How One Firm That Focuses on Impact Investing Is Handling ESG Blowback
Justina Lai, Laird Norton Wetherby’s impact investing chief says demand remains strong amid criticism of the approach.
Ukraine Says Hit Russian Oil Depot In Drone Attack
Ukraine said Friday it had hit an oil depot in Russia's Voronezh border region in a drone attack. Kyiv has targeted Russian energy sites with long-range drones in a growing number of attacks it says ...
Ubisoft Shares Surge On Report Of Potential Tencent Joint Buyout
Shares of French video game publisher Ubisoft surged by around 30 percent on Friday after a media report suggested China's Tencent was poised to join a potential buyout.
Basque Pelota Federation Found In Breach Of World Anti-doping Rules
The International Federation of Basque Pelota (FIPV), the governing body for sports such as Mano and Frontball, is in breach of the World Anti-Doping Agency's updated code, the agency said Friday.
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Dow Flat as Jobs Rally Begins to Fade
The stock market wasn't getting the support one might expect after a solid jobs report. The Dow was trading around the breakeven line, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were up 0.1% and 0.4%, ...
Breakeven Inflation Rates Are Rising. What It Means.
Investors are a bit on edge about inflation, but it’s not a full-blown panic. Inflation is alive and kicking. It’s evident everywhere from your $10 box of blueberries at the grocery store to the ...
Fed’s Goolsbee Sees a Goldilocks U.S. Economy, More Rate Cuts to Come
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee would like to freeze the U.S. economy right where it is today. With inflation closing in on a 2% annual rate, full employment, and ...
A 5,500-Acre Texas Ranch Filled With Ponds, Blackbucks and Buffalo Lists Outside Dallas for $54.5 Million
The compound features 3,140 high-fenced acres stocked with about 750 rare blackbuck, fallow deer, scimitar oryx, axis deer, ...
Builder Stocks Get Hit as Rates Head Higher
Good news for job-seekers was bad news for home builders on Friday. September’s unexpectedly strong jobs report sent shares of companies that build houses lower. D.R. Horton, Lennar, and PulteGroup, ...
Iranian Leader Khamenei Says Israel 'Will Not Survive'
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How Nigeria-South Africa Rivalry Turned Ugly
Without a last-minute diplomatic intervention, Nigeria's youth basketball team would have missed an international competition ...
Clouds on the Horizon for Employment
There weren’t many weak points in the latest employment data from September, but it is worth keeping in mind that the longer-term trends are still pointing to cooling conditions in the job market. And ...