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Recycling

California’s largest recycling business closes, 750 laid off

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers shut down Monday and laid off 750 employees. RePlanet closed all 284 of its centers, and company president David Lawrence said the decision was driven by increased business c…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

NASDAQ

U.S. stock futures sink, suggesting more steep losses on Tuesday

U.S. stock market futures slid in early trading Monday evening, signalling another day of steep losses for Wall Street on Tuesday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -1.32% were last down 1.5%, while S&P 500 futures ES00, -1.25% were of…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Trade War

Global stocks deepen losses as U.S. brands China currency manipulator

TOKYO (Reuters) - Global stocks extended their already substantial losses and the offshore yuan hit an all-time low on Tuesday after Washington designated Beijing a currency manipulator in a rapid escalation of the U.S.-China trade war. U.S. Treasury Secret…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Machine Learning

EverQuote, Inc. (EVER) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript

Image source: The Motley Fool. EverQuote, Inc. (NASDAQ:EVER)Q2 2019 Earnings CallAug 5, 2019, 4:30 p.m. ET Contents: Prepared RemarksQuestions and AnswersCall Participants Prepared Remarks: Operator Good afternoon. M…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Service robot at hotel near Seattle brings ring and asks, ‘Will you marry me?’ … Would you say yes?

Hazel the hospitality robot at Hotel Interurban in Tukwila, south of Seattle. (KIPMAN Creative Photo) We all engage with technology in multiple ways in our daily lives. But do we really want to get engaged through technology? Whether human guests will pop t…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Teachers Prepare for Tough Classroom Conversations on the Civil War

Washington Was Abraham Lincoln a hero? How do we memorialize Confederate soldiers, or should we? Where do we draw the line between remembering the problematic parts of our past, and celebrating them? Almost two dozen teachers from across the country spent …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

AR-15

Mass shootings: Key developments in Texas and Ohio

Anguished families and a nation reeled as the death toll from two weekend mass shootings one at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the other at a popular nightlife area in Dayton, Ohio rose and politicians pointed fingers. The attacks 1,300 miles apart have ra…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Why Trump and Putin’s high stakes ‘tit for tat’ could open up ‘Pandora’s box’

Days after the U.S. ditched a Cold War-era weapons treaty with Russia, President Vladimir Putin on Monday said his country would move to develop new intermediate-range nuclear missiles if the U.S. did so first. “If Russia obtains reliable information that th…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Boeing 737max

Woodward’s (WWD) CEO Tom Gendron on Q3 2019 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

Woodward, Inc. (NASDAQ:WWD) Q3 2019 Earnings Conference Call August 5, 2019 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Don Guzzardo Vice President-Investor Relations and Treasurer Tom Gendron Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bob Weber Vice Chairman and Chief Fin…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

N. Korea Fires Projectiles Twice into Sea, S. Korea Says

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea on Tuesday continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing unidentified projectiles twice into the sea while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing their joint military exercises that the …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

California’s largest recycling business closes, 750 laid off

U.S. stock futures sink, suggesting more steep losses on Tuesday

Global stocks deepen losses as U.S. brands China currency manipulator

EverQuote, Inc. (EVER) Q2 2019 Earnings Call Transcript

Service robot at hotel near Seattle brings ring and asks, ‘Will you marry me?’ … Would you say yes?

Teachers Prepare for Tough Classroom Conversations on the Civil War

Mass shootings: Key developments in Texas and Ohio

Why Trump and Putin’s high stakes ‘tit for tat’ could open up ‘Pandora’s box’

Woodward’s (WWD) CEO Tom Gendron on Q3 2019 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

N. Korea Fires Projectiles Twice into Sea, S. Korea Says

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