How will Apple’s new iPhone match up with the competition from Samsung’s Note 8? Here’s what we know

How will Apple’s new iPhone match up with the competition from Samsung’s Note 8? Here’s what we know

August 31, 2017 | Daily JAM | 20 comments

Back on August 24 I wrote a post rating the snazz of the new Note 8, the top of the line smartphone that Samsung had just introduced. The Note 8, I wrote, set the bar for the high end of the smartphone market that Apple’s new phone would have to jump at its introduction this fall.
Now obviously we know a lot about the Note 8. The phone is in the hands of tech journalists (and soon consumers) who can try out and describe actual features of the phone. Nobody has put his or her hands on an iPhone 8 yet. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t know anything about that phone.

Notes You Need for August 22: Euro, tax cut accounting, iPhone 8 features, Cheniere Energy, oil supplies, August trading volumes

Notes You Need for August 22: Euro, tax cut accounting, iPhone 8 features, Cheniere Energy, oil supplies, August trading volumes

August 22, 2017 | Daily JAM, Notes You Need | 0 comments

10:20 a.m.: The euro is trading down today after the latest ZEW sentiment surveys for the Eurozone and Germany both missed expectations. The German report that a stronger euro was hitting exports. The euro traded below the recent $1.18 price against the dollar. 10:40 a.m.: There’s not much leaking out about the Republican plans for a tax cut but one idea apparently being passed around would change the accounting for things like expiring tax breaks in order to give the authors of any tax bill rom for about $450 billion in tax cuts that wouldn’t need to be offset with revenue increases.