House Republicans on Friday tap Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve as their No. 3 leader, with the New York congresswoman taking the job that Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming held until two days ago.
Sales at U.S. retailers fell flat in April after a blockbuster gain in the prior month when the government sent out $1,400 stimulus checks to most Americans — the third report in the past week that suggests the economy is hitting fresh headwinds.
Aurora Cannabis Inc. reported another large quarterly loss Thursday, and announced more cost-cutting, share-sale plans and executive changes as shares plunged in late trading.
Gold prices head for a second straight gain for the day and week, as bullion extended its bounce from its lowest intraday price in a week which had been prompted by rising bond yields and a higher U.S. dollar as jitters around rising inflation rose.
Oil futures rise Friday, taking back a chunk of the previous session’s tumble, as a key fuel pipeline reopened after a closure that sparked gasoline shortages across the southeastern U.S.
U.S. government bonds on Friday are drawing bids, nudging prices up and yields lower, as investors awaited a report on retail sales at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, and a batch of other data points, to cap a turbulent week of trading on Wall Street.
Extending the gap between doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from three to 12 weeks significantly boosts the antibody response in elderly people, according to a new U.K. study.
The theory that the COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by a laboratory leak “remains viable” and “more investigation is still needed to determine [its] origin,” a group of scientists wrote on Thursday.
‘I am afraid to even look at the total, and have not gone to the site. To make it worse, before this, I was lower middle class, and so are many of the friends who gave money.’
A day after revealing that Tesla Inc. would stop accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk suggested Thursday that another cryptocurrency, dogecoin, could be turned into a suitable replacement.
‘There will certainly be some controversy about this,’ one divorce attorney said after the FDA cleared the way for using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 12 to 15-year-olds.