Investors are betting on European earnings !

Profits continued to be the main drivers of European equities, and Kering shares of luxury goods jumped after Gucci's sales rebounded, with little change on the index as investors awaited the ECB meeting.

The Stoxx 600 European index was little changed, while the leading index of the euro area rose 0.2 percent.

France's CAC 40 gained 0.2 percent, boosted by strong gains from Cairng.

The euro zone's banking sector index rose 0.5 percent to add to gains from the previous session as investors awaited the ECB meeting on Thursday to see the next stimulus for financial sector stocks that benefit from a high interest rate environment.

Pulpoint, the maker of pens and cores, fell 10.6 percent to a four-year low after nine-month sales figures were lower than expected. The stock suffered heavy losses after cutting sales forecasts at the end of September. Finnish industrial shares fell 5.5 percent after the results fell below expectations.

Kering led luxury stocks up after the company announced a rise in sales again with better-than-expected performance from the Gucci brand, pushing the stock up 6.2 percent at the opening. Shares in LFMH rose 0.6 percent. Retail and consumer goods performed better than the market and rose 0.4 to 0.7 percent.

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Yahoo Confirms $ 3 Billion Users' Account for Piracy in 2013 !

 The Internet group Yahoo said on Tuesday that the cyber attack in August 2013, the accounts of all users and the number of about 3 billion accounts. The group had previously announced that the process of piracy has lasted one billion accounts, but recent investigations confirmed the high number.

The Internet group Yahoo said Tuesday in a statement that the electronic attack in 2013, which is the largest of its kind in history, the accounts of all users and the number of about three billion accounts and not a billion accounts only as previously announced.

Yahoo, which was recently bought by US communications giant Verizon, said Yahoo was sending e-mails to the rest of the affected user accounts.

The real size of the cyber attack was made possible by investigations by independent experts after Verizon acquired Yahoo, which became known as Out, the statement said.

The group reassured that hackers did not steal passwords, bank statements or information related to payment methods adopted by account holders who had penetrated.

"The company continues to cooperate closely with the security forces ... and will take all necessary measures" to safeguard the security of users.

On December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced that it had been hit by a massive piracy operation in August 2013 involving a billion accounts.

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france24

European stocks are moving in a tight range !

European stocks moved in the tight range in early trading yesterday, despite record highs in Asia and the US market. Financial stocks topped losers, while JustEat topped the list of gainers after the company's merger with Hungry House received initial approval.

The STOXX 600 index of European shares rose 0.01 percent in early trade, with the continent's shares generally lacking a clear direction. Spain's Apex and France's CAC 40 fell 0.1 percent, while Germany's DAX and Britain's Financial Times 100 rose slightly.

The shares were the best performer on the European index, up 6.4 percent, leading to a record high after British competition authorities gave preliminary approval for the acquisition of Hungarian House. In Germany, Lufthansa was the top gainer on the leading domestic index, up 2.7 percent after the company confirmed it would sign an agreement to buy stakes in the bankrupt R Berlin.

Japan's Nikkei stock index has hit its highest level in more than two decades, supported by record high US equities, and media speculation that the ruling party is heading for a victory this month. The index rose 0.4 percent to end at 20,954.72 points, after rising to 20,994.40 points, the highest level since December 1996. The broader TOPIX rose 0.2 percent to 1,700.13 points, after touching 1703.67 points, the highest level since July. ). Kobe Steel rose 0.5 percent, after falling more than 35 percent this week after the company was involved in a fraud scandal.

A senior Japanese trade official confirmed yesterday that the Ministry of Commerce is seriously dealing with data fraud for its impact on confidence in the manufacturing sector in Japan. Kobe Steel's chief executive said the company's fraudulent range might well exceed Japan's borders.

Toshiba Corp. rose 3.8 percent after the Tokyo Stock Exchange confirmed it had lifted the troubled electronics company from a private watch list after improved internal controls. The move reduced the possibility of the company's share being written off, but did not completely rule out it.

The oil and coal index fell 1.3 percent, while the mining index fell 1.1 percent. The index rose by 0.25 percent to 1,555.17 points.

