Text size Johannes Eisele / AFP via Getty Images Almost mid-2020, one of the many ironies of the year is that its number is associated with perfect vision. Just as no one could have foreseen the coronavirus calamity when the year began, the view into the second half remains hazy. …
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Text size Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz. If you’ve ever spent hours pushing buttons on a video game controller, I’d like to thank you for your service. I’m starting to think you helped invent driverless cars. You may have also participated in cancer treatments. See Tuesday, Nvidia (ticker: NVDA), a powerhouse of …
Read More »A broken uptrend in key government bond yield could bode badly for stocks
Too much for V-shaped recovery. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond TMUBMUSD10Y, 0.647% it just broke below an ascending trend line, suggesting that the uptrend of the COVID-19 low in early March has ended. That upward trend in rates was significant for both Main Street and Wall Street. It …
Read More »Gap hopes he can polish his image with a new clothing line Kanye West, echoing the rapper’s brand success with Adidas.
UBS analysts saw what Kanye West did for Adidas AG and thought that the controversial rapper and fashion designer could do the same for sick Gap Inc. Gap announced on Friday that it has partnered with Kanye for the Yeezy Gap collection that will include items for men, women and …
Read More »‘Maskne’, yes, masked acne, now it’s one thing
A frustrating side effect of mandatory wearing of face masks during the coronavirus outbreak is that it is causing many people to explode. And that generated the term “mask” – or “mask” plus “acne”, referring to blemishes that result from the use of a face covering. Acne was already the …
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