When we think of eSports, games like Overwatch, League of Legends, and fortnite spring to mind – not Farming Simulator 19. If we were to suggest the agricultural sim as an eSport, we’d expect a more muted response, if not one defined by utter confusion.eSports hint at ever-larger stadiums packed to the rafters with adoring…
FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration June 25, 2019 By Ari Rabinovitch and Tova Cohen TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge…
The Americas chief investment officer at $237 billion Deutsche Bank Wealth Management says investors need to protect themselves from volatility caused by weaker company earnings and political turmoil. He has four investment recommendations that can help traders reduce the risk they face. Despite his words of warning, Puri said he’s optimistic about US stocks compared…
Not everyone is convinced that an inverted yield curve is the final shoe to drop before the next recession. The 10-year Treasury yield recently fell below the three-month yield, indicating that bond traders found good reason to be worried about growth and expected short-term interest rates to fall. Similar inversions have preceded every US recession…
Rocketing prices, customs hold-ups, delivery delays, obstacles to returning unwanted purchases and a dramatic curtailment in the retail choices and rights available to Irish consumers are just some of the problems online shoppers here may be hit with if the UK crashes out of the European Union without a deal in three weeks’ time. Much…
The Ahold Delhaize logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Zaandam, Netherlands August 23, 2018. Picture taken August 23, 2018. REUTERS/Eva PlevierBy Anthony DeutschAMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Ahold Delhaize, which operates supermarkets in Europe and the United States, is on track to meet a 20 percent U.S. online sales growth target this year as it…
A key indicator of danger at the risky end of the corporate credit market is creeping toward a hurdle that the US government used to regard as too high, according to data from the Leveraged Commentary & Data unit of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Last year, the multiple of leveraged buyout (LBO) debt to earnings…
The wild stock market volatility of late 2018 was driven in large part by a debate over whether the US economy was about to fall off, or if it could keep growing for another year or so. But what if the end is even further away? Katie Nixon, the chief investment officer for Northern Trust…
Amazon.com Inc on Thursday forecast first-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates, as it faces regulatory hurdles in India and a slowdown in e-commerce sales in Europe.Shares of the company fell 1.1 per cent to US$1,700 in trading after the bell.Amazon began removing a wide array of products from its India website late on Thursday to…