New stock exchange trying to thwart high-speed traders and offer better prices is apparently working

Last year, a new stock exchange called IEX, or The Investors Exchange, emerged to challenge traditional Wall Street as the champion of the ordinary investor. New analysis says its core mission has been successful so far. In an opinion column in The New York Times on...

In Amelia Earhart’s Hometown, Mystique Has Its Benefits

By MITCH SMITH July 18, 2017 ATCHISON, Kan. — In eight decades since Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated flight around the globe, residents of her Kansas hometown have grown used to renowned historians and armchair researchers claiming to have finally...

Financial markets are giving up on the Trump Trade after health bill ‘big failure’

The Senate’s failure to replace Obamacare raises new worries for markets that Washington dysfunction will prevent the Trump administration from driving through other aspects of its agenda — most importantly tax reform. The dollar fell and Treasury yields...

Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101

Frances Gabe, Creator of the Only Self-Cleaning Home, Dies at 101 By MARGALIT FOX July 18, 2017 Frances Gabe put the kitchen of her self-cleaning house through its paces in 2002. By MARGALIT FOX July 18, 2017 For decades, Frances Gabe did not clean...

‘Plan C’ on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed

By THOMAS KAPLAN July 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama’s health...