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Prudential suspends insurance product distribution deal with Wells Fargo

MarketWatch.com 

Prudential Financial Inc. said Monday that it will suspend the distribution of its MyTerm insurance product through all Wells Fargo & Co. branches and website while it reviews the bank's sale practices. The MyTerm product was launched in 2007, and is designed to give customers more choices and access to life insurance. The company had entered into a distribution agreement with Wells Fargo in June 2014. The suspension of the agreement follows Wells Fargo's sales practice scandal earlier this year. Читать дальше...



How the internet keeps poor people in poor neighborhoods

Vox 

These invisible decisions group us digitally — and in real life.

In October, ProPublica journalists went to Facebook and bought a housing-related ad.

They wanted to expose how Facebook allowed advertisers to discriminate based on race. So they used Facebook’s advertising tools to exclude certain users from seeing the ad: African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics.

This was clearly a violation of the Fair Housing Act, which says real estate ads can't show a preference for people based on race... Читать дальше...

Oil recovery may be emerging in North Dakota

United Press International (UPI.com) 

Daniel J. Graeber
BISMARCK, N.D., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- If state records are accurate when measured against industry data, the rig count in North Dakota gained significant ground after a weekend OPEC agreement.

Kendall Wright on benching: Missed meetings can’t happen

NBCSports.com 

The Titans held wide receiver Kendall Wright out of the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Broncos in a disciplinary move that resulted from Wright being late and missing a team meeting on Saturday. The team announced the reason for Wright’s absence from the lineup shortly after declaring him inactive. Wright said that he apologized…

Egypt mourns 25 Christians killed in massive church bombing

«TDN» (tdn.com) 

(AP) -- Egypt's Coptic community held a funeral service on Monday for 25 Christians killed in a bombing the previous day at a church next to the main cathedral in Cairo - one of the deadliest attacks targeting the country's…

A single phone call gave Trump an edge over China

BusinessInsider.com 

AP Photo/Matt Rourke

President-elect Donald Trump recently spoke on the telephone with the president of Taiwan, causing deep upset. It was counter to an understanding in place since Richard Nixon opened the door with China in 1972.

This understanding included an American endorsement of the one-China policy. This policy held that Taiwan was part of China but would continue to behave as if it weren't. The US agreed not to have diplomatic relations with Taiwan and pretend it wasn't a close ally. Читать дальше...





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