U.S. government debt prices were hovering around the flatline Thursday, as traders await a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. At around 2 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell slightly to 0.6851%, whereas the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond slipped to 1.4051%. Yields move inversely to prices. Jerome Powell is due to address
The best jewelry investments are timeless pieces that make us feel good. Beginning today, Aurate is having a sale that raises us one better: splurges that also do good. In honor of Women’s Equality Day—a holiday that is unfortunately, but unsurprisingly lesser-known—Aurate is holding a sale now through August 31 where shoppers can take 15%
Orion Pictures has released a most excellent new clip from Bill & Ted Face the Music. It appears that the Wyld Stallyns and Death may have had a falling out in the decades between Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The studio is starting to ramp up the hype train because the long-awaited movie is finally
We’re finally getting to all the drama with the couples, and this is what we signed up for, yes? No couple was spared on Married at First Sight Season 11 Episode 7 when they each visited each other’s homes before moving into apartments, and it gave everyone an idea of the person of whom they were married.
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Janet, the acerbic narrator of Lucie Britsch’s debut novel Sad Janet, is a resister. She’s sad—has been for most of her life—and
Studies suggest that human error is responsible for over 90% of the 1.25 million people who die each year globally due to car accidents. Therefore, improving driver safety is one of the biggest incentives for increasing the autonomy of vehicles. But this brave new world of autonomous driving is not without its own risks –
Hurricane Laura, now a Category 4 storm, is barreling towards the coasts of Louisiana and Texas with winds of 140 miles per hour and the threat of an “unsurvivable” storm surge with large and destructive waves that “will cause catastrophic damage,” according to the National Hurricane Center. Laura’s storm surge could reach as high as 15 to
by Trevor Kimball, August 21, 2020 (Netflix) There’s been a change of plans at Netflix. The streaming service previously renewed The Society TV series for a second season. Now, those plans have been cancelled due to COVID-19. A mystery drama, The Society stars Rachel Keller, Kathryn Newton, Alex Fitzalan, Kristine Froseth, Jacques Colimon, Sean Berdy, Toby Wallace,
Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: NetApp — NetApp shares rose more than 10% in after-hours trading after the data-storage company reported unexpected earnings and sales growth. NetApp reported adjusted earnings of 73 cents a share, up from 65 cents a share a year ago. Analysts had expected
In a lawsuit that offers a glimpse of COVID-19’s economic threat to the Broadway industry, Jujamcyn Theaters, owner of five major Broadway venues, is suing its insurance companies after the insurers offered to pay a mere $250,000 of what Jujamcyn claims should be “tens of millions of dollars” in losses due to the coronavirus shutdown.
To create its own identity separate from the Air Force, the Space Force is naming its units deltas. WASHINGTON — The 45th Space Wing that oversees the space launch ranges in Florida will no longer be a wing, it will be a space delta. To create its own identity separate from the Air Force, the
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (R) and his wife Karen Pence are introduced at the the AIPAC 2017 Convention on March 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. Noam Galai | Getty Images Vice President Mike Pence is set to deliver the headline speech on the third night of the Republican National Convention as he and President Donald
U.S. Girls have shared the music video for their Heavy Light song “And Yet It Moves / Y Se Mueve.” The animated visual was created by Evan Gordon. Find the video (which contains flashing images) below. U.S. Girls’ new video follows clips for Heavy Light’s “Overtime,” “4 American Dollars,” and “IOU.” Earlier this summer, Holy
Three RU-486 Mifeprex abortion pills are held in a hand December 1, 2000 in Granite City, Illinois. The Hope Center for Women is the first area abortion clinic to distribute the new pills that terminates a pregnancy. The RU-486 pill was approved in September and can be taken by women up to the seventh week
When looking back on this summer of protest and racial reckoning, the question I’ll always struggle with is one dripping with skepticism that’s hard-earned, if not entirely productive. What made this uprising different for so many white people who sat up, took notice, donated money, shared resources, took to the streets, called out and in,
It looks like the release date for Zack Snyder’s Justice League has been revealed. The Snyder Cut trailer was released over the weekend at the DC FanDome event and many DC fans were very pleased with what they saw. It was also revealed that the movie will air in four, one-hour long parts when it
The business-as-usual CBS fall schedule is starting to look a lot less likely. The broadcast network has announced CBS All Access original Star Trek and Pop TV original One Day at a Time will both be used to give the network time until originals return to the air. “This is hardly a traditional fall season,
Dorothea Klumpke. Photo: Wikipedia By Korena Di Roma Howley Just before 1 a.m. on November 16, 1899, an American astronomer named Dorothea Klumpke began her voyage over Paris and northwest France in a balloon called La Centaure, from which she hoped to witness the Leonid meteor shower as nearly no one had done before. Handpicked