A day after Facebook parent Meta Platforms (FB) – Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report posted disastrous quarterly results that sent shares tumbling, Amazon.com (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report may be poised to reclaim some of big tech’s market valuation. Facebook’s 26% slide in the regular session took almost $240 billion of its market cap…
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about a U.S. Special Forces operation in Northern Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at a news conference ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse//File Photo By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was “too early” to say if the world…
World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic meets Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and thanks his administration as well as his fellow citizens for their support during the time he was detained and deported from Australia over his vaccination status, ahead of the Australian Open.
In “The World According to Jeff Goldblum,” Jeff Goldblum explores the globe, learning about a variety of different topics. So, who better than Jeff to step in as a WIRED correspondent* for a day and review a gaggle of unique travel gadgets. Jeff looks at everything from the world’s tiniest vacuum to a paper camera.…
Updated at 8:50 am ESTWall Street will navigate a series of key S&P 500 earnings Thursday as investors look to forward projections from a host of companies amid concerns of rising inflation, Federal Reserve rate hikes and slowing consumer growth.The following is a rolling update of the key releases prior the start of trading:MERCK &…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo By Ann Saphir and Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board came out swinging against high inflation on Wednesday, saying rising prices pose a…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gestures as he holds his end-of-year news conference in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli 2/2 By Gavin Jones, Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Last weekend, for the first time in his gilded career, Mario Draghi missed out on a promotion.…
For the first time, the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday voted to expel a senator, stripping Sen. Katrina Robinson of her elected position following her federal conviction on federal wire fraud charges.Robinson, D-Memphis, had decried the Senate’s move as racist and misogynistic and called the expulsion a “procedural lynching” Wednesday. The senator grew emotional on the…
U.S. government debt breached the $30 trillion mark Monday, hitting a new record high. And if interest rates keep rising, that number could increase in a hurry. The latest figure of $30.01 trillion represents an increase of almost $7 trillion from late January 2020, just before the Covid pandemic struck. And the total easily surpasses…





