The Transportation sector (IYT) held steady during a trading day that saw the SP 500 grow 0.1%. The ETF, as a proxy for the sector, tracked closer to the overall market today than over the past week. Going into trading today, the SP 500 was up -2% over the last seven trading days, but IYT [...]
Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission staff members will make their rounds at Bike Week events this week to gather community input on the future of transportation in the county. The commission is working on a regional transportation plan update, which aims to infuse sustainable practices in helping get people to their destinations. The goal [...]
Business activity in the US expanded in April at the slowest pace since the end of 2009, adding to evidence that manufacturing is cooling. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said today its barometer decreased to 56.2 during the month, lower than the most pessimistic forecast in a Bloomberg News survey, from 62.2 in March. [...]
The lucky ticket was purchased at USA #68136, which is located at 13539 Baseline Avenue in Fontana. The ticket successfully matched the numbers 45, 27, 52, 31, 24, missing only the Mega number of 38. Interestingly, Matio chose her own numbers at random, said Xiomara Greene and Ivan Murillo, sales representatives at the Fontana station. [...]
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PLEASANTON, Calif. The nations second-largest grocery chain says it will adopt purchasing policies that favor more humane treatment of pigs. Safeway Inc. announced Monday that its planning to stop buying from suppliers that use pig gestation crates. Most pork currently comes from sows confined during their four-month pregnancies in narrow crates. Animal welfare activists have [...]
Visiting the Falklands is all about taking in the wildlife. On the surface, this seemingly barren archipelago in the South Atlantic, 300 miles east of the tip of South America, is a cross between Scotlands Outer Hebrides and the rocky interior of Iceland. But then you add five species of penguin, sea lions, and albatross [...]
TOEING THE lines of the neighbouring state of Haryana, Punjab has finally woken up to promote sports activities such as rural kabaddi, hockey and cricket. After the successful operation of Rural Olympic held in Kila Raipur in February 2012, Punjab government is all set to give a boost to the cricket and other national games [...]
Turkeys soccer federation has cleared all 16 Turkish teams, including Fenerbahce, of involvement in an alleged match-fixing scandal, but it also banned two players for several years and imposed disciplinary measures on eight players or club officials. There is no reason for punishment since the elements of the alleged disciplinary violation have not materialized, said [...]
MUSCAT — BankMuscat launched Green Sports, its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative to develop a sporting nation. Shaikh Saad bin Mohammed al Saadi, Minister of Sports, presided at the launch of BankMuscat Green Sports initiative yesterday in the presence of Shaikh Khalid bin Mustahail al Mashani, Chairman, BankMuscat, Sulaiman bin Mohamed al Yahyai, Vice-Chairman, AbdulRazak [...]