Giorno: 19 Maggio 2024

WSJ: Regulators Reconsider Capital Hike for Big Banks

The Federal Reserve and two other U.S. regulators are moving toward a new plan that would significantly reduce a nearly 20% mandated increase in capital for the country’s biggest banks following lobbying efforts by industry CEOs like JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon.

Slovak PM: Fico Attacker May Not Be ‘Lone Wolf’

Slovak officials are investigating the possibility the suspect in an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico may not have been a “lone wolf” as previously believed, Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok told a news conference on Sunday.[#item_full_content]

Blue flash caught in night sky over Spain, Portugal lights up social media

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s a blue meteor? Fireball? Piece of a comet? Whatever it was, it lit up the night sky for millions of people early Sunday morning in Spain and Portugal. Social media users took stunning pictures and videos for all to revel in the natural science phenomenon. The spectacular sight […]

Mosquitoes swarm Texas town, officials blame climate change

Officials are pointing the finger at climate change as a Texas town battles with another spring of exploding mosquito populations.  “If you open the car door to go somewhere, you’ve got 10 mosquitoes inside,” Mith Varley, a resident of the Houston suburb of Conroe, Texas, said of the issue, according to a report in the […]

Taiwan’s Pres-Elect to Extend Goodwill to China at Inauguration

Taiwan’s next president Lai Ching-te will express “concrete” goodwill towards China in his inauguration speech on Monday, and call for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to pursue peace, according to a senior official briefed on the matter.[#item_full_content]