National security adviser John Bolton, a longtime critic of a landmark nuclear treaty with Russia, is expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin and other top officials in Moscow on Monday, according to U.S. and Russian officials, as tensions rise over what Washington calls the country’s violations of the pact. President Trump said after a → Read More

Stock markets in China picked up Monday right where they left off late Friday, with indexes up more than 4%. Shanghai SHCOMP, +4.17%   was higher by 4.1% midday Monday. The Shenzhen 399106, +4.96%   was 5.7% higher. That’s helped lift equities in not-as-beaten-up Hong Kong HSI, +2.40%   by at least 1.5%. The rebound → Read More

Stripe Chief Operating Officer Claire Hughes Johnson on Sunday took aim at the internet economy’s overreliance on advertising, saying that the consolidation of online power into a few hands has led to “unintended consequences.” During a keynote address at Money20/20, a financial-technology conference in Las Vegas, Johnson told the audience that if the internet economy → Read More

Voter interest in the midterm elections has surged to records within both parties, helping to drive up President Trump’s approval rating while maintaining the Democrats’ lead as the party most preferred to lead Congress, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found. The findings point to an energized electorate, buffeted by dynamics that bring great → Read More

‘A ragged, growing army of migrants resumes march toward U.S.’ That’s the headline on a story from the Associated Press about that caravan of migrants moving through Mexico on Sunday and heading toward the United States. One official definition of “army” is “a large number of people or things, typically formed or organized for a → Read More

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE ‘Planning on being lucky’ isn’t a viable retirement strategy. See full story. Elon Musk spars with Fortnite on Twitter after joking about buying the video game The Tesla CEO tweeted out a doctored screenshot of a MarketWatch story claiming he had deleted the video game. See full story. Canada’s pot party: Big → Read More

Corporate earnings over the past two weeks gave investors an injection of much-needed good cheer, with most of the roughly 20% of S&P 500 companies to report thus far bearing expectations. Yet these positive numbers may mask some troubling signs, analysts say. Some three-quarters of the 140 companies that have reported third-quarter earnings beat Wall → Read More

Heart patients should move around every 20 minutes during an eight-hour period of sitting, according to a paper presented on Saturday at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in Toronto, an event where visiting experts from the European Society of Cardiology participate in joint scientific sessions with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Heart patients spend most of their → Read More

When President Trump tweeted an ominous pre-midterms warning to would-be fraudulent voters late Saturday, critics were quick to note that voter fraud is statistically nonexistent in the United States; to recall that the president’s own voter-fraud commission, chaired by Vice President Mike Pence and led by controversial Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, had not → Read More

If I ever have trouble sleeping at night, I close my eyes and think of Clash, my dog who was named after the rock band. Giving him a home was the best decision my family ever made. He had the proud, handsome face of a Jack Russell with the wobbly behind of a Dachshund. He → Read More