As if burying Halloween in the past and seeing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” topping the charts again wasn’t enough to usher in the holiday season, Oprah Winfrey just dropped her latest list of “favorite things” on Amazon — and it’s her biggest one yet. ...
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has suspended all crypto withdrawals on its website. The exchange announced on Twitter early Monday that it temporarily disabled all crypto withdrawals due to a large backlog, and later said the function has been resumed. About 20 minutes after the...
Investors now are experiencing a perfect storm of inflation in the U.S. Perfect storms are generated from seemingly small factors. Each on its own may not be particularly significant, but the combined result is an event that significantly exceeds the sum of the parts. Inflation is always caused...
The Chevrolet Corvette has always been a race car for the rest of us. Today, America’s largest automaker introduced perhaps the purest expression of that idea it has ever built. The all-new 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 uses the same engine as Chevy’s racing team – but it’s more powerful in the civilian...
SYDNEY — Westpac Banking Corp. said its annual net profit more than doubled and it would seek to buy back shares worth up to 3.50 billion Australian dollars (US$2.63 billion). Westpac WBC, -7.36% said its net profit totaled A$5.46 billion in the 12 months through September, driven by a...
Arby’s wants to give McDonald’s MCD, +0.02% a good ribbing — in every sense of the term. The privately held chain, best known for menu items like roast-beef sandwiches, curly fries and the Jamocha shake, recently rolled out a Country Style Pork Rib sandwich as a limited-time fall offering....
A private gauge of China's manufacturing sector rebounded in October, hitting its strongest level since June, thanks to improving domestic demand. However, a coronavirus flare-up in several regions in late October has led to worries over how long the improvement could last. The Caixin China purchasing managers index...
South Korea’s exports expanded for a 12th consecutive month in October on solid demand for semiconductors and other goods, despite challenges from global supply-chain disruptions. Overseas shipments grew 24.0% from a year earlier to $55.55 billion, following September’s 16.7% increase, according to preliminary data released by the trade ministry...
U.S. pharmaceutical companies are expected to collect more revenue from COVID-19 vaccines in the third quarter than they did in the entire first half of the year, and that money should continue to grow. In the first half of the year, Pfizer Inc. PFE, +1.30% and Moderna Inc. MRNA,...
Karen Thomas has a surefire way to be the talk of her neighborhood come Halloween. It’s not about the decorations she puts up. Or the costume she dons. Instead, the longtime resident of Huntington, N.Y., a town on the north shore of Long Island, makes sure to go big...
