After shutting its international borders for nearly 600 days due to the pandemic, Australia welcomed its first group of foreign visitors on Monday as the country took steps to gradually lift restrictions again. Fully vaccinated travelers from New Zealand who test negative in pre-departure Covid tests can now enter Australia. […]

Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies holding their first face-to-face summit in two years, struggled on Sunday to bridge differences over how to combat global warming. The challenges come ahead of a crucial United Nations conference on climate change. Diplomats worked through the night seeking agreement on the […]

Elon Musk is now worth more than $300 billion, and he's apparently ready to start spending. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO — whose net worth has ballooned by more than $140 billion this year, thanks largely to the skyrocketing value of his electric automaker — tweeted Sunday that he was […]

Asian stocks ended mixed on Tuesday, with Japanese shares leading regional gains ahead of the October 31 lower house election, while fresh worries about China’s property sector hit Hong Kong and mainland markets. Chinese shares ended lower, with property developers coming under selling pressure after Modern Land missed a bond […]

Energy led the markets for another month. The second-best S&P 500 performer, just behind consumer discretionary, rose 10% in October and added to a 52% gain for the year. Industry heavyweights Chevron and Exxon both reported better-than-expected profits on Friday morning thanks to surging oil prices. West Texas Intermediate crude […]

The United States has some of the highest levels of income and wealth inequality in the world. U.S. Federal Reserve data shows that the wealthiest 10% of Americans control $93.8 trillion, more than double the $40.3 trillion in the hands of the remaining 90% of Americans.  The income and wealth […]

The U.K. is hosting U.N.-brokered climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland in what has been described as humanity's last and best chance to secure a livable future. It is for this reason that the long-awaited summit is seen as one of the important diplomatic meetings in history. "Humanity has long since […]

Major corporates are set for announcing their quarterly results this week. General Electric (GE), UPS (UPS), Alphabet (GOOGL), Coca-Cola (KO), General Motors (GM), McDonald’s (MCD), Ford (F), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (APPL), and Exxon Mobil (XOM) are just a few of the companies due to report their results next week. Reaction […]

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a “city” as any inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. The line between a town and a city can often be blurry, however. Just how large can a town get before it becomes a city? According to the U.S. […]

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