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Stand Up, They’re Rockin’ the ‘Boat: “Guys & Dolls,” at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre through June 21

This past Thursday, after a full week of unseasonably hot, muggy weather, we were finally treated to an evening that was cool and breezy. I'm prone to credit the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre's Guys & Dolls for the atmospheric shift, because as season-opening presentations ...
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A Loaf of Bread, Some Jugs of Wine, and Wow: “Les Misérables,” at the Timber Lake Playhouse through June 28

There's no point in burying the lede on this: The Timber Lake Playhouse's Les Misérables is the most visually powerful, thunderously well-performed area production I've seen since my first published stage review debuted in 2005, and even since I first arrived in the Quad ...
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Will Fumbling the Illinois Stadium Bill Cost Pritzker Any Ambitions He May Have for National Office?

Governor JB Pritzker last week squarely placed the responsibility for passing a Bears stadium bill on the team itself, and had some unsolicited lobbying advice for the Bears as he attempted to brush off his own session attendance issues.
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“Something’s Coming Somewhere Tonight, Maria.” “Cool!”: “West Side Story,” at the Spotlight Theatre through June 21

Adam Sanders' production has some of the most intricate, varied, prolonged, high-density, high-energy choreography I've yet seen.
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Analysis-Why an Iran peace deal won’t pull the yen back from the brink

By Tom Westbrook and Junko Fujita TOKYO, June 15 (Reuters) - War in the Middle East pushed the yen to the brink of multi-decade lows and prompted the government to prop it up - a peace deal, however, won't pull it back from the precipice. Stocks ...
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Scandal-hit KPMG Australia will not bid for new federal work until end-September

SYDNEY, June 15 (Reuters) - KPMG Australia has agreed it will not bid for any new federal government work for three months, the Department of Finance said on Monday, following whistleblower allegations the accounting firm misused confidential client information. A department spokesperson said KPMG will ...
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Australia’s richest person Rinehart takes $1 billion stake in SpaceX IPO, WSJ reports

MELBOURNE, June 15 (Reuters) - Australia's wealthiest person, mining baron Gina Rinehart, has taken a stake of more than $1 billion in the record-setting $75 billion SpaceX IPO, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter. Rinehart's company Hancock ...
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Analysis-China bonds emerge as surprise haven as Iran war reshapes portfolios

By Li Gu, Casey Hall and Jiaxing Li SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, June 15 (Reuters) - Global asset managers have been adding Chinese government bonds to their portfolios since the Iran war broke out, drawn not by yield but by their near-zero correlation with Western markets. Amid a ...
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Wall St. futures advance over 1% as markets cheer Iran deal

June 15 (Reuters) - Futures tracking Wall Street's main indexes jumped more than 1% each on Monday as investors cheered a preliminary pact struck between the U.S. and Iran to end the more than three-month conflict and reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The framework ...
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SpaceX set to extend rally after record Wall Street IPO

June 15 (Reuters) - Shares of SpaceX rose more than 5.6% before the bell on Monday, set to extend gains after a blockbuster debut last week that pushed its valuation past $2 trillion and into the ranks of Wall Street's most valuable companies. CEO Elon ...
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Defense minister says Israel won’t withdraw from land seized in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel's defense minister said Monday that Israel won't withdraw from land seized in Lebanon, potentially challenging an interim deal that Iran and the United States reached hours earlier that includes opening the Strait of Hormuz and further extending a ...
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Morning Bid: Markets celebrate MOU on SoH

June 15 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. Markets had suspected President Trump wanted to wrap up the war for his birthday, and so it happened. U.S. and Iranian officials said on Sunday they had ...
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