A worker stacks cases of Constellation Brands’ Corona beer for delivery at the Euclid Beverage LLC warehouse in Peru, Illinois.Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesConstellation Brands will continue a marketing push for its new Corona Hard Seltzer after receiving backlash for a post it made on Twitter promising that new Corona hard seltzer flavors…
Wall Street gets an update on the coronavirus epidemic in China each night, and while the numbers are not always dependable, stocks are reacting to the information, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday.The ongoing global health concern led to a mixed day of trading in the market, he said. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about…
Klaus Vedfelt | DigitalVision | Getty ImagesAlmost six in ten of the U.K.’s biggest companies have no board members from ethnic minority backgrounds, new research has claimed.In a U.K.-government-backed report published Wednesday by consultancy EY, researchers analyzed responses from FTSE 350 companies. It followed on from a preliminary report published in 2017.The FTSE 350 index…
European stocks closed higher on Wednesday, extending gains from earlier in the week despite the coronavirus outbreak.The pan-European Stoxx 600 reversed early losses to close provisionally over 1% higher, with auto shares leading the gains while only telecoms traded in the red.Reuters said a Chinese TV media outlet had reported that a research team at…
Job openings plunged to their lowest level in nearly two years as hiring surged in November and the employment market got tighter, the Labor Department reported Friday.Total vacancies tumbled by 561,000 to 6.8 million for the month, the lowest since February 2018, according to the government’s Job Openings and Labor Market Turnover Survey. Despite the…
Audiences may know him for his dramatic work as forensic psychiatrist Dr. George Huang on 15 seasons of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit;” as the cyber-terrorist Whiterose, a transgender woman who also presents as a man as China’s Minister of State Security, in “Mr. Robot;” or the villainous Hugo Strange in the superhero crime…
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg participates in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., February 7, 2020.Brian Snyder | ReutersDOVER, N.H. — In Pete Buttigieg, the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls threatened by his rise see the perfect target for their core campaign arguments.In finishing neck-and-neck with…
Queen Elizabeth II, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex watch a flypast to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on July 10, 2018 in London, England.Max Mumby | Indigo | Getty ImagesRoyals aren’t the only ones leaning on family.As Prince Harry and Meghan,…
President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address on Feb. 4 left media outlets fact-checking any statements made by Trump that lacked context, involved exaggeration or were considered altogether misleading. One such statement: “Real median household income is now at the highest level ever recorded,” Trump said while talking about the current state of the…
New applications for U.S. jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, but the labor market appears to be cooling, with the number of Americans on unemployment rolls surging to more than a 1-1/2-year high at the end of 2019.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 for the week…