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 […]
Image: Razor blades Trump sign (Oakland County Sheriff’s Office) A town employee in Michigan had to get 13 stitches after he sliced three fingers on razor blades attached to the bottom of a Trump 2020 campaign yard sign. The 52-year-old municipal employee in Commerce Township, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit, was asked to remove […]
HSBC Global Asset Management strategist Joseph Little calls for coupon clipping, with stock markets in a rangebound environment. AFP via Getty Images Stock markets aren’t really out of line in any direction, to hear one strategist tell it. “We haven’t got a big qualm with the market at this point in time. I don’t see […]
A deserted 42nd Street on March 25, 2020, in New York City. AFP via Getty Images The vice-presidential debate is over and points were scored on both sides, but that is unlikely to move the needle for stock markets. While investors remain glued to a heated U.S. presidential election race, does it really matter for […]
Paul Sakuma Photography Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, -0.20% is in advanced talks to buy rival chip maker Xilinx Inc. XLNX, +0.15%, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could be valued at more than $30 billion and mark the latest big tie-up in the rapidly consolidating semiconductor industry. The companies […]
President Trump tweeted Thursday night about the “terrible job” that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is doing leading Michigan, the same day that a plot by a militia group to kidnap the Democratic leader and attack the state capitol building was stopped and the alleged perpetrators arrested. Trump, who also remarked on the governor’s lack of “thank […]