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Rhode Island Cuts Hedge Fund Allocation by Half to Boost Returns

Edit Bloomberg 29 Sep 2016
Rhode Island Treasurer Seth Magaziner said the state’s $7.7 billion pension fund is cutting its allocation to hedge funds in half over two years, as high fees eat into returns and some of the investment pools provide less diversification than expected ... pension, in cutting hedge-fund investments ... Stock-hedge funds lost 3.4 percent for the year ending Aug ... London-based Nevsky Capital closed its doors and Tudor Investment Corp ... LEARN MORE. ....
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In this July 14, 2015, file photo, Pete Rose waits to be introduced before the MLB All-Star baseball game in Cincinnati.

Banned Rose appeals to Hall of Fame for eligibility

Edit The Associated Press 29 Sep 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseball's Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooperstown. to Hall president Jeff Idelson on Tuesday made the case that the settlement agreement reached by Rose and then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti didn't include a provision that he be ineligible for election to the Hall of Fame....

Banned Pete Rose appeals to Hall of Fame for eligibility

Edit WPTV 29 Sep 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseball's Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooperstown ... The Hall of Fame changed its bylaws two years after Rose's banishment to make permanently banned players ineligible for the Hall, which shut out the career hits leader as long as he remained barred from baseball....

Riley: Rose-Ivey 'will do great' when he meets with governor

Edit The Oklahoman 29 Sep 2016
(AP) — Nebraska coach Mike Riley said he expects Michael Rose-Ivey to represent himself well when he meets next week with Gov. Pete Ricketts, who criticized Rose-Ivey and two other football players for kneeling during the national anthem last weekend ... Rose-Ivey, Mohamed Barry and DaiShon Neal each took a knee during the anthem before the game at Northwestern to protest police brutality and racial injustice....

Derrick Rose Dragged Tupac Shakur Into Rape Case ... Treat Me Like Him!

Edit TMZ 29 Sep 2016
Derrick Rose is turning to Tupac Shakur in the hopes of getting the judge to force his rape accuser to reveal her identity during the trial ... As we previously reported, Rose believes it's completely unfair for his accuser to hide behind a pseudonym while trashing him and talking about the case to the media ... Now, in the new court docs filed by Rose, ......

Flowers wilt as States wrangle over water

Edit The Hindu 29 Sep 2016
The ongoing inter-State hostility between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has hit local rose growers. The three-week-long freeze in vehicular movement between the two States has cut transportation of roses to export as well as domestic markets. Local growers in Hosur, the largest supplier of roses in the country, estimate their losses (since the start of the agitation) to be between Rs 22 crore and Rs 25 crore....

Energy shares lead Asian stocks higher on OPEC output deal

Edit Springfield News-Sun 29 Sep 2016
Hong Kong's Hang Seng rose 0.4 percent to 23,700.21 and the Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.6 percent to 3,006.77 ... Indexes in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and New Zealand also rose ... crude oil futures rose 6 cents to $47.08 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange ... The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent to close at 18,339.24....

Vietnam’s Economy Expands 6.4% in Third Quarter on Export Boom

Edit Bloomberg 29 Sep 2016
Gross domestic product rose 6.4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, up from 5.8 percent in the previous three months, the General Statistics Office said in Hanoi Thursday. In the nine months through September, the economy grew ......

MLB: Banned Rose appeals to Hall of Fame for eligibility

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 29 Sep 2016
Columbus, Ohio • Pete Rose is appealing directly to baseball’s Hall of Fame to restore his eligibility, arguing the lifetime ban he agreed to in 1989 was never intended to keep him out of Cooperstown. A seven-page letter to Hall president Jeff Idelson on Tuesday makes the case that the settlement agreement reached by Rose and then-Commissioner Bart ......

Former Rockhurst High player Michael Rose-Ivey to meet next week with Nebraska governor

Edit Kansas City Star 29 Sep 2016
Former Rockhurst High School football player Michael Rose-Ivey will get his chance to talk with Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts. Ricketts has agreed to meet next week with Rose-Ivey, one of … Click to Continue » ... ....

See the 34 young women competing for the 2017 Rose Parade Royal Court

Edit Press Telegram 29 Sep 2016
The Tournament of Roses has narrowed a list of 1,000 entrants down to the final 34 young women in the running for the seven-member Rose Parade Royal Court. The selection committee chose the finalists based on criteria that included poise, speaking ability, academic achievement and community involvement, according to the organization ... ....

Asian Stocks Gain With Oil on OPEC Deal, Energy Shares Advance

Edit Bloomberg 29 Sep 2016
Asian stocks rose as oil prices soared, boosting energy shares, after OPEC agreed to a preliminary deal that will cut production for first time in eight years ... South Korea’s Kospi index rose 0.7 percent ... equity benchmark index rose Wednesday, closing above its average price during the past 50 days for the first time in almost a week as oil companies Exxon Mobil Corp....

OPEC move sends energy stocks, markets up

Edit Times Union 29 Sep 2016
New York ... Energy companies surged at 2 p.m. Eastern time on reports that a deal was close ... The Dow Jones industrial average rose 110.94 points, or 0.6 percent, to 18,339.24 ... Brent crude, the international standard, rose $2.72, or 5.9 percent, to $48.69 a barrel in London ... Oil prices jumped 3 percent Monday and then fell 3 percent Tuesday as hopes for a production deal rose and fell, and oil repeatedly changed course Wednesday as well ... ....
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