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1 day ago · Josh Schafer. Stocks sank on Wednesday,after a spike in Treasury yields unsettled investors already weighing whether recent data will shift the needle on interest rates. The benchmark S&P 500 ...
1 day ago · This Financial Times –based list is up to date as of December 31, 2015. Indicated changes in market value are relative to the previous quarter. Rank. First quarter [60] Second quarter [61] Third quarter [62] [note 2] Fourth quarter [63] [note 2] 1. Apple 724,773.1.
3 hours ago · Stock indexes fell. All three major U.S. indexes finished in the red, with the Dow industrials sliding 1.1%, or 411 points. The S&P 500 fell 0.7%, while the Nasdaq dropped 0.6% from its record ...
1 day ago · A life expectancy of 40, the historical norm, does not mean that person is likely to die at 40 years old but rather when he or she is very old or very young; much in line with a bathtub curve. At the start of the 20th century, the life expectancy at birth was only 45.6 years. By 1950, life expectancy at birth had risen to 68.6 years.
1 day ago · The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century, when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom, and then spread to many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and most European countries (e.g. , Sweden and Germany). In this period, people from across the political spectrum espoused ...
1 day ago · This is a list of the highest-grossing films in the U.S. and Canada, [3] a market known in the film industry as the North American box office, or as the domestic box office within the U.S. itself. [1] [2] The chart is ranked by lifetime gross, and for comparison, the figures adjusted for the effects of inflation are also listed, using the U.S ...
