BitGou: Reuters Morning Digest: August 7, 2015

2015年8月7日星期五

Reuters Morning Digest: August 7, 2015

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Friday, August 7, 2015

World stocks, dollar flat before U.S. jobs data

LONDON (Reuters) - Investors moved to the sidelines on Friday, with the dollar and world stocks markets barely budging, before U.S. jobs data that are considered a key to convincing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade.

Palestinians delay soccer final, saying Israel blocking players

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Football Federation postponed the final Palestine Cup game between champion teams of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after Israel denied entry permits to some of the Gaza players, sport officials said.

Oil slips, glut puts it on track for sixth week lower

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil was on track for another weekly drop as oversupply concerns weighed on the world's oil benchmark, facing a sixth consecutive week of losses, the longest run since the turn of the year.

Bitcoin startups lure quant whizzes from Wall Street

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Armed with a doctorate in financial engineering, 34-year-old Timo Schlaefer was on his way to a promising career at Goldman Sachs in London. Previously with the bank's mergers and acquisitions team, he became an executive director of credit quantitative modeling at Goldman, where quants like Schlaefer are highly valued.

House panel asks NASA why it isn't probing SpaceX blast

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House panel this week asked NASA to explain why it hasn't launched an independent review of the explosion on June 28 of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as it did after the earlier explosion of Orbital ATK Inc's Antares rocket on Oct. 28.

Button may have been gassed in St. Tropez burglary

LONDON (Reuters) - Jenson Button may have been gassed during a burglary at a rented villa in St Tropez, a spokesman for the former Formula One world champion was quoted as saying by British media.

British comedian spurns Edinburgh for London retrospective

LONDON (Reuters) - As thousands of comedians converge on Edinburgh this weekend for the annual Fringe festival, one of its best-known performers will be staying away, avoiding what he says is an annual "whirlwind of paranoia, self-obsession and disappointment".

FBI hopes grainy video will help solve 25-year-old $500 million art heist

BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal investigators in Boston on Thursday released 25-year-old surveillance video showing a security guard admitting a man to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before it was robbed of $500 million worth of art in the largest such heist in U.S. history.