Stocks turned positive in midday trading Friday afternoon as investors digested a final slate of corporate earnings and fresh economic data to close out the week. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.17{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f}, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose 27 points, or 0.08{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f}. The Technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose […]
Month: April 2023
With 37.3 million people in the U.S. living with diabetes — 8.5 million of whom are undiagnosed, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the disease is one of the deadliest and most expensive in the country. Cedar Gate Technologies, a medical tech development company in Greenwich, Connecticut, […]
(RNS) — On Tuesday (April 18), the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in this year’s big religion case, about an attempt to get the court to expand employers’ legal obligation to accommodate the religious needs of their employees. The case, Groff v. DeJoy, concerns Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian mail […]
A bipartisan group of political operatives — spanning the ideological spectrum from former members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus to a Democrat who challenged Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — has started a political action committee aimed at “stopping MAGA” and eradicating what the operatives call an authoritarian […]
BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth accelerated in the latest quarter as consumer flocked back to shops and restaurants following the abrupt end of anti-virus controls. The 4.5{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f} growth in gross domestic product from January to March compared to the same period in 2022 was the fastest in the past […]
China’s economy grew 4.5{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f} in the first quarter of 2023, beating expectations. Steven Han | Moment | Getty Images Analysts at JPMorgan and Citi raised their full-year forecasts for China’s economy after it delivered an impressive first-quarter gross domestic product growth of 4.5{b56f7a0c6479bc075d08fb7619591a4c4023144d1b4aceb7f3fe2776303deb2f} on Tuesday. JPMorgan raised its 2023 growth […]