• Queen Elizabeth: ‘We will succeed’ in fight against coronavirus

    Queen Elizabeth: ‘We will succeed’ in fight against coronavirus

    Queen Elizabeth II made a historic televised address on Sunday — invoking her nation’s war-time spirit in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. “I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time,’’ the 93-year-old UK monarch said in only the fifth time she has addressed her subjects outside of her …
  • Vicki Gunvalson postponing wedding to Steve Lodge due to coronavirus

    Vicki Gunvalson postponing wedding to Steve Lodge due to coronavirus

    Vicki Gunvalson and fiancé Steve Lodge will be delaying their wedding as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking Thursday to HollywoodLife, the “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum, 58, revealed the couple planned to swap vows this month but have since changed course. “We were going to go get married in April and try …
  • Recent Trouble Among Money‐​Market Mutual Funds, and the Way Forward

    Recent Trouble Among Money‐​Market Mutual Funds, and the Way Forward

    Money-market mutual funds (MMMFs) have had a turbulent couple of weeks. On March 18, the Federal Reserve System created a Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) to “assist money market funds in meeting demands for redemptions by households and other investors.” What’s the source of the trouble? The story begins with an investor flight, …
  • WWE WrestleMania 36: Undertaker, title change, Becky Lynch highlight Day 1

    WWE WrestleMania 36: Undertaker, title change, Becky Lynch highlight Day 1

    Now that was badass. The Undertaker – using a twist on his American Badass persona – put on a horror-movie-meets-old-western boneyard match that was the highlight a supremely entertaining Day 1 of WrestleMania 36 on Saturday night. The Undertaker showed up to a graveyard in a top and pants similar to the traditional character, but …
  • Meghan Markle’s real name and title revealed on Archie’s birth certificate

    Meghan Markle’s real name and title revealed on Archie’s birth certificate

    Who is Rachel, Princess of the United Kingdom? Royal family fanatics were left scratching their heads when baby Archie’s birth certificate was finally made public this week. Among the revelations in the document, registered by Prince Harry, were Meghan‘s real name, Rachel, her job description, “Princess of the United Kingdom, and where Archie was born, …
  • Kandi Burruss reveals ‘RHOA’ reunion to be filmed online

    Kandi Burruss reveals ‘RHOA’ reunion to be filmed online

    Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, several television shows have halted production, including Bravo favorite “Real Housewives of Atlanta.” While the show is still airing Sunday nights, the season has wrapped — which typically means it’s time for the reunion. According to “housewife” Kandi Burruss, however, that reunion will be taking place online this time …
  • Global economy screeches to a halt as coronavirus job losses take toll

    Global economy screeches to a halt as coronavirus job losses take toll

    The shock of the coronavirus is hitting the economy like another Great Depression — and Americans aren’t alone in their misery. A tsunami of job losses and welfare claims in Britain, the European Union and Asia in the last two weeks parallel the 10 million unemployment claims in the US as businesses around the world …
  • Bank of America slammed over favoring small biz loans for existing customers

    Bank of America slammed over favoring small biz loans for existing customers

    Bank of America said on Friday it has already received about 35,000 applications for federally backed small-business loans within hours of starting to accept them. The second largest US bank by assets became the first major bank to accept applications for the massive small-business rescue program approved by Congress last week. But the bank was …
  • March jobs numbers even sadder than the official report sounds

    March jobs numbers even sadder than the official report sounds

    Pan-dammit, the employment numbers for March were truly shocking! That doesn’t understate what can be said about the employment report for last month that was released by the Labor Department Friday morning. It was so shocking, in fact, that it’ll make the experts reconsider how bad the job numbers are going to get in the …
  • Henrik Lundqvist’s Rangers end is hard to digest

    Henrik Lundqvist’s Rangers end is hard to digest

    The last two months of the season must have been exactly what Henrik Lundqvist envisioned at the 2018 post-Letter deadline purge when he chose to remain with the Rangers after he was given the chance to opt out of an embryonic rebuild program and pursue his Stanley Cup dream somewhere else. Because here were the …