SEATTLE (Reuters) – Boeing Co’s (BA.N) first-half aircraft deliveries rose more than 7 percent, lifted by demand for its bestselling 737 jetliners as airlines seek more fuel-efficient planes, and orders were more than double those of European rival Airbus SE (AIR.PA). FILE PHOTO: Boeing’s logo is seen during Japan Aerospace 2016 air show in Tokyo, […]
San Francisco voters head to the polls today for the city’s municipal elections, where they will elect a new mayor and a council member, known as a supervisor. Also before voters is a pair of initiatives that offer the electorate a choice between sharply increasing taxes…and sharply increasing taxes. Proposition D—better known as the Housing […]
BOSTON (Reuters) – Two days after billionaire investor William Ackman told clients that he was making money across all his funds again, he said on Thursday that his publicly traded Pershing Square Holdings Ltd portfolio was barely in the black so far this year. William ‘Bill’ Ackman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of Pershing Square Capital […]
Top Story A Rice University study predicts that this fall’s flu vaccine — a new H3N2 formulation for the first time since 2015 — will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant circulating strain of influenza A as the vaccine given in 2016 and 2017, due to viral mutations related to vaccine production […]
Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you want more of something, don’t tax the dickens out of it. This principle appears to have eluded the town of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, which jacked up five businesses’ property taxes by 800 percent as part of a scheme to attract more businesses to the community. Now two […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of prominent hedge funds have roared back with market-trouncing returns in 2017, helping the industry score its best performance in at least four years in a surprise rebound for an often maligned pocket of Wall Street. FILE PHOTO: Larry Robbins, Founder, Portfolio Manager and CEO, Glenview Capital Management LLC., […]