A tornado touched down in Central Massachusetts Saturday, a National Weather Service’s radar confirmed. The radar showed a tornado in Holden moving east at 40 mph at 4:07 p.m. Meterologist Candic Hrencecin told MassLive that although no official reports have been made yet, there has been a warning out for the Central Massachusetts area including in West Boylston and Worcester. …
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30-year Treasury yield touches 5% briefly, then retreats on weak jobs data
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Wednesday after the latest job openings data came in lighter than expected. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was down 8 basis points to 4.891%. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was more than 7 basis points lower at 4.205%. One basis point equals 0.01% and prices move inversely to yields. The move …
Read More »Dow Touches High, Retreats; S&P 500, Nasdaq Down; Intel, Home Depot, Palo Alto, More Movers; Trump Ukraine Meeting Fallout
The Nasdaq Composite extended its slide on Tuesday–and even the Dow Jones Industrial Average was struggling after hitting an intraday record this morning. The tech-heavy index was down 1.5%, while the Dow was down 90 points, or 0.2%. The S&P 500 was down 0.7%. All this was happening on a day when 315 of the stocks in the S&P are …
Read More »Dow Touches All-Time High, While S&P 500, Nasdaq Tick Lower; Stocks Post Gains for 2nd Straight Week
Biggest S&P 500 Movers on Friday 1 hr 55 min ago Decliners Shares of semiconductor equipment manufacturer Applied Materials (AMAT) tumbled 14%, falling the most of any S&P 500 stock. Although Applied Materials topped sales and profit forecasts for its fiscal fourth quarter, its guidance for the current quarter fell short of forecasts, with macroeconomic uncertainty weighing on its outlook, particularly in …
Read More »Everything He Touches Dies — Even the Space Program
In the grand theater of American politics, space has often served as a symbol of vision, courage, and continuity—an enterprise that transcends partisanship and orbits the better angels of our national ambition. But even this most elevated domain is not immune to gravity. Or to sabotage. We are watching, in real time, the slow-motion unraveling of American space leadership. And …
Read More »Ichiro Suzuki adds humorous touches to Hall of Fame induction ceremonies
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — If you want someone for your next celebrity roast, Ichiro Suzuki could be your guy. Mixing sneaky humor with heartfelt messages, the first Japanese-born player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame stole the show Sunday in Cooperstown. Morning showers and gloomy skies delayed the ceremonies by an hour, but the moisture gave way …
Read More »”The Sopranos’ and ‘Sex and the City’ shared studio space, but no one touches Tony’s meatballs
Sharing directors is one thing, but aspetta on the catering. The latest episode of Are You a Charlotte?, Kristin Davis‘ charming rewatch podcast of Sex and the City, boasts director Allen Coulter, one of the in-house auteurs at HBO during their years of ascent in the late 1990s. And though the two shows had greatly different audiences and tones, he …
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