It was smiles all around as the familiar Wall Street ritual—the ringing of the closing bell—played out again at the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 10.
The US Department of Commerce on Tuesday unveiled a plan to provide $50 billion to the domestic semiconductor industry and countering China, in what is billed as the largest government bailout to the industry in decades, media reported.
An August report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that the average life expectancy in the United States dropped 0.9 years in 2021.
A large majority of Americans – nearly 60% -- say Joe Biden's recent primetime speech in which he angrily lashed out at Republicans and conservatives, claiming they are "an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," was "designed to incite conflict."