It was a great — albeit short — trading week for the U.S. stock market. The S & P 500 added 1.06% on the week while the Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.13% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.39%. These gains added to an already stellar month for the market following Donald Trump’s victory in…
“Do you have kids?” I was interviewing a band just off Denmark Street in London. The singer was telling me about his toddler. His kid was cute, he was telling me, but he was still at that age: he didn’t DO much. “What age are your boys? Teenagers? Aw, I can’t wait til he’s that…
Politics in Romania can be a bloody business, especially on the right. The excesses of the Iron Guard, an insurrectionary, violently antisemitic, ultranationalist 1930s political-religious militia, stood out even at a time when fascist parties were wreaking havoc in Germany, Italy and Spain. Given what is happening in Europe today, the events of that period…
China successfully launched its newest rocket on Saturday, making another step towards stronger launch capabilities and a crewed moon landing before 2030. The 62-metre-tall, 3.8-metre-wide Long March 12 lifted off from Wenchang spaceport on south China’s Hainan island at 10:25pm Beijing time, sending two “technology test satellites” into orbit, according to the China Aerospace Science…
FOUR YEARS is how long it took Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian dictator, to retake Aleppo after part of the city fell to insurgents in 2012. Less than four days is how long it took him to lose it. On November 27th rebels launched a surprise offensive in north-west Syria. By the night of November 29th…
Amazon.com (AMZN) and Meta Platforms (META) lead this weekend’s watch list of five stocks near buy points, as a big start to the holiday shopping season and a bullish pick for Treasury secretary keep the S&P 500 postelection rally in gear. In addition to AMZN and Meta stock, the list includes Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway…
Welfare recipients taking part in a new pilot scheme in Hong Kong that requires them to put in volunteer hours can make use of the unpaid work to enhance social connections and increase their employability, a minister has said. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han on Saturday dismissed concerns that mandated voluntary work…
Google’s Pixel 8A amazed me for one simple reason when I tested it earlier this year: It is just a phone. What it lacks in fancy AI features or camera tricks, it makes up for by nailing the basics you want in a phone. And you can get the Pixel 8A for $400 right after Black Friday —…
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN founder Jeff Bezos lives a private life in an elite neighborhood where he rarely shows his face. What To Know: Bezos is a resident of Hunts Point, a wealthy neighborhood just outside of Seattle. He purchased a $37.5 million waterfront property in the neighborhood in 2019, as well as three other nearby homes for his staff, according to a…
HELSINKI — China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space. The two-stage, 62-meter-tall Long March 12 lifted off at 9:25 a.m. Eastern (1425 UTC) Nov. 30 from the Wenchang Commercial Space…