Whenever there is a surprise in stocks, customers’ stocks usually start pouring. But recently, financial advisers have been getting more and more customers from worrying about the devastation of West Coast wildfires, which come amid the worst public-health crisis of a century this year. “We always get a lot of …
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Anna Noise, a retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her diet often consists of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as airspace. Even when she has the money to buy groceries at Maracaibo’s teaming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell waste like animal hide …
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More than 400 million presidential campaigns – and possibly significantly more – will be washed out on American TV screens in the next two months, as the White House race enters part of the house and voters begin voting this month. Advertising spending, part of the anticipation for the presidential …
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After a growing season last year filled with burdensome rainfall and bitter trade wars, American farmers hope that 2020 will give them a chance to make some land. Instead, the situation has become much worse because prices remain depressed. Despite a windstorm that tore through Midwestern farms last week and …
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Text size Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Pacific Gas and Electric shares opened higher on the first day of trading for the California utility company after emerging from bankruptcy. PG&E (ticker: PCG) requested the Chapter 11 reorganization in January 2019 after it was discovered that their team caused some of …
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