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Strategists say two factors are helping to give way to Monday morning’s stock market surge: optimism about China and the view that central banks will support the markets. A front-page editorial in the state-owned China Securities Journal is getting credit for driving a strong recovery in Chinese markets overnight that …

President Donald Trump celebrated the decline in death rates in a series of weekend tweets. “In a way, our tremendous success in the Tests gives the fake news media everything they want, CASES. Meanwhile, deaths and the top death rate decrease,” Trump wrote on Twitter. White House press secretary Kayleigh …

In every Transformers iteration, Optimus Prime is an eternal Optimist Prime. If the Autobots can continue to fight for what’s right in the galaxy, defend their home planet and the worlds of the rest of the Decepticons with every ounce of oil pumping through their hearts of the combustion engine, …

Update from July 6 below, post originally posted on July 4. Every press release has a hyperbole element, and you can usually play Bingo buzzword at most major events. Sometimes though a twist of the phrase sounds a bit out of place; the recent classic is Phil Schiller’s Apple depiction …

Argentina has announced an improved offer to holders of external debt of $ 65 billion, hoping to break a deadlock that has persisted since it defaulted in May. The latest offer, Argentina’s fourth since talks began earlier this year, would increase interest payments and reduce losses on bondholders’ initial investments, …