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Every since the S&P 500 (SPY) made new lows in mid June the bulls have been back in charge. At first it looked like your typical bear market rally. However...

It’s not always easy. What does that mean, and why? We make most things in our lives difficult, and they don’t have to be. Life is simple, but we persist...

The tech used — and how it's used — can make or break you...

For the self-employed, retirement planning can be a bit more complicated than for the rest of the population. They don’t have the benefit of an employer-sponsored plan and an HR...

Elon Musk is, according to Forbes, the world’s richest person. But most of his wealth is wrapped up in Tesla stock.Read more...

A new virus has been identified in China, in the Shandong and Henan provinces. It’s called Langya virus, and has infected at least 35 people since 2018, likely jumping to humans from shrews. Read more...

A massive new study has estimated the environmental impact of 57,000 grocery store items. The researchers are among the first to assess the impact of products with multiple ingredients, and their work has the potential to pave the way for wide-spread use of eco-labels on foods.Read more...

India wants no Chinese contenders in the lower-end segment of its smartphone market. It plans to bar them from selling handsets priced under 12,000 rupees ($150), Bloomberg reported yesterday (Aug. 8). Read more...

Lawmakers who represent Nigeria at the Economic Community of West African States’s (Ecowas) parliament picked a fight with the bloc over what they described as an unfair recruitment exercise that did not include Nigerians, leaning into the grievance to question the value Nigeria actually gets from belonging to the…Read more...