Category: Finance News

Apr 30

No arrests after black man shot dead while jogging

Relatives of a black man gunned down while jogging in southeast Georgia by white men who chased him believing he was a burglar said Thursday they’re discouraged by the lack of charges in the case. Ahmaud Arbery’s relatives say the 25-year-old was a victim of “racial violence.” Arbery was killed in Brunswick, a coastal city […]
Apr 30

Key Words: Elon Musk: Coronavirus shelter-in-place is ‘fascist’ and ‘breaking people’s freedoms’

Earnings conference calls are generally dull affairs that involve a lot of talk about gross margins and average selling prices. Then there are Tesla Inc. TSLA, +4.08% earnings calls, in which anything can happen. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk used his conference call Wednesday afternoon to rail against shelter-in-place restrictions put in place to staunch […]
Apr 30

Is 6 feet really the ‘magic number’ in public spaces? As states reopen their economies, exercise caution in these public places

Coronavirus appears to linger longer in certain public spaces. As of Wednesday, 6 million people had been tested in the U.S. for SARS-CoV-2, with 1,038,451 confirmed cases, and 60,853 deaths, of which 18,076 were in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. Worldwide, there were 3,189,017 confirmed cases and 227,368 deaths, […]
Apr 29

Evidence emerges for sex-assault allegation against Biden

Over the last week, new reporting has provided corroborating evidence for a decades-old allegation of sexual assault against former Vice President Joe Biden, a charge that has been denied by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign.  Timeline of the allegations In March, former Biden congressional staffer Tara Reade told podcaster Katie Halper that in the […]