HSBC Holdings Plc posted a higher-than-expected 28 percent rise in third-quarter profit as a renewed push to rein in costs and market share gains in its mainstay Asian region paid off, sending its Hong Kong shares sharply higher on Monday. Europe’s biggest bank by assets has in recent years reaped the benefits of a wider […] Read more
Amber Rachdi was 660 lbs when the television network TLC told her story on My 600-lb Life. Because of her weight, she had to drop out of college and became homebound. In her case it’s true when they say “where there is a will, there is way,” she lost 400 lbs with the help of gastric bypass surgery and followed a strict regimen afterward. Source: brightside […] Read more
The U.S. economy grew at a faster-than-expected rate in the third quarter as inflation was kept in check, according to data released by the Commerce Department on Friday. Gross domestic product expanded by a 3.5 percent annual rate. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected the economy to expand by a 3.4 percent annual rate. The […] Read more
Europe’s economy turned in its best performance in decades in 2017. There won’t be a repeat anytime soon. Growth is expected to slow dramatically this year as Europe grapples with new trade barriers, uncertainty over Brexit and political spats that undermine confidence in the euro and put banks under stress. “The ever strengthening cocktail of […] Read more
