Investing Not All Energy Stocks Are DepressedThe Wall Street Journal. - Corrie DriebuschThe topsy-turvy oil market has battered most energy companies, but there is one diamond in the rough. Diamondback Energy’s stock is up nearly 4% so far this year, compared with a 20% loss by the SPDR Oil
Qualcomm U.S. Appeals Court Postpones Antitrust Ruling Against QualcommThe Wall Street Journal. - Brent Kendall, Asa FitchA federal appeals court on Friday halted for now a ruling that found Qualcomm Inc. committed an array of antitrust violations, a boost for the chip maker that allows it to maintain its business practices
Podcasting Free Podcasts Are Good for Me But Bad for BusinessThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalI’ve been a podcast listener for years, ripping through episode after episode as I battle traffic, play handyman or exercise. Wondery Inc. podcast network’s “Business Wars,” Guy Raz’s “How I Built This”
U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury Prices Climb In Wake of Trade Tensions, PowellThe Wall Street Journal. - Sam GoldfarbU.S. government bond prices rose Friday after China said it will impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank will provide additional stimulus
Keystone XL Nebraska Court Approves Keystone XL PipelineThe Wall Street Journal. - Christopher M. Matthews, Vipal MongaThe Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the state’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline Friday, but hurdles to the long-delayed project remain. The court ruled in favor of a state regulator’s decision to approve
Facebook Facebook's Second-Hand Shopping ProblemThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura FormanFacebook says it is a changed company, but recent problems suggest it is still struggling to enforce its own rules on its platforms. The latest instance was this week, when The Wall Street Journal revealed
Jerome Powell Powell Says Fed Prepared to Provide Stimulus if a Slowdown Hits U.S. EconomyThe Wall Street Journal. - Nick TimiraosJACKSON HOLE, Wyo.—Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank was prepared to provide more stimulus if a global economic slowdown, aggravated in recent weeks by geopolitical events and
Photos of the WeekThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street Journal Severe water shortage in India, casualties of the U.S.-China trade conflict, measuring day at the London Zoo and more.
Apple Card The Apple Card: Leave Home Without ItThe Wall Street Journal. - Laura FormanSleek white with a titanium base and laser-etched with your name and the Apple logo (but not your card number), it might just be more precious than anything you actually purchase with it. You’ll have take
Marie Kondo The Joy of Clutter: What Marie Kondo Got WrongThe Wall Street Journal. - Kathryn O’Shea-EvansI AM AN UNABASHED magpie; tchotchkes dot the hill I will die on. They’re mostly vacation mementos, like the silver, Victorian, mussel-shaped “match safe” that I splurged on in a Rome antique shop with
GDP It's Time to Start Worrying About the National DebtThe Wall Street Journal. - Valerie RameyFor much of the 20th century, the U.S. government operated under the principle that it should finance its spending mostly by collecting taxes rather than by borrowing. While conventional wisdom favored
Seth Moulton Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton to End Presidential CampaignThe Wall Street Journal. - Tarini PartiWASHINGTON—Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton is ending his presidential campaign after failing to meet the criteria for participation in any of the Democratic primary debates. Mr. Moulton, a moderate who
Protest Hong Kong Subway System Tries to Put a Lid on ProtestsThe Wall Street Journal. - Wenxin FanHONG KONG—The city’s fast and efficient subway system has been the lifeblood of its nimble protest movement, ferrying demonstrators from one district to another for flash protests and helping demonstrators
Investing Oil Slides as Latest China Tariffs Reignite Demand FearsThe Wall Street Journal. - Amrith RamkumarOil prices fell Friday after China said it would impose tariffs on $75 billion worth of additional U.S. products including crude imports and President Trump said he would respond, the latest trade developments
Meat Beyond Meat Investors Will Choke on Their OptimismThe Wall Street Journal. - Lauren Silva LaughlinFake meat eaters may have low expectations for their next culinary experience. But investors in Beyond Meat are expecting the utmost. With absurd growth expectations for the maker of pea-based burgers
World News Italian Party Leaders Face Tight Deadline to Form a GovernmentThe Wall Street Journal. - Eric SylversItaly’s president gave party leaders five days to form a new government and avoid early elections that could deepen the uncertainty in one of Europe’s largest economies. Leaders of the antiestablishment
Business In TV Interviews, Two Fed Officials Split on Need for Rate CutsThe Wall Street Journal. - Michael S. DerbyTwo Fed officials offered contradictory views on the monetary-policy outlook in television interviews Friday. St. Louis Fed leader James Bullard again expressed support for lowering short-term rates in
David Koch Billionaire David Koch, Who Used His Wealth to Reshape U.S. Politics, Dies at 79The Wall Street Journal. - Melanie Grayce West, John McCormickDavid Koch, the billionaire libertarian who gave more than $1 billion to charitable causes but was better known for using his money to reshape U.S. politics, died Friday. He was 79 years old. His family
Tariffs Trump Orders U.S. Businesses to Find Alternative to ChinaThe Wall Street Journal. - Chao Deng, William MauldinPresident Trump said U.S. companies were “hereby ordered” to start looking for alternatives to doing business in China after Beijing said it would impose tariffs on $75 billion worth of additional U.S.
