The U.S. generation sitting on more wealth than any other — baby boomers — was all about bonds in 2020, but has just started to
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As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Squash Them
A hastily formed crowdsourcing operation to contain the insects in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia could help manage climate-related disasters everywhere. Melodine Jeptoo will never forget
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Coronavirus takes toll on progress made in fight against addiction
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. – Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d
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Market Extra: The next rising stars of the debt world? Probably corporate fallen angels
What goes around, comes around. That’s why investors are on the lookout for “rising stars,” or credit-rating upgrades, in U.S. corporate debt after last year
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Market Snapshot: S&P 500 ekes out record close after Fed minutes show no hurry to tighten monetary policy
U.S. stocks closed nearly unchanged Wednesday in lackluster action, after the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s March policy meeting showed that central bank
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The Fed: Fed officials split on outlook for inflation
Federal Reserve officials seemed divided evenly into two camps about the outlook for inflation, according to minutes of their March meeting released on Wednesday. “Several”
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: Unlike previous downturns, women are bearing the brunt of the COVID recession — here’s why
It’s not just in the U.S. — across the world, the pandemic-induced recession has had a disproportionately negative impact on women in terms of employment.
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: Will China’s new digital yuan threaten King Dollar’s reign?
China is the first major economy to issue a blockchain-enabled, digital version of its currency, the yuan, and this development has some in Washington worried
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Asian-American tech leaders rally against wave of hatred: ‘We don’t deserve to live in fear in our own country’
Debby Soo was in a grocery store in Stratham, N.H., last weekend when she realized she didn’t have her credit card. “So I was trying
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Prep time with Bitcoin: Students have fun new ways to study crypto
“Bitcoin” had been an unfamiliar term to many individuals just a few years ago. While cryptocurrency continued to enter the mainstream, Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH)
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