U.S. equity markets have experienced downbeat trade this past week as investors kept one eye trained on a deadly flu outbreak in China. However, gauged by the market’s performance during the onset of other infectious diseases, including SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and avian flu, Wall Street investors may have little to fear […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased more than 22% in 2019 and is already up 2.2% through three weeks of 2020, but it is about to face its biggest test of the young year, and potentially many years. Nearly half of the 30 Dow DJIA, -0.58% components are scheduled to report results from the holiday […]
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of Bernie Sanders’s highest-profile allies, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, filled in for him on the campaign trail Friday night, speaking to a rally here at the University of Iowa, as the Vermont senator participated in the impeachment trial in Washington, D.C. Their message to […]
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate) — Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Md., was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Although he was one of the Founding Fathers, Carroll was not allowed to hold public office because he was Catholic. This changed only in 1788, when the Constitution prevented Congress from establishing […]
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Today is a new day for Kathie Lee Gifford. From the outside, the former “Today” show host — she left the long-running NBC CMCSA, -2.57% morning program in 2019 — seemed to be living a life that many would covet, including a successful career and two children who’d recently gotten engaged. But in recent years, […]
Oil futures fell sharply Friday on fears the spread of the coronavirus in China elsewhere will undercut demand for crude which has seen prices already under pressure due to worries about a potential oversupply. On Friday, China’s National Health Commission confirmed more than 800 cases of the coronavirus, an illness akin to severe acute respiratory […]
Cannabis advocates are cautiously optimistic that 2020 will be the year that New York state finally legalizes marijuana for adult recreational use, marking a milestone for the legal business. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has included legalization in his budget proposal for the new fiscal year, projecting it could generate $20 million in revenue in fiscal 2021, […]
In the wake of Washington’s assassination of former Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Arab Shi’a desires and interests across the Middle East are under a microscope. Have they shifted their protest slogans from opposing Iran to denouncing the United States? Americans should not assume that wide-angle television images of Shi’a protests in Iran […]
Analysis banner Business Insider Sean Hannity Fox News Fox News in its prime-time evening coverage of impeachment proceedings is playing testimony by top Democrats with no sound, and adding live spin from Trump allies. In his show, Sean Hannity assured viewers that the proceedings weren’t worth watching and attacked them as “24 hours of never-ending […]