Tesla’s TSLA, +0.01% market capitalization is nearing $300 billion. It’s now the largest car maker in the world, even larger than Toyota Motor Corp. TM, +0.45%, which produced almost 9 million cars in 2019 and has a market capitalization of around $175 billion. Tesla stock is trading at 45 times very rosy — and improbable […]
This beloved game show host swears a lot, loves sipping skim milk (and chardonnay when he’s feeling frisky), and he’s the subject of three books coming out this year. Who is “Jeopardy’s” Alex Trebek? The quiz show emcee who’s been struggling with advanced pancreatic cancer for the last 16 months is releasing his first-ever memoir […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE You’re taking a bet you may not fully realize See full story. Defiant Fauci tells InStyle: ‘I don’t regret anything I said’ — and talks about being ‘persona non grata’ in Trump’s White House Continuing his media roadshow, Anthony Fauci pleads with people to maintain social distancing and addresses his early advice […]
It’s an open secret that commercial real estate owners take cash out of buildings. When they do, unlike homeowners, criticism often is sparing. After all, hotels, shopping centers, office towers and other commercial buildings are run as businesses, where the whole point is to reap a profit. “The real-estate industry is all about taking cash […]
Medical students and staff members on the COVID-19 ward at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas gather to go over patients’ status at the start of their shift, July 1, 2020. Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Texas schools may be allowed to start in-person as late as November, according to the new […]
KONSKOWOLA, Poland — Surrounded by fields of roses and lavender in tranquil eastern Poland, some residents of the village of Konskowola feel the European Union may be trying to blackmail them. Like about a hundred other municipalities across rural Poland, the local council has declared Konskowola to be free of “LGBT ideology”, reflecting a backlash […]
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway urged President Donald Trump on Friday to resume giving regular coronavirus briefings, claiming his sinking approval ratings on the pandemic will surge if the public hears from him daily on the crisis. Amid a bevy of recent polls showing the vast majority of the American public strongly disapproves of the […]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., confirmed Thursday night that won’t be seeking re-election to Congress this year. “I love representing our community in Congress. I always will. This is my choice, but I’m still going to miss it. Thank you for your trust,” the Libertarian congressman tweeted. Amash also retweeted a report from The […]
Just when the war of words between Anthony Fauci and the Trump administration edged closer to a detente, it suddenly took a turn for the worse. The fractured relationship between President Donald Trump and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for three decades and a leading expert on pandemics […]
U.S. stocks ended lower Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average snapping a four-day winning streak, in a decline led by technology stocks as investors parsed mixed corporate earnings reports and economic data in the wake of a drop in Asian markets. U.S.-China tensions were also a factor. What are major indexes doing? The Dow […]