Earnings should help determine whether the latest rally is real Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Despite record-setting COVID-19 infections, American equities rose today. All major indices gained ground during regular trading, while tech stocks did even better. The Nasdaq Composite set new 52-week and all-time highs, touching 10,462.0 points before closing at 10,433.65, up 2.21% on
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump listen during an East Room event highlighting Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for small businesses adversely affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2020. Carlos Barria | Reuters The
Charlie Daniels — a country and Southern rock legend known for his hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” — has died after suffering a stroke … according to his website. The Country Music Hall of Famer died Monday morning at the Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee. Doctors determined the cause of death was
A statue of a horse stands at the entrance to a P.F. Chang’s restaurant in Schaumburg, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Large restaurant chains once again received millions in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, according to data released Monday by the Small Business Administration. Businesses in the accommodation and food services sector received more
From miniature horses to baby Air Jordans to tiny burritos YouTubers make for their pet hamsters, it is universally known that tiny versions of things are inexplicably cuter than their normal-sized counterparts. (The only exception to this rule is cupcakes, which are not nearly as adorable as full-sized cakes.) Dior took note and delivered its
After sacrificing her life in order to save the universe during the dramatic events of Avengers: Endgame, audiences have been left wondering how, exactly, the solo Black Widow movie will play out. With the movie set to introduce a host of other characters, including Midsommar star Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, MCU fans have been curious
The 2000s began with one sitcom apartment door closing and another one opening. Friends was iconic in its heyday and is still quite popular. How I Met Your Mother aimed to take its place in the hearts of people watching television across the nation. While different in premise, both shows were very popular and often
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A pedestrian walks by a sign in front of the Uber headquarters on May 18, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Monday: Dominion Energy, Berkshire Hathaway — Berkshire Hathaway gained 2.2% after the conglomerate said it is spending $4 billion to buy the natural
A new mother in Mexico contemplates the future—for her daughter, for all of us. On February 1, 2020, as I was giving birth in Mexico City, fifty-four people in China died of Covid-19. That same day, Spain reported its first national case: a German tourist isolated in a hospital on the Canary Islands. The news
How a 2005 call for ‘skin in the game’ started a 15-year countdown to the first human orbital spaceflight from U.S. soil since 2011 Success, the saying goes, has a thousand fathers. Sure enough, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off May 30, placing a Crew Dragon with two NASA astronauts on board into orbit
Paytm, India’s most valuable startup, and its co-founder and chief executive, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, announced on Monday they have reached an agreement to acquire general insurer Raheja QBE for a sum of $76 million as the financial services startup looks to tap the nation’s booming insurance market. Sharma is acquiring Raheja QBE through QorQl Pvt. Ltd,
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 20: Ghislaine Maxwell attends day 1 of the 4th Annual WIE Symposium at Center 548 on September 20, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images) Laura Cavanaugh | Getty Images A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday ordered Ghislaine Maxwell sent to New York City to
Ennio Morricone has died at the age of 91, Italian news media and The New York Times report. The Oscar–winning Italian composer, whose spaghetti western soundtracks helped to define the genre, was hospitalized last week after he fell and fractured his femur, his lawyer told the Times. He died Monday morning (July 6) in Rome.
U.S. government debt prices were lower on Monday morning, as surging coronavirus cases delayed reopenings across the world’s largest economy. At around 2:10 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was higher at 0.6956% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up at 1.4624%. Yields move inversely to prices. In a
Chris JacksonGetty Images Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spent the first half of 2020 taking measures to start their new life as they step away from their royal titles. Per People, the couple has formally closed down their charity SussexRoyal. Their new foundation is called Archewell. People reported on June 20 that since Harry, Meghan,
Michael Bay is a maverick filmmaker that does what he wants, when he wants. So it came as a surprise when SAG-AFTRA shut down his plans to film one of the first new movies since the pandemic swept the world. This put the whole production in jeopardy heading into the weekend. But now SAG-AFTRA has
Now that’s how you bring characters together! NOS4A2 Season 2 Episode 3 filled in some more blanks following the jump in time, and put several characters in peril, and Charlie Manx should probably be worried. If you watch NOS4A2 online, you know Vic was determined to leave her life in Haverhill behind on NOS4A2 Season 1, and