Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week. Getty Images Man-made climate change — the long-run threat to the global economy and security that serves as the basis for competing clean-energy bills by both parties — is a controversial topic still up for …
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iStockphoto “ ‘Within 18 months, it’s going to crack pretty hard. I think that you want to be avoiding it for the time being. When the next big meltdown happens, I think the U.S. is going to be the worst performing market, actually, and that’ll have a lot to do …
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President Donald Trump has quashed hopes for a new federal stimulus package before the presidential election in November. And that could leave America’s renters and landlords in a lurch. On Twitter TWTR, +0.26% Tuesday afternoon, Trump initially said that he had instructed his team to stop negotiating with Democrats until …
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A grizzly bear swims at pandemic hard-hit Oakland Zoo in California this summer. Getty Images A recent spate of stock drops, exacerbated by signs of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, is unsettling to say the least. The market selloff of last spring was brief, but brutal. Our call …
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The TikTok and WeChat app icons are seen on a smartphone screen. Associated Press NEW YORK — A looming U.S. ban on the Chinese app WeChat won’t target people who use the app to communicate, according to a government court filing Wednesday. President Donald Trump issued orders on Aug. 6 that targeted …
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A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to a statistic involving five-month winning streaks for the S&P 500. The article has been corrected. Carrying the team. jonathan nackstrand/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Pandemic worries, election uncertainty, U.S.-China tensions — none of that is enough to sway this tough bull market, says …
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A record-setting August for stocks has set the bar high, but September may be off to an upbeat start, led by technology. The big question for investors is whether the equity market will keep up the momentum? That brings us to our call of the day from Schwab Center for …
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night made an effort to turn his Democratic challenger’s campaign rallying cries against him, as he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination and delivered the last speech at the GOP’s four-day convention. “In America, we don’t turn to government to restore our souls. We put our …
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“ ‘ We have to remember that Amazon was in a bubble in 2000. It crashed, it fell 90% — I don’t think Tesla is going to fall 90% — but it crashed, and then 10 years later it was running the world. So even if Tesla is going to …
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