Shares of Clorox (NYSE: CLX) rose 14.7% this week, as the consumer-staples stock appeared to benefit from a decline in long-term interest rates. Clorox, which could be considered a pandemic stock, has seen a sell-off this year as inflation has risen. Additionally, a rise in long-term interest rates hurt the stock somewhat, since low-growth, dividend-paying consumer staples stocks are seen as bond proxies by many investors.
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The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, 31, on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Kestou, of Commerce Township, was arraigned Thursday on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
Ellen DeGeneres has admitted being "kicked out of showbusiness" and becoming the "most hated person in America" affected her marriage to Portia de Rossi because she was "in a funk" and holed up at home.
Rumer Willis has trained to become a postpartum doula a year after welcoming her first child.
Opening up for the first time about how she has broken up up with her mystery lover after seven years, Kathie Lee Gifford has said splitting is “always hard”.
Billy Richmond was the last player from Kentucky’s 2024 recruiting class to decommit. Now, he has a new college home.
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The CAA said it had received ‘numerous threats’ and identified ‘hostile actors’ who pose a risk to its safety.
A fire tore through a small hotel in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre early Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11, authorities said. The fire broke out in the early hours in the three-story building, which provided affordable housing for single people but which lacked proper licensing and lacked an emergency fire plan, the fire brigade of the Rio Grande do Sul state said on social media. Porto Alegre Mayor Sebastião Melo said on his social media accounts that he was following the investigations into the fire closely.
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Several London Underground stations are closed due to workers striking while two Tube lines were halted because of a casualty on the track. Transport for London said four stations were closed on the network at 3.50pm on Friday due to the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association action. The union said the action was likely to cause Tube stations to close at the last minute, including into Saturday morning, but Transport for London said there will not be significant disruption.
Gary Bowie tried to have the parcel addressed to someone else delivered to his own home in Ramsey.
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Properties in the OX3, OX4 and OX44 postcodes have also been affected by the temporary outage.
U.S. Silica has agreed to go private in an all-cash acquisition by Apollo Global Management that values the industrial minerals company at about $1.85 billion. In a Friday announcement, U.S. Silica said that shareholders would receive $15.50 in cash for each share owned as of the deal's closing. Once the deal closes, U.S. Silica's stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Civil servants at Britain’s official statistics body have refused to be “forced back” into the office for two days a week.
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