New Jersey proposed $7 billion in potential credits against state and city taxes if Amazon locates in Newark. Credit ratings and research company Moody's has ranked Austin as the most likely to win based on its labor pool, costs of doing business and quality of life, among other criteria. Amazon has said it will announce a decision for its second campus, in addition to its Seattle headquarters, next year. U.S. cities are offering  Amazon  as much as $7 billion in tax breaks ahead of a Thursday deadline as they compete to house its second headquarters.

The US Dollar (via DXY Index) has seen its losses from Wednesday, triggered by a round of US weaker than expected housing data, trickle into Thursday absent any new bullish developments in the past 24-hours otherwise. As September US economic data has started to roll in, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma will have had a materially negative impact on Q3’17 GDP. Yesterday, the Atlanta Fed, New York Fed, and St. Louis Fed all downgrading their Q3 US GDP estimates after Wednesday’s data.

Actress Lauren Holly says Harvey Weinstein lured her to a hotel suite two decades ago, got naked without warning, used a toilet in front of her and became “angry” when she declined to massage his naked body. The “Dumb and Dumber” actress appeared Monday on the Canadian talk show “The Social” and said the terrifying ambush left her in tears, with hives covering her body.

By: Dmitriy Gurkovskiy The EUR/USD is heading for 1.20. The statistics is against the American currency due to the difference between real numbers and expectations. One has to follow what the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury may possibly undertake. The US Dollar can’t manage to continue growing, and the more attempts to rise it makes, the more doubts appear that it can really rise during this particular period of market fluctuations. The EUR/USD has clearly set a course for 1.20 and may resume falling only after reaching this level.

The one-time presidential hopeful, revealed her clashes with the Russian President when she was Secretary of State as well as exactly what happened when she telephoned Donald Trump to congratulate him on his election win. Speaking at the London’s South Bank Centre, she said of Mr Putin: “He doesn't like women very much - or at least that's my impression.

A World Cup, the truism goes, needs its host team to perform in some way competently for the competition to linger in the collective memory of those who witnessed it. Think, in recent decades, of South Korea’s astonishing run to the semifinals in 2002. Or four years previously, when France united itself for a few weeks of a boiling summer and won the damned thing in its capital city, thanks to a genius named Zinedine Zidane. Or Siphiwe Tshabalala, with that glorious sprint down the left wing and the hammered left-foot finish to start the 2010 tournament for South Africa against Mexico.

Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that “cavalier” threats to start war on the Korean peninsula were “dangerous and short-sighted”, urging the United States to get all parties to the negotiating table.