Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 16, 2010.Brendan McDermid/Reuters Exit the stock rally now as the S&P 500 index could tumble about 22%, according to the chief market strategist at FS Investments. The benchmark index is up about 8% so far in 2023 on […]
(The Conversation) — U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools. School-choice advocates have won key cases at the Supreme Court in recent years, opening up more ways for public dollars to support faith-based education. But Oklahoma pushed the […]
Montrose, Missouri KFF — It took Samantha Lesmeister’s family four months to find a medical professional who could see that she was struggling with something more than her Down syndrome. The young woman, known as Sammee, had become unusually sad and lethargic after falling in the shower and hitting her […]
Don’t bank on California, especially when banks are involved. Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is widely discussed as a harbinger of the future, a sign of problems in technology businesses that were its best customers. But this bank failure actually fits a very old pattern — of California putting the world […]
Stocks finished lower on Friday but logged weekly gains across the board while shares of JPMorgan (JPM) rallied more than 7% following a strong quarterly earnings report. At the closing bell on Friday the S&P 500 (^GSPC) was off 0.21%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was down 0.42%, and the […]
Ahead of the Trend • North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan saw drops in total religious adherents of at least 10%. Some Idaho counties became more religious. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Father Martin Diaz, pastor of Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, celebrates […]