The song “Break First” is just one of the highlights from next Friday night’s “Showtime” special with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, a pair of country singers who’ve walked many A COUNTRY MILE together. This morning Tracy Smith tags along: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are both huge stars […]
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Actor Richard Dreyfuss accused of exposing himself to writer
NEW YORK — A writer who worked for Richard Dreyfuss on a TV comedy special in the 1980s said he sexually harassed her for years and exposed himself to her in a studio lot trailer. Jessica Teich told the New York magazine blog Vulture.com that the actor made continual, overt and lewd […]
2 Reasons Why Cypress Semiconductor Is Still a Good Bet
Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY) showed once again why it is one of the hottest-performing semiconductor names on the stock market with an impressive third-quarter report in late October. The semiconductor specialist bested Wall Street expectations thanks to its strategy of targeting fast-growing markets such as the Internet of Things, gaming […]
Mulesoft Reports a Strong Quarter, but Is the Stock a Buy?
Recent IPO Mulesoft (NYSE: MULE) just released its third earnings report as a public company, and the results were impressive. Mulesoft makes a software platform called Anypoint, upon which IT professionals and data scientists can construct and combine APIs (application programming interfaces). APIs are agile interfaces that reference applications, databases, or […]
2 Wildly Overvalued Tech Stocks
It’s been nothing short of an outstanding 2017 for the tech sector. Up nearly 43%, tech stocks have nearly doubled the Standard & Poor’s (S&P) returns of 24% this year. Given the strength of tech stocks there are no shortage of highly valued investment alternatives, but some are over the […]
Muni bond Friday update: 10-year yield rises
A look at the AP Municipal Bond Index for Friday, Nov. 10: Continue Reading Below BIGGEST MOVER: One-year bonds. Yield increased 10 basis points over the last week to 1.15 percent. TWO-YEAR: Yield increased 2 basis points to 1.26 percent. The two-year/10-year spread is 100 basis points, down from 110 […]
Amazon Is Winning the Battle for the Connected Household
There are several ways a company can achieve an economic moat. One way is to become a leading platform or ecosystem, such as Apple‘s (NASDAQ: AAPL) app store. Application developers usually write for iOS first, since that is where the most financially well-off customers are. The more apps on the iOS […]
Tech Stocks This Week: Roku Soars, Square Impresses, and Snap Falls
As earnings season continued this week, three tech companies’ earnings reports stood out. Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) and Square (NYSE: SQ) both impressed investors with surging business growth, and Snap (NYSE: SNAP) missed the mark yet again, sending shares plummeting. Here’s what investors should know about these three stocks. Continue Reading […]
Exclusive: How Saudi Arabia turned on Lebanon’s Hariri
A man walks past a banner in the mainly Sunni Beirut neighbourhood of Tariq al-Jadideh in Beirut, Lebanon November 6, 2017. The Arabic text on the banner reads “We are all Sheikh Saad Rafik al-Hariri “. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir November 11, 2017 By Samia Nakhoul, Laila Bassam and Tom Perry BEIRUT […]
Moore’s ex-colleague: “Common knowledge” he dated teens
Last Updated Nov 11, 2017 8:12 PM EST A former prosecutor who once worked alongside embattled Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore in the early 1980s told CNN it was “common knowledge” at the time that Moore dated high school girls. “It was common knowledge that Roy dated high school […]