Vladimir Putin Putin Orders 'Symmetrical' Response to U.S. Missile TestThe Wall Street Journal. - Georgi KantchevMOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military to prepare a like-for-like response to a recent U.S. missile test, escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington and raising the prospect a
West Bank Israeli Teenager Killed in West Bank BombingThe Wall Street Journal. - Felicia SchwartzTEL AVIV—An Israeli teenager was killed Friday in a bombing at a natural spring near a central West Bank settlement, an attack that raises already high tensions between Israelis and Palestinians ahead
Amazon Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site. The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled ProductsThe Wall Street Journal. - Alexandra Berzon, Shane Shifflett, Justin ScheckMany of the millions of people who shop on Amazon.com see it as if it were an American big-box store, a retailer with goods deemed safe enough for customers. In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved
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Teemu Pukki The Premier League's Hottest Striker: a 29-Year-Old Journeyman From FinlandThe Wall Street Journal. - Joshua RobinsonThe Premier League’s top scorer is already Manchester City’s electric forward Raheem Sterling. That isn’t a surprise. Sterling is a bona fide star who has been marked for greatness for nearly a decade.
Zack Greinke MLB Lets Players Choose a Crazy Nickname to WearThe Wall Street Journal. - Jared Diamond, Andrew BeatonFriday marks the beginning of Players’ Weekend across Major League Baseball, those three days a year when fuddy-duddy baseball players can let loose and wear whatever crazy nickname they want on the back
Investing Seoul Cycle: Korea Feels the Trade War BurnThe Wall Street Journal. - Steven RussolilloSouth Korean stocks are among the world’s worst performers this year, as its export-focused companies grapple with not one, but two trade fights and slowing global growth. The economy contracted in the
World News Wildfires and Floods Push Russia to Revise Its Stance on Climate ChangeThe Wall Street Journal. - Georgi KantchevMOSCOW—A double blow of floods and wildfires in Russia this summer is injecting fresh urgency into rethinking the country’s usually skeptical stance toward the dangers posed by climate change. Smoke from
Marie Kondo The Three Things Marie Kondo Brings on the PlaneThe Wall Street Journal. - Lane FlorsheimIn this series, we talk to designers, artists and entertainers about where they’re traveling this summer, what they’re packing, how they stay entertained in-flight and more. When the American version Marie
The Voice The Way Music Affects Our LivesThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street Journal“It used to be that I couldn’t leave the house without my headphones on, but now I really appreciate silence. For me it’s more interesting when I’m pulling mu- sic apart and it becomes more elemental.
Investing Financial Advisers Now Help With College Plans, Family Counseling, CremainsThe Wall Street Journal. - Lisa Beilfuss, Gregory ZuckermanFinancial advisers across the U.S. have a new side hustle: college counseling. Those who offer guidance on stocks, bonds and mutual funds view the rising cost of higher education as their best opportunity
