Is there a stock market bubble?Chairman Jerome Powell says the Federal Reserve isn't focused on moving asset prices in a particular direction and wants investors to price in risk and let the markets work like normal.U.S. equity markets plunged Thursday with the selloff accelerating in the final hour of trading as investors reacted to a resurgence…
U.S. oil prices plunged Friday after China reported its gross domestic product shrank for the first time since recordkeeping began in 1992 as the economy was shut down to slow the spread of COVID-19.West Texas Intermediate crude oil for May delivery tumbled by as much as 9.26 percent to $18.03 a barrel, its lowest since October…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…