Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and top Democrats indicated Friday that they remain at an impasse over President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. The Democratic-led House voted to impeach Trump on Dec. 18, but the exact timing for a Senate trial on the charges against him isn’t clear because House SpeakerRead More →
Move over, conscious-uncoupling — a new star-powered relationship status is in vogue. Emma Watson — the actress best known for growing up on-screen as Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” movies — got personal about turning 30 in a cover story for British Vogue’s December issue. “I never believed theRead More →
“The Morning Show” could be off to a rough start. The drama starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carrell as broadcast journalists working on a “Today” show-like set — with Carrell’s character getting canned for sexual misconduct allegations a la Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose — is the highest-profileRead More →
My Uber was held up on Canal Street, in downtown Manhattan, on a busy weekday afternoon by a small flock of tourists too busy with their smartphones to notice the traffic snarled up around them. Several were slouching slowly across the street while staring down at their hand-held devices. AnotherRead More →
Your kids really might be driving you to drink. And Constellation Brands Inc. would probably like to thank them for driving you nuts, particularly if you’re a millennial parent. Constellation’s chief financial officer acknowledged as much Wednesday during an interview at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston. CFORead More →
They won the World Cup on Sunday, and now it’s time for the U.S. women’s soccer team to score some serious endorsements. Indeed, many players on the U.S. Women’s National Team have already been bridging the widely reported gender pay gap in soccer via sponsorship deals. Take forward Alex Morgan,Read More →
Forget “last mile,” Walmart Inc. is taking delivery to the last few inches. The retail giant announced Friday a new service that will deliver groceries not just to customers’ homes, but to their fridge, even when they’re not home. Walmart InHome delivery will launch in the fall in three markets:Read More →
In the course of her career and research into behavior at work, Nicole Jones Young has noticed that some workplaces recognize the work of the loudest, most confident and, sometimes, the most well-heeled person in the room. She says most people have had at least one colleague with a senseRead More →
My readers will know that for our US holdings (for my wife’s retirement accounts and my retirement accounts), I skimmed 15 of the largest cap Dividend Achievers (VIG) back in early 2015. Here’s Buying Dividend Growth Stocks Without Looking. Now certainly the index did ‘look’ and it takes a moreRead More →
Many Americans say they’re ready to do business with companies giving their employees another shot at a law-abiding life after they’ve been convicted of a non-violent crime. Some 78% of customers say they are comfortable spending their money at a business that employs consumer-facing workers with non-violent criminal records, aRead More →
It’s high time seniors got into the cannabis business. In many ways, Amy Peckham seems like a typical grandmother: The 60-year-old is talkative (especially about her four adult children, whom she raised as a stay-at-home mom), charitable (she co-founded the Peckham Family Foundation, which donates money to everything from environmentalRead More →
Cocktail drinkers across the United States are of one mind when it comes to their favorite pour: The margarita is the king, and the martini is sloshing right on its heels. But not in Chicago. Alone among American big cities, the Windy City exalts a drink whose very name bespeaksRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Index mutual funds tracking the same market benchmark may look alike — until you peek under the hood. Fees and expenses, structure, and average market-capitalization are just some of the potential differences between fund offerings that can impact performance. Read about whyRead More →
Missed January’s stock-market rally? Well, then you likely missed the bulk of 2019’s best gains, say strategists at Goldman Sachs. The main U.S. benchmarks enjoyed a boomlet last month, after a withering stretch that took hold in October and culminated in a brutal beatdown of bullish investors on Dec. 24—markingRead More →
On 1/19/19, Bloomberg published an article by Satyajit Das likening quantitative asset managers to “alchemists seeking to transform base metals into gold” based on “pattern recognition” (correlating “past periods of superior return with specific factors”) but being foiled by “hindsight bias” and “practical matters, such as what data is orRead More →
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller might be the greatest investor alive today. His track record is astonishing. “Druck,” as he’s known, had 30 straight profitable years from 1980 to 2010. During that time, he earned an average of 30% a year. If you took $10,000 and compounded it at 30% aRead More →
