The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most active on record — a dozen different storms landed in the contiguous U.S., breaking the century-old record of nine. In fact, experts exhausted the list of 21 names used to designate hurricanes each year, forcing them to begin using Greek letters as a backup. This had only happened once before, in […]

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U.S. home sales skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic – hitting a 15-year high of 6.1 million in 2021. The spike in demand, coupled with declining inventory, have put upward pressure on housing prices. Renters have not been spared, as housing has become one of the key drivers of surging U.S. inflation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – Home owners in small Chinese cities are battling a rare property market downdraft as buyers keep away, eroding the wealth of millions in a blow to already brittle consumer confidence in the world’s second-largest economy.FILE PHOTO: Residential buildings are seen along the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing, China July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Jason LeeSmaller cities have been hammered […]

Video streaming giant Netflix Inc. (NFLX) has announced plans to launch a mobile game and TV series based on the popular Exploding Kittens card game. Exploding Kittens – The Game will launch on Netflix in May, followed by an adult animated comedy series coming in 2023, starring Tom Ellis, Abraham Lim, Lucy Liu, Ally Maki, Mark Proksch and Sasheer Zamata. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday the damage to the economy from a weakening yen at present is greater than the benefits accruing to it, making the most explicit warning yet against the currency’s recent slump versus the dollar.FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki prepares to ring a bell during the New Year ceremony marking […]

LONDON (Reuters) – More than 40 crypto business leaders have asked the European Union not to require crypto firms to disclose transaction details and dial down attempts to bring to heel rapidly growing decentralised finance platforms.FILE PHOTO: A European investor takes a picture of a Bitcoin mining facility at the Berlin geothermal plant of La Geo electrical company, where the […]

Workers at Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) flagship Grand Central Terminal store in Manhattan, New York, have started the process to unionize. According CNBC, citing a website created by organizers, who have dubbed themselves Fruit Stand Workers United, the workers are in the process of collecting signatures from workers. “Workers at Apple Stores in the United States are organizing, and you could […]

A car begins to depreciate as soon as you drive it off the lot — but not all cars lose as much value over time. The car that holds its value better than any other in America is the Jeep Wrangler. Used cars have done relatively well. Sizing up the car market over the past year, iSeeCars Executive Analyst Karl […]