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Steel Quotas The European Union will tomorrow impose limits on steel imports to handle the fallout of the U.S.'s steel tariffs. This isn't about the tariffs on EU steel, but a result of the fact that Trump's tariffs mean there's more steel out there that's not being imported into the U.S.—EU...

Amazon India Amazon has had to withdraw loads of products in India due to new rules that forbid online retailers from making deals with sellers to offer products exclusively on their platform, and from selling vendors' products where the retailer owns a stake in the vendor. So, Echo speakers...

AT&T customers exit in droves as telco looks to upend TV AT&T, in the middle of a high-stakes effort to turn itself into a media and entertainment juggernaut, finds itself playing catch-up in its bread-and-butter businesses of wireless and pay-TV services. Two key measures, U.S. wireless and...

Here’s How the Top Endowments Did Last Year NACUBO’s annual study of college and university funds has landed. Amy Whyte January 31, 2019 Illustration by II College and university endowments earned 8.2 percent on average during the 2018 fiscal year, with the top performers earning an average...

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"Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned." - @bobgoff

“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.” - Elon Musk

BofA expands free trading in stocks, ETFs for rewards customers The lender is broadening eligibility for commission-free trades on stocks and exchange-traded funds to the 5.25 million clients enrolled in its Preferred Rewards program. That group of customers, which have combined banking and...

Self-Lacing Shoes Nike already had self-lacing shoes, and now Puma is getting in on the act. So get ready for the ability to tighten or loosen your laces via smartphone app—and for charging your shoes every week—if that's the kind of thing that you're into. CNBC

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank may merge by the middle of the year, Bloomberg is reporting. The German government has been looking at a merger of the two for a while, as neither is doing great on its own, and now Deutsche Bank's top brass are apparently bracing themselves, barring...

Google App It wasn't just Facebook abusing the ability to upload in-house apps to Apple's iOS platform (a fact that yesterday forced them to withdraw an app that paid people for deep access to their phones)—turns out Google was also at it. Google's app was called Screenwise Meter, and it yanked...

Tesla CFO Tesla's shares are falling after the company's chief financial officer, Deepak Ahuja, headed for the door. The company also missed analyst expectations for late 2018. This is Ahuja's second departure—he quit in 2015, then came back in 2017. Now he's retiring for good, apparently. The...

Facebook Results Facebook, which seems impervious to damage from its many scandals, has recorded record profits and growing user numbers, sending its stock up by more than 11%. It had 1.52 billion daily active users in the further quarter of 2018. Analysts expected $16.4 billion in revenue and...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/30/unlicensed-bay-area-walgreens-pharmacist-issued-more-than-700000-prescriptions-watchdog-says/

Federal judge asks PG&E: Should I ‘let you keep killing people?’ Rules utility violated its felony probation https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/30/federal-judge-to-decide-whether-to-toughen-pges-probation-terms-today/

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PCG has been cleared of the Tubbs Fire. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Update-Pg-E-Responds-To-Cal-Fire-s-Tubbs-Fire-13559703.php

https://www.ft.com/content/f4ccbe16-23ec-11e9-8ce6-5db4543da632

Accusations of ‘Overcharging,’ ‘Dubious Accounting’ Fly in Exchange Spat First IEX took on the flash boys, now it’s going after Nasdaq and others. Julie Segal January 29, 2019 Brad Katsuyama, chief executive officer of IEX Group (Chris Goodney/Bloomberg) IEX — the exchange made famous...

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