Tag: plummets

Sinema’s fundraising plummets as reelection decision deadline nears

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s (I-Ariz.) fundraising cratered to her lowest quarterly total yet this cycle as she stares down an April deadline to file for reelection. The independent Arizona senator raised just $595,000 in the final three months of 2023, according to a report filed by her campaign with the Federal Election Commission late Tuesday. That […]

IRobot Stock Plummets As EU Moves To Block Takeover By Amazon

IRobot (IRBT) stock plunged on Friday on news that antitrust regulators in Europe plan to block Amazon.com‘s (AMZN) planned purchase of the Roomba vacuum cleaner maker. X The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday that the European Union’s competition watchdog intends to block Amazon’s $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot. Competition officials from the European […]

Woman plummets 100 feet to her death in Virginia cave, searchers say

A woman fell 100 feet to her death while inside a cave in northwest Virginia, searchers say. It happened Friday, Jan. 12, “in the Staffordsville Community outside of Pearisburg,” according to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office. Searchers identified the woman as 38-year-old Autumn Nicole Draper of Fairlawn, Virginia, station WDBJ reported. Fairlawn is about 22 […]

Mortgage demand plummets again despite drop in interest rates

A key measure of home-purchase applications slumped over the holidays despite a sharp drop in mortgage rates over the course of December. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) index of mortgage applications fell 9.4% for the week ended Dec. 29, compared with two weeks earlier, according to new data published Wednesday. The data also showed that […]