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Snapchat shares downgraded for a second time during rough week for recent IPO

Lucas Jackson | Reuters Snap co-founders Evan Spiegel (R) and Bobby Murphy walk to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, March 2, 2017. Shares of social media firm Snap were downgraded for a second time this week Friday, adding to an already dismal trading week for …

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Citigroup earnings Q2 2017

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The silhouette of a pedestrian holding a mobile device is seen walking past a Citigroup bank branch in San Francisco. Citigroup is slated to report second-quarter results Friday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting from Citigroup’s results: EPS: $1.21 expected by Thomson …

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‘Black Tickets’ Catches Young Women in No Man’s Land

Phillips was reporting from a place few Americans knew firsthand, a place about which, in her story “Country,” we read: “This ain’t the South, Billy muttered, hung over, his head in his arms on the steering wheel, This is the goddamn past.” Phillips’s stories have one foot in the modern …

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$1.82 per share, vs $1.58 EPS expected

Christophe Morin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings Friday morning. Analysts polled by Reuters expected JPMorgan Chase to report second quarter earnings per share of $1.58 on revenue of $24.96 billion. In the …

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Trump’s Comment About France’s First Lady Draws Groans on Late Night

Photo Stephen Colbert felt the need to remind President Trump that he was on a diplomatic visit, “not one of your European wife-shopping trips.” Credit CBS Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you …

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Firm that sold $14,000 smartphones has reportedly collapsed

Kevin Lee | Getty Images for Vertu A guest looks at a Vertu handset during the Vertu Aster Launch party on October 16, 2014 in Shanghai, China. The manufacturing arm of a British luxury smartphone maker is to be wound down after a failed buyout bid in the U.K. High …

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Judge grants bid to narrow Trump travel ban

David Maung | Bloomberg | Getty Images A woman wearing a hijab holds a miniature American flag during a naturalization ceremony in San Diego, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 22, 2017. A Justice Department representative could not immediately be reached for comment. The U.S. Supreme Court last month let the …

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Fired voice of Kermit the Frog says he’s ‘devastated’

Lawrence Lucier | Getty Images Muppet Kermit the Frog and his operator Steve Whitmire take questions from the audience at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle on November 14, 2003,in New York City. It isn’t easy being green. But no longer being green is apparently even harder. Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer …

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What’s on TV Friday: ‘Friends From College’ and ‘Chasing Coral’

Photo Annie Parisse and Keegan-Michael Key in “Friends From College,” a comedy series on Netflix. Credit Barbara Nitke/Netflix Keegan-Michael Key and Cobie Smulders headline “Friends From College,” a comedy series from husband-and-wife Harvard grads about people presumably just like them. And “Chasing Coral” chronicles the death of reefs with imagery …

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China spy ship reportedly off coast of Alaska, watching THAAD tests

Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency/Handout | REUTERS A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska during Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-18 in Kodiak, Alaska, July 11, 2017. A Chinese spy ship has been spotted off the Alaskan coast, with U.S. officials saying they believe …

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