'Thor's Helmet' is a strikingly beautiful, messy nebula

To celebrate the release of "Age of Ultron," a type of star that will "live fast and die hard" is creating a nebula fitting for a Norse god. (Well, not really for that reason.)

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SunTrust's Bob Peck Says It's Possible Yahoo Does Algo Search Itself

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Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Staples, Inc. (SPLS), and AOL, Inc. (AOL) Among Activist Jeff Smith’s Worst Performing Picks in Q1

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Apple - Press Releases

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Sharon Carty to Drive Yahoo Autos as New Editor-in-Chief

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J [at noodls] - NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) today announced that Sharon Carty is the new Editor-in-Chief of the recently launched digital magazine, Yahoo Autos. Sharon will lead a talented group of automotive ...

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Tech Five: Earnings rush starts with IBM

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Volcker: US bank oversight ineffective, seeks overhaul

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker is calling for a reshaping of the U.S. financial oversight regime, which he says is splintered and ineffective.

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Fed's Dudley hopeful on rate hike this year

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Economic performance will determine when the Federal Reserve finally raises U.S. interest rates from near zero, an influential Fed official said on Monday, adding he hopes to tighten policy later this year. "We have to see what unfolds," New York Fed President William Dudley said in a speech that repeated cautious optimism that the U.S. economy will continue to expand and that inflation will begin to firm later this year.

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Oil falls on strong dollar and as Saudi output remains near record high

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Oil prices fell to under $63 a barrel on Monday after Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said production in the world's biggest crude exporter would stay near record peaks.

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Morgan Stanley profit jumps on higher trading revenue

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The bank's trading business, like those of its main rivals, got a boost in the quarter after the Swiss central bank scrapped a cap on the franc, the European Central Bank announced its quantitative easing program and the U.S. Federal Reserve took steps toward tightening monetary policy. "This was our strongest quarter in many years with improved performance across most areas of the firm," Chief Executive James Gorman said in a statement on Monday. Net income applicable to Morgan Stanley's common shareholders rose to $2.31 billion (£1.54 billion), or $1.18 per share, in the quarter, from $1.45 billion, or 74 cents per share, a year earlier. Morgan Stanley's shares were up 2.2 percent at $37.55 in premarket trading.

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Halliburton warns of weakness in North America, international operations

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The company posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday, helped by higher revenue and operating income from Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. The average U.S. rig count has fallen about 40 percent since June and was at 1,110 in March, according to Baker Hughes Inc's (BHI.N) closely watched survey. Halliburton agreed to buy Baker Hughes for $35 billion last November, a deal aimed at helping both companies weather the slump in oil and resist pressure from oil producers to slash prices.

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Earnings next test for stocks after market wipeout

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Stocks could chop around and rack up more losses in the week ahead, with the next wave of corporate earnings reports.

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Chinese leader in Pakistan to unveil $45B in investments

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Pakistan on Monday for a two-day visit in which he is expected to announce $45 billion worth of investment projects in energy and infrastructure development. Prime ...

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Naimi says Saudi oil production near record high in April

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi says Saudi Arabia is producing near record levels of crude in April, underscoring the kingdom's willingness to defend market share at a time when oil markets have staged a fragile recovery. There are worries that growing production from Saudi Arabia and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could snuff out a recent rebound in oil prices, particularly with economic growth in key oil consumer China the slowest in six years in the first quarter. OPEC had said its overall output surged to 30.79 million barrels per day in March, up 810,000 bpd from the previous month, with demand higher than expected due to lower prices. Naimi said that oil production in Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest crude exporter, was "around 10 million" bpd in April.

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Hedge Funds Turn Most Bullish on Oil in 8 Months as Output Slows

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Hedge funds increased bets on rising oil prices to an eight-month high amid signs U.S. production is slowing. Speculators boosted their net-long position in West Texas Intermediate crude by 9 percent in ...

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World's Biggest Wealth Fund Seeks One Dark Pool to Cut Costs

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Norway’s $890 billion wealth fund is taking the rare step of publicly criticizing the proliferation of dark pools, arguing the world’s biggest investors only need one such platform. The fund says institutional investors, and the savers they represent, are wasting money paying multiple fees amid a fragmentation of anonymous trading venues over the past decade. The dark pools have become associated with the phenomenon of front-running, in which bid and offer information is used by high-frequency traders to pre-empt transactions and make a profit at the expense of investors. Over the past five to six years the fund has cut its use of algorithms in trading to 40 percent from as high as 75 percent, Schanke said.

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Chinese and foreign film producers sign deals worth $2.3B

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese and foreign film producers, companies and investment firms signed movie cooperation deals worth 13.8 billion RMB ($2.3 billion) on Monday, demonstrating how foreign movie makers increasingly want a piece of the growing Chinese market.

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A colorful account of the birth of modern art in Paris

"In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art" (Penguin Press), by Sue Roe

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Basses discuss being black opera singers

When King Philip II of Spain faces off against the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi's "Don Carlo" at the Academy of Music, they won't just be portraying history, they'll be making a bit of it, too. In what's believed to be a first, a major opera company has cast two African-Americans in the roles.

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Toronto museum show on 'Curious History of Men in Heels'

TORONTO (AP) — The Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada, is hosting a new exhibit opening May 8 called "Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels."

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