The FTSE 100 has clocked up its worst year since the 2008 financial crisis – underperforming against global rivals that have bounced back following a coronavirus sell-off earlier in the year. London’s leading share index closed at 6460.5 in a shortened closing session on New Year’s Eve, 14.3% down over the course of 2020. It
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A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000
With 2020 in the rearview, it is time to ring in the new year with a clean slate. For most of us, 2020 sucked… but the title track of Chris Stapleton’s new album is the perfect reminder to be present, and enjoy life the way it is. “Starting Over” tells us to make the most
CNN’s New Year’s Eve is off and rolling, and Tiger King fans can’t believe Carole Baskin made an appearance. Both she and Howard stopped by to chat with Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper. This year’s celebration looks quite a bit different as the giant gathering that usually populates Times Square is nowhere to be found.
This article contains spoilers for episode 3 of The Stand. After spending much of episodes 1 and 2 with important characters such as Stu Redman (James Marsden), Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague) and Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo), the new miniseries version of Stephen King’s The Stand brings in or fills out the
Exclusive Details Louis Gossett, Jr. can tell you how bad COVID is … he has it, was hospitalized for it, but left because it’s a s*** show inside. Sources connected to the Oscar-winning actor tell TMZ … the 84-year-old tested positive and was so sick he couldn’t even stand. He was taken to a Georgia-area
Wonder Woman 1984 has passed $100 million at the worldwide box office. There was a lot of handwringing about the fate of Patty Jenkins’ latest film, but things are progressing well for the DC Comics feature. Warner Media put out a statement congratulating the director and her star for their showing so far. Last seeking
It’s us or them. ‘Rise’ – by David Karlak Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About Rise: This is the dark conclusion that humans have reached in David Karlak’s short film “Rise.” In the near future, robots have developed advanced emotional sophistication and their human creators don’t like it. What should
He was nominated for a Grammy this evening, his first nomination, but plenty to follow. And as Pat Harvey explains, the young Mr. Hussle has his hand in many pies.
Two Republican members of the House of Representatives tell CNN that they expect at least 140 of their GOP colleagues in the House to vote against counting the electoral votes on January 6 when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. President Donald Trump’s Republican allies have virtually zero chance of changing the
Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky revealed he has tested positive for Covid-19. The diagnosis was shared via an Instagram post from his account on Tuesday. The news comes months after Pinsky, who is known as Dr. Drew, apologized for downplaying the virus when he suggested it was a “press-induced panic” and “less dangerous than influenza.” In
It’s 1943, World War II continues to rage across the Pacific, and on an airfield in Auckland, New Zealand, and RAF Flight Officer Maude Garrett (Chloë Grace Moretz) needs to get on a flight ASAP. The Women’s Auxiliary Air Force pilot is carrying a package with her that contains something filed under “strictly classified,” and
World-renowned music publicist Howard Bloom has just published his seventh, and possibly his most surprising book, Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll (Rowman & Littlefield), a book that has leaped to number one on Amazon’s chart of best-selling music business books. Howard Bloom has
Southern California beaches, the hundreds of miles of coastline that are one of the defining characteristics of the Golden State, weren’t just a place in 2020 to take a dip into the cool ocean or lay out a towel and relax on the warm sand. In 2020, the coastline became a reflection of how Southern
A convicted murderer, considered by the FBI to be the most prolific serial killer in US history, has died at a hospital in California. Samuel Little, who had been serving three consecutive life sentences for the killing of three women in Los Angeles County during the 1980s, ultimately confessed to strangling 93 people. The state
The education secretary has told Sky News he is “absolutely confident” that secondary schools will be able to carry out mass testing with an extra week to prepare. Defending the decision to push back the return of pupils to secondary schools and colleges, Gavin Williamson told Sky News the move was about “rooting out coronavirus
Microsoft Surface Duo just got an update that brings bugs fixes and app optimisations as well as improvements, as spotted in an update on Google Play. The Microsoft Launcher update is now rolling out for Android users and brings along improvements such as opening the feed page in landscape and concurrently with another app, screen
Tesco, Pizza Hut and Superdrug are among 139 companies that have been named and shamed by the government for failing to pay the minimum wage. The employers short-changed more than 95,000 workers by a total of £6.7m during the period investigated between 2016 and 2018, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said.
42-year-old Jose Luis Garcia of Dallas, Texas, has been arrested on murder charges in the violent 1996 Gladys Arellano, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reported Wednesday.
Here’s our rundown of the 10 storylines set to dominate the international film business in 2021. Covid, of course What a difference a year makes. The pandemic that pretty much no one foresaw has re-shaped the entire world, including the entertainment business. 2021 will give us a better idea of which aspects of that re-shaping