Gold futures finished solidly higher on Monday, at their highest in just ove ra week, after an attack on Saudi Arabian oil production sent oil prices skyrocketing and investors turning to haven assets, including bonds and precious metals.
Dividend-paying ‘inclusive ownership fund’ offers employees a leg up as the pay gap widens.
Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., an entertainment powerhouse, is planning an initial public offering that will give investors a rare chance to buy shares in a talent agency.
Investors are shunning higher-priced, sturdier stocks in favor of those that may have missed out on the love earlier in the year.
The weekend attack on major crude-oil facilities in Saudi Arabia could prompt something that has been done only three times in the past: an emergency release from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Enlarge / California State Capitol building in Sacramento. (credit: Getty Images | joe chan photography) The California legislature worked through the summer to finalize the text of the state’s landmark data privacy law before time to make amendments ran out on Friday. In the Assembly (California’s lower house), Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin has been a key …
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Enlarge / Disney CEO and former Apple board member Bob Iger. (credit: DC Comics/Creative Commons) Disney CEO Bob Iger has sat on Apple’s board since 2011, but that tenure came to an end this month, according to a SEC filing Apple made on Friday. The filing says that Iger resigned from Apple’s board on September 10, …
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Enlarge / “If I lose this Netflix streaming deal, that’s it for me.” (credit: Aurich Lawson / Seinfeld) Netflix and Sony Pictures Television confirmed on Monday that they had reached a streaming-exclusivity deal for one of the most popular TV series in the world: Seinfeld. Beginning in 2021, Netflix will become the exclusive online-streaming home …
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I’ve rarely had as much difficulty photographing a new car at an auto show press day than I had trying to get a good shot of the Honda e. It was always mobbed. [credit: Jonathan Gitlin ] FRANKFURT, GERMANY—Two years ago, Honda arguably stole the Frankfurt auto show with its Urban EV concept car. That …
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Enlarge / Bottles of Purdue Pharma L.P. OxyContin medication sit on a pharmacy shelf in Provo, Utah, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday night amid accusations from state attorneys general that its owners—members of the mega-rich Sackler family—are lowballing opioid victims …
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