The U.K. will use Apple and Google’s jointly developed technology for its coronavirus contact-tracing app because Apple won’t change its system to allow the government’s app to work effectively on iPhones. “As it stands, our app won’t work, because Apple won’t change the system,” the U.K.’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, said Thursday. Apple only allows […]
Our call of the day comes from from Gerald Sparrow, chief investment officer of the $31 million Sparrow Growth SGNFX, +2.07%, a midcap growth fund that is in the top 2% year-to-date for its Morningstar category. While Sparrow didn’t see the current pandemic coming, his portfolio shows he was a couple of years ahead of […]
Over the past few weeks, the nation has been grappling with the history of systemic racism in our police system. But fewer may realize how far back this tradition goes. To better understand this history, MarketWatch spoke with Luke Frederick, a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University who is studying the relationship between the slave trade, […]
It’s been 100 days since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Several important red flags were missed, so what can we learn from those mistakes? The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths continues to rise. As of Friday, there were 2,189,056 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. and 118,420 […]
By Cate Cadell and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese prosecutors said on Friday they have charged two detained Canadians for suspected espionage, indictments that could result in life imprisonment, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “very disappointed” and would […]
During the coronavirus pandemic, employers have opposed unionization elections even as workers’ activism over safety protections, job security and wages has increased in the face of an economic shutdown and health fears. Related: Strikes erupt as US essential workers demand protection amid pandemic But the pandemic has created difficult conditions for workers to organize elections […]
Billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos is honoring Juneeteeth on Friday as a day of edification at Amazon.com and urging employees to attend “learnings opportunities,” to recognize the end of slavery in America. Juneteenth, which is celebrated annually by many on June 19, is a day commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865. It […]
Where’s my mask and hand sanitizer? Can I get curbside assistance? These are some of the questions people face before performing even basic tasks and activities in the new version of normalcy during a global pandemic. Increasingly, they also have to ask themselves, ‘Should I sign this liability waiver?’ As more states ease social distancing […]
“ ‘More police officers are shot and killed by blacks than police officers kill African-Americans.’ ” That’s former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani offering his perspective to Fox News on rising concerns that police disproportionately kill black Americans. “The unarmed shootings — which are the ones that are the troublesome ones — there are only […]
“ ‘My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is, in fact, becoming the fourth, real McCoy, bubble of my investment career. The great bubbles can go on a long time and inflict a lot of pain but at least I think we know now that we’re in one. And the chutzpah involved in having […]