Pin Share Tweet I have been dragging my feet about getting my house decorated for fall, until yesterday. Over the last 6 months, I have been feeling a little anxious about the unknown. I know many of you are probably feeling something similar. It was getting me down and I …
Read More »Metals Stocks: Gold pulls back, but heads for weekly gain
Gold futures fell on Friday, but headed for weekly gain in the wake of turbulent patch of trading for global equities. “The precious metal remains supported by low-to-negative government bond yields, rising coronavirus cases in the United States and a tired U.S. dollar,” said Lukman Otunuga, senior research analyst at …
Read More »Back To School Fall Mantel
We still have a few weeks left in August, but there is something that makes me inspired to start my fall decor and fall planning when kids start going back to school. Even though Cope isn’t school age, that event and seeing the school busses pass our house puts me …
Read More »Will Your Kids Be Heading Back to School This Fall?
Here in France, my kids went back to school in May and June. They are on summer break now, but schools are currently planning to fully open in September (technically, I think the first day back is August 31st). Friends have asked what it’s like having kids back in school …
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The U.S. got some great news Thursday with the rehiring of 4.9 million people in June, but the two steps forward the economy took in May and June could be followed by one step back in July. The problem? A resurgence in coronavirus cases, especially in states that allowed their …
Read More »Key Words: ‘Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was,’ Airbnb CEO says
“ “Travel will never, ever go back to the way it was pre-COVID.” ” That’s the grim view of Airbnb Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Brian Chesky, in an interview published Sunday by Axios. “I will go on the record to say that travel will never, ever go back to …
Read More »Dispatches from a Pandemic: As Spain welcomes back tourists, this tiny island finds ‘hearts divided’ with hope and anxiety
On the tiny Balearic island of Formentera, sometimes called Ibiza’s sister island, Raquel Calafat has been working hard to get the hotel that her great-grandfather established in the 1950s ready to greet tourists, who have been eerily absent for months. Calafat speaks of “corazones divididos” — hearts divided — to …
Read More »Some tech workers are slowly trickling back to the office now
It’s back to the office for some tech employees this month. Apple Inc. AAPL, +2.57% and Juniper Networks Inc. JNPR, +0.52% , for example, are allowing small pools of employees to return in what is expected to be a series of gradual phases, though companies are reluctant to talk. (Apple …
Read More »CityWatch: ‘Our energy’s back,’ Cuomo says on Day 1 of New York City’s reopening
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers went back to work on Monday for the first time in nearly three months, as the city took its first step toward reopening with cautious optimism. “Our mojo is back. Our energy’s back,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo at his Monday briefing. Monday also marked …
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