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All the recent buzz around the Powerball Lottery Jackpot of 1.6 billion dollars got me to thinking… Many people I spoke with in the last few weeks while doing my day to day activities were more than happy to share what they would do if they won the lottery. A technician at my doctors’ office […]

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the Electrify Africa Act, after nearly two years of trying to get the measure through both chambers of Congress. It now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature. The bill will provide a framework for a major public-private partnership between the United States and sub-Saharan African […]

Oil fell on Tuesday as worries about China and rising oil supply weighed on markets, although possible talks on production cuts offered some support. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

Stocks in Asia are trading largely lower on Tuesday following a lacklustre lead from the US overnight and as oil prices fall again. read more >>> Source : BBC

A company that was proposing to expand the size of a rail facility to double the number of trains it can load with Alberta oil has shelved the project. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

By Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK (Reuters) – Travel insurance sales for trips to Latin America have surged as vacationers consider scrapping their plans to avoid the rapidly spreading Zika virus, one of the top U.S. providers, RoamRight, told Reuters on Monday. The Maryland-based company, part of insurer Arch Capital Group Ltd , said revenue jumped […]

* Hedge funds use options to wager on eventual yuan devaluation read more >>> Source : Reuters

Premier League football clubs have spent a record £1bn on transfer fees this season – the deadline for January transfers ended at 11pm on Monday. read more >>> Source : BBC

Google isn’t blowing that much money on projects like self-driving cars after all — less than 10% of its capital expenditures in 2015 were for forward-looking products outside its core. This came out in fourth-quarter earnings for Google’s parent company, Alphabet. This was the first time Alphabet broke numbers out for the core “Google,” which […]

SAO PAULO, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc has withdrawn an offer to buy the 24.4 percent stake in infrastructure company Invepar held by Brazil’s Grupo OAS SA, the Canadian firm said on Monday. read more >>> Source : Reuters

Bilateral trade between North Korea and China fell nearly 15 percent last year in what appeared to be a reflection of a troubled relationship between the two countries, South Korea’s state-run policy research institute said Sunday. Trade between the two countries from January to November 2015 was worth $4.9 billion, down from $5.76 billion in […]

High drug prices have been big news lately. Some of this has been due to straight out price gouging by the likes of Martin Shkreli, everyone’s favorite young punk hedge fund tycoon and potential convict. However the more common problem stems from the exorbitant price charged for important new drugs like the Hepatitis C drug […]

One former manager who lost his job at Yahoo is challenging a quarterly employee ranking system, the NYT reports. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

The falling price of a barrel of oil has made headline news around the world as demand fails to match supply. But have we been here before? read more >>> Source : BBC

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc surpassed Apple Inc as the most valuable company in the United States in after-hours trading on Monday, knocking the iPhone maker from the top spot that it has held for the better part of four years. read more >>> Source : Reuters

BEIJING — The coming crash of the Chinese economy has reemerged as a popular view in the global media. The reason for such a prediction this time is the persistent deceleration of China’s growth after 2010. The growth rate dropped from 10.6 percent in 2010 to 7.3 percent in 2014 and further down to 6.9 […]

* U.S. crude futures extend overnight fall on oversupply fears read more >>> Source : Reuters

After oil’s slide continued Monday, “Fast Money” traders debated whether energy companies would see relief any time soon. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

European countries are the top destinations for people thinking of developing their career abroad, a survey from HSBC has found. read more >>> Source : CNBC.Com

BT GROUP rang up a 24 per cent rise in quarterly profit to £862million after its best revenue growth in seven years. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express

Do you live in a happy state? See where your state lands on Gallup’s index that measures the well-being of residents. read more >>> Source : Realtor.org

Even among real estate investment trusts, QTS Realty Trust is not the fastest-growing company. The data-center provider has pretty decent profit and sales growth (24% three-year sales growth rate), although it’s not among the highest in property REITs. But the steady nature of the business appeals to many investors. QTS (QTS) operates 25 wholly owned […]

What’s the culture of your organization? Is it an environment where things get done on time, every time? Or are deadlines more flexible? Do you believe in having fun, or is it more serious? Every organization has a culture, so does every family. Usually, culture is the unspoken beliefs about how things work around here. […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Monday discussed the 2016 Republican presidential race and the success of front-runner Donald Trump. During a Fox News interview the day of the Iowa caucuses, anchor Neil Cavuto pressed Cuban on Trump’s lack of specifics. Cuban argued that none of the candidates in the race had realistic campaign promises. […]

SYDNEY, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The Australian markets watchdog said on Tuesday that German construction firm Hochtief AG has admitted to contravening insider trading rules in relation to an on-market purchase of shares of Leighton Holdings in 2014. read more >>> Source : Reuters

HAVANA (Reuters) – Bacardi on Monday sought U.S. records to explain the U.S. government’s decision to strip the spirits company of its right to the Havana Club brand name and hand it back to a Cuban state company partnered with a global rival. Bacardi’s Freedom of Information Act request is the latest step in a […]

In 2012, I spent a month living in an ashram in Nasik, India. Each day started at 5am with two hours of yoga. I ate an entirely vegetarian diet (often in silence) and chewed every bite 30 times before swallowing. I taught yoga, honed my meditation, and learned advanced breathing and cleansing techniques, one of […]

A former director of the Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras has been sentenced to 12 years in jail as part of a huge corruption probe. read more >>> Source : BBC

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says the National Energy Board can play referee on the Energy East pipeline, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should take a stand. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

CHICAGO, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Democrats from Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation sent a letter to a federal rail regulator on Monday raising concerns over the possible negative impacts of a merger between Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern Corp. read more >>> Source : Reuters

STOCK market turmoil has wiped thousands off the value of a retirement income taken under new pension freedoms, a report has warned. read more >>> Source : The Daily Express

Amaya’s chairman and CEO is looking to take the world’s largest online poker company private about 18 months after it acquired PokerStars for US$4.9 billion. read more >>> Source : CTVNews.Ca

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Democrats from Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation sent a letter to a federal rail regulator on Monday raising concerns over the possible negative impacts of a merger between Canadian Pacific and Norfolk Southern Corp . The letter sent to the Surface Transportation Board raised concerns over the impact it could have on railroad jobs […]

We get promoted because of our IQ and we get fired because of our lack of EQ. I remember when I was first promoted to a leadership position, I was so proud, and yet I was so unprepared too. It was my technical skills that had gotten me the job, not my leadership skills, as […]