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U.S. stocks end higher Friday, with S&P 500, Nasdaq closing at records MarketWatch Source link
24 February 2024, 00:19 GMT Updated 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Fani Willis has admitted to a relationship with Nathan Wade, a prosecutor she hired for the Trump case. Donald Trump’s legal team says mobile phone data suggest two prosecutors investigating him did not tell the truth about their relationship. The […]
(Bloomberg) — Global stocks rallied, with Japan’s benchmark hitting a record high and Europe’s on track to do the same, after Nvidia’s blowout sales forecast reinforced investor conviction in the boom in generative AI use. Most Read from Bloomberg The Nasdaq 100 index futures jumped 2% and S&P 500 contracts were up more than a […]
Surging U.S. oil production could set new records this year after ending 2023 at a historic level, pressuring OPEC and cushioning the market — at least so far — from price spikes that may emerge from tensions in the Middle East. U.S. production has undergone a dramatic turnaround after hitting a 62-year low in 2008, […]
In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men as part of a 40-year study observing the natural course of the disease. The experiment’s subjects – the majority of whom were sharecroppers from rural Alabama – believed they were undergoing treatment for […]
Even after Genaro García Luna, who once served as the architect of Mexico’s war on drugs, was found guilty last winter of taking millions of dollars from the drug lords he was meant to be pursuing, one question that lingered from his trial was just how closely he had interacted with United States officials at […]
U.S. Downplays Rift with Israel, and Congress Orders U.F.O. Records Released The New York Times Source link
A team of UMass Amherst faculty, librarians, staff, and students and their partners at the Pioneer Valley History Network (PVHN) are among the partnering projects awarded $349,803 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade,” also known as Enslaved.org, which is an open-access […]
By Andrew Keshner Black Friday broke online-sales records, and experts say that could bode well for the charitable-giving season. After Black Friday’s record-breaker for online sales, there’s hope that the holiday haul for nonprofits will also be generous on Giving Tuesday, and throughout the year-end charitable giving season.
Black Friday e-commerce spending jumped 7.5 percent from a year earlier, reaching a record $9.8 billion in the U.S., according to a report from Adobe Analytics, further indicating that price-conscious consumers are looking to spend on best deals and search for deals online. “We’ve seen a very strategic consumer emerge over the last year that’s […]