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The Tell: Why Goldman Sachs sees a ‘buying opportunity’ in oil’s recent selloff
Oil futures posted a loss of more than 6% this week, the largest since October, but analysts at Goldman Sachs suggested that prices ...
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Futures Movers: Oil ends higher, but suffers largest weekly loss since October
Oil futures ended higher Friday, for the first time in six sessions, buoyed in part by growing tensions in the Middle East. Prices, ...
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Coronavirus Update: Daily COVID-19 cases rise back above 60,000 as President Biden hails vaccination efforts
While the number of new daily cases of COVID-19 remains plateaued at alarming levels, the U.S.’s vaccination effort has so far been successful, ...
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Market Snapshot: Dow slips as bank stocks hit by Fed decision on capital requirements but Nasdaq recovers
U.S. stocks were mixed in afternoon action Friday, with bank stocks under pressure after the Federal Reserve said it would not extend temporary ...
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: Have you noticed how much gambling talk there is on sports TV? How we got here
Until 2017, sports betting was a taboo topic on sports TV. During game broadcasts, announcers rarely mentioned a game’s odds with anything more ...
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Capitol Report: Biden, Harris visit Atlanta to meet Asian-American leaders after shootings
President Joe Biden is visiting Atlanta on Friday to meet with Asian-American leaders in the wake of shootings that left eight people dead, ...
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: Nordic countries outliers as Europe resumes use of AstraZeneca shot
The European Medicines Agency said on Thursday in an eagerly expected report that the benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine “continue to outweigh ...
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Market Extra: This part of the U.S. bond market is in bear territory, based on one measure
BlackRock’s fixed income chief, Rick Rieder, says the Treasury market is making history before our eyes. Though interest rates remain low by historical ...
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CityWatch: Gowns, masks, sanitizer — but where’s the emotional PPE?
One doctor, a busy internist, said she’d seen too many patients die already. “There’s just a limit,” she said, “to how many deaths ...
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: Who’s cutting Medicare? Democrats, unless Republicans agree with their fix
In February 2010, then-President Barack Obama touted his new pay-as-you-go budget law. “You can’t spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. This ...