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Over the past decade coming out of the financial crisis, the tech sector has been the unquestioned leader in driving the equity markets higher. While there have been bumps along the road, tech stocks, mega-cap names in particular, have consistently been the favorites among many investors. Tech ETFs have also enjoyed similar interest. Broadly focused …

As a World Health Organization team digs into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, other scientists are unearthing tantalizing new clues suggesting that the virus behind it evolved naturally to infect humans. At least four recent studies have identified coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic strain in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia and Japan, …

View into the interior of the Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino Collaboration Neutrinos Yield First Experimental Evidence of Catalyzed Fusion Dominant in Many Stars An international team of about 100 scientists of the Borexino Collaboration, including particle physicist Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, report in Nature this week detection of neutrinos from the …

Sun King: New technology helps remove virus Sun King Brewery, one of the leaders of the independent craft beer movement in Indiana, announced a partnership with Indiana-based iAIRE to install new iAIRE ionization indoor air cleaning systems that are independently verified to remove 90% of human coronaviruses, including the one that causes COVID-19. The new …

“Our investment philosophy is investing in where the world is going,” Mr Moore said. Spaceship’s flagship super fund, GrowthX, allocates more than 33 per cent of funds to the technology sector. The fund is labelled “high risk” and Mr Moore acknowledges the tech boom can’t last forever. “Double digit growth over an extended period of …

The organizers behind a major advertiser boycott of Facebook have called a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg and other executives “disappointing”, saying the company failed to commit to concrete solutions for addressing hate speech and misinformation on the platform. Officials at Facebook, including Zuckerberg, the CEO, and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer, met with members of …

Delivering value to your farm When you invest hard-earned dollars into new farm technologies, you’d better believe you want to see that value returned to your pockets. But the ways that value shows up are many, and not always so plain to see. With that, many ask: what return on investment (ROI) does variable rate …

A worker polishes a diesel engine at the Cummins  Seymour Engine Plant in Seymour, Indiana. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images In a world of falling and even negative interest rates, investors are searching high and low for yield. Companies with a high and stable dividends are a good place to look, but there …

White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro Getty Images White House trade advisor Peter Navarro disputed that the bond market flashed a recession signal last week, which spooked investors and sent the stock market tumbling. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note briefly fell below the 2-year rate on Wednesday, a phenomenon in …

Thomas Heath Local business reporter and columnist, writing about entrepreneurs and companies in the Washington metropolitan area August 14 at 9:40 AM U.S. stocks plummeted Wednesday after the inverted yield curve, one of the most reliable indicators of a recession, sparked a new wave of investor fears. For the first time since 2007, the yields …