Boy George performs on stage with Culture Club. Friday, August 26, 2022 at Ravinia Festival in … [+] Highland Park, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen “We are Culture Club. We make sad music that puts...
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Wells Fargo Cuts 75 Jobs In Home Mortgage Division. Here Are The Major U.S. Job Cuts Amid Growing Recession Fears
Wells Fargo made its ninth round of job cuts in its home mortgage division this year as the housing market continues to cool substantially—the latest U.S. company to announce layoffs this summer as em...
Ticket Prices For Serena’s Next U.S. Open Match Double To Over $500 Following Upset
Topline Ticket prices for Serena Williams’ third-round singles match at the U.S. Open on Friday skyrocketed after she upset No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday night, with fans willing to pay up t...
Three Covid Vaccine Doses Better Than Two Against Omicron Infections, New Study Reinforces
Topline Three doses of a Covid-19 vaccine provide stronger protection against the highly contagious omicron variant than two primary series doses, according to a new Danish study, a finding that provi...
Nvidia stock hits new 52-week low amid U.S. export ban news
Nvidia stock (NVDA) hit a 52-week low on Thursday after U.S. officials imposed a new license requirement for the company’s AI chip exports to China and Russia. Shares of the chipmaker were down ...
Here’s The What Financial Markets Will Be Watching Out For This September
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 2: (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Historically, September has seen the worst monthly stock market returns in recent history. That together, with the fa...
U.S. Justice Department Investigating Binance CZ for Crypto Money Laundering
– Advertisement – New request letter surfaces, suggesting Binance and CZ were under investigation for money laundering crimes. The United States Justice Department reportedly investigate...
U.S Federal Reserve Discussion Document Took a Hard and Cold Look Over DeFi And Presented Mixed Opinions
At present, over 1400 DApps are functioning in the market. The collective gross value of DeFi products lies from $78billion to $224 billion at the beginning of H2 of 2022. Currently, there are approxi...
U.S. restricts sales of high-end chips to China: sell Nvidia stock now?
Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is down 10% on Thursday after the U.S. announced new licensing requirements on sales of sophisticated chips to China and Russia. What does that mean for Nvidia Corp? ...
Ripple Partook In New Digital Dollar Initiative To Help Explore Resolutions For U.S CBDC Program
Ripple, and several other companies, including Knox Network, EMTECH, and Digital Asset, will collaborate on the initiative. Ripple will participate in a newly launched initiative by The Digital Dolla...
U.S. health officials brace for another fall Covid surge, but with fewer deaths
People walk past a COVID-19 walk up testing site on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Liao Pan | China News Service | Getty Images Fall is on the horizon and public health officials are again bracing fo...
U.S. Charges Bitcoin Proponent Michael Saylor and His Company for $25M Tax Evasion
Karl Racine, the Washington, D.C. Attorney General, announced Wednesday that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has filed civil charges against Bitcoin proponent Michael Saylor and his company M...
U.S. Launched Probe Against CEO Of Crypto Exchange Binance
According to a report from Reuters, the CEO and founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, was under investigation by U.S. federal prosecutors. Launched in 2020 by th...
U.S. Congressional Committee Probes Coinbase, FTX, Binance on Fraud Prevention
Consumer watchdogs within the U.S. House of Representatives believe crypto-related fraud is a massive problem. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi—Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy of th...
Ripple Joins New Digital Dollar Initiative to Help Explore Solutions for U.S. CBDC Program
Gamza Khanzadaev Ripple to help explore solutions for U.S. CBDC amid ongoing litigation against SEC Ripple will participate in a new initiative from The Digital Dollar Project, a nonprofit organizatio...
Don’t Mistake Today’s “Whack-A-Mole” Logistics Regime For A New Era Of Global Supply Chain Management
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Container ships anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles Getty Images The on-going rotation of congestion around the world—both within and among countries, from Chin...
Serena Williams Beats No. 2 Seed In U.S. Open Second-Round Stunner—Keeping Career Alive
Topline Tennis legend Serena Williams advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open after pulling off a major upset Wednesday night, topping No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit and fueling dreams that she might...
Serena Williams Stuns World No. 2 Anett Kontaveit at U.S. Open To Postpone Retirement Yet Again
Serena Williams, of the United States, returns a shot to Anett Kontaveit, of Estonia, during the … [+] second round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in New York. ...
Foreign Immigration Could Relieve U.S. Trucker Shortage
The U.S. needs more trucks like this on the road – but there are not enough drivers. getty As the saying goes, “Houston, we have a problem.” That is to say, we have an acute shortage of truck dr...
The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power
A construction worker works on the Phase II nuclear power plant at the LingAo nuclear power plant in … [+] Daya Bay, Guangdong province, China. The LingAo nuclear power plant is an excellent exa...
2023 Rises On Wall Street And The U.S. Stock Market
Sunrise over lower Manhattan getty In the U.S., Labor Day is an important demarcation for Wall Street. Returning from their final summer vacations, Wall Streeters arrive, ready to tackle the financial...
Nvidia Stock Drops as U.S. Limits Exports to China. ‘Military End Use’ Is Key.
Text size Nvidia’s A100 chips ae used in data centers for high-performance applications such as artificial intelligence. Courtesy NVIDIA Nvidia can’t catch a break. Late Wednesday, the chip make...
Nvidia Warns of Sales Hit from New U.S. Chip Licensing Requirements For China
Listen to article (2 minutes) Nvidia could lose as much as $400 million in quarterly sales after the U.S. imposed new licensing requirements on shipments of some of its most advanced chips to China, t...
Committee of the U.S Questioned FTX and Coinbase on Fraud Prevention –
U.S Subcommittee wrote a letter to crypto exchanges seeking information regarding fraud in the crypto industry Five crypto industry giants, Coinbase, FTX, Kraken, KuCoin, and Binance, received a four-...
These Are The Key Record-Breaking Temperatures For Summer 2022
Topline Summer 2022 continues to burn through the record books–with more than 1,200 places breaking daily high temperatures in the past 30 days—here’s a real-time tracker of the most noteworthy, daily...
Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev
Steve Forbes and Mikhail Gorbechev in 1992. Forbes The Soviet Union was dissolved at the end of 1991. The following year Mikhail Gorbachev, now out of power, wanted to come to the U.S. with a small gr...
Mechanical Licensing Collective Adds Student Ambassador Program
The MLC expands its Ambassador Program Future via Getty Images The Mechanical Licensing Collective has launched a Student Ambassador program to complement its existing Educator Ambassador program. The...
Why Are Oil Prices Dropping? OPEC Bows To Global Pressure To Increase Oil Supply
Getty Images Update 08/31/2022 In the original article below we covered OPEC’s increase in production, and explained how this was likely to help prices fall over the coming months. Well, that’s exactl...
California Braces For 115 Degree Weather Over Labor Day Weekend—With Death Valley Forecasted To Hit 124
Topline More than 55 million people in California were placed under heat alerts on Wednesday as the state prepares for record-shattering high temperatures over the Labor Day weekend. More than 55 mill...
Two Years Of Covid Caused The Steepest Drop In U.S. Life Expectancy In Nearly 100 Years, CDC Data Reveals
Topline Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021—largely fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic—according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...