News Headlines - 26 April 2016

▽After 27 years, police blamed for Hillsborough tragedy | Reuters

The inquest verdicts of "unlawful killing", which could pave the way for prosecutions, were greeted with a mix of cheers and tears by relatives of the victims, who sang the Liverpool fans' anthem "You'll never walk alone" outside the court in Warrington, northern England.

▽Aldo: The biggest victory in Liverpool's history - a day I never thought would come - Liverpool Echo

Those people never understood the reality of Hillsborough, but we did. The people of Liverpool did. We always knew what really happened.
We always knew what the story was. We always knew the truth.
And now the whole world knows it too.

▽Have hackers and cheats ruined The Division on PC? | The Guardian

In financial terms, Tom Clancy’s The Division is a hugely successful video game. Released in March by French publisher Ubisoft, this New York-set third-person shooter quickly became the best selling new franchise of all time, generating more than $330m in sales in its first five days. But, just over a month after release, the best selling game in Ubisoft’s 30-year history looks to be heading for catastrophe.
The Division has a cheating problem. Not just one, either, but a critical mass of glitches, exploits, and hacks that – in the eyes of the playerbase at least – threaten the game’s immediate and long-term future on the PC. Players stack items for unintended bonuses, farm missions in seconds, and – worst of all – using third-party hacks to cheat in player vs player (PvP) competition.

▽France beats rival bidders to $40 billion Australian submarine deal | Reuters

France has beaten Japan and Germany to win a A$50 billion ($40 billion) deal to build a fleet of 12 submarines for Australia, one of the world's most lucrative defense contracts, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Tuesday.

▽Japan’s negative rate experiment is an alarm bell for the US — FT.com

Whatever the BoJ decides matters both because the country is the world’s third-largest economy, and the Japanese experiment may well influence American monetary policy at a time when a growing, albeit still small, number of bears wonder if the US may also consider embracing negative rates. Moreover, the BoJ’s apparent miscalculation may well undermine the credibility of all central banks, including the Fed.