Raphael Warnock won one of two Senate runoffs in Georgia early Wednesday, according to the Associated Press, bringing Democrats a seat closer to a Senate majority. The AP called the race for Warnock over GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler at about 2 a.m. Eastern. Results were continuing to come in from …
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The 2020 U.S. presidential election has been a nail-biter, so it’s understandable if many folks were glued to Electoral College maps and races that were “too early to call” for incumbent President Donald Trump or his Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Election Night. There was still no clear winner for …
Read More »: Surging coronavirus colors White House race in closing days
President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Robeson County Fairgrounds, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Lumberton, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) AP President Donald Trump on Saturday mocked Democrat Joe Biden as “an inspiring guy” for raising alarm about the pandemic even as the president attracted sizable campaign crowds …
Read More »Help Me Retire: I’m 52, won’t live past 80 and have $1.6 million. ‘I am tired of both the rat race and workplace politics.’ Should I retire?
Hi, I started working when I was 19 and have been saving half of my salary since my mid-20s. Now at 52, I am tired of both the rat race and workplace politics. With the virus, it feels even worse. I have saved about $ 800,000 in trading, $ 800,000 …
Read More »The only way to truly solve the race problem in America is to narrow the wealth gap, black economists say
The unrest in cities across the U.S. this week is just the latest manifestation of a struggle that will continue until the wealth gap between white people and black people is addressed, black economists said. What is the wealth gap? It is the stark divide between how much capital white …
Read More »Earnings Watch: Apple, Amazon and Gilead take anchor leg of earnings race with a big lead
In the busiest earnings week of the season, Thursday is the biggest act. Two trillion-dollar companies — Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.28% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +2.53% — will follow the successes of rivals Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +8.73% GOOGL, +8.89% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +4.48% and look to prove that the …
Read More »Market Extra: An all-out war for dominance has erupted among OPEC and its allies, and now oil investors brace for a race to the bottom on prices
It’s every country for itself, or so it seems after a meeting between OPEC and other major producers ended in acrimony on Friday, which has the market now worried about a price war between some of the biggest oil producers in the world. Russia and Saudi Arabia are likely to …
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