PHILADELPHIA—Six gunmen fired more than 65 rounds on a Philadelphia street, sending nighttime pedestrians on a busy block teeming with markets and restaurants scrambling for cover and injuring six people, at least one of them critically, police said Friday. Police responded around 11:30 p.m. Thursday in the Germantown neighborhood and found a 21-year-old woman shot…
These 8 Dow Jones Stocks Are Negative for 2021
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a price-weighted index consisting of 30 stocks. It’s one of the oldest and best-known measures of stock market performance. The blue-chip index closed at a new all-time high Wednesday, dating all the way back to 1896. Dow Jones stocks have returned an average of about 19 percent in 2021. Eighteen Dow components have underperformed the…
Wall Street Ends Tumultuous Year Near Record Highs
NEW YORK—Wall Street closed near record highs in light trading on Friday, the last trading day of 2021, marking the second year of recovery from a global pandemic. All three major U.S. stock indexes scored monthly, quarterly and annual gains, notching their biggest three-year advance since 1999. The S&P 500 gained 27 percent since the…
Times Square New Year’s Eve 2022: People’s Opinion on the Virus
MANHATTAN, New York—The ritual of the world-famous crystal ball drop in Times Square resumed this year after the first cancellation since 1907 of 2020’s New Year’s Eve due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Attendance was scaled back, and everyone who was older than 5 had to show vaccination proof to be part of the party….
LIVE: Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration
This year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration will be held on Dec. 31, 2021, amid COVID-19 restrictions. The event marks 115 years of the ball lowering, a now universal symbol of welcoming the New Year. An annual tradition since Dec. 31, 1907, the event was curtailed last year, with only so-called essential workers and…
Chinese Telecommunications Company Forced to Leave Canada Due to Security Concerns
A Chinese telecommunications company will cease its operations in Canada on Jan. 5 to comply with a federal government order based on security considerations. State-owned China Mobile’s service CMLink recently announced its departure to its customers. The company, which has the most subscribers in the world at 942 million, offered mobile plans in Canada but…
Capitol Report (Dec. 31): Biden’s First Year in Review
About one year after the vaccine rollout, new daily cases of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus are soaring to record levels. The Omicron variant continues to spread throughout the country and the CDC has cut the quarantine time in half. Is this following the science or a political move to keep the economy from coming to…
Seven Dilemmas Facing the Chinese Economy
China in Focus brings you an outlook of China in 2022. We go through the biggest China stories to watch out for in the coming year. One of the most important things for the world to look out for is the slowing down of China’s economy. It matters so much because the country’s economy has…
Novavax Files Final Data to FDA, Lays Groundwork for COVID-19 Vaccine EUA Request in a Month
Novavax announced it has submitted the final round of data on its COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in anticipation of submitting a request to the agency for emergency use authorization (EUA) in a month. The final data is related to the vaccine’s manufacturing processes, and its submission is the final prerequisite…
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