Category: Finance News

Jan 26

Man kept woman as sex slave for five years, say police

Randolph County Sheriff’s Office charged Salvador Escobar, 48, with felony human trafficking: Randolph County Sheriff’s Office A man has been charged with human trafficking after he allegedly kept a sex slave for five years. Salvador Espinoza Escobar, 48, is accused of “withholding basic needs in exchange for forced sexual acts” with the woman since January […]
Jan 25

‘It’s kind of like in the mafia when you get made’ — how baseball players cash in after entering the Hall of Fame

It’s been a brutal month for baseball. The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal has rocked the league, causing unprecedented punishment and three managers to lose their jobs. But this week, baseball fans can take a break from the scandal and focus on something more positive: the Hall of Fame. Major League Baseball announced its 2020 Hall […]
Jan 25

The Moneyist: My mother’s boyfriend, 75, made sexual comments to my 11-year-old daughter. “My mom says that’s just the way men are — should I ask her to leave?”

Dear Moneyist, I live with my 65-year-old widowed mother and my two adolescent daughters, who are 11 and 13 years old. My father gave me half of the ownership of the house when he died. My mom is dating a 75-year-old man who lives nearby at a retirement home.  My youngest daughter told me that […]
Jan 25

Market Extra: How the stock market has performed during past viral outbreaks, as epidemic locks down 16 Chinese cities

U.S. equity markets have experienced downbeat trade this past week as investors kept one eye trained on a deadly flu outbreak in China. However, gauged by the market’s performance during the onset of other infectious diseases, including SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, Ebola and avian flu, Wall Street investors may have little to fear […]
Jan 25

AOC and Michael Moore urge Iowa voters not to 'play it safe' as they stand in for Sanders

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Two of Bernie Sanders’s highest-profile allies, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, filled in for him on the campaign trail Friday night, speaking to a rally here at the University of Iowa, as the Vermont senator participated in the impeachment trial in Washington, D.C.  Their message to […]