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The U.S. factory sector is showing solid momentum going into 2021, with orders rising for eighth straight months. Orders for manufactured goods rose 1.1% in December after a 1.3% gain in the prior month, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal were expecting a 0.7% …

Gold prices on Friday were set to take a pause from a recent series of gains that have taken it to around a six-week high, but the precious metal was on pace for its third consecutive weekly advance. Precious metals have been partly supported by central banks that have vowed …

A previous version misstated the time span of the 57% increase in average cases; it was since two weeks ago. A medical staff member treats a patient suffering from COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston on Oct. 31. Getty Images The U.S. has …

A shopper wearing PPE (personal protective equipment), of a face mask or covering as a precautionary measure against COVID-19, walks in an empty Covent Garden in London on June 15, 2020 as some nonessential retailers reopen from their coronavirus shutdown. tolga akmen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images U.K. retail sales logged a fourth …

Well hello! I shared this quick tip on my Instagram stories this week but it was such a good one I thought it deserved it’s own post. 🙂 I’ve seen this tip a few times over the years but haven’t tried it — I just wasn’t sure how well it …

Some 5 million Americans likely applied for jobless benefits for the third week in a row in mid-April as the coronavirus outbreak took an even bigger bite out of the U.S. economy, pushing the unemployment rate to around 15% unofficially. Nearly 17 million people have already filed new jobless claims …

Major U.S. stock indexes were poised to enter a full-blown market correction Thursday if they maintain early losses until the closing bell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.46%  tumbled more than 600 points and was off 610 points, or 2.3%, near 26,348. A close below 26,596.28 for the blue-chip …

Gold futures on Monday headed modestly higher as investors fretted about the economic impact on China of the fast-moving outbreak of the coronavirus. The death toll for the novel strain of coronavirus climbed to more than 900 in mainland China, exceeding that of the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, …