Copper has had a volatile few years; however, amid various ups and downs, prices for the red metal hit an all-time high on May 20, 2024, trading at US$5.20 per pound on the COMEX. Interestingly, …
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If you were looking for a sign of weakness in the U.S. economy, you’re not going to find it at the airport. The Transportation Security Administration reported this week that it screened a record 2.99 …
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Walgreens is planning potentially sweeping store closures as it faces what its CEO called a “challenging” environment for pharmacies and U.S. consumers. The pharmacy chain announced quarterly earnings Thursday morning that fell short of Wall …
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Warren Buffett on Friday made his biggest annual donation to date, giving $5.3 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five charities. The legendary investor, who’s turning 94 in August, converted 8,674 of his Berkshire Class A …
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An important economic measure for the Federal Reserve showed Friday that inflation during May slowed to its lowest annual rate in more than three years. The core personal consumption expenditures price index increased just a …
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A jury in U.S. District Court ordered the NFL to pay nearly $4.8 billion in damages Thursday after ruling that the league violated antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription …
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Walgreens is planning potentially sweeping store closures as it faces what its CEO called a “challenging” environment for pharmacies and U.S. consumers. The pharmacy chain on Thursday morning announced quarterly earnings that fell short of …
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The Biden administration on Wednesday said it will impose inflation penalties on 64 prescription drugs for the third quarter of this year, lowering costs for certain older Americans enrolled in Medicare. President Joe Biden has made lowering U.S. drug prices a …
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Business
YouTube is dominating the living room, forcing media companies to decide whether it’s friend or foe
It’s been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet’s YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn’t really know what to do with it. YouTube, which effectively invented user-generated content, claims a daunting share of overall media consumption. And …
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will take a dip in the sea, get some proper rest and try much-missed food as “a free man,” his wife has revealed, a day after the Australian landed home after …