Ukraine & Russia Quietly Signal A 'Little Flexibility' On Territory In Abu Dhabi Talks

French Rail Giant Alstom Crashes On "Painful" Second Warning Alstom shares crashed in European trading after costly delays on German train orders forced the French train manufacturer and rail-equipment supplier to slash its earnings outlook (again), forecast a 1.5 billion euro cash burn, and signal plans to sell assets to shore up its balance sheet.Alstom's problems center on its Coradia Max regional trains, where engineering issues discovered during production required expensive retrofits. The disruption has spread to other German projects, sparking delays and penalties and pushing the Coradia project's...

China Confirms Boeing Jet Deal, Agrees To Cut Select Levies & Expand Agri Trade Summary:  China, U.S. Agree To Cut Levies On Select Products, Expand Agricultural Trade China, U.S. Reach Boeing Jet Purchase Agreement U.S. And China Agree To Establish Trade And Investment Boards Trump-Xi Summit Delivers Modest Trade Wins China Responds With Agreements To Purchase Jets, Cut Levies, Expand Trade  One day after President Trump left Beijing, following his multi-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, China's Commerce Ministry released new details about agreements it had reached to purchaseU.S.. planes and farm...

Bamboozled Once Again... Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World  “Narcissists are unstable and go through repeated cycles of self-destruction, with...