The COVID-19 pandemic that has cost the lives of 3.3 million people around the world was a “preventable disaster” exacerbated by a lack of global coordination and dithering at every point of the outbreak, an independent panel said Wednesday.
Gold prices are on track to log their first back-to-back retreat so far this month, as a reading of U.S. inflation revealed the biggest monthly increase in 13 years, leading U.S. benchmark stock indexes to extend their decline and providing support for U.S. Treasury yields.
Are vaccine holdouts ‘pathologically narcissistic’ or exercising their civil rights? And do private businesses have the right to refuse them? The Moneyist weighs in.
If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, then a recent effort to mimic dogecoin represents a genuine appreciation for the surge in demand for the popular, meme asset dogecoin.
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos sold roughly $6.7 billion worth of shares in his company over the past week, his largest concentrated disposal of shares since his divorce.
The Biden administration is exploring a temporarily waiver of the Jones Act, a key U.S. shipping law, to allow foreign vessels to carry fuel up the Eastern Seaboard to ease supply bottlenecks following the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.
A shareholder resolution asking Uber to be more transparent about its lobbying spending failed this week, but the investors who proposed it are vowing to keep pressure on the ride-hailing and delivery company.
The movement to fight monopoly power is notable in that its one of the few major topics that enjoys bipartisan support in Congress — though skeptics rightly point out that while Democrats and Republicans agree that the U.S. economy suffers from a competition problem, they don’t agree on what steps should be taken to solve it.
Voters in the U.K. could be forced to show photo ID at future elections, after a controversial new law proposed by Boris Johnson’s government was unveiled in the queen’s speech to Parliament.
Shares of Tesla Inc. took another dive Tuesday, after the electric vehicle maker’s April sales in China fell sharply from March, more so than its rivals amid negative public relations issues.