Stocks were mixed in Friday afternoon trade, bouncing between small gains and losses, as investors parsed mixed data on the strength of the U.S. consumer. Investors were also monitoring the spread of COVID-19 in China, while corporate earnings season moved toward the home stretch. What are major indexes doing? The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, […]
SmileDirectClub Inc., the company whose “teledentristy” model aims to disrupt the orthodontics industry, hit back Friday at an NBC report that alleged the company has hurt some of its customers, causing broken teeth and nerve damage. The news sent its stock SDC, -16.83% down 15% in early afternoon trade in volume that was about twice […]
1 / 13 Mexico Femicide Protest A masked, female protester takes part in a demonstration against gender violence in Mexico City, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. The protest comes after last week’s vicious murder of Ingrid Escamilla by her husband and controversy unleashed by the leaking of images of her body to the press, in a […]
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Sen. Bernie Sanders would defeat each of the other Democratic presidential candidates in a one-on-one race — in many instances by double-digit margins. Sanders won the most votes in Iowa and New Hampshire and now leads in national surveys. Yet mainstream Democrats seem to think the democratic socialist […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden. Associated Press We’ve combined the results of the primaries so far, Insider’s polling and Morning Consult’s daily survey of the 2020 Democratic primary to create a power ranking of 2020 candidates. With the race now down to eight contenders, every day becomes a crucial make-or-break opportunity for all the candidates. […]
Video Produced by Gaby Levesque As more and more U.S. states expand marijuana legalization, and with weed usage on the rise, doctors and advocates are warning about a little-known condition affecting heavy users of the drug. Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, or CHS, causes severe abdominal pain, nausea and “cyclic vomiting” among regular marijuana users — and […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 23-year-old man who posted on Facebook, “I don’t know why I don’t go on a killing spree.” A West Palm Beach couple who shot up their home while high on cocaine. A 31-year-old Gulf Coast man who pointed a semiautomatic rifle at a motorcyclist. All four Florida residents had […]
Valentine’s Day is going to the dogs. People are expected to spend $1.7 billion on their furry Valentines this year, according to the National Retail Federation, up 17% from what these animal lovers were dropping in 2010. It reflects the overall trend of paramours getting more and more swept up in the romantic date, as […]
Amazon.com Inc. has won a temporary restraining order from a federal court Thursday to block Microsoft Corp.’s award of a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract. CNBC first reported on Thursday’s injunction. Amazon AMZN, -0.20% , which lost out on the bitterly disputed deal, filed a lawsuit last month asking the court to halt Microsoft’s MSFT, […]
Hard seltzers had a big year in 2019 and Molson Coors Beverage Co. is looking to capitalize with the launch of Vizzy in March. Vizzy will be the first hard seltzer made with acerola cherry, according to Gavin Hattersley, chief executive of Molson Coors TAP, -0.13% , who spoke on the fourth-quarter earnings call on […]