U.S. hedge fund P. Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) will stop short of seeking to replace the board of Vivendi at an April 17 shareholders’ meeting, despite opposing the French media group’s stance on shareholder returns. “We are not planning to try to put any new directors on the agenda,” Peter Schoenfeld told Reuters in an interview. […]

TOKYO/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Japan remains cautious about signing up to the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), indicating that Tokyo will miss the March 31 deadline for application, but both Taiwan and Norway said they would seek to join the institution. Finance Minister Taro Aso reiterated Japan’s concerns about governance at the AIIB, its debt […]

Oil prices fell on Monday, extending steep losses from the previous session, as Iran and six world powers tried to reach a deal that could add oil to the market if sanctions against Tehran are lifted. Benchmark Brent crude futures (LCOc1) had dropped to $56.04 by 0320 GMT, down 37 cents after falling 5 percent […]

Two members of the United States House of Representatives requested additional funding for joint United States and Israel missile defense systems like the Iron Dome. Representative Peter Roskam, a Republican from Illinois and co-chair of the House …

Already the talk is of more settlement construction in the West Bank, steps against foreign advocacy groups that support the Palestinians or the opposition, and a renewed push for a law formalizing Israel as a Jewish state despite the large Arab minority.

The project is called “Light Stories: Beyond the Explosion” and the former US Army Medical Command employees behind it say they are striving to collect the experiences of anyone in the military in order to allow the experiencers a chance to share a NDE and know they are not alone. It’s an extraordinary idea and […]

Under the President's unconstitutional November amnesty decree, four-to-five million illegal aliens will receive Social Security Numbers, making them eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Because U.S. tax law …

A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited. The biologists fear that the new technique is so effective and easy to use …

A group comprising KKR & Co, Varde Partners and Deutsche Bank are looking to securitize about A$7 billion ($5.33 billion) of debt they acquired from a unit of GE, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. The consortium said on Sunday that it will acquire GE Capital’s Australian and New Zealand consumer lending arm, […]

General Motors Co is in discussions with activist shareholder Harry J. Wilson and his proposal to join the automaker’s board and to return $8 billion to investors, with the hope of avoiding a proxy fight, …