After opening musical acts from one-man-band Mike Hosty and singer-songwriter Samantha Crane, Sanders spent a large portion of his 39-minute speech taking jabs at President Donald Trump, wage inequality and continued to call for free public higher education. “We are going to cancel all student debt in America,” Sanders said, which drew cheers from the […]
U.S. stock futures fell 0.3% percent when trading resumed on Sunday, a day after attacks on Saudi oil facilities that risk disrupting global energy supplies. Saturday’s attacks knocked out more than half of Saudi oil output, or more than 5% of global supply. S&P 500 e-mini futures initially fell 0.59%, but cut their losses and […]
Mel Biado loves surfing with dolphins, teaching Japanese, helping kids conquer math and assisting the Boy Scouts as a merit badge counselor. But when he’s not doing all that or working his day job in the financial services industry, he’s teaching an online money management class geared to tweens and teens called “Money Doesn’t Grow […]
Uber’s stock (UBER) is stinking up the joint. And what is tantamount to a post IPO crash isn’t lost on one early investor. “Uber has lost its mojo,” early Uber investor Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade. Tusk — a longtime confidant of Uber founder and board member Travis Kalanick […]
The ECB cut its key interest rate and launched a sweeping package of bond purchases that lays the groundwork for a long period of ultraloose monetary policy, jolting European financial markets. U.S. stocks rose after the ECB unveiled its stimulus efforts and U.S.-China trade tensions showed signs of easing. The Dow gained 0.2%. WeWork’s parent […]
A Central Texas justice of the peace is facing calls for his resignation after allegations he stole money from a youth organization. Anthony Kendrick filed the small claims petition on Aug. 29. The petition alleges “theft by deception” against Daryl Peters, who is currently serving as Justice of the Peace for Precinct 4, Place 1. […]
