Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,
The centuries-long human fascination with space may go beyond making sci-fi movies and into a brave new world of asteroid mining within just a couple of decades.
As the latest installment of it's 'Vault 7' series, WikiLeaks has just dropped a user manual describing a CIA project known as ‘Scribbles’ (a.k.a. the "Snowden Stopper"), a piece of software purportedly designed to allow the embedding of ‘web beacon’ tags into documents “likely to be stolen.” The web beacon tags are apparently able to collect information about an end user of a document and relay that information back to the beacon's creator without being detected. Per WikiLeaks' press release:
Despite the ebulience of analysts over Amazon and Alphabet (and Microsoft), it seems the 'have-nots' are weighing the Nasdaq down. From record highs at the gap open, the Nasdaq Composite has drifted back to unch...
The Haves...
Are losing to the Have-Nots...
On the last day of the busiest earnings week in a decade, here is a striking statistic from Goldman Sachs, showing just how dominant a handful of large cap companies have become in terms of both overall profitability and market impact:
Tens of thousands of Canadian clients of Shaw are suffering what appears to be a nationwide loss of internet, cable and phone services. According to the outage map below, the service interruption is widespread and has impacted most Canadian metropolitan centers.
Shortly before 4pm ET, the telecom company posted to its website advising that an outage was in progress and pologizing: