Energy By Avi Salzman Dec 29, 2023, 1:30 am EST Share Reprints For the first time in five years, big European oil companies outperformed their U.S. counterparts in 2023. Continue reading this article with a Barron’s subscription. View Options
Ana takes out her phone and scrolls through the grim set of photos. In them, her face is purple and swollen, her lip cut – it wasn’t the first time her husband struck her, but the 48-year-old hopes it will be the last. “He followed me with a wooden stick and hit me over and […]
At a packed community center in southwestern Iowa, Nikki Haley broke from her usual remarks this month to offer a warning to her top Republican presidential rivals, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, deploying a favorite line: “If they punch me, I punch back — and I punch back harder.” But in that Dec. 18 appearance […]
Christmas might be over, but the season of savings continues! And while it’s natural to feel a little blue once the hustle and bustle of the holidays winds down, some retail therapy might be just the thing to turn that frown upside down. Take Amazon’s Winter Sale, for instance. The mega retailer has tons of […]
Anthony Joshua delivered one of his best displays in recent memory with an impressive stoppage of Otto Wallin in Saudi Arabia. The 34-year-old made it three wins from three in 2023 after the fight was called off following a thunderous fifth round which left Wallin unable to continue. Joshua, having already beaten Jermaine Franklin Jr […]
By Gram Slattery CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley has risen in opinion polls in recent months largely on the back of college-educated, affluent, suburban professionals, many of whom have tired of Donald Trump‘s caustic rhetoric and legal troubles. If the former South Carolina governor is to ascend any further and […]
People viewing a mobile device in front of stacks of supercomputers This has been a massive year for the S&P 500 index. It’s sitting on a gain of 26% (including dividends), which reverses all of its losses from 2022. Historical data going back to 1957 says rebound years like 2023 have always been followed by […]
Jude Bellingham struck his 17th goal of the season as Real Madrid returned to the top of LaLiga with a thumping 4-1 win over Villarreal at the Bernabeu. Bellingham paved the way for the hosts to leapfrog previous leaders Girona – who face Alaves on Sunday – when he struck midway through the first half […]
A master class of shooting by Aoife Prendergast and a brilliant all-round team display that included some monumental contributions by the likes of Jane Cass, Katie Byrne, Amy Clifford, Asha McHardy and Lucinda Gahan were just some of the reasons Dicksboro secured a first AIB All-Ireland senior club camogie title at Croke Park. In the […]
Costco Wholesale (COST) beat expectations for the company’s Q1 earnings late Thursday and the retailer’s board declared a special dividend. Costco stock surged to new highs Friday after pulling back during Thursday’s regular session. X The retailer reported a 16.6% increase in earnings to $3.58 per share on 6.2% revenue growth to $57.8 billion in […]
Two people at a compputer high five We entered 2023 in the middle of a bear market. The S&P 500‘s decline in 2022 was its worst since 2008, when it sank by 19%. Against that backdrop, in January I recommended 10 top stocks to buy in 2023. As we head toward the end of the […]
A prisoner who poured boiling water over a vulnerable fellow inmate before beating and raping him has been jailed for 12 years. Robert Reynolds, a prisoner at HMP Winchester, threw boiling water from a kettle at the victim, causing burns to his back and face, before punching and kicking him during the attack in July […]