NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – On the day of the key interest rate decision in the USA, the New York stock markets are expected to be somewhat weaker. The broker IG appraised the leading index Dow Jones Industrial a good three-quarters of an hour before the opening, 0.38 percent lower to 33,956 points. The highly tech-heavy … Read more
Dallas, Texas, USA Winter weather brought ice to Texas and neighboring states on Tuesday, forcing more than 980 flights to be canceled and another 800 delayed. Several traffic accidents were reported in Austin, where at least one person died, according to the Fire Department. More than 500 flights to or from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The New York stock exchanges made up a lot of ground on Tuesday after a weak start to the week. Thanks to a final spurt, the standard value indices even more than made up for their losses from the previous day: During the Dow Jones Industrial The S&P 500 gained 1.09 … Read more
Seven American states whose water supply depends on the Colorado River, which has been overexploited for decades, missed the deadline on Tuesday to agree on a reduction in their consumption. Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming had until January 31 to reach an agreement or face cuts from the federal government in … Read more
If you think that with our seven degrees here we are frozen by a brutal winter, you should feel the icy air in the suburbs of Chicago Elk Grove Village in the US state of Illinois. The Bulgarians there, unlike us, get a “quality” cold at minus 19 degrees. Such temperature values are indicated by … Read more
Woodward, the man best known for exposing the Watergate scandal that overthrew then-President Richard Nixon, in 2020 published the biography “Rage” about Trump. Trump claims Woodward has broken promises not to publish the recordings of the interviews he did while working on the book, court documents from a Florida court show, according to NBC News. … Read more
Washington (AP) – US President Joe Biden wants to lift far-reaching corona emergency regulations in May. They were introduced in 2020 by then US President Donald Trump in response to the pandemic and extended several times by Biden. The administration informed the US Congress on Monday in Washington that Biden would briefly extend both the … Read more
A big shock for the passengers on board a Lufthansa plane from Frankfurt to Seattle: an engine suddenly failed over Greenland. The take-off went smoothly: Flight LH490 took off from Frankfurt am Main Airport shortly after 11 a.m., around 11.40 a.m. the Airbus 340-300 had reached the cruising altitude of 9,700 meters and thundered towards … Read more
More than 5,000 flights were canceled across the United States on Thursday (12.22.2022) due to Elliot, a major winter storm that upended holiday holiday travel plans with a triple threat of heavy snow, hurricane-force winds and bitter cold. Several states have declared a state of emergency, including New York, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Georgia, and North Carolina. … Read more
NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – The recently friendly US stock markets got off to a weak start on Monday in an eventful week. Fear of the interest rate decisions in New York, Frankfurt and London and the figures from several US tech giants increasingly dominated the Nasdaq stock exchange in particular: the Nasdaq 100 selection index … Read more