The natural gas that lights popular gas stoves for both home and professional cooks contains low concentrations of several pollutants and chemicals linked to cancer, a new study has found. The study, by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and published this week in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the latest…
This year’s stock price declines to make an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts considerably. There are different approaches to selecting dividend stocks. For example, John Kornitzer, who co-manages the Buffalo Flexible Income…
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Of course summer is “hot” at times for much of the US But a steady tick higher in average temperatures over recent decades will push Americans to rethink how to keep summer heat tolerable, fun and above all, safe. Humans, with our driving RB00, + 0.05%, flying, cooking and more, have increased the amount of…
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will be challenged to get inflation down to 2% and keep it there. For the decade between the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID pandemic, inflation averaged less than the Fed’s target, but all the stars were aligned. That is hardly likely to happen again. Coming out of a severe…
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Talk of a potential deal that would let other OPEC + producers make up the crude supply gap left by Russia has put a lid on oil prices, but it would take much more to bring them down, analysts said. “Exempting Russia from the OPEC + output deal and allowing other producers such as Saudi…