US stock indexes rose yesterday to close at record highs, with Wall Street showing little reaction after the release of the minutes of the latest meeting of the Monetary Policy Industry Committee of the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> was up 42.21 points, or 0.18 percent, at 22,872.89. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was up 4.60 points, or 0.18 percent, at 2,555.24. The Nasdaq Composite was up 16.30 points, or 0.25 percent, at 6603.55.

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World Cup 2018 Messi leads Argentina to the finals and Panama qualify for the first time in its history !

Lionel Messi led Argentina to the 2018 World Cup with a 3-1 win over Ecuador in the last round of South American qualifying. For their part, Panama qualified for the finals for the first time in their history.

Argentina qualified for the 2018 World Cup finals thanks to a hat-trick from Lionel Messi in Ecuador 3-1 at Quito on Wednesday morning in the last round of South American qualifying.

Uruguay and Colombia also secured their qualification after the first win over Bolivia 4-2, the second tied with their hosts Peru 1-1 and the latter will play the supplement. Brazil, who had previously secured a 3-0 victory over Chile, overcame their rivalry.

The United States failed to reach the World Cup finals with a 2-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago in the final round of qualifying for CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean), while Panama qualified for the first time in their history by beating Costa Rica 2-1.

The United States was in a good position before the start of the match because it was in third place and progress on Panama, who finished fourth with two points, but the latter succeeded in winning the home win over Costa Rica in the last minute with two goals in the 90 and 90 + 2 to reverse the failure and resolve the qualification card At the expense of the United States in particular.

The opportunity was available to the United States despite the loss to go to the supplement, but Honduras turned their back to Mexico twice as well and came out a 3-2 winner to play the international against Australia fifth Asia.

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france24

October 2 The most sad day in the history of Twitter !

A tool to measure the morale of users of social networking platforms that the second of October, was the most sad days in the history of Twitter.

The device, known as the Hedonometer - measuring the happiness of millions of Twitter users based on their tweets - showed that the average level of happiness was only 5.77 on Monday when a Las Vegas attack killed 59 people and injured more than 500, the bloodiest in modern American history, while US Country Music Concert.

The previous "Happiness Meter" was the lowest level of 5.84 recorded on the day of the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, which killed at least 49 people and wounded more than 50 last year.

The tool pointed out that the third most sad days on Twitter was the ninth of November 2016, the day after the announcement of the victory of Donald Trump, led by the United States with an average happiness of 5.87.

The happiest days on Twitter were Christmas Day 2008, with the average happiness rising to 6.36 and the tool measuring the morale on Twitter since 2008.

According to Al-Arabiya.net, the tool is the brainometer of Peter Odds and Chris Danforth, a mathematician and computer expert at the University of Vermont Advanced Computer Center. The tool combines sentences that begin with "I feel" and measure the level of happiness in the text that follows. 9.

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Google is launching its new generation of smartphones with unprecedented specifications for selfie capture !

Google has revealed the second generation of its smartphone Pixell, unprecedented specifications and features in the hope of competing with major companies dominating the smartphone market.
At San Francisco, the company launched the Piccell 2 and the Pixel 2XL, and can take Sylvie photos using Portrait Mode, via front and rear cameras with a single lens.
The profile mode requires focusing on the person without showing the background details and providing space for the person's details, so most other phones can automatically blur the background images for a while, but usually rely on dual-lens rear cameras to create realistic effects.
Google, the global technology giant and producer of the Android operating system for smart phones, said its new innovation in phones meant it could provide more space for the battery as well as front speakers.

New features
An important change in the new boot is the removal of a conventional slot for the installation of a headset.
Instead of using a 3.5 mm slot for the headset, users will need either to use a wireless headset - Google sells a pair called Piccell buds - or a headset with a socket that looks like a charging link.
A spokesman for Google defended the new idea for the headset, explaining that Pixel's engineers believe the USB slot has become a global standard for handset manufacturing so it should be used instead of the traditional headphone vents.
About 2.8 million original Pixel phones have been shipped for sale outside the United States since they were launched a year ago, and Edec Research says it represents only 0.5 percent of the broader smartphone market.
Sales were partly limited by the company's inability to provide enough hardware to meet demand, but Google confirmed it was producing Pixel 2 and Bexel 2XL in larger numbers.

