Новости за 19.01.2016

Chris Cordaro, CIO of RegentAtlantic says he recommends a 10% allocation to emerging markets in a portfolio because valuations in those countries are still really strong.

Chris Cordaro, CIO of RegentAtlantic says he recommends a 10% allocation to emerging markets in a portfolio because valuations in those countries are still really strong.

(Reuters) - The Onion - the satirical website famous for headlines like “Black man given worst job in Nation” following the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president in 2008 – has a new major shareholder.

TORONTO/MEXICO CITY, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia , Canada's third-largest bank, will push ahead with its plans in the high-growth focus markets of Peru and Chile despite their exposure to the commodities sectors, one of its top executives said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull pledged on Tuesday to increase cooperation on counterterrorism and the fight against Islamic State.

(Reuters) - Twitter said on Tuesday outages affecting the social network on computers and phones, widely reported across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America, were caused by a glitch in a software update and had been resolved.

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo told European Union lawmakers on Tuesday that her government had not breached European or Polish laws after the bloc launched an investigation into charges that Warsaw was undermining democratic principles.

BAKU, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's revised budget will be based on an oil price of $30 a barrel, the country's central bank chief said on Tuesday, as the former Soviet country struggles to stave off a currency crisis.

CHIAYI COUNTY, Taiwan - Budai, a township in southwest Taiwan, is building a church in the form of a giant high-heeled shoe, made of metal and blue glass tiles, seeking to  attract more tourists to the area.

PARIS (Reuters) - Three suspected al Qaeda attackers involved in an assault on a hotel and cafe in Burkina Faso's capital that killed 30 people at the weekend were still being sought on Tuesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Italy's RINA expects to start verifying safety and environmental standards for Iranian ships including oil tankers in a matter of weeks, the classification society said, stealing a lead on rivals as business interest in Iran heats up.

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Italy's RINA expects to start verifying safety and environmental standards for Iranian ships including oil tankers in a matter of weeks, the classification society said, stealing a lead on rivals as business interest in Iran heats up.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday opened a major public review of the evolving structure and risks of the Treasuries market, inspired by the "flash crash" of Oct. 15, 2014, that jolted the market with whiplash price swings.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his administration have repeatedly pressed Iranians to provide information on former FBI agent Robert Levinson, an American who went missing in Iran eight years ago, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the United States would speed up the approval of promising new drug combinations in his government's newly announced drive to cure cancer "once and for all".

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the United States would speed up the approval of promising new drug combinations in his government's newly announced drive to cure cancer "once and for all".

LONDON (Reuters) - The sister of a Briton suspected of being the masked militant fronting an Islamic State execution video said on Tuesday she believed her brother had been brainwashed but she wanted him to come home and hoped he could still be rehabilitated.

LONDON (Reuters) - The sister of a Briton suspected of being the masked militant fronting an Islamic State execution video said on Tuesday she believed her brother had been brainwashed but she wanted him to come home and hoped he could still be rehabilitated.

SANTEE, S.C. — Divers have recovered the body of a woman missing following a crash on the Interstate 95 bridge over Lake Marion.

(Reuters) - A Yemeni man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to kill Americans abroad by working with al Qaeda to attack U.S. military and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Tuesday continued cooperation in the fight against terrorism, especially Islamic State and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, Turkish presidential sources said.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Two jailed Turkish editors, accused of spying and helping a terrorist group, have told Reuters in a faxed message from prison that their arrest was designed to send a warning to journalists.

Jan 19 (Reuters) - A shareholder filed a lawsuit against Viacom and CBS's boards on Tuesday, alleging the companies improperly paid millions to Sumner Redstone for his services as executive chairman "while he was physically and mentally incapacitated."

LONDON (Reuters) - Formula One's four manufacturers have agreed a deal to reduce the cost of engines and ensure that no team is left without a supply, sources at the governing FIA said on Tuesday after meetings in Geneva.

* EU calls naming of government an "essential step" (adds detail)