Institutional Investor (December 1)
A crackdown in China on the securities industry “is shaking confidence.” The crackdown includes “the disappearance of a top brokerage executive” who many presume has been removed for questioning. These and other events are “fueling worries that President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on alleged abuses in the securities industry is turning into a campaign against political rivals.”
Tags: Abuses, Brokerage executive, China, Confidence, Crackdown, Disappearance, Political rivals, Securities industry, Xi Jinping
USA Today (March 10)
The fruitless search to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, let alone determine what caused its fate, highlights just how outdated the black-box is in a world of 24/7 connections. This “disappearance is a powerful argument for upgrading black-box technology to allow planes to live-stream vital information when they get into trouble—a suggestion that airlines have resisted because of the cost.”
Tags: Airlines, Black-box, Cost, Disappearance, Flight, Malaysia Airlines, Missing, Outdated, Search, Stream, Technology, Upgrade
