LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Faced with a proliferation of new electronic cigarettes and a sharp rise in teen vaping, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday sent letters to 21 electronic cigarette manufacturers seeking information to assess whether the products are being marketed illegally. FILE PHOTO: A woman smokes a Juul e-cigarette in New…
Brendan McDermid/Reuters Stocks staged a recovery early on Friday following tame inflation data. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than a thousand points between Tuesday and Thursday. Watch US indexes trade in real time here. Following the worst couple of days on Wall Street since February, stocks staged a recovery on Friday amid signs…
But the volume of public commentary greatly diminished in recent decades as politicians concluded that pressuring the Fed was counterproductive. The administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all made a policy of silence on monetary policy. Krishna Guha, the head of the central bank strategy team at Evercore ISI, said…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAerial footage shows the destruction in Mexico Beach, Florida Hurricane Michael left "unimaginable destruction" as it ploughed into coastal areas of Florida, the state's governor, Rick Scott says."So many lives have been changed forever," he said. "So many families have lost everything."The worst hit areas of Florida's…
Billionaires have won big in the long-running bull market that may be teetering on the edge of ending. But they’re also set to lose big. Over the past week, the world’s wealthiest have collectively dropped about $50 billion in estimated net worth. What’s $50 billion among the world’s uber-rich? Enough to leave a mark, that’s…
JUST a year ago the world was enjoying a synchronised economic acceleration. In 2017 growth rose in every big advanced economy except Britain, and in most emerging ones. Global trade was surging and America booming; China’s slide into deflation had been quelled; even the euro zone was thriving. In 2018 the story is very different.…
Enlarge / "You know what I really enjoy? Testing subjects with video games. Or just testing in general." Valve SoftwareBelow, you’ll find the second installment of the After On podcast interview with University of California, San Francisco neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley and his trailblazing work to develop the medical potential that may be latent in video…
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida’s Panhandle took stock on Thursday of the hammering destruction wrought by Hurricane Michael, with homes obliterated or reduced to rubble and power lines and trees ripped up by the third most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland. Michael, now weakened to a tropical storm as it doused…
Thomson Reuters Wall Street continued to slide Thursday morning after initially finding some relief in tamer-than-expected inflation data, a day after worries about rising rates and trade tensions sparked a sharp sell-off in global markets. After suffering its steepest drop since February in the previous session, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 350…
PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Hurricane Michael, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the continental United States, slammed into the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, unleashing a trail of destruction across 200 miles that splintered houses, peeled off roofs and stirred up a terrifying surge of seawater that submerged entire neighborhoods and sent boats…
