Dear Moneyist, I live with my 65-year-old widowed mother and my two adolescent daughters, who are 11 and 13 years old. My father gave me half of the ownership of the house when he died. My mom is dating a 75-year-old man who lives nearby at a retirement home. My youngest daughter told me that […]
1 / 3 Chinese tourists desert Thai resort as coronavirus spreads Tourists are seen at a walking street in Phuket By Juarawee Kittisilpa PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) – The narrow laneways and pastel-coloured shophouses of Phuket Old Town are usually bustling with Chinese tourists during the Lunar New Year holiday, but travel bans and local fears […]
(Bloomberg) — The Iowa City Press-Citizen on Friday endorsed Amy Klobuchar for president, saying she “has the capacity to unify our country.” In an unsigned editorial, the 14,000-circulation newspaper in Iowa’s fifth-largest city cites the Minnesota senator’s track record in elections in her home state, saying she has the “ability to appeal across urban, rural […]
WASHINGTON – Demands by Democrats to call witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump evidently failed Friday when Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said she would oppose the motion. The Senate was headed toward a late afternoon vote on the witness question, with little doubt about the outcome. No more than two Republican senators, […]
It is going to get worse before it gets better for the stock market, says prominent technical analyst Ralph Acampora. ‘I think it’s going to be a little deeper. I am looking at 10% maybe a little bit more even.’ Ralph Acampora A pioneer in the field of price chart-based trading, Acampora told MarketWatch during a Friday […]
Associated Press Sen. Lisa Murkowski President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Friday appeared on track for a speedy conclusion, following an announcement by Sen. Lisa Murkowski that she would vote against including new witnesses and documents in the proceedings. Senators reconvened Friday afternoon and were scheduled to debate calling witnesses for four hours, setting up […]
U.S. stocks slumped Friday as the coronavirus epidemic emanating from China raised new concerns about travel, trade and expectations for global economic growth. A busy week for U.S. corporate earnings reports also was preoccupying investors. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +8.45% jumped after delivering strong quarterly results following Thursday’s close. What are major indexes doing? […]
A monthlong bout of coronavirus has ravished China, claiming hundreds of lives and sickening thousands but the Asian influenza also has infected the stock market and other assets, chilling bullish sentiment for the moment and stoking uncertainty at a period of lofty valuations. Here are some of the assets and sectors that the novel coronavirus […]
Sometimes, the stuff that people say about early retirement (and early retirees) is terrible. It is assumed that early retirement is the end of productive life and that unless we’re swimming in millions in cold hard cash, early retirement will eat us alive. Today, it is my distinct honor and pleasure to debunk five of […]
An American couple have now both died from injuries sustained last month in a volcanic eruption in New Zealand, according to authorities. New Zealand police said Thursday that Pratap Singh, 49, died at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland from the burns he suffered in the volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island on Dec. 9, 2019. […]