Gun ownership was closely tied to “social gun culture,” wherein family and friends also own guns and think less of non-gun owners, researchers found. “Considering the presence of deeply rooted gun culture and the estimated number of guns in the U.S. to be 310 million, we (suspected) that social gun culture is associated with gun ownership,” said lead author Dr. Bindu Kalesan of the Mailman School of Public Health at
General Electric Co said it would sell its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) for about $2.2 billion as the U.S. conglomerate sheds financial assets amid a restructuring. This makes the deal attractive to the core banking unit of Japan’s third largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , which is trying to diversify away from the fiercely competitive corporate lending
General Electric Co said it would sell its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) for about $2.2 billion as the U.S. conglomerate sheds financial assets amid a restructuring. This makes the deal attractive to the core banking unit of Japan’s third largest bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) , which is trying to diversify away from the fiercely competitive corporate lending
GE on April 10 unveiled plans to shed some $200 billion in finance assets, and has since forged agreements for about $23 billion in asset sales. “It took us a while to get these businesses and the data and the transactions in the marketplace,” GE Capital Chief Executive Keith Sherin told Reuters in an interview.
GE on April 10 unveiled plans to shed some $200 billion in finance assets, and has since forged agreements for about $23 billion in asset sales. “It took us a while to get these businesses and the data and the transactions in the marketplace,” GE Capital Chief Executive Keith Sherin told Reuters in an interview.
By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The poor’s lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday. More than 90 percent of the world population has access to clean water, but 2.4 billion people, most in rural areas, continue to live without toilets, the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF and World Health Organisation
Spain remained locked in a heat wave on Tuesday with most of the country on high alert for forest fires and the elderly urged to take extra care. Spain’s national weather office put 40 of the nation’s 50 provinces on either “yellow” or “orange” alert due to the scorching temperatures which are forecast to dip on Wednesday before rising again at the weekend. The highest temperatures were expected to be
By Kagondu Njagi WAMBA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor weather, security threats and bad roads have made disposing of the Wamba district hospital’s medical waste a challenge. The nearest incinerator is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) away and “traveling was not possible during heavy rains because connecting roads were cut off by floods,” said Stephen Lesrumat, a medic at the hospital. “It has reduced the burden of traveling outside
By Samuel Blackstone for DETAILS.(photo: Getty)It’s officially summer! Time for barbeques, fireworks, and best of all, vacation. But just because you’re off from work doesn’t mean your body is on break too, especially if you’re going to the beach. You may not have a gym, you may not have weights, and with these exercises, brought to you by Mike…
The United States says Novartis AG should pay as much as $3.35 billion in damages and civil fines because the Swiss drugmaker used kickbacks to boost sales of two drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid. In papers filed Monday night in Manhattan federal court, the government said it deserves that sum under the federal False Claims Act over alleged improper reimbursements for Exjade, used by patients who receive blood transfusions,