The U.S. stock market has rebounded mightily in recent months but Howard Marks cautions investors to brace for a tough slog in the economy, and that’s even if a fresh fiscal stimulus package can be passed by Congress to help heal the coronavirus-stricken business climate. “Thus, this down-cycle cannot be …
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Intel Corp. is still the dominant provider of chips for personal computers and servers, but its reign as the chip king of Silicon Valley has ended, and the unresolved question is whether its woes stem from reaching the limits of technology, the people in charge or a mixture of both. …
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The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 world-wide climbed above 38.9 million on Friday, as a clinical trial found one therapy believed to be promising as a treatment to have no effect on mortality in hospitalized patients. The trial, conducted by the World Health Organization, found that …
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Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference at the White House on Sept. 27. Getty Images President Donald Trump was told last year by U.S. intelligence officials that his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had been targeted by a Russian intelligence influence operation, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Citing four unnamed …
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Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Getty Images Twitter Inc. shares were little changed in after-hours trading Thursday as the social-media platform experienced a massive and as-yet-unexplained outage. Twitter’s feed went down around 5:30 p.m. Eastern, with users unable to post new tweets or see anything posted past that time. Service …
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Q: I turn 70½ this year so I was going to start making my charitable donations from my IRA but now I hear the magic age for required distributions is 72 so I’ll have to wait. I still work some. Is it true that the law now allows me to …
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Venmo is rolling out a credit card with a personal QR code that users can show friends when trying to split payments. PayPal Venmo’s new credit card, by design, is meant to appeal to a younger demographic than a flashier card like the Chase Sapphire or American Express Gold Card. …
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Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Getty Images Man-made climate change — the long-run threat to the global economy and security that serves as the basis for competing clean-energy bills by both parties — is a controversial topic still up for …
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