In a "Guide to Greener Electronics" published on Tuesday, Greenpeace presented the world's electronics manufacturers' rating of the level of safety of their production and products for the environment. No one of the 17 companies received the highest score, and the most unfavorable were Chinese manufacturers Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi. In a renewed "Guide to Greener Electronics" (the paper had...

The European Central Bank cannot decide what to do with the asset buy-back program. Members of the ECB have determined the maximum amount of QE at 2.5 trillion euros. What will happen next? Some members of the ECB board have determined the limit of the program of buying up assets at the level of 2.5 trillion euros, Bloomberg reports with reference to its sources. At the same time, it is noted...

A 21-year-old California student, Paige Gasper, who was wounded during the shooting in Las Vegas, filed lawsuits against the hotel chain, organizers of the concert, and against manufacturers of the device, with which Stephen Paddock build an automatic rifle out of a semi-automatic. This suit has become the first legal claim of the victims during the shooting, and now the case promises to be very...

Facebook will rethink the principles of placing political advertising on its platform and may make some changes to the regulations before the mid-term elections to the US Congress scheduled for November 2018, said This Thursday, October 12, said Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer. "We are now actively working on all these things, the company pays much attention to improving all this," Reuters quotes...

The European Central Bank (ECB) received a profit of 7.2 billion pounds ($ 9.5 billion) from the Greek debt crisis, writes the Daily Express. The emerging information that the Greek bailout program has caused a shocking conflict of interest may lead to outrage in the country, which has been suffering from austerity measures for seven years. Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm of Transparency International...

China needs to weaken measures to control the movement of capital to gradually achieve the free movement of the yuan, stated Head of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, on the eve of the forthcoming congress of the Communist Party of China. Now, the country's authorities, on the contrary, are strictly monitoring the movement of funds, using the current currency restrictions to control the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said that she was ready for the failure of negotiations with Brussels on the withdrawal of the country from the European Union. At the same time, she is optimistic and confident that she will be able to achieve good results. Nevertheless, it is necessary to prepare for the worst development of events, May believes. In particular, Great Britain is reserving the...

If Catalonia leaves Spain and the so-called Catalexit still happens, the region will plunge into a long period of uncertainty, Business Insider reports with reference to the Dutch bank ING. The region has long been fighting for the preservation of its cultural identity. On Sunday, a referendum on independence was held in Catalonia, during which 90% of citizens voted to secede from the rest of the...

Expenditures of foreign tourists in different countries are growing at a level of GDP growth rates or even higher, a new study from Mastercard says. The company has studied 132 cities of the world in terms of their attractiveness for travel and tourist expenses. These cities can become engines of economic growth in their countries, the analysts emphasize. 1. Dubai Dubai turned out to be the...