European stocks may open flat to slightly lower on Thursday, as Treasury yields gained amid signs that the Federal Reserve would stick to hiking interest rates by 50 basis points in June and July to combat inflation. The safe-haven dollar hovered near a one-month low as the latest FOMC meeting minutes offered few surprises, with many officials advocating the use […]

After moving to the upside early in the session, stocks have turned in a relatively lackluster performance over the course of the trading day on Wednesday. The major averages have pulled back well off their highs of the session. Currently, the major averages are turning in a mixed performance. While the Dow is down 29.11 points or 0.1 percent at […]

New York (CNN Business)The recent string of deadly shootings may send investors searching their portfolios to determine if they have exposure to ammunition manufacturers or companies that sell guns. Chances are that they do. The gunmakers In recent years, large asset managers like BlackRock have offered investors access to alternative funds that don’t have exposure to gun stocks. It’s part […]

Stories about “aces” have been around for decades. Pilots who shot down large numbers of planes are considered a form of flying acrobats who risk their lives to defend their countries. Usually, a pilot is considered an ace if he shoots down five enemy planes. The best fighter pilots in history have destroyed many times that number. World War I […]

Shares of diagnostics company Castle Biosciences Inc. (CSTL) are down more than 70% from their 52-week high of $78.92, recorded last June, and trade around $22. The company’s current portfolio consists of tests for skin cancers, uveal melanoma, Barrett’s esophagus and mental health conditions. DecisionDx-Melanoma, DecisionDx-SCC, DecisionDx-UM are some of the test offerings. A couple of research and development programs […]

Disney has suspended sales of its Magic Key annual pass program and is offering California residents a new three-day, one-park-per-day ticket this summer for Disneyland and California Adventure, park officials said today. The park rolled out the Magic Key program last August, with four tiers ranging in cost from $399 to $1,399 per year. Disney officials said the program offered […]

About 38 million people around the nation – one in eight Americans – faced food insecurity in 2020, according to Feeding America. Food insecurity isn’t the same as hunger (though the two often go side by side) – it’s the lack of means to access food at a household level, usually because of poverty or the relative inaccessibility of grocery […]

Toyota almost certainly will be the world’s largest car company again. It sits at a million vehicle sales ahead of rival Volkswagen, based on figures through April. Bloomberg points out that Toyota’s sales have declined almost 6% over the first four months of this year. However, VW’s sales are off by 26%. Despite its lead, Toyota continues to have sales […]

Global sports streamer DAZN has signed a BT marketing guru to head up marketing around the world. Pete Oliver has spent the last two decades launching, marketing and distributing BT’s consumer services, most recently leading on BT Sport and BT Fibre. In the newly-created role for London-headquartered DAZN, he will lead the group’s global marketing teams and distribution partnerships as […]