“ ‘I don’t feel like arguing with this Negro.’ ” Those are the words Roger Stone apparently uttered in a live radio interview on Saturday night with Morris O’Kelly, the host of the Los Angeles-based program “The Mo’Kelly Show.” The response came after O’Kelly questioned the role that Stone’s ties with President Trump played in […]
Stacy Rasgon has been on Twitter since 2011, but he recently came to the realization that his tweets were a bit boring. “It’s kids and airline-seat pictures,” he thought, noting that his employer, the global asset-management firm Bernstein, does not allow him to tweet about semiconductor companies nor most things to do with the industry […]
President Trump is no fan of Fox News host Chris Wallace, having called him a “wannabe” who is “nasty and obnoxious” and “will never be his father,” the legendary Mike Wallace of CBS News. This latest interview isn’t helping. The two faced off on “Fox News Sunday” over the recent surge in coronavirus cases, mask […]
Even as they recommended working to reopen schools in-person, the nation’s science academies warned, “It is likely that someone in the school community will contract COVID-19.” Largely missing from the reopening protocols at states and schools around the nation are concrete plans for what administrators will do when coronavirus infections enter a school. The prospect of reopening […]
FROSTPROOF, Fla. – Three Florida men were fatally beaten and shot while on their way to fish in a remote area late Friday night, according to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. During a media briefing near the scene on Lake Streety Road on Saturday morning, Judd identified the victims as Damion Tillman, 23, Keven Springfield, 30, and Brandon […]
Walt Disney Co. has dramatically cut its advertising spending on Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the situation, the latest setback for the technology giant as it faces a boycott from companies upset with its handling of hate speech and divisive content. Disney DIS, -0.65% was Facebook’s FB, +0.45% top U.S. advertiser for the […]
Back in January 2020 B.C. (Before Coronavirus), it looked like it would be a banner year for dividend investors. Payments to shareholders were expected, for the first time, to top $500 billion. “It would take a major event to stop a record for this year,” Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, […]
A big test for contrarian analysis is brewing in the gold pits. That’s because bullishness among gold market timers has rarely been higher than it is today. Since 2000, which is when I began tracking the average recommended exposure level among such timers, optimism about gold was higher on just 0.7% of the trading sessions. […]
Americans filed a record-breaking number of complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in March as the coronavirus pandemic started flooding hospitals and sending unemployment rates soaring. Every month since, consumer complaint numbers have been breaking record highs set the previous month, according to a Friday report from the consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG and […]