President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is scheduled to resume Friday afternoon, with senators aiming to vote on whether to include additional witnesses and documents. If Friday’s vote on new witnesses fails, the Senate could move forward with a final vote on whether to convict or acquit the president as early as Friday afternoon. The vote comes a day after House impeachment managers and Trump’s legal team fielded two days of queries from senators. House impeachment managers, a team led by Re

Veteran investor Mark Mobius said people should look at emerging market stocks as global equities sell off amid rising fears about the coronavirus. Mobius, the founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners and a longtime emerging markets investor, said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Friday that the impact of the outbreak on stocks will be “temporary.” The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, which tracks global stocks, also fell 2.02%. Despite believing global stocks will bounce back, Mobius said emerg

Azar: Coronavirus is a public health emergency in the USHealth and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar provides an update as part of President Trump’s coronavirus task force.

An investor watches the electronic board at a stock exchange hall in Hangzhou, China. China market opensThe Chinese stock market will open again on Monday after the Lunar New Year holiday. The major Chinese exchanges have been closed since Jan. 24. Iowa caucusesVoters will get their first say in the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday in Iowa’s caucuses. On the national level, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is virtually tied with former Vice President Joe Biden, according to the latest NBC News/WSJ p

An Aramco employee walks near an oil tank at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia. OPEC and its allies could meet soon to discuss deepening their production cuts, in an effort to stem the sharp decline in oil prices due to a demand scare from the coronavirus outbreak. Oil has plunged 21.4% from the early January high when Iran launched rockets at U.S. military bases in Iraq. “If you’re going to meet early, then you had to do something,” said Helima Croft, head

Scott OlsonAs stocks enter the month of February, worries about the coronavirus that slammed stocks in January could continue to be a big market catalyst in the week ahead. But the virus headlines could dominate, rattling stocks and continuing to drive investors into the safety of bonds. Stocks are limping into February after January’s disappointing losses, and analysts see more selling ahead as virus headlines rattle markets. Stovall said September and August are the worst and second weakest mo

President Donald speaks during summit on combating human trafficking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 31, 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration. The announcement comes as President Donald Trump tries to promote his administrat

By the time one was ready for human trials, the virus was pretty well contained. Fast trackU.S. health officials are fast-tracking work on a coronavirus vaccine, hoping to start human trials within the next three months. Understanding the pathogenBefore researchers can begin human trials, they must first have a firm understanding of the pathogen. “In the coronavirus — both the original SARS virus and Wuhan virus — it’s called the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein,” she said. If the ev

The departure on January 31 also marks the start of a “transition period” in which the U.K. remains a member of the single market and customs union and begins negotiations with the EU to strike a free-trade deal. During the transition period, the U.K. will not have voting rights on EU matters but will still be bound by EU rules. The U.K. will now remain a member of the EU’s single market but only during a “transition period” until the end of 2020. The single market seeks to guarantee the free mo

But while both the league and Facebook are focusing on growth in 2020, their targets are a bit different. Facebook has spent the last five years building its video platforms, which include Facebook Live and Facebook Watch — the video-on-demand service that emulates YouTube. The company receives the recaps roughly an hour after each NFL game, and will immediately post a recap after Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV, too. Facebook Groups has served the NFL well, as it allows fans from around the world to ga

Hulu announced on Friday that Randy Freer will step down as CEO of the company. In a press release on Friday, Hulu said that Disney plans to “more closely integrate Hulu” into its business operations and that Hulu’s executives would report to Disney’s direct-to-consumer and international executives. Last May, Disney took “full operational control” of the online streaming service, which was originally started as a joint venture including the company with NBCUniversal, News Corporation, and others

Ginni Rometty, President and CEO of IBM, speaking at the @Work event in New York City, on April 2, 2019. Cindy Ord | CNBCDuring Virginia “Ginni” Rometty’s eight years at the helm of IBM, the technology sector enjoyed a historic rally, taking on outsized sway over the broader economy and stock market. Internet companies, software vendors and chipmakers all rallied as demand soared for computing power and applications. Unfortunately for Rometty, IBM was the exception to the rule. IBM’s stock dropp

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on Friday ended its use of Workplace by Facebook, the company’s communications tool for companies. The organization disclosed its decision to stop using the enterprise Facebook tool in a press release on Tuesday, citing a lack of usage by CERN members and concerns about data privacy. “Many people preferred not to use a tool from a company that they did not trust in terms of data privacy,” CERN said in its release. CERN began using Workplace w

But with changes to the FICO credit scoring model expected to start taking effect in a few months, prospective buyers might wonder if they’ll qualify for those lower rates. FICO credit scores, along with some other factors, are used by most lenders to help determine a buyer’s mortgage interest rate. A higher score means a lower rate, which can save you thousands of dollars over the life of your home loan. “A lot of times your credit score has such a significant impact on your interest rate or fe

Fidelity Investments is the latest brokerage to let investors trade fractions of stocks and exchange traded funds on its online brokerage platform for free. In the past, investors needed at least the company’s share price to buy in, leaving many unable to invest in pricey companies like Google’s parent company Alphabet, which is currently over $1,400 per share. Fidelity now allows purchases of as little as .001 of one share, meaning if a stock’s price is $10, the minimum investment needed is one

Here are InternationLiving.com’s top five places to retire for the world’s best climate and how much it will cost you to live there. The estimated monthly cost for a couple living in cities like Lisbon and Porto in Portugal is around $2,207 a month, according to International Living. The estimated monthly cost for a couple ranges from $1,030 to $2,720 a month in Columbia. The estimated monthly cost for a couple living in cities like Cuenca is $1,770 a month. The estimated monthly cost for a coup

If quarterback Patrick Mahomes has one guilty pleasure, it may be shoes. He gave Bleacher Report a video tour of his favorite room in the $1.9 million 3,759-square-foot home he bought in 2019. The last thing was the shoe room,” said Mahomes, who lives with his girlfriend. The custom closet is outfitted with display lights, shelves to hold his sneakers and racks for his sunglasses. That’s mostly for his brother, he joked: “I know he’ll try to be in my shoe closet … I can look to make sure all my

U.S. and California health officials confirmed the seventh U.S. case of the coronavirus that has sickened about 10,000 people across the globe and killed at least 213. The Santa Clara Public Health Department said Friday that a man who lives outside San Francisco tested positive for the coronavirus. The patient contracted the virus in Wuhan, China, and has been isolated at home since, county officials said at a press conference. “We’ve been preparing for this possibility for weeks,” Santa Clara

WASHINGTON – A razor-thin majority of Senate Republicans on Friday voted against a Democratic proposal to admit additional witnesses and documents into President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Democrats had needed at least four GOP senators to vote with them, and they fell short of that threshold by two votes. Following the adjournment of the Senate on Friday, McConnell called a recess in the Senate, likely in order to continue ongoing negotiations between the White House, Senate Republicans

The Trump administration on Friday declared the coronavirus a public health emergency in the United States, and announced that certain foreign nationals deemed to pose a risk of transmitting the disease will temporarily be denied entry to the U.S. Some returning American citizens potentially at risk will be quarantined. Also starting Sunday, U.S. citizens returning from other parts of mainland China will also face screenings and two weeks of monitoring and self-quarantine. The risk to the Americ