A scene from Netflix’s miniseries “Chernobyl”. Source: Netflix We may be living in troubled times, but if you think that means that television shows with distressing subject matter would have trouble finding an audience, think again. Programming that traffics in gloom and doom, such as HBO’s “Chernobyl,” is resonating with large numbers of people, many
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The U.S. Commerce Department has banned five more Chinese entities from buying U.S. components after blacklisting telecom giant Huawei last month. Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit, Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology, Sugon and Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology are the five Chinese firms added to the department’s entity list, according to a filing. The department
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ABRA BELKE WAS IN LAW SCHOOL when she came across the Givling app, which calls itself “the world’s most incredible trivia game.” It promised winners payments toward their student debt. Belke was interested. Her student loan balance was more than $100,000 and she had previously won $62,000 on the syndicated game show, “Who Wants To
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Seven percent dividends. That’s what my 18 favorite stocks and funds yield on average in my “No Withdrawal” Retirement Portfolio. And it’s that very yield that gives the critically-acclaimed portfolio its name. Investors collect so much income every month that they don’t need to pull out their nest egg to make ends meet. The regular
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Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP Americans dreaming of a socialist America, but having no clear idea what it would look like, should talk to the Greeks. Greece has tried almost every socialist policy that is there to try, from minimum wage hikes to free education and free healthcare. And it has seen the consequences of these
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Total Plaza in downtown Houston is slated for a makeover affecting the tunnel, street and second floor lobby levels. Courtesy of Brookfield Properties With a third renovation project just announced for another of its downtown Houston properties, Brookfield Properties appears to be gunning for a win-place-show standing in 2020 with a series of updated energy-era
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The “Fast Money ” traders shared their first moves for the market open. Tim Seymour was a buyer of Alphabet. Jeff Mills was a buyer of the Emerging Markets ETF. Dan Nathan was a buyer of Cisco. Guy Adami was a buyer of Exxon Mobil.  Trader disclosure: Tim Seymour is long AMZN, AAPL, ACBFF, ACRGF, AMZA,
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