Operating Systems
Google is working on its phones to provide the latest version of the Android system for consumers. Piccell phones ensure users have access to the latest versions of their operating systems, at least three years, before other users of other phones.
However, Google has unveiled many unique features, including the capture of a single-lens PorterMod by adopting a two-pixel sensor, which means that the new camera will capture the image and focus on the person, rather than The need for a lens picks up and another focuses on the person.
An additional feature is that the front camera can also capture PortraitMod images with the same precision and with one lens. There is also an operating system to create a deeper image map that can be used to add special effects, such as enhanced reality characters.
Phone users can also call the Google Assistant, an artificial intelligence system, by pressing both sides of the phone.
The new organic light-emitting diode features the Shazam-like feature, which can capture the sound of any song and display its name and details.

Shazam Lake's feature relies on a massive database of tens of thousands of tracks that have been pre-loaded on the phone and do not require Internet access to save the battery.
One of Google's new phones can automatically translate conversation between someone who speaks English and someone else who does not speak, but wears a Pixel Buds headset and speaks in his native language.
Google introduced the new phone in Britain at a price more expensive than the previous version, and the price of the phone screen 12.7 cm about 629 pounds, while the price of the phone screen 15.2 cm 799 pounds.
Google plans to compete hard in the smartphone market, but one expert wondered if it could really pose a serious challenge to other competitors, especially Samsung, Apple and Huawei.
"Launching a device in a region like Western Europe requires support for more than 50 operators and 70 retailers," said Francisco Geronimo of the Edec Foundation.
"Google will have to create a huge network of sales and marketing to be able to compete with Samsung and Huawei."

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bbc

Range Rover Sport SVR Model 2018 improved look really ready to control it !

Cars  The first images of the upgraded version of Ranger Rover Sport SVR 2018 appeared on the Internet during official disclosure. The car looks bold and aggressive, and the car adopts a new front spoiler with large air vents and carbon fiber in the frame surrounding the ventilation network so the Range Rover Sport is equipped with a new carbon fiber hood with two large openings.
And the sporty design continues in the rest of the body of the car designers have provided side air vents and side lines developed so we can see new wheels supported by high-performance braking system with red brakes. On the back, the changes show a low part of the same color shock with the rear deck and four exhaust exhausts with chrome accents. The most prominent additions are SVR logos and carbon fiber touches on the back door.
And published only a few internal images showing that the model is following the Range Rover Vilar and adopting a second display of the climate control system, so there seems to be new seats and brushes developed and will be powered by a 5.0-liter V8 engine with a supercharger, The power is increased to about 575 hp and this will enable the Range Rover Sport SVR to accelerate from 0-60 mph in less than 4.5 seconds before reaching a top speed of more than 162 mph (260 km / h).

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SHAUMI Announces MI-NOTEBOOK PRO for Apple's MacBOOK PRO

In a special event held in Beijing on Monday, the company revealed the second generation of Mi Mix, a new laptop designed to compete with Apple's MacBook Pro .

The new Mi Notebook Pro is the world's first device with Intel's eighth-generation Core i7 processor, which Shawy said delivers 40% better performance than the 7th generation.

The Chinese consumer electronics giant said the computer also has a cooling design that allows for double-flow of indoor and outdoor air to cool the device quickly despite heavy use.

The Mi Netbook Pro comes with a magnetism design similar to Apple's MacBook Pro in gray, a fingerprint sensor integrated under the trackpad, and a lighted keyboard from the bottom.

For the rest of the specifications, the device offers a 15.6-inch screen with narrow edges, is protected by the third generation glass Gorilla Glass, and supports Harman Infinity and Dolby Atmo. It also offers RAM of 8 or 16 gigabytes, and internal storage of up to 1 TB of SSD.

Unlike the newer MacBook Pro, which came with only four USB-C ports, Me Netbook Pro comes with two USB-C ports and two traditional USB ports, as well as an HDMI port .

It is noteworthy that Chaomi entered the world of laptops last year with the computer "Mi Notebook Air," which came to compete with the computers "Macbook Air" from Apple, and now comes "My Netbook Pro" to compete "MacBook Pro."

The company plans to launch its new laptop at a price starting from up to US $ 1,075 for the Intel Core 7 processor and RAM 16 GB

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