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Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, which runs Norway’s oil fund. hakon mosvold larsen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The boss of Norway’s $ 1 trillion oil fund has said it should sell out of more companies that perform badly on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, to increase its returns. …

Failing to hand over refunds to customers is a direct breach of guidance from European and U.K. authorities. Yet several tour operators have failed to refund customers their money.  Some of Europe’s largest travel companies are holding on to their customers’ cash months after trips were canceled because of coronavirus.  …

If you would have told me that three years after moving into our home I’d still be organizing and purging things I wouldn’t have believed you. 🙂 I don’t know if it’s normal to still be going through stuff at this point, or if it’s because we’re spending more time …

It’s been more than 100 days since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. Several red flags were missed, so what can we learn from those mistakes? The COVID-19 pandemic, which was first identified in Wuhan, China in December, had infected 10,055,037 people globally and 2,534,981 in …

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 …

The U.K. government has approved the use of dexamethasone — the first coronavirus drug that scientists says has been shown to save lives — and it costs just £5 ($ 6) per patient. A trial led by Oxford University found that the low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone cut the risk of …

There’s a pretty big gulf between how professional investors manage money and the bets made by average people. Like many things, it may have been amplified by the upside-down nature of markets and the economy in the wake of the coronavirus shock — or not. The chart above shows the …

Every homeowner wants a beautiful, thick lawn. Unfortunately, people often make these common lawn care mistakes that undermine that goal. Cut short, but not too short. (DepositPhotos) 1. Cutting the Grass Too Short Generally, grass should be cut no shorter than about 3 inches long. Trimming it too short removes …

As of Tuesday, an island off the U.K.’s southern coast will become a petri dish for efforts to isolate and contain the third-biggest coronavirus outbreak in Europe. “From tomorrow, we will begin to pilot test, track and trace on the Isle of Wight, starting with health professionals, then rolling out …