Cruise ship ports in the U.S. may see some light at the end of the tunnel after more than a year without any departures because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines a path to resuming some U.S. cruises in July, though the evolving situation will continue
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are Lululemon Athletica Inc., Finisar Corp., and Target Corp. Lululemon Athletica LULU, +0.13%  is projected to report first-quarter earnings of 32 cents a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet. “We believe, given the stock’s performance
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Municipals improved Tuesday on the backs of a strong primary led by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s $788 million green bonds and gilt-edged Loudoun County, Virginia, and the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, which sold competitively with tight spreads. Triple-A municipal benchmark yield curves were bumped one to two basis points, lagging a four basis
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The Biden administration has renewed US calls for a fuller investigation into the origins of Covid-19, after a report last weekend bolstered the theory that the disease was released accidentally from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Andy Slavitt, one of the US president’s coronavirus advisers, on Tuesday said the investigation carried out
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Municipal bond issuers would be drawn into a widely-cast net of beefed-up tax enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service under legislation proposed Monday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. The Restoring the IRS Act of 2021 would triple the IRS annual budget to $31.5 billion and make its funding mandatory rather than part of the annual
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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson working onboard the International Space Station in August 2017. Jack Fischer / NASA Axiom Space on Tuesday announced that retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and auto racer John Shoffner will lead the company’s second private spaceflight to the International Space Station, tentatively scheduled for the second half of 2022. The pair
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