Screengrabs from a video of a 12-year-old girl being tackled by Hong Kong police Hong Kong police tackled a 12-year old girl to the ground and arrested her on Sunday amid a protests against delayed parliamentary elections. A video widely shared online shows riot police pushing the youngster to the ground as she tried to […]
Amazon.com Inc. is barring foreign sales of seeds into the U.S. after thousands of suspicious packets, many postmarked from China, arrived at households around the world this summer. The move by Amazon comes as the mystery seeds led U.S. officials to raise alarms about the ease with which seed sales can occur on e-commerce sites, […]
Children around the world are going back to school, raising a new set of challenges for teachers, families and public-health care authorities. (Photo: Owen Humphreys/Zuma Press) Should families double down on social distancing now that their kids are going back to school? A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that children can spread SARS-CoV-2, […]
Dear Moneyist, I have been married to my husband for 38 years and we have three children together. When his mother passed away, he received an inheritance of $8,000. My husband never told me about this money, and he spent all of it before I found out he even received his inheritance. When my father […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said a deal between the White House and Congress would fund the federal government through the beginning of December and that details of the spending bill should be finalized by week’s end. The measure would help avert a government shutdown when current funding runs out […]
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, after a long and steady rally this year, suffered its biggest two-day loss since mid-March to close out the week. Before those declines, there were warning signs from Wall Street analysts who ordinarily shy away from rating any stock a “sell.” Shares of Tesla TSLA, +2.78% had more “sell” ratings […]
A bout of volatility returned to financial markets with a vengeance last week, disrupting a nearly uninterrupted climb to records for U.S. stock indexes and raising questions about the path for Wall Street headed into a hornet’s nest of challenges for investors. Perhaps, the overarching question is, “What the heck just happened to equity markets […]
Is the economy half-full or half-empty? That’s the burning question after a surprisingly upbeat U.S. jobs report for August. Read: U.S. regains 1.4 million jobs in August and unemployment drops to 8.4% The expiration of federal aid for the unemployed at the end of the July and the still-spreading coronvirus were supposed to put a […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE A bout of volatility returned to financial markets with a vengeance last week, disrupting a nearly uninterrupted climb to records for U.S. stock indexes and raising questions about the path for Wall Street headed into a hornet’s nest of challenges for investors. See full story. Drug companies to issue joint pledge on […]