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Kostin expects capex to remain lackluster as the energy sector, which accounts for 30% of capex, is expected to see spending fall 20% in 2016 due to low energy prices. This will be offset by an estimated 6% gain in non-energy capex.
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On Thursday, YouTube, which is part of Alphabet-owned Google, revealed the next phase in its plan for VR. You can now view the 360 videos in 3D. The site is also making every single video in YouTube's massive library viewable on Cardboard. Just open up YouTube's Android smartphone app, play a video and tap the Cardboard icon. For videos that weren't originally meant to be viewed through VR goggles, it will reformat them to look like you're watching in an Imax theater. (The feature will come to the YouTube app for Apple's iPhones soon, but YouTube didn't say when.)
YouTube bolts into next phase of virtual reality with 3D video - CNET
Continued improvements in the labor market and the pick-up in earnings give monetary policy makers more confidence that inflation will trend higher, especially as the impact of the plunge in crude prices begins to fade from the headline rate in the coming months. "This is just what the Dr. (Yellen) ordered," writes Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Harris outlined five reasons why "Fedexodus," the initial normalization of monetary policy, won't have a crippling effect on real economic activity.
Since Russia's Syria campaign began, Kremlin officials and the state media have been framing it as a painless war that was boosting Moscow's international prestige. All patriotic citizens needed to do was sit back and enjoy the grainy footage of terrorists being obliterated by Russia's shiny new military machine. The deaths of hundreds of Russian civilians threatened to change that, especially after Islamic State claimed responsibility and the evidence that a bomb — and not technical failure — destroyed the aircraft mounted. Suddenly the Syria campaign wasn't cost-free anymore. So Russian state media did what came naturally: they blamed the West.
Russian media is peddling anti-western conspiracy theories about the plane crash in Egypt
The data show that nearly all of the net increase in jobs since June 2009, when the recession officially ended, has come from full-time positions, not part-time. Through October, there were nearly nine million more full-time jobs than when the recession ended, while the number of part-time jobs is actually down by around 300,000.