With confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US hitting 5 million on Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the lack of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the pound in Europe is astonishing and alarming. © Mark J. Terrill FILE – In this July 14, …
Read More »Dow 250 points up midday, Nasdaq under pressure as investors expand rotation in cyclical stocks
Stock market benchmarks were mostly higher on Monday as investors checked signs that a long-awaited rotation on Wall Street could be extended into more growth-sensitive equities, at the expense of their high-growth counterparts. Investors also focused on President Donald Trump’s weekend of signing executive orders aimed at extending some elements …
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LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times / TNS) – Sunday 9 August 2020 at 15:08 | | 19 Av 5764 A man took a coronavirus test last month on a mobile site at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo / Marcio Jose Sanchez) When …
Read More »Trump’s own campaign ads wipe out the virus – and the candidate
WASHINGTON – Regardless of how a candidate spends his or her time (a metric that was shaken in 2020 due to the pandemic), one of the most revealing indicators of elections is how campaigns spend their money on TV commercials . A week after the Trump campaign went on the …
Read More »Many married couples are planning pregnancy plans because of the pandemic
Recently engaged, Tracy Leong, 31, and her fiancé hope that 2020 or 2021 might be the year to start her family. A lifelong New Yorker, she felt confident that with much support from her parents, a sister and nieces who still live nearby, she could also keep her job in …
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