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U.S. fund investors hesitant on domestic stocks: ICI
NEW YORK (Reuters) – International stocks and taxable bonds raked in cash for the 40th week in a row as investors tiptoed away from the domestic equity market, Investment Company Institute (ICI) data for U.S.-based funds showed on Wednesday. Taxable bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds attracted $5.9 billion, and world stock funds pulled in another $2.7 billion, the trade group said. The data reflects activity in the week ended Sept 6, after North Korea’s largest ever nuclear bomb test and U.S. investors were shaken by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. Read More
Don’t be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale
VENICE (Reuters) – A fairy tale in which a mute cleaner in a government laboratory falls in love with an aquatic creature facing dissection there – an appeal to embrace differences – premiered at the Venice film festival on Thursday. Mexican director Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” stars Sally Hawkins as Elisa, the cleaner in the lab whose life changes when she befriends the amphibious creature, which has been captured by government scientists to study its breathing patterns for use in advances in space travel. “It’s a very Read More
Samsung Electronics to invest $7 billion to boost China NAND chip output
SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expects to invest $7 billion over the next three years to expand its NAND memory chip production in China’s northwestern city of Xi’an, the South Korean tech giant said on Monday. In a regulatory filing Samsung said it approved $2.3 billion of the expected investment of $7 billion on Monday. In early July, when Samsung announced an investment of $18.6 billion in South Korea, it said it would add a production line at its NAND plant in Xi’an, but did not set an Read More
Doctors struggle to diagnose man’s mysterious illness: Part 2 Video
Transcript for Doctors struggle to diagnose man’s mysterious illness a horrible, horrible, horrible nightmare. Reporter: Jennifer Gunkel couldn’t have felt more helpless or farther away from her boyfriend, Jonathan Koch. She’s home in L.A. While he’s across the country in Washington, D.C. In intensive care, clinging to life with only a 10% of survival. The doctors were saying, you need to call your loved ones now. Reporter: Like Jonathan, she too was in show business, doing social media shows like like “Grey’s anatomy.” She starts recording, in real time, nearly Read More