You can count on European governments to be missing in action again in 2020, as they were this year, when urged to help steer the continent’s economy out of its current slump. They remain divided, reluctant to reform either their own economies or the eurozone’s institutions, and the major powers are turning inward, focused more […]
Gold futures headed higher Friday morning as weakness in the U.S. dollar helped to prop up the yellow metal ahead of a policy update from the Federal Reserve due in the middle of the week and a U.K. general election that could roil markets. February gold GCG20, +0.23% on Comex picked up $3.70, or 0.3%, […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE You might think the hard-money, recession-at-every-corner crowd would be predicting an imminent reversal in the stock market given the 20% gain for the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year. Not necessarily. See full story. Sanofi to acquire Synthorx for $2.5 billion The French pharmaceutical company said it plans to take control of […]
Key Point: We’ll probably never know what happened. Russian diesel subs chased a British nuclear sub off the Syrian coast, according to British media. The incident reportedly involved one or two Russian Kilo-class diesel-powered submarines, which have been dubbed the “Black Hole” by Western navies because they are remarkably quiet. Their prey was a British Astute-class […]
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON (Reuters) – This city’s deepest wound – the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured hundreds more – will be re-examined Thursday when lawyers for bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seek to have his death sentence lifted because the jury pool was too traumatized to render a fair verdict. The then-19-year […]
1 / 6 Police personnel and ambulances line up to aid victims of the deadly blaze that ripped through a four-storey bag factory in New Delhi Police personnel and ambulances line up to aid victims of the deadly blaze that ripped through a four-storey bag factory in New Delhi (AFP Photo/Sajjad HUSSAIN) At least 43 […]
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Sunday said it would play to the “president’s advantage” to have his top administration officials, in an “out-of-the-box strategy,” testify in the upcoming impeachment hearings. “[Do] you believe that Rudy Giuliani, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo should all come testify now?” asked ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. “I believe that […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Our call of the day from wealth manager Ross Gerber takes a look at a home-run stock-pick in 2019 and some possibilities for the coming year. 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 […]
Aviation Gin, the liquor brand owned by the actor Ryan Reynolds, has mocked Peloton’s widely criticized holiday commercial with help from the same actress who appeared in a controversial ad for the exercise bike. Peloton’s advertisement went viral for all the wrong reasons. People have been obsessed with the stationary-bike advertisement showing a woman receiving […]
Dear Moneyist, Last year, at the age of 71, I discovered through an Ancestry.com DNA test that my biological father was a Mr. D. T. Trotta, who was born in 1913 and passed away in 1980 when I was 33. The secret was never revealed to me either by him or by my mother. She […]