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U.S. equity investors often start each calendar year with a constructive stance, deploying fresh capital in search of early gains. A review of S&P 500 performance from 1980 through 2025 supports that view, indicating that January and the broader first quarter have generally delivered positive returns, despite several notable setbacks. Across the 45-year sample, the S&P 500 […]
Walker County, Ala. — A two-day search for a 4-year-old boy who disappeared while visiting his father ended Friday when law-enforcement officers found the child dead approximately two miles from the home where he was last seen, local authorities said. The Walker County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as Johnathan Everett Boley. His mixed-breed dog, […]
Diane Crump, whose rides in 1969 and 1970 shattered long-standing gender barriers in U.S. horse racing, died Thursday night at a hospice facility in Winchester, Virginia. She was 77. According to her daughter, Della Payne, Crump had been diagnosed in October with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Early breakthrough at Hialeah Park Crump entered […]
The Nasdaq Composite advanced in early trading Friday, buoyed by gains in a handful of semiconductor and industrial infrastructure names that countered weakness in several blue-chip components. The move unfolded on the first session of the new calendar year, when market participants sought to reverse a four-day slide in the broader S&P 500. Chipmakers set […]
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City on January 2, 2026, completing the transition to a new municipal administration at the start of the new year. The oath of office, administered one day after a separate inaugural ceremony on January 1, placed Mamdani at the head of the largest city […]
A solemn online ceremony was held Tuesday night to commemorate the dozens of people killed and the more than one hundred injured in a New Year’s Day fire that swept through a crowded bar in a resort town in the Swiss Alps. Organizers streamed the vigil on multiple social-media platforms, allowing relatives, friends and well-wishers […]
Citadel’s flagship multistrategy Wellington fund ended 2025 with a 10.2% return, navigating a year of pronounced market volatility that tested many money managers and briefly pushed major U.S. equity benchmarks toward bear-market territory. The performance details, confirmed by a person familiar with the firm’s private results, highlight how the Chicago-based investment firm managed by billionaire […]
Bitcoin closed 2025 at $87,000, finishing the year well below the projections issued by several prominent investors and analysts. The outcome undercut a series of bullish targets that had anticipated a six-figure price, highlighting the difficulty of forecasting the world’s largest cryptocurrency. Forecasts and the final number Throughout 2024 and early 2025, well-known market commentators […]
Escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran sharpened on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump and Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, issued separate threats while economic demonstrations continued to flare in several Iranian cities. Posting on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the United States was prepared to intervene if Iranian forces […]
Snow fell across Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday morning, marking the latest episode of lake-effect precipitation to sweep through portions of the Northeast. The localized squall, accompanied by blustery winds, formed as cold air passed over the still-unfrozen waters of Lake Erie, a setup that routinely produces brief but intense snowfall in the region. The wintry […]
CHICAGO – Charlotte, North Carolina closed 2025 as the best-performing U.S. metro area in CNBC’s annual Power City Index, edging out Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. with a median stock return of just above 22%. How the ranking works The Power City Index (PCI) was created a decade ago to gauge stock-market performance by metropolitan […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban used the social platform X last week to argue that aggressive financial penalties on inaccurate medical bills could generate enough revenue to wipe out the United States national debt. Posting on Dec. 26, Cuban asserted that a $100 fine levied each time an insurer or provider over-charged a patient, wrongfully denied […]