The Republican Party shattered its previous fundraising record by hauling in $67.6 million in August 2020. The Washington Examiner reported that the $67.6 million represents “nearly four times what the party did in the previous four Augusts combined.” Moreover, it puts the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) total for the current campaign cycle at $1.3 billion.…
Current and former officials who were with President Donald Trump on his 2018 trip to Paris denied, on the record, a story published by the Atlantic, which cited anonymous sources that claim Trump described America’s fallen heroes as “suckers” and “losers.” The Atlantic story cited anonymous sources who claimed that Trump did not want to visit the Aisne-Marne…
Gold hit a record high on Monday as investors are rushing towards the haven asset. Concerns about the economy are driving the gold rally. A slower recovery is a threat to the Dow rally. Gold investors have reasons to cheer. The price of gold climbed to an all-time high on Monday, rising above $1,940 per…
Gold prices hit $1,900 Friday. Bullion is trading at the highest level since 2011. This time, however, the move is sustainable. Gold prices topped $1,900 per ounce Friday morning. The last time the metal was priced this high was in 2011. It likely won’t stop until it hits new highs. That’s just when looking at…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — With the United States grappling with the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state’s largest single-day increase in positive cases. Deaths from the virus have also been rising in the U.S., especially in the South and West, though…
U.S. household spending lurched upward in May as the economy reopened. Consumer spending rose 8.2 percent compared with April, the sharpest increase in Commerce Department data that stretches back six decades. That was actually below expectations, however. Economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast an 8.6 percent gain., April’s change in consumer spending was revised up…
More dismal economic data will reverse the stock market rally. The U.S. held record household debt going into the COVID-19 panic. Then disposable personal income and consumer spending crashed in March. The Dow Jones has achieved a recovery that’s been just as head-scratching as it has been robust. But more dismal economic data reveal the…
CEOs are departing in droves. America’s corporate insiders, which include chief executives, dumped company shares at record levels. One Wall Street firm is projecting a stagnant year for U.S. companies. The stock market is in trouble. The Dow Jones Industrial Average printed its worst one-day point drop in history after plunging 1,191 points Thursday. The…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, according to…
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever with a record 203 billion downloads in 2019 and $119 billion in consumer spending, according to preliminary year-end data…
