The Food and Drug Administration over the weekend issued a warning on nine alcohol-based hand sanitizers manufactured by Eskbiochem SA de CV in Mexico that it says contain wood methanol, a toxic substance that could ultimately result in death of absorbed through the skin or ingested. “Consumers who have been …
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“ ‘The stock market has already discounted a significant degree of the economic recovery. So, incrementally improving data here might not do much to lift prices. The risk-reward isn’t great here.’ ” That’s Bryn Mawr Trust’s Jeffrey Mills, who oversees $ 16 billion in assets, talking to CNBC Friday about …
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“ ‘My confidence is rising quite rapidly that this is, in fact, becoming the fourth, real McCoy, bubble of my investment career. The great bubbles can go on a long time and inflict a lot of pain but at least I think we know now that we’re in one. And …
Read More »Capitol Report: Ocasio-Cortez thanks ‘TikTok teens’ who ‘tricked’ Trump campaign
Kids these days. Donald Trump’s big campaign rally in Tulsa wasn’t quite as big as promised, with the man leading the president’s re-election efforts explaining away the no-shows. “Radical protestors, fueled by a week of apocalyptic media coverage, interfered with @realDonaldTrump supporters at the rally,” Brad Parscale explained. “They even …
Read More »Mutual Funds Weekly: These money and investing tips can help you with portfolio decisions as new coronavirus cases shadow economic recovery
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: These money and investing stories, popular with MarketWatch readers this past week, offer ideas about how to manage your financial portfolio at a time when doubts are growing about the extent to which economies can safely reopen as coronavirus cases rise. INVESTING …
Read More »NewsWatch: Here’s what stock-market investors think is the biggest factor in their investing as coronavirus cases rise—hint: it isn’t a second wave
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE A recent survey by investment firm Jefferies indicates that the rise in coronavirus cases isn’t the central worry for investors. It’s the shape of the economic recovery that is the single-biggest factor by far for the investment community See full story. Doing this 30 minutes a day …
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Dear MarketWatch, I currently live in upstate New York (Saratoga County). I will retire from my state government job with an $ 80,000 public pension. If I stay, I won’t have to pay state income taxes on my pension, Social Security and the first $ 20,000 annually from my deferred …
Read More »Amazon workers hold Juneteenth vigils demanding Jeff Bezos reflect on company’s treatment of ‘unskilled workforce’
Amazon AMZN, +0.79% CEO Jeff Bezos says Juneteenth should be a moment for reflection about the ways we can eradicate systemic racism and create a more just country. But some Amazon workers are holding Juneteenth vigils where they say they want to draw a link between “slavery, racism and Amazon’s …
Read More »U.K. foreign secretary criticized for saying taking a knee comes from ‘Game of Thrones’
Dominic Raab, the U.K. foreign secretary, has been criticized after saying that taking the knee comes from the “Game of Thrones” TV series. Raab, who led the country while Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized with COVID-19, also said the gesture “feels to me like a symbol of subjugation, subordination.” …
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