August 15, 2018
Nearly $500K disappeared from school cafeterias. Officials say the lunch ladies did it
For four years, nearly half-a-million dollars quietly vanished from cafeteria registers at two schools in Connecticut. No one noticed the money was missing from the schools in New Canaan until 2017, when the school district installed an enhanced…
August 14, 2018
Turkey to boycott US electronic goods over sanctions
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will boycott US electronic products, after Washington imposed punitive sanctions on Ankara. "If [the US] has the iPhone, there's Samsung on the other side," Mr Erdogan said, referring to…
August 13, 2018
US ambassador Woody Johnson warns Britain to side with Trump on Iran
The United States ambassador to the UK has called on Britain to side with President Donald Trump on Iran or risk "serious trade consequences" for UK businesses.In a pointed intervention into an issue that has strained ties between the two allies,…
August 10, 2018
Venezuela exporting oil through Cuba to avoid sanctions
In an attempt to dodge international sanctions, the state owned Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA, is now running oil out of Cuba by transferring shipments between tankers at the island’s north-western port town of Matanzas. Thomson-Reuters reports…
August 8, 2018
China to hit US with tariffs on US imports worth $16bn
China's commerce ministry has announced that it will start imposing 25% import duties targeting $16bn (£12.4bn) worth of US goods. The Chinese counter-move will take effect immediately after the US imposes tariffs on the same amount of Chinese goods…
August 7, 2018
Trump warns countries against doing business with Iran as sanctions kick back in
President Donald Trump has warned that countries doing business with Iran will "NOT be doing business with the United States" as his administration reimposed sanctions on Iran Tuesday. In an early morning tweet, Trump described the measures as "the…
August 3, 2018
FortisTCI Ltd. ‘BBB’ Credit Rating Affirmed with Negative Outlook
Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands (Thursday, August 2, 2018) – Global independent credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) announced on Friday, July 27, 2018, that it is maintaining a ‘BBB’ global corporate rating for FortisTCI…
August 2, 2018
Apple reaches $1,000,000,000,000 value
Apple just became the first American public company to cross $1 trillion in value. The iPhone maker achieved that big number on Thursday when the stock passed $207.04 a share. Its new all-time high is $207.05. Apple is now up more than 20% this…
July 31, 2018
Warren, Sanders introduce debt relief bill to benefit Puerto Rico
A number of potential 2020 Democratic presidential contenders are behind a bill that would allow Puerto Rico to terminate its $73 billion in debt. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent,…
July 25, 2018
Ivanka Trump closes down her fashion brand
President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, has decided to close down her fashion brand.The move comes over a year after she split from the company to enter the White House as a senior adviser. Ms Trump launched the brand in 2014, but after her…