ATHENS/LONDON (Reuters) – The United States has seized a shipment of Iranian oil aboard a vessel operated by a Russian shipowner off Greece and will ship it to its shores on another vessel, we learned from three sources familiar with the matter. A source at Greece’s Navy Ministry said on Thursday that the US Justice … Read more
(AOF) – 210,000 jobless claims were recorded during the week of May 21 against a Reuters consensus of 215,000 and 218,000 the previous week. © AOF Legal disclaimer The AOF information reproduced on Capital.fr is taken from the AOF information service. This information is protected by intellectual property rights held by OPTION FINANCE SAS, publisher … Read more
Apple announced this Wednesday to its American employees, particularly in its retail (Apple Store) and AppleCare teams, an upcoming increase in their hourly wages. This increase is part of a context of general inflation, but also of companies’ desire to keep their employees tempted to leave. Starting in July, that income will increase to $22 … Read more
The info not to miss After the drama, the anger. As relatives of the 21 dead in the Uvalde school shooting, perpetrated on Tuesday by an 18-year-old young man, mourn the victims, the United States is once again engaged in a bitter debate on the limitation of firearms . “When, for God’s sake, are we … Read more
“Today in the United States, we have a kind of dance of death with weapons”, notes the American writer Douglas Kennedy, author of the book Men are afraid of the lightpublished on May 5 by Belfond, which depicts American society divided by the Trump years. >> INFOGRAPHICS. Mass shootings in the United States are becoming … Read more
US central bank (Fed) officials have said they are determined to bring inflation down sharply, and most of them estimated at their last meeting in early May that several further rate hikes of half a -dot will be “probably needed”. Half-percentage-point hikes, faster than the usual quarter-point raises, will no doubt be appropriate in future … Read more
Washington (awp/afp) – US central bank officials have said they are determined to bring inflation down sharply, and most of them estimated at their last meeting in early May that several further rate hikes half a point will be “probably necessary”. Half-point increases, faster than the usual quarter-points, will be “undoubtedly appropriate in future meetings”, … Read more
Tokyo has joined the tiny list of major cities for which Maps can use augmented reality when routing. Arrived with iOS 15, this function called “Pedestrian routes in augmented reality” displays arrows on the images of the streets that your iPhone films live to show you in real time the directions to take. In some … Read more
Managers want “quickly return monetary policy to a neutral path”. US central bank officials have said they are determined to bring inflation down sharply, and most of them estimated at their last meeting in early May that several more half-point rate hikes will be “probably necessary”. Read alsoWall Street opens lower while waiting for the … Read more
In the United States, Oklahoma has just become the state with the most restrictive regulations in terms of voluntary termination of pregnancy. Its governor has indeed promulgated a law on Wednesday prohibiting any abortion from fertilization. “I promised the people of Oklahoma that as governor I would sign any pro-life legislation that came my way, … Read more
