The coronavirus situation in the U.K. is far more pervasive now than in March when the country first locked down. When U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the country’s first lockdown on Mar. 23, 2020, there were 967 new cases. Even in the two months that followed, the highest daily …
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Just 6% of S&P 500 companies have a woman CEO, according to a new report assessing the country’s top public companies on measures of workplace equality as of this past March. That makes the 40 chief executives named Michael or James more common than the 31 women CEOs, found the …
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Demand for food delivery has risen dramatically during the COVID-19 crisis. MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Zachary Davis, owner of The Glass Jar restaurant group in Santa Cruz, Calif., said he intentionally avoided working with food-delivery apps before the COVID-19 pandemic because the costs to his business just seemed too high. But …
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Dear Moneyist, Honestly, I can’t believe I’m writing this but here we go. My wife and I are in our 30s and have two young children. She is a stay-at-home mom. I am a resident physician who currently makes about $ 60,000 per year, but this will markedly increase next …
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Tesla Inc. stock rallied more than 9% after hours Monday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said it will add the electric-car maker to the S&P 500 at the start of trading on Dec. 21. Joining the benchmark index for U.S. equities puts the stock in the portfolios of countless index-tracking …
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If you’re a veteran of the US armed forces or on active military duty, you probably have heard of the VA loan. This government-backed mortgage can make homeownership more affordable for eligible borrowers by providing financing that requires no down payment and no private mortgage insurance. In addition, VA loans …
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The 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) logo is seen through the window of a car in Kuala Lumpu, Malaysia, in 2016. AFP/Getty Images Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has agreed to a more-than-$ 2 billion settlement with the U.S. Justice Department for its role in Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal, Bloomberg News reported …
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MarketWatch illustration/iStockphoto The demands of at-home schooling and work amid the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the personal-computer market to its strongest growth in more than a decade, according to third-party analyses released Monday. Gartner Inc. and IDC reported that PC shipments enjoyed their second consecutive quarter of strong growth after years …
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Shoppers walk by a discoloured patch of pavement in The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England on September 4, 2020 . adrian dennis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The U.K. economy expanded by 6.6% in July, for its third consecutive monthly increase, according to data released Friday. The U.K. Office for National …
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