For the past 19 months, Wall Street and investors have enjoyed an epic stock market rally. Since the widely followed S&P 500 bottomed out on March 23, 2020, the benchmark index has doubled in value. It's the strongest bounce-back rally from a bear market bottom in history.
FRSICO, Texas (AP) — Tyler Seguin got sidetracked on his way to bed when he checked the scores from the two games on the West Coast that would determine who the Dallas Stars would face in the first round of the NHL playoffs. “I went in the living room just to see what was going on,” Seguin said in the Stars locker room Friday. Matt Duchene was watching as well from his home late Thursday night, and kept waking up his wife to tell her who the Stars would be playing. That changed a couple of times
Josh Morrissey remembers the city coming to life before his eyes. A nine-year-old Flames fan in the spring of 2004, he was captivated by every Jarome Iginla chance and Miikka Kiprusoff save during Calgary's run to the Stanley Cup final. "It was just an awesome experience," said Morrissey, now a star defenceman for the Winnipeg Jets. "Living and dying on every win and loss." Hockey fans across Canada are once again preparing themselves to experience that annual thrill and torment. The Jets, Vanco
NEW YORK (AP) — Opening statements in Donald Trump's hush money case are set to begin next week after a jury of 12 people and six alternates was seated Friday. The seating of the jury sets the stage for weeks of testimony in a case charging Trump with falsifying business records to suppress stories about his sex life emerging in the final days of the 2016 election. A failed last-minute bid in appeals court by the former president’s lawyers to stay the trial, as well as a hearing to decide whethe
Rick Tocchet barely had a chance to get accustomed to the Pacific time zone when the newly hired Canucks coach wondered what exactly he had just gotten himself into in late January 2023. Four days and two games into his tenure, Tocchet recalled the feeling of dread he experienced standing on a Vancouver street corner at 3 a.m. after the team returned home from Seattle following a 6-1 loss, in which the coach referred to the Canucks being “soft.” “I felt like I got hit by a bus,” Tocchet told The
Former University of Denver basketball player Coban Porter, the younger brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for killing a 42-year-old woman in a drunken driving crash last year. Denver District Court Judge Ericka Englert told Porter, “Do what you can to use this opportunity to educate others” about the dangers of driving drunk. “All I can really say is, ‘I’m sorry,’” Porter said in court.
ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has called on lawmakers to help control payments to player agents in the multi-billion dollar soccer transfer market, and targeted the world’s richest league in England. English clubs paid 500 million euros ($530 million) in fees to agents in the year to February, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Friday, while paying just 6% of that amount — 30 million euros ($32 million) — to foreign clubs “that trained and developed the players signed.” “Most of this money is leaving
Firefighters doused a late-night fire at Oregon’s historic Timberline Lodge — featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film “The Shining” — before it caused significant damage
The families of three people stabbed to death in Nottingham say they are glad a date has been set to review the sentence handed to killer, Valdo Calocane.
First man charged in Crystal Rogers case asks to be tried separately
Court documents provide new details in the deadly car crash on Interstate 80 on Apr. 13 that killed two people and injured two others.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Defense has been far more of an afterthought than an asset over the checkered history of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who have the second-fewest wins in the NBA since their entry 35 years ago and have advanced out of the first round of the playoffs only once. This has been quite the season of transformation for the Timberwolves, an improvement that started over the summer with Rudy Gobert. The success of their defense is rooted in his 7-foot-2 presence, too. “There’s a differen
A senior army commander confirmed Friday that Iran’s air defense systems fired at "a suspicious object" over the Iranian city of Isfahan in response to an apparent Israeli drone attack. World leaders are calling on Iran and Israel to try to avoid escalating tensions.
Reported stabbing at Yukon High School was false report, police and district say
An Iowa woman will spend decades in prison for crash that killed a 74-year-old man on Christmas Eve.
April has been a funky month for the major market indices (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC). Entering into 2024's second quarter, the S&P 500 has had a hard time acclimating as it extends its losing streak to its sixth consecutive day of losses. The S&P 500 closed below 5,000 at Friday's close. Yahoo Finance Markets Reporter Josh Schafer highlights what investors should gleam from the market as Big Tech stocks appear weighed down heading into their earnings season. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination Overtime. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
Who hasn’t spent sleepless nights pondering what would happen if we applied the theories of Vilfredo Pareto, the early 20th-century Italian economist, to Mario, the Mushroom Kingdom’s Italian high-jump champion and part-time elephant cosplayer? Data scientist Antoine Mayerowitz, PhD, tackled that age-old question.
Lancashire police have said they are ‘reviewing the available information’ after receiving a complaint about the Fylde MP.
Cheshire Constabulary confirmed they had received ‘reports of offences under the Communications Act’.
PHOENIX (AP) — NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman sat next to the former Arizona Coyotes owner in a downtown Phoenix hotel meeting room, trying to put a positive spin on the funeral for a franchise. Late Friday afternoon, Bettman will sit next to the new Coyotes owner in Salt Lake City to bask in the excitement of the league's newest city and a fan base that had been itching for another team to join the NBA's Utah Jazz. One day, two drastically different news conferences for the same hockey team. "If
GENOA, Italy (AP) — Cagliari scored two first-half penalties but gave up a late own goal for Juventus to draw 2-2 in a thrilling Serie A game on Friday. Gianluca Gaetano opened the scoring for the home side after half an hour and Yerry Mina got a second with an almost identical spot kick six minutes later. Juventus had a first-half goal from Dušan Vlahović disallowed after a video review but the Serbian forward got one back in the 61st minute with a swerving free kick. Just when it looked like C
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