This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. What are Walmart’s Black Friday 2020 store hours? Walmart WMT, -1.23% will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, and in-store sales will start at 5 a.m. local time on Black Friday. You can thank fellow retailing juggernaut Amazon AMZN, -0.56% and its Prime Day event for spurring […]
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. Amid all of the retail chaos and change of 2020, at least one thing remains the same: the biggest sale day of the year. Black Friday — the day after Thanksgiving — has a reputation as the best time of the year to buy just about anything. […]
Volvo drops new cars from 100 feet so rescue workers can practice cutting passengers out of mangled vehicles. Volvo Any crash test of a car is extreme, but Volvo VLVLY, -0.30% is taking them to a new level — literally. It is dropping its cars roughly 100 feet from a crane, repeatedly, all for the […]
The news of two effective coronavirus vaccine candidates puts a spotlight on a key question looming since the early days of the pandemic: Who gets access to the vaccine first? “There really needs to be intentional effort to get it to the communities that need it most,” said Dr. Uché Blackstock, CEO of Advancing Health […]
Arnab Goswami, arguably India’s most controversial TV anchor, became the story when he was arrested recently over a suicide case. He denies the charges and has been granted bail, but the case only adds to his polarising personality, reports BBC’s Yogita Limaye. “In a country where 80% of the population is Hindu, it’s become a […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Dow’s recovery since March is impressive but says nothing about how long the bull market will run, writes Mark Hulbert. See full story. Some Americans may get hundreds of dollars more in Social Security benefits under Biden’s proposed change Joe Biden wants a minimum Social Security benefit for Americans with low lifetime […]
DETROIT – The head of the Catholic Church in Detroit has been chosen to lead a new national group that seeks to guide how Catholics should respond to President-elect Joe Biden and the contentious issue of abortion. Archbishop Allen Vigneron, who leads the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit, was named this week by Archbishop José Gomez […]
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Thomas Lee, founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, says that the S&P 500 has more in the tank before the end of 2020 and has therefore upped his year-end target to 3,800 from 3,525. Fundstrat In fact, the prominent strategist on Thursday estimated that the recent rally in stocks, partly prompted by the completion of the […]
Every corporation is unique. It follows that governance arrangements should be tailored to suit. Yet many shareholders, especially indexers, roundly condemn certain governance practices as if one size fits all. Three corporate practices illustrate this: combining the roles of chairman and chief executive; staggered director terms, and classes of stock with different voting rights. Each […]