Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. Pierre Longnus | The Image Bank | Getty Images Researchers working on a project centered around fusion energy — the process that powers stars — have hailed “record...
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Tesla owns service centers: Pros and cons
Tesla is known for sparking an electric vehicle revolution. It’s also brought services to customers, like mobile repairs and over-the-air tune-ups, that were once reserved for only the most elit...
Anti-Vaccine Mandate Protesters Block Vital U.S.-Canada Border Crossing For Second Straight Day
Topline Truck drivers protesting Canada’s Covid-19 vaccine rules continued to partially block the busy Ambassador Bridge linking the United States and Canada for a second day Tuesday evening, an offsh...
Stock futures gain slightly with more big earnings ahead
Traders on the floor of the NYSE, Feb. 4, 2022. Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures rose slightly in overnight trading on Tuesday as investors prepare for another round of corporate earnings. Dow futures ...
Stock futures inch higher after S&P, Nasdaq fall to start the week
U.S. stock index futures crept higher during overnight trading Monday, after the major averages moved between gains and losses during regular trading as the market awaits key inflation data later this...
USDA to spend $1 billion on agriculture projects tackling climate change
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $1 billion on projects for farmers, ranchers, and forest landown...
Stock futures are flat after S&P 500 posts best week of the year
U.S. stock index futures were little changed during overnight trading Sunday after the S&P posted its best week of 2022, boosted by quarterly earnings reports and a better-than-expected January em...
Crypto Taxes Are Complicated, But Changes Might Be Coming
Crypto taxes have been, and continue to be, a major obstacle to wider adoption for investors, traders, and users of cryptocurrencies. Since in the United States the only regulatory agency to have issu...
Private equity sports investments neared $2 billion in 2021, NBA hot
Ballboys wear gloves while handling warmup basketballs as a precautionary measure prior to an NBA game between the Charlotte Hornets and Atlanta Hawks at State Farm Arena on March 9, 2020 in Atlanta, ...
Tequila could overtake vodka as America’s top liquor as sales boom
An employee pours tequila into the popular Mountain Dew Baja Blast frozen drink at the new Taco Bell Cantina in Brookline, MA. John Tlumacki | Boston Globe | Getty Images Tequila could soon overtake v...
Here’s where the jobs are for January 2022 — in one chart
Despite a spike in omicron Covid-19 cases, U.S. employers managed to add over 450,000 jobs last month thanks to robust hiring at restaurants and bars, retailers and mail and parcel delivery workers. T...
Gas prices climb to highest level in more than 7 years as oil surges above $90
A gas station in Los Angeles on Dec. 10, 2021. FREDERIC J. BROWN | AFP | Getty Images Gas prices rose to the highest level in more than seven years Friday, on the heels of the U.S. oil benchmark toppi...
Long-term unemployment tumbles in January
A job seeker receives information from a recruiter during a job fair in Miami on Dec. 16, 2021. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images Long-term unemployment fell significantly in January, con...
Premixed cocktails steal share from beer and hard seltzer, propelling surging growth
Anna Elias | Moment | Getty Images Premixed cocktails were the fastest-growing spirits category in 2021, stealing share from beer and hard seltzer. Sales of premixed cocktails surged 42.3% to $1.6 bil...
Wartime Sanctions Could Squeeze Russian Space Programs
A Fregat rocket launches a Glonass-K satellite in October 2020. Roskosmos photo If Russian President Vladimir Putin pulls the proverbial trigger and orders his troops to widen Russia’s war on Ukraine,...
Biden urges against USPS plan to spend billions on gas vehicles
A postal worker loads a delivery truck on October 01, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday attempted to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s plan...
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on why Chinese sales were weak
Reduced international travel and low traffic to office buildings weighed on Starbucks’ same-store sales in China, CEO Kevin Johnson said Wednesday. “Our stores that are in airports in the ...
Lux Capital’s Josh Wolfe on why the buy-the-dip mantra will no longer work
(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Lux Capital invests in emerging science and technology companies, making long-term bets on contrarians in the space. Over two decades,...
The Development Process: Pre-Development
Even before entering the entitlement and permitting process, there is a lot of work to create new … [+] housing. getty What follows is a brief sketch of the development process in the United Sta...
Microsoft, Shell invest in LanzaJet, sustainable jet fuel start-up
The LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels plant in Soperton, Ga., is expected to begin producing 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel per year from sustainable ethanol in 2023. Photo courtesy LanzaJe...
Starbucks (SBUX) Q1 2022 earnings miss
The Starbucks logo is displayed on a cup at a Starbucks store on October 29, 2021 in Marin City, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Starbucks on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings that missed...
Wage growth may be slowing from ‘breakneck’ pace
A Now Hiring sign hangs in front of a Winn-Dixie grocery store on Dec. 3, 2021 in Miami. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The rapid pace of pay increases that characterized the labor market for much of last ...
Obamacare plans are more affordable, helping the Great Resignation
Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers – part of what is now called The Great Resignation. Around 4 million workers have quit each month between July and November 2021. Erica Leman had main...
Biden Will Send U.S. Troops To Eastern Europe Soon—But ‘Not A Lot’
Topline President Joe Biden said Friday the United States will send troops to NATO countries in Eastern Europe “in the near term,” after Russia’s deployment of over 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian b...