Category: Finance News

May 9

Outside the Box: Why dividend income will evaporate in the post-coronavirus market

The humorist Will Rogers famously remarked that the return of his capital was more important than the return on his capital. Income and capital return are connected. Asset prices reflect future earning streams. Unfortunately, in this coronavirus-plagued world, income is becoming a problem. Unless assets are sold, investment income comes from interest, rents or dividends, […]
May 8

Ex-husband of Biden accuser Tara Reade said she told him of being sexual harassed: report

A new court document obtained Thursday by a newspaper in California shows Tara Reade, the woman who has accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s, told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working in then-Senator Biden’s office.  According to the document, which was obtained by the Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California, Reade’s husband at the […]
May 8

Russian hackers accessed emails from Merkel's constituency office: Der Spiegel

German Chancellor Merkel speaks on COVID-19 measures after meeting regional leaders BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. A spokesman for the […]
May 8

In One Chart: As the S&P 500 surges from March lows, investors fled the most popular stock-market fund—here’s what one analyst says that means

Tom McClellan, market technician and publisher of the McClellan Market Report, says investors are fleeing one of the most popular exchange-traded funds on Wall Street, even as stocks rally off their March lows. The State Street-sponsored SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY, +1.20%, which offers investors exposure to S&P 500 index stocks, is widely considered […]