President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump were campaigning on Monday in Georgia, where two U.S. Senate runoff elections on Tuesday are set to determine the balance of power in Washington. Biden spoke at an afternoon event in Atlanta in support of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, …
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Dear MarketWatch, I am really hoping you can help us because we are eager to move, but not sure where. I am 49 and my husband is 45, and I’ve diligently saved so I can semi-retire and spend time with family and travel. Presently we live in New Orleans in …
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A week after a bullish golden cross pattern formed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.03%, a pair of important stock-market indexes are also beginning to generate upbeat chart formations—suggesting that a mostly technology-driven rally may be fanning out to other sectors of the market. Indeed, the Dow Jones …
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Reddit is cleaning house. The massive collective of online forums where users have shared and created content, engaged in Q&As, sought advice and voted each other’s posts up or down announced on Monday that it’s revising its content policy, particularly in regards to hate speech. And as a result, Reddit …
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