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With the only thing that matters in the hours ahead, at least until China reopens and the Pandamonium repeats, is the sheer chaos out of Greece which now literally changes the narrative by the minute, here is a convenient timeline of everything that has happened so far this morning starting with Varoufakis’ unexpected resignation and…
LONDON Oil prices fell more than 3 percent on Monday after Greece rejected debt bailout terms and China rolled out emergency measures to support its stock markets, adding to concerns about demand at a time of global oversupply. The result of Greece’s referendum put in doubt its membership in the euro, pulling down the single…
TOKYO The Bank of Japan on Monday maintained its upbeat assessment on regional sectors of the economy, saying they are recovering thanks to a pick-up in output and tightening job markets.In a quarterly review of regional economies, the BOJ raised its assessment for the Hokkaido northernmost region and left intact the views for the remaining…
(Recasts with new quotes, background) * German government says up to Greece to act to stay in euro * Says conditions for talks on new bailout plan not yet met * Finance ministry says Greek debt cut not on the agenda By Paul Carrel BERLIN, July 6 (Reuters) – The German government signalled a tough…
Since China’s stock markets slid by about 30% from their peak in mid-June, the government and financial firms have rushed to come up with measures to turn things around. Their efforts appeared to work today (July 6), with the key Shanghai Composite Index closing up 2.4%. Here’s a complete list of the stimulus attempts that…
TL;DR /r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/funny, /r/Books, /r/science, /r/Music, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, /r/todayilearned, /r/Documentaries, /r/LifeProTips, /r/Jokes, /r/pics, /r/Dataisbeautiful and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process, /u/chooter, but also due to underlying resentment against the admins for running the site poorly – being…
The ending of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been heavily criticized for the sheer amount of destruction, something that fans have noted is out of character for Superman. Now, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Snyder has defended the destruction of Metropolis, and confirmed a theory that we’ve long entertained. In the interview, Snyder…
The furor surrounding the firing of popular Reddit administrator Victoria Taylor took a new turn on Friday, when company CEO Ellen Pao commented on the resulting backlash. After Taylor’s termination, several Reddit boards were set to private by their respective moderators, in a show of protest against the decision. Facing mounting criticism from the link-sharing…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Paris on Monday for talks with French President Francois Hollande to map out the way forward for Greece after voters upended more than five years of crisis-fighting by rejecting creditors’ terms for rescue aid. The trip, announced Sunday shortly after polls closed in Greece, is “to jointly assess…