A picture taken on August 21, 2017 in Dubai International Airport. NurPhoto | Getty Images DUBAI — Dubai International Airport underwent a 15 minute closure due to “suspected drone activity,” local airport authority Dubai Airports said Sunday. “Dubai Airports can confirm that flight arrivals were briefly disrupted at Dubai International […]
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Iran asks West to leave Persian Gulf as tensions heightened
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani addresses the crowd during his visit in Semnan, Iran on December 4, 2018. IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Iran’s president called Sunday on Western powers to leave the security of the Persian Gulf to regional nations led by Tehran, criticizing […]
1 in 5 college students are parents. Schools could be doing more to help them
Bronsyn Foster‘s 8-year-old son wondered why his mother was still in school. “He said, ‘Why couldn’t you just finish school before you had me?’” said Foster, now 48. “It’s hard for a little kid to understand why you can’t be around more often.” Yet he was one of the main […]
More $10 billion software companies are being minted than ever before — here’s why
Celebration at the Nasdaq during the Datadog IPO, September 19, 2019. Source: Nasdaq Other years have had more tech IPOs than 2019, but there’s never been a year that’s minted so many big ones. After Datadog’s first-day pop on Thursday, the provider of analytics and monitoring tools became the fourth […]
Warren Buffett has kept the same investing philosophy for decades, early interview shows
Portrait of Warren Buffett, January 1980. Lee Balterman | The LIFE Images Collection | Getty Images The U.S. stock market has seen remarkable change over the last 34 years between the meteoric rise of low-cost passive investing, algorithmic trading and the real-time digitization of financial filings. But Wall Street’s most […]
Climate change: Did we just witness the beginning of the end of Big Oil?
Out of service fuel pumps are covered in plastic wrap and tarps at an Exxon Mobile gas station. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Is the oil barrel half empty or half full? In the past week you had your pick of answers to choose from, and they were bookended […]
Voters are equally uneasy about Trump and his potential Democratic rivals, NBC/WSJ poll says
Senator Bernie Sanders joins former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren onstage before the start at the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Houston, Texas, U.S. September 12, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters President Donald Trump remains remarkably unpopular but he’ll have at least one valuable asset in […]
The ‘world’s smallest, portable record player’ takes off after ‘Shark Tank’ airing
Even at the peak of digital music streaming, vintage record players have stood the test of time amongst true music enthusiasts. Logan Riley, former creative education lead at Apple, liked to spend his Saturdays going to the record store, which ultimately sparked a product idea that would land him a […]
Trump heads to UN with long list of deals he’s yet to close
US President Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he arrives for a campaign rally in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, on September 16, 2019. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump, a self-described deal-maker, is saddled with a long list of unresolved foreign policy deals he has yet […]
Wall Street bull Ed Yardeni predicts stocks will fly 17% between now and 2021
With the S&P 500 about one percent from its all-time highs, Wall Street bull Edward Yardeni is predicts a record breakout is coming. The Yardeni Research president believes between now and the end of next year, the index will soar 17% from current levels. “I’ve got 3,500 as my target […]