Oil prices edged higher on Monday, with Brent oil set to rise for five out of seven sessions as a global supply glut appears to ease, but rising U.S. production limited gains. Brent crude oil climbed 0.2 percent to $56.09 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate added 0.1 percent to $54.04 a barrel.
Day: February 27, 2017
Nikkei Falls to 2-1/2 Week Lows on Strong Yen
Japan’s Nikkei share average fell to 2-1/2 week lows on Monday as the yen strengthened and as financial stocks dropped on lower U.S. yields. The Nikkei was down 1.4 percent at 19,012.43 points by midmorning, after falling to as low as 18,995.55, its weakest level since Feb. 9. Exporters lost ground as the dollar dropped to as low as 111.925 yen on Friday, its first foray below the 112 level since Feb. 9. During Asian trade on Monday, the dollar slipped a further 0.2 percent to 112.00 on worries that U.S. President Donald Trump’s first major policy address to Congress on Tuesday will not offer many new details on his tax reform or spending pledges.
‘Moonlight’ Wins Award as Best Picture After Epic Oscar Flub
“Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture on Sunday, beating favorite “La La Land” for the movie industry’s most prestigious award. But in a highly unusual mishap, presenter Warren Beatty first, mistakenly initially announced that musical “La La Land” had won, causing confusion and uproar on Hollywood’s biggest night.
Rotation Acceleration Brings Hesitation; Changing of the Guard Nearly Everwhere: Jim Cramer’s View
Cramer shares his views on how rotation acceleration brings top-calling hesitation, and wonders about how, nearly everywhere you look, there’s a changing of the guard. Jim Cramer shares his views every day on RealMoney .
Viola Davis delivers a powerful and historic Oscars acceptance…
Viola Davis won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in “Fences” on Sunday night, her first win after being nominated two previous times, and she didn’t downplay her win as she went onstage and gave a moving acceptance speech. “We are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life,” she said of the importance of being an actor.
How the Oscar-winning O.J. Simpson documentary got…
It was two years ago when filmmaker Ezra Edelman got the offer from ESPN Films’ senior vice president and executive producer Connor Schell: The network has found success with its the award-winning “30 for 30” documentary series, which looks at particular sports moments and figures. But for Simpson’s story, Schell wanted a deep-dive that put the life, career, and celebrity of the man under a microscope.
How ESPN’s ‘O.J.: Made in America’ became the first ever TV…
Many of you may be wondering how a documentary produced by ESPN and made as a series for TV, “O.J.: Made in America,” won an Oscar on Sunday night. As the docuseries’ director Ezra Edelman said during his acceptance speech for best documentary feature, the path to ESPN’s first Oscar nomination and win, and the first ever Oscar win for a TV series, was “untraditional.”
Rules force Internet providers to protect the data they have on you;…
Federal regulators on Monday will move to stop certain privacy regulations from going into effect that were designed to safeguard consumers’ personal information from hackers and criminals, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. The stay by the Federal Communications Commission will release broadband companies such as Verizon, Comcast and AT&T from previously approved rules requiring them to adopt “reasonable” security measures protecting Social Security numbers, Web browsing history and other information belonging to their customers.