Dear Moneyist, I very much enjoy your column, and you are much kinder than I am. It may be my age, but my parents weren’t expected to pay for college when I came of age. I am, yes, a baby boomer. From reading your column it seems like lots of people of varying ages seem […]
A TV reporter said she was left “violated” and “embarrassed” after being smacked on the bottom during a live broadcast. Alex Bozarjian, of WSAV News, was reporting roadside from a 10km race in Savannah, Georgia, when a male participant ran up behind and struck her. Ms Bozarjian appeared visibly shocked in footage of the incident […]
iStockphoto Here are some thoughts about the timing of the shift in market conditions. How should investors think about the possible end of the decade long bull market? With the U.S. economic expansion now into a record eleventh year, it’s a fair question. A new analysis from BCA Research is somewhat reassuring: “Stocks can still […]
Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering is set to begin trading Wednesday, and expect the financial media industrial complex to go into overdrive. It’s the world’s biggest IPO! It‘s oil! Wow! What does it mean to you? It means very little, thank you very much. Now, the argument that Aramco’s IPO means little is not the […]
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average having its best day in two months, after the employment report from the Labor Department beat economists’ consensus expectations, showing an estimated 266,000 new jobs created in November, the most since January, while the unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low. Investors also […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE A hotter-than-expected jobs report for November has Wall Street waxing extremely bullish. See full story. I’m 56 and unemployed, but have $100,000 to live off until I find a job. Where should I put this money? How to get back on your feet — and protect yourself. See full story. We get […]
Associated Press Sardine cut-outs were held overhead in a flash-mob-style protest in mid-November at Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. VERONA, Italy — Thousands of people packed a central square of this city late last month in the latest rally by self-styled “sardines,” a grass-roots protest movement that is targeting Italy’s rising far-right politician, Matteo Salvini. The […]
Swami Nithyananda is one of many self-styled Indian ‘godmen’ with thousands of followers and a chequered past (AFP Photo/Manjunath Kiran) Indian border officials and embassies have issued an alert for a fugitive guru accused of rape, the government said, days after the holy man announced the creation of his own “cosmic” country. Swami Nithyananda — […]
From left, Michael Fisher, Tommy Fisher, Sen. Kevin Cramer and Rep. Kelly Armstrong outside Fisher Industries in Dickinson, N.D. (Photo: Twitter/@Armstrong_ND A federal judge in McAllen, Texas, has temporarily blocked a plan for a construction firm favored by President Trump to build a privately-funded segment of border wall along the banks of the Rio Grande […]
Nikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that white supremacist Dylann Roof “hijacked” the Confederate flag by carrying out a mass killing of African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015. Haley was governor of South Carolina at the time. “Here is this guy who comes out with this manifesto, holding […]