Month: March 2021

This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly: Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size

When life came to a grinding halt a year ago, two national publications excelled at guiding readers through an unprecedented and scary pandemic, drawing record audiences and journalism awards. They each have wildly different origin stories: One is STAT, a five-year-old health and life sciences news site, launched as a sister publication to The Boston

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue is so massive that economists are marking up their growth forecasts for not just this year, but next as well. Goldman Sachs predicts the US economy will rebound sharply from the pandemic, registering China-like GDP growth of 7% on a full-year basis in 2021. That would be the

Experts have made clear that they don’t expect economies around the world to bounce back from the Covid-19 shock at the same speed. But developments this week underscore the risk that Europe could fall even further behind the United States and China. What’s happening: Countries across Europe — including Spain, Germany, France and Italy —

Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has become one of the top investment voices on Wall Street over the past few years, thanks to big bets on Tesla, Square, Roku and other momentum stocks. But investors need an iron-cast stomach to deal with the recent gut-wrenching volatility in her company’s ARK exchange-traded funds. The ARK Innovation

Americans shopped less in February, leading retail sales to fall 3% on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. It was a much steeper drop than the 0.5% decline economists had predicted, according to Refinitiv. Bad weather across many states were part of the reason sales declined last month. But the data is

Experts have made clear that they don’t expect economies around the world to bounce back from the Covid-19 shock at the same speed. But developments this week underscore the risk that Europe could fall even further behind the United States and China. What’s happening: Countries across Europe — including Spain, Germany, France and Italy —