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Current Events This Week

Cornell Related

  • Cornell has suspended its 5th Fraternity since the start of the semester, Kappa Alpha Psi.
  • A hearing board deemed Mitch McBride not guilty of violating the Campus Code of Conduct when he shared documents containing possible changes to financial aid with the Cornell Daily Sun.

Markets

  • Stocks were trading flat for the most part as investors look forward to the results of the French election and quarterly earning reports from firms.
  • Visa reported better than expected quarterly results and as a result has issued a $5M buyback of its class A stock.

International

  • Voting for a new French president is set to begin on Sunday and is currently locked between 4 candidates.
  • President Donald Trump opened an investigation into whether steel imports from China and other nations were a threat to national security.

Tech

  • Bose is currently facing a class action lawsuit amidst allegations of the company collecting private user data through its wireless headphones and then selling it to third parties.
  • Verizon reported its first ever net customer loss with almost 400,000 people leaving the network in the beginning of 2017

Politics

  • US Prepares to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
  • Amidst the Venezuelan protests against the government, numerous foreign companies have been pushed out. The latest of these has been GM, which had existed in the country since 1948.   
Sunday 04.23.17
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