With 19 days to go until the election, President Donald Trump suggested NBC wouldn’t treat him fairly at a televised town hall on Thursday night. Joe Biden will have his own town hall, and his campaign just reported record fundraising for September.
The potential for an unclear result on election night and even a contested outcome is putting currency traders on edge, though the ultimate direction for the U.S. dollar following a victory by either Democratic challenger Joe Biden or President Donald Trump is likely to be lower, according to one currency watcher.
Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician who studies racism and sexism in medicine, says there should be a disproportionate representation of people of color in the COVID-19 vaccine studies.
U.S. stock-index futures were trading sharply lower early Thursday, suggesting a third day of falls for equities, following losses in Asia and Europe overnight as new restrictions were imposed to combat rising coronavirus cases in many parts of the world.
‘Unfortunately, the merriment we crave — eating, drinking and singing together in a cozy room — are among the highest-risk scenarios for transmitting COVID-19.’
New research from Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce finds that the value of a college degree doesn’t necessarily depend on the factors one might expect.
Londoners from different households won’t be able to gather indoors, Germans face further controls on gatherings, and nighttime curfews are being implemented in nine French cities.
Our call of the day from JonesTrading’s Michael O’Rourke says there is no middle ground in this market right now and cloud-software group Fastly may offer a cautionary tale for investors.
“The Canadian price increase supports our view that broader price hikes are probable in the near-term,” Jefferies analyst Alex Giaimo said in an Oct. 8 note.
Two-thirds of Procter & Gamble’s shareholders this week defied the company’s own recommendations, upping the pressure on the consumer-goods giant to reduce sourcing virgin timber for its Charmin toilet paper, Puffs tissues, Bounty paper towels and more.
Robert Smith, the billionaire chief executive of Vista Equity Partners, has reached a $140 million settlement with the Justice Department, ending a yearslong criminal tax probe, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hours after blocking a New York Post article from being shared in tweets and direct messages, raising an outcry from many, Twitter Inc. late Wednesday explained the reasoning, saying the issue was images within the article — not the article itself.
Man-made climate change is a controversial topic still up for public debate and so off limits, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said during her nomination hearing.