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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Don’t believe the hype. That’s the message from Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, chief investment officer of private wealth management at Goldman Sachs, who thinks that gold is overpriced and has no clear role in the portfolios of her private clients. Our view is that gold is only appropriate if you have a …
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In the lead up to and weeks immediately following his graduation, Stephan Lally watched as COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on the country’s black community laid bare racial inequities in health care and economic opportunity. He also watched as thousands of people took to the streets across the country to protest the …
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“ ‘We have done what very few countries have been able to do. We have stopped a wave of devastation.’ ” That’s New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern claiming a win against the coronavirus in an address to the nation on Monday from capital city Wellington. Kiwis, she said, will …
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Getty Images Pete Buttigieg participates in the Democratic presidential primary debate at St. Anselm College on February 07, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire. MANCHESTER, N.H. — Americans won’t hear much about stock-market performance and the economy in the same breath if Pete Buttigieg becomes president. “When I’m president, we’re going …
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