Wall Street appeared to cheer a change of leadership in the White House, producing one of its best returns in nearly four decades on the day of a new president’s inauguration. Read: Stock-market performance under Trump trails only Obama and Clinton The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.83% and the …
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We’ve had over 100 new blog posts this year, and in those, we covered a lot. 2020 was a big deal with pandemic-related changes to the homebuying process, unheard of low mortgage interest rates, increased buying and selling activity as renters left big cities and settled elsewhere, and, of course, …
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Wow friends looking back on 2020 has been a little strange! I always like to end the year with a recap of the top blog posts, favorite products, and my favorite memories. 2020 has looked completely different than we could have ever envisioned but I still wanted to do this …
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Facebook is tightening its rules on content concerning the U.S. presidential election next month. AFP/Getty Images Facebook Inc. teams have planned for the possibility of trying to calm election-related conflict in the U.S. by deploying internal tools designed for what it calls “at-risk” countries, according to people familiar with the matter. The …
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Nearly three dozen former Facebook Inc. employees, dismayed with Mark Zuckerberg’s hands-off policy on President Donald Trump’s posts and his defensive posture on the matter, forcefully pushed back in a stinging letter released Wednesday. “We grew up at Facebook, but it is no longer ours,” the 33 former employees, who …
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D AFP/Getty Images Danone SA said Wednesday that net profit fell for 2019 and it issued new guidance for 2020. The French food company BN, +0.06% said net profit for the year was 1.93 billion euros ($ 2.09 billion), compared with EUR2.35 billion the year previous. An analyst consensus provided …
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Akzo Nobel NV said Wednesday that fourth-quarter earnings fell compared with the same time in the prior year, but expects raw-material costs in the first half of 2020 to have a positive effect. Net income for the Dutch paints company AKZA, -0.61% in the quarter ended Dec. 31 was 81 …
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