BitGou: Morning Digest: Brent oil slips below $50 on mounting glut, slack demand

2015年1月7日星期三

Morning Digest: Brent oil slips below $50 on mounting glut, slack demand

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01/7/2015

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Brent oil slips below $50 on mounting glut, slack demand

LONDON (Reuters) - Brent crude oil fell below $50 a barrel for the first time since May 2009 on Wednesday, hammered by a growing supply glut and weak global demand..

AirAsia jet tail found underwater, black box may be close

JAKARTA/PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (Reuters) - The tail of a crashed AirAsia jet has been found upturned on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane's last known location, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said on Wednesday, indicating the crucial black box recorders may be nearby..

Euro hits nine-year low as Brent oil goes below $50

LONDON (Reuters) - The euro hit a nine-year trough on Wednesday as collapsing oil prices and worries about the world economy drove skittish investors into the arms of safe-haven sovereign debt..

Poland receives U.S. request for Polanski extradition: report

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has received a request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States, where he is wanted over a 1977 child sex crime conviction, state news agency PAP quoted the prosecutor-general's office as saying on Wednesday..

Randy Johnson heads Hall of Fame's Class of 2015

(Reuters) - Randy Johnson was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday along with Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio, marking the first time since 1955 that four players were selected in one year..

Police in China disclose contract for mobile phone snooping

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's push for government transparency appears to have gone awry in one eastern city after police disclosed on their website a 149,000-yuan ($23,983-) contract to develop software for hacking mobile phones..

U.S. GAO rejects protest of space taxi deal with Boeing, SpaceX

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - The Government Accountability Office rejected Sierra Nevada Corp's protest of $6.8 billion in contracts NASA awarded to Boeing Co BA.N and Space Exploration Technologies to develop and fly commercial space taxis, the congressional watchdog agency said on Monday..

Bridge to the past: Massachusetts opens 220-year-old time capsule

BOSTON (Reuters) - A 220-year-old time capsule containing coins, documents and other artifacts left by U.S. founding fathers Samuel Adams and Paul Revere was opened by Massachusetts officials on Tuesday..