KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa was strengthening rapidly late Saturday, threatening to become a major hurricane and cause catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica. Melissa became a hurricane on Saturday, prompting forecasters to issue a hurricane warning for Jamaica, saying it could reach the island as a major storm early next…
new video loaded: In China’s Crowded Hospitals, She Found a New Career transcript Back transcript In China’s Crowded Hospitals, She Found a New Career As China’s population grows older, a new industry of gig workers is stepping in to help older patients navigate a complex, bureaucratic hospital system. We spent time with Jessica Wang, a…
This is Tom Jia. He’s a 28-year-old lifestyle influencer who calls himself a — Tangping, or “lying flat:” It’s a fast-growing lifestyle, rejecting social pressures to overwork and pursue material success. In China, young people face intense pressure to work grueling hours, buy a house and get married. Some are quietly rebelling and choosing to…
This is Ray Hou. She’s a — — at Repair Sisters. Repair Sisters is an all-female home repair company in the city of Chengdu, the first of its kind in China. In China, if you needed something fixed, most likely a man would show up at your door. Ray and her colleagues are changing that….
If AI and crypto are not bubbles, we could be in big trouble. What if the trillions of dollars placed on those bets turn out to be good investments? The disruption will be epic, and terrible. A lot of speculative manias are just fun for a while and then the last in lose their shirts,…
A bronze sculpture of a bull is displayed on Broadway in the financial district November 14, 2000 in New York City. Chris Hondros | Hulton Archive | Getty Images Investors continue to pile into stocks, undeterred by a government shutdown or shaky jobs data, with all three benchmarks hitting record highs Thursday. With the Senate…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE On Wednesday, the U.S. government ground to a halt. Stock markets, however, jumped — one benchmark even hit a record high. Traders in prediction markets are betting the shutdown will last nearly two weeks. Nothing too radical, since that’s the average length…
A new ADP jobs report estimated that the U.S. economy lost more than 30,000 private sector jobs in September. Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment via email. Why It Matters The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report was set to be released on Friday, but could be delayed as legislators remain…
US equity futures held losses after Congress failed to agree to a spending plan, forcing the government into a shutdown that will keep hundreds of thousands of federal workers home from their jobs. Futures on the S&P 500 Index were down 0.4% as of 1:02 a.m. Wednesday after the deadline to fund the government came…
The dollar has started an event-loaded week with declines. Bloomberg’s gauge of the greenback fell 0.2% on Monday, dropping for a second day. A US government shutdown is looming, with both political sides digging in on their stances. Several pieces of key US economic data are also due this week, culminating with the monthly jobs…