, article didn’t bang with audiences.
The big-budget, amply crafted aftereffect to the 1982 sci-fi archetypal opened decidedly anemic at the North American box office. According to flat estimates Sunday, “2049” grossed $31.5 million, a poor alpha for a cine that amount at atomic $150 actor to make.
The botheration “Blade agent 2049” ran into is bright from opening-weekend data. The admirers was overwhelmingly macho and over the age of 25. The movie, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, artlessly bootless to cull in admirers above admirers of the 1982 original.
The Kate Winslet-Idris Elba chance affair “The Mountain Between Us” debuted in additional with $10.1 million. The abhorrence hit “It” followed in third with $9.7 actor in its fifth week.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN-SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Film ambassador Harvey Weinstein ousted from Weinstein Co.
NEW YORK (AP) — Film ambassador Harvey Weinstein has been accursed from The Weinstein Co., able immediately, afterward new advice arise apropos his conduct, the company’s lath of admiral arise Sunday.
Weinstein had ahead voluntarily taken a leave of absence afterward decades of animal aggravation allegations abundant Thursday in a New York Times expose. The lath on Friday accustomed that decision. But it went added Sunday, removing Weinstein from the aggregation he co-founded.
In a statement, the lath cited “new information” about Weinstein’s conduct that has emerged in the accomplished few days. An advocate for Weinstein didn’t anon animadversion Sunday.
A agent for The Weinstein Co. beneath to accommodate capacity on Weinstein’s firing.
FACEBOOK-POLITICAL ADS
Facebook begins ‘human review’ of potentially acute ads
UNDATED (AP) — Facebook says it will activate manually reviewing advertisements that ambition assertive groups and abode politics, religion, ethnicity and amusing issues.
The aggregation has abreast some advertisers about the new “human review” requirement, admonishing them that it ability account delays afore their ads can arise on the amusing media platform.
Facebook has had to apologize amidst contempo revelations of aggressive corruption of its automatic announcement action to advertisement apocryphal account or advance alienated and abhorrent messages, such as ads aimed at bodies who’ve bidding anti-Semitic views. The aggregation is additionally beneath accretion aldermanic analysis afterwards absolute that ads affiliated to a Russian internet bureau were apparent by an estimated 10 actor bodies afore and afterwards the 2016 election.
Axios aboriginal appear on the accounting apprehension to advertisers. Facebook accepted it Saturday.
PUERTO RICO-TECH ASSISTANCE
Big Tech has big affairs to advice reconnect Puerto Rico
UNDATED (AP) — Facebook already aimed to affix the world. Now it would be blessed aloof to reconnect allotment of it — and Google and others achievement to accompany it.
In the deathwatch of Hurricane Maria, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apprenticed to accelerate a “connectivity team” to advice restore communications in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico.
Google ancestor aggregation Alphabet offered to float its Project Loon balloons over the island, bringing Wi-Fi account to hard-to-reach places.
The Federal Communications Commission accustomed an beginning authorization for Project Loon, backer Tina Pelkey accepted Saturday.
But an Alphabet backer said the aggregation is still aggravating to amount out how to accomplish it work.
Beside Facebook and Google, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised Friday to access up assembly of solar-powered batteries that could advice restore electricity.
DOVE BODY WASH AD
Dove apologizes for Facebook soap ad that abounding alarm racist
NEW YORK (AP) — Dove is adverse calefaction for a anatomy ablution ad assuming a atramentous woman demography off her shirt to acknowledge a white woman, with abounding amusing media users calling it racist.
The aggregation said Saturday it abjure the breach acquired by the ad. It says it “missed the mark in apery women of blush thoughtfully.” It has removed the column from its Facebook page.
The ad was a gif assuming a atramentous woman demography off her amber shirt to acknowledge a white woman, who again took off her lighter-colored shirt, absolute a woman of blush in a hardly darker shirt.
Circulating broadly online is a accumulation of four images from the ad assuming alone the atramentous woman axis into the white woman.
Dove is endemic by British-Dutch aggregation Unilever.
TRUMP-SCOTTISH LOSSES
Losses at Trump’s Scottish resorts angled aftermost year
NEW YORK (AP) — A banking address filed with the British government shows Donald Trump is accident millions for a third year in a row on a brace of his better investments: his Scottish golf resorts.
A address from Britain’s Companies House shows losses aftermost year at the two resorts added than angled to 17.6 actor pounds ($23 million). Revenue additionally fell sharply.
The aggregation attributed the after-effects partly to accepting shut bottomward its Turnberry resort for bisected the year while acclimation up a course.
Trump’s aggregation has struggled back it ventured into Scotland a dozen years ago. The aggregation absent a cloister action to stop an adopted windmill farm, drew objections from the ecology regulators over architecture affairs and appears at accident of accident a bid to host the coveted Scottish Open.
OIL PIPELINE PROTEST-VERDICT
Jury convicts activist who targeted North Dakota pipeline
CAVALIER, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota board has bedevilled an ecology activist who targeted an oil activity a year ago.
The Pembina (PEM’-buh-nuh) County board begin Michael Foster of Seattle accusable Friday of cabal to accomplish bent mischief, bent atrocity and trespass. Foster was acquitted of adventuresome endangerment.
Foster’s accomplishments were allotment of a broader four-state accomplishment aftermost October to draw absorption to altitude change. Foster did not abjure application a bolt cutter to get through a alternation articulation fence so he could about-face the pipeline’s shut-off valve. He arguable his law-breaking was in the public’s interest.
Samuel Jessup of Winooski, Vermont, who filmed Foster’s protest, additionally stood balloon and was bedevilled of conspiracy.
Sentencing for both men is appointed for Jan. 18. Their attorneys did not acknowledge to requests for animadversion Sunday.
WALMART-SPEEDY RETURNS
35-second returns? Walmart speeds up online acquirement returns
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart is authoritative new moves to acceleration up the acknowledgment action for online purchases.
The aboriginal change will appear abutting month, back barter will be able to alpha the acknowledgment action on Walmart’s app. Afterwards that, they can accompany the account to a store, browse a barcode with their smartphone and bead it off with an agent at an accurate lane at the chump account desk. The new action will booty about 35 abnormal or less.
In December, barter will be able to accumulate items ordered online that the banker would abandon if returned, such as opened makeup, a aching bake-apple or a canteen of attic cleaner that was damaged during delivery. Shoppers would browse the account with their smartphone and get an burning refund.
NOBEL-ECONOMICS
Economics prize, aftermost of the Nobels, to be awarded
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The aftermost of the Nobel prizes to be awarded this year is article of an outlier — Alfred Nobel’s will didn’t alarm for its enactment and it ceremoniousness a science that abounding agnosticism is a science at all.
The Swedish National Bank Award-winning in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was aboriginal awarded in 1969, about seven decades afterwards the alternation of celebrated prizes that Nobel alleged for. Despite its ancestry and anxiously arduous name, it is broadly advised an according to the added Nobel and the champ attends the acclaimed presentation banquet.
The champ of the 9-million-kronor ($1.1-million) award-winning is accepted to be arise at 5:45 Eastern Time this morning.
Even acclaimed almsman Friedrich Hayek bidding misgivings about it, adage the award-winning may absurdly “strengthen the access of a few alone economists.”
