1 / 6 Syria Justice IS In this photo released on April 1, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, an Islamic State militant, not seen, right, holds a sword as he ready to beheads a Syrian magician, in Raqqa city, Syria. The Washington-based Syria Justice […]
Microsoft is aiming to clean up its carbon footprint at its own home base and throughout its supply chain, believing it can go “carbon negative” by 2030, executives said Thursday. Carbon negativity is the reduction of a carbon footprint to less than neutral, with the net effect of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere rather […]
U.S. stocks rose again Thursday, with the major benchmarks reaching new record intraday highs, following the signing of a formal trade truce between the U.S. and China, completed at a White House signing ceremony on Wednesday. Investors were also parsing a batch of healthy U.S. economic reports including those on retail sales and jobless claims […]
Shares of Signet Jewelers Ltd. blasted off Thursday, toward their biggest one-day gain since the early-1990s, after a strong holiday performance helped flip the fourth-quarter sales outlook to growth from a decline. The company, which retail store brands include Kay Jewelers, Zales and Jared, said total same-store sales for the nine-weeks ended Jan. 4 rose […]
Mortgage rates edged up slightly over the last week amid continued uncertainty about the state of global affairs. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.65% during the week ending Jan. 16, up a single basis point from the previous week when rates dropped amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Freddie Mac FMCC, +1.00% […]
Getty Images Trucks line up near the border fence to cross to the United States at Otay Commercial port of entry in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Dec. 10, 2019. The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, sending the pact to President Donald Trump for signature just a day after he […]
Trump and Lighthizer Reuters/Kevin Lamarque The Trump administration threatened three European governments with 25% auto tariffs if they didn’t play ball with Iran and call out its government for violating the 2015 nuclear deal, according to a report from the Washington Post. Officials in Britain, France, and Germany received the threat, and they were stunned […]
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper corrected a political commentator on air Tuesday over a dispute between 2020 presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Political commentator Jess McIntosh discussed the debate on CNN with Cooper and other commentators after the close of a Democratic debate in Des Moines, Iowa. “If they brought that energy at the […]
Newsflash: Being wealthy has its benefits. And it goes well beyond caviar, fancy cars and McMansions. In fact, according to a study published by the Journal of Gerontology this week, longer, healthier lives await those who can afford them. Researchers collected data from thousands of adults aged 50 and over from both the U.S. and […]
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk may do another dance if the electric car maker’s stock rises a few more dollars and stays there a while, as he stands to receive stock options that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. As part of the performance awards agreement in Musk’s compensation package, as disclosed […]