More than 21,000 homes are going up in a brand-new community that, its developer says, will be the largest net-zero community in the nation. The developer is FivePoint, and the homes will be built by big names such as KB Home, Lennar, Toll Brothers and Tri Pointe. As offsets, FivePoint […]

The seven-day average of daily U.S. infections held below 15,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, a level not seen since the early days of the pandemic. About 52% of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine and 42% is fully vaccinated, […]

Scanty rainfall, last year’s lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea. What makes Darjeeling tea a cult brand with a following that ranges from British royalty to Satyajit Ray’s fictional private investigator, Feluda? A delicate […]

Bitcoin continues its sharp decline. The digital currency Tuesday tumbled more than 6%, falling to $32,000 and ending the day at roughly $33,300, after U.S. officials seized more than $2 million in bitcoin tied to the Colonial Pipeline ransom. While questions remain as to how the U.S. gained access to […]

Stocks have moved modestly higher in morning trading on Wednesday after ending the previous session nearly unchanged. The major averages have all moved to the upside, although buying interest has remained subdued. Currently, the major averages are just off their highs of the session. The Dow is up 86.05 points […]

As vaccinations rise and pandemic restrictions ease, people who postponed selling may be willing to put their homes on the market, says the National Association of Realtors. That may mean more choices for buyers after this spring’s busy season. (Photo: Getty Images) Spring and early summer are usually real estate’s busy […]

The median age to which Americans live is just shy of 79 years. That is up from 39 in 1860. Older people in the United States come to face with two challenges. The first is how to fund their retirement. The other is how to stay healthy and pay for […]

July is expected to be better than June and things may improve from thereon as supply and demand get streamlined. Auto sales, particularly of two-wheelers, may not bounce back immediately and may take another two months to come back on track even as car bookings have started seeing an initial […]

Nearly 8,000 people in Colorado have applied for a state program that gives up to $1,600 in “incentive” payments to unemployed people who return to work full time. In the less than three weeks since the “Colorado Jumpstart” program was announced, the state’s Department of Labor and Employment reported that […]

The claim: Only 4% of Americans are millionaires compared with 51% of Congress The U.S. is minting more millionaires every year, but the share of wealthy people in the general population is still dwarfed by the share of wealthy members of Congress. A viral Facebook post from July 2019 that has found […]