Saudi Arabia has made voluntary oil production cuts even as U.S. output and exports have climbed. – MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Saudi Arabia and its OPEC+ allies continue to throttle crude output in an effort to support oil prices, but the U.S. — with its record-high production and growing exports — is making that task particularly […]
Ghanaian chef Failatu Abdul-Razak appears to have broken the world record after cooking non-stop for more than 227 hours. Wrapped in her country’s flag, Ms Abdul-Razak brought the cook-a-thon to an emotional end with a salute to the crowd on Wednesday. Prior to the cooking marathon, she called it a “national assignment”, saying that she […]
Canadian cannabis producer Tilray Brands (TLRY) is the Canadian market share leader and continues to add new products. With the stock off lows and the company reporting record revenue, is TLRY stock a bargain buy now? X Shares sank nearly 10% in heavy volume following Tilray’s November-ended quarterly earnings report Tuesday. The pot stock fell […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Temperatures for the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on Monday are set to be the coldest in the contest’s modern history, with a forecasted high temperature of around 0 degrees in Des Moines, according to the National Weather Service. But Republican presidential candidates aren’t worried, uniformly saying that they think their supporters are […]
A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated. Ronnie Long, 68, settled his civil lawsuit with the city of Concord, about 25 miles northeast of […]
The massive storm that fell over several southeastern states most of Tuesday is moving out of the Charlotte area, leaving behind flooded roads, toppled trees and rescue missions. Charlotte got a record 2.52 inches of rain Tuesday, according to data collected by the National Weather Service at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Some areas saw […]
For the first time in the history of UkrGasVydobuvannya, a subsidiary of Naftogaz of Ukraine, gas production from new wells exceeded 1 billion cubic metres per year. Source: Naftogaz “For the first time in the history of UkrGasVydobuvannya, production from new wells exceeded 1 billion cubic metres per year. We not only almost doubled last […]
Jeremy Siegel.Getty Images The S&P 500 could jump 10% to a record 5,200 points this year, Jeremy Siegel says. The “Wizard of Wharton” says the Fed’s willingness to cut rates is more important than doing so. Siegel warns that a flurry of cuts might signal a recession that could pull down stocks. The S&P 500 […]
National weather analysts released their 2023 “billion-dollar disasters list” on Jan. 9, just as 2024 was getting off to a ferocious start. A blizzard was sweeping across across the Plains and Midwest, and the South and East faced flood risks from extreme downpours. The U.S. set an unwelcome record for weather and climate disasters in […]
Dow Jones futures dropped more than 175 points Tuesday morning, as Wall Street took a breather after Monday’s sharp rebound. One major player, Netflix (NFLX), contributed to the overall market slide, thanks to an analyst downgrade, while Nvidia stock looked to hit more record highs. X Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones futures lost […]
Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the year […]
Last year saw the highest number of civilian casualties killed or injured by explosives in more than a decade, according to new research. The UK-based charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) recorded a 122% percent increase in civilian fatalities caused by explosives in 2023. The rise is largely due to the war being fought between […]