Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection To manage our money better, often we don’t need to know more. Instead, we need to unlearn what we think we already know. Here are just some of the things that, at various points in my 35-year investing career, I’ve thought I’ve known: Which fund managers will outperform. Which way the economy […]
A composite image of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and President Vladimir Putin. MLADEN ANTONOV,TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images The UK, France, and Germany this week pledged to sanction Russia over the August 20 poisoning of Alexei Navalny, a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin. The sanctions will target “individuals deemed responsible” and “an entity […]
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President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since being treated for COVID-19, with a gathering on Saturday at the White House and a campaign rally as soon as Monday in Florida, according to White House officials and campaign aides. Trump was scheduled to deliver remarks on Saturday at 2 p.m. from the […]
Bar in the city center of Manchester, northwest England. AFP via Getty Images The pace of the economic rebound in Europe slowed down significantly in August, according to latest gross domestic product and industrial production figures. And the number of COVID-19 infections keep rising in most countries, prompting fears about the impact of future, tougher […]
Madrid’s Puerta de Alcala on Oct. 3, 2020. MarketWatch/Kollmeyer Just hours ahead of the start of a long holiday weekend, the Spanish government put the Madrid region under a state of emergency on Friday, determined to stop an exodus of potentially infected residents. In past years, Monday’s Hispanic Day holiday would have seen Spaniards clog […]
Gilead Sciences will sell Europe up to 500,000 courses of its antiviral drug remdesivir ulrich perrey/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Gilead Sciences said on Thursday that it has agreed to supply Europe with up to 500,000 courses of remdesivir, as the region looks to boost its stockpile of the antiviral drug amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. The […]
WASHINGTON — It has never been calm in the White House of Donald Trump. It was never supposed to be calm. From the start, his old-fashioned administration was governed by a motto borrowed from the whiz kids of Silicon Valley: Move fast and break things. If it sometimes looked messy, the president and his closest […]
Jonathan Price was considered a hometown hero in the Wolfe City community. In the small East Texas town about 70 miles from Dallas, Price, 31, was a motivational speaker, a mentor to student-athletes in the area and a frequent participant in community service activities. He worked for the city as a maintenance contractor and was […]
Hunter Biden’s former business parter will face sentencing in a fraud case after a federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated his conviction. Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Joe Biden’s son, was convicted in June, 2018 on charges related to his involvement in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe. The defendants, including Archer, are […]