The scent of a possible recession is wafting through the bond market again. Bonds are supposed to be the boring corner of the finance world, but even high-flying stock investors stop and pay attention when they fall into a particular, concerning pattern. It’s called an “inverted yield curve,” and it happens when yields for short-term […]
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Image copyright Getty Images JP Morgan will pay $5m (£3.9m) to settle a discrimination case involving parental leave for fathers. Derek Rotondo said the bank denied him a parental leave benefit available to all employees who are “primary caregivers” of a newborn. He filed a lawsuit against the firm in 2017, and a class action
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Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., beating the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Thursday night. The Raptors hardly looked like newcomers to the NBA’s biggest stage, controlling the action most of the way against a Golden State team beginning
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On Wednesday morning, Robert S. Mueller III made clear that he was done with this. He had spent two years on his investigation. There is a report. You can read it for free. You can download it to your Kindle. You can buy it with an introduction by Alan Dershowitz. Mr. Mueller, his body language
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Hundreds of demonstrators filed into the Louisiana State Capitol a day after lawmakers passed a strict new abortion ban that Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed into law. Many on Thursday wore bright pink T-shirts reading “We Stand With Planned Parenthood” on the front and “We Won’t Back Down” on the back, in protest
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Image copyright Getty Images Energy firms need to work harder to identify and protect poor and elderly customers, an independent report found. The study’s authors were told of incidents in which vulnerable people were either left in the dark or facing bills running to thousands of pounds. In one case, a disabled woman with poor
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Workers simulated the shutdown on Tuesday of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, just days before the plant will stop producing energy after 47 years of operation. On Friday, a team of workers will begin the process of reducing the plant’s power output from the current 40% of its capacity to zero. The final process will
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Basketball fans are used to seeing Drake on the sidelines at Raptors games, but at the NBA Finals in Toronto, the rapper wore an outfit that was a wink at Warrior Steph Curry. On Thursday, the “God’s Plan” rapper arrived at Game 1, between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors, in a Raptors Dell
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Federal authorities in Florida have issued an expansive subpoena seeking information related to Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor, and the campaign for governor he narrowly lost last year, as well as some of his associates. In a statement on Thursday night, Mr. Gillum’s lawyer, Barry Richard, acknowledged the subpoena but denied that Mr. Gillum
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FedEx plans to deliver packages seven days a week starting next January as it tries to keep up with the continuing boom in online shopping. The company is also taking back nearly 2 million daily deliveries to homes that are currently handled by the post office in a move it says will increase the efficiency
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