Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, addresses the media as he arrives at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on October 18, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. Win Mcnamee | Getty ImagesDonald Trump on Friday dismissed more questions about whether he would release his current medical records, doubling down on refusing to provide a health update even as Kamala Harris works to sow doubts about his fitness for the presidency.The 78-year-old Republican nominee, when asked if he will release his health records, suggested that he has already shared enough information about his medical status.”Yeah, my health records – I’ve done five…
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Medical personnel use a mammogram to examine a woman’s breast for breast cancer.Hannibal Hanschke | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesCancer drains individuals of their physical, emotional, and financial health. Given the impact on both patients and the people in their lives — including their employer — it’s time that CEOs take note and take action to reduce the burden of cancer.In a study from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, nearly half of cancer patients and survivors reported being extraordinarily burdened by medical debt. Many respondents carried a negative balance of at least $5,000 from their cancer…
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Izusek | E+ | Getty ImagesExchange-traded funds are generally known for passive strategies. But there has been a surge in actively managed ETFs as investors seek lower costs and more precision, experts say.Active ETFs represented just more than 2% of the U.S. ETF market at the beginning of 2019. But these funds have since grown more than 20% each year, rising to a market share of more than 7% in 2024, according to Morningstar.Some 328 active ETFs have launched in 2024 through September, compared to 352 in 2023, which has been “kind of remarkable,” said Stephen Welch, a senior manager…
CLEVELAND — The baseball gods work in the shadows, scripting moments and matchups and sequences that we couldn’t begin to fathom.Take, for instance, the night of June 26, when Matthew Boyd just so happened to flip on a Cleveland Guardians game to gauge the pulse of the team desperate for his services.That evening, a rookie sculpted like he should be muscling past offensive tackles walloped a home run to center field at Camden Yards in his first career at-bat.Fast-forward four months. Boyd, with a rejuvenated left elbow, has become Cleveland’s most consistent postseason starter, and he delivered another sterling effort…
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 15, 2023.Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Biden administration rang up a budget deficit topping $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2024, up more than 8% from the previous year and the third highest on record, the Treasury Department said Friday.Even with a modest surplus in September, the shortfall totaled $1.833 trillion, $138 billion higher than a year ago. The only years the U.S. has seen a great deficit were 2020 and 2021 when the government poured trillions into spending associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.The deficit came despite record receipts of $4.9…
People wait for transportation at a bus station in Matanzas, Cuba, on October 18, 2024, during a nationwide blackout caused by a grid failure. Antonio Levi | AFP | Getty ImagesElectricity went out on the entire island of Cuba on Friday, affecting its population of 10 million after one of its main power plants failed, according to Cuba’s energy ministry.The government had tried to keep the lights on earlier in the day by closing schools and having most state workers stay home in an effort to conserve energy. But it wasn’t enough and by 11 a.m. the largest power plant went offline, causing…
A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2024.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesSpirit Airlines on Friday said it had again extended a debt refinancing timeline to December, hours before it was set to hit its deadline.Spirit said in a filing late Friday that earlier this week it drew down the entirety of its $300 million revolving credit facility and expects to end the year with just over $1 billion in liquidity.”As previously disclosed, the Company remains in active and constructive discussions with holders of its senior secured notes…
Marquee at the main entrance to BlackRock headquarters building in Manhattan.Erik Mcgregor | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSALT LAKE CITY — A year ago, Samara Cohen believed there was so much pent-up demand for bitcoin that she and her team at BlackRock launched one of the first-ever spot bitcoin exchange-traded products in the U.S. Now investors are flocking in, and a lot of them are crypto enthusiasts who are new to Wall Street.Cohen, who heads up the asset manager’s exchange-traded funds and index investments as chief investment officer, told CNBC that BlackRock now sees the demand was for a better way…
A few years ago when the NCAA started letting transfers play without sitting out, Tony Bennett polled his former stars who made it in the NBA.Bennett prided himself on developing players, but it was a process and some guys “had to fight for it.” Some redshirted. Most had to wait their turn, in some capacity.If you could transfer without sitting out when you were at Virginia, Bennett asked them, would you have stuck it out?“It’s funny,” Bennett told me two years ago, as the portal began to change recruiting and college basketball. “They said, to a man, without a doubt,…
