For the study researchers analyzed sleep data from the National Health Interview Survey, which included 158,468 employed people over age 17. They found that the number of people getting less than six hours of sleep each night (aka, “short sleep”) rose about 5% between 2010 and 2018. “[It] is disconcerting because many of these occupations are related to population health, well-being and safety services,” the researchers wrote. On the flip side, when you’re sleep deprived, you take longer to comp

The S&P 500 climbed 0.56% to end the day at 3,039.42. The S&P 500 broke above 3,027.98 on Monday, breaching a record high set July 26. This comes after U.S. and Chinese officials said they were ” ” some parts of a trade agreement. The move to an S&P 500 record follows several attempts by the index to breach its previous all-time high. Several chart analysts think this move sets up the S&P 500 for further gains, but the market faces several hurdles including a Federal Reserve meeting later this w

Testimony from Boeing CEO Muilenburg has been releasedCNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s opening statement that was released ahead of his testimony on Capitol Hill.

Virgin Galactic starts trading with a bang—Five experts on investing in space4 Hours AgoVirgin Galactic started trading at the NYSE. Here’s five experts on how investors can trade the space industry.

Alphabet earnings reactionGoogle’s parent company Alphabet reported mixed third-quarter earnings after the bell on Monday. Alphabet is coming off of a stellar earnings report in July, when it beat the Street and had its best day in four years. Better-than-expected earnings this quarter, among other things, rallied the S&P 500 to a record high on Monday. But investors will be watching for fourth quarter earnings forecasts, as 60% of the companies that have reported so far have lowered their Q4 es

The alternative plant-based meat company raised its revenue guidance from at least $240 million to between $265 million and $275 million. GrubHub’s third-quarter revenue came in at $322 million, falling short of the $330.5 million analysts had forecast. Though its third-quarter revenue increased by 30%, the company’s daily average grubs, or orders placed by customers, only increased by 10%. Alphabet shares dropped nearly 4% after the Google parent company reported mixed third-quarter earnings. S

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin represent the top two space tourism companies in the industry, with rocket-powered vehicles that will send passengers to the edge of space on zero gravity joyrides. He took a 49% stake in Virgin Galactic, resulting in the company’s debut Monday on public markets. While Virgin Galactic isn’t Palihapitiya’s first space investment, he has high expectations for the space tourism venture’s earnings in the years ahead. With the merger closed, and fresh capital injected

The U.S. telecommunications regulator also plans to propose requiring U.S. rural carriers to remove and replace equipment from designated companies. This is the latest in a series of actions by the U.S. government aimed at barring U.S. companies from purchasing Huawei and ZTE equipment. Huawei and ZTE would have 30 days to contest the FCC’s national security risk designation, the officials said. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai first proposed in March 2018 barring companies that posed a national security r

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (C) gestures as he chats with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (R) as U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) looks on after posing for a “family photo” at the Xijiao Conference Centre in Shanghai on July 31, 2019. The U.S. will consider extending certain tariff exclusions on $34 billion of imports from China as the two nations work toward a trade agreement, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday. Nearly 1,000 products were exempted from

Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at Downing Street on October 28, 2019 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLawmakers in the U.K. have rejected the government’s request to hold a general election on Dec. 12. Johnson said the government will try again with a new route for a Dec. 12 election in a vote on Tuesday, saying it was time to “get Brexit done.” Since 2017, the Conservative Party has needed the votes of Northern Ireland’s DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) party

Closer to home, the EU granted the U.K. a three-month Brexit extension , and corporate earnings remained on traders’ radars. European stocks closed higher on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects to sign a portion of a trade deal with China ahead of schedule. The pan-European Stoxx 600 ended the session 0.3% higher, with trade-sensitive automotive stocks rising 1.9% to lead gains, while banks slipped 0.4% following disappointing earnings from HSBC. His comments raised hopes th

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters during her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 17, 2019 in Washington, DC. House Democrats will hold a vote to push forward with the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Monday. Less than two weeks earlier, Pelosi had brushed off the calls from Republicans to hold a vote that formally authorized the impeachment probe. Republicans have complained that Democratic leaders — es

Google parent company Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that missed earnings per share expectations but was otherwise in line with what investors expected. $40.5 billion vs. $40.32 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimates. Traffic acquisition costs: $7.49 billion vs. $7.48 billion, according to FactSet. $7.49 billion vs. $7.48 billion, according to FactSet. Google Cloud currently stands in a distant third as it competes against stronger cloud market leaders Amazon and Microsoft

Steam is now asking players who have reviewed games to revisit their reviews if they’ve put more time into the game since their original review. It doesn’t appear that Steam is picking players based on whether their initial reviews were good or bad. Another reddit user says they got this prompt after playing a lot of Hitman 2. Players aren’t forced to change their reviews, but a nice reminder that your thoughts might have changed since first playing the game is sweet. Polygon has reached out to

One hundred million people play PUBG Mobile each month, according to publisher Tencent Games. The free-to-play mobile game was released in February 2018, and it’s had a consistent player base since. Tencent has been working on improvements to its cheating detection system, banning thousands of cheating players each day. The PUBG Mobile security team published an outline of its security protocol on its official blog, outlining it catches cheaters. But Tencent is hesitant to issue IP bans for fear

Just days after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, some consumers are expressing anger at how Russian soldiers are depicted in that game. It’s ridiculous — but he’s almost robotic.”Another scene raising eyebrows among commenters is from the second act of Modern Warfare, a level called Highway of Death. Players are told that the Highway of Death is the result of a devastating Russian attack that happened decades ago, where Russian forces massacred everyone fleeing from a town under sieg

Or, you can buy it from one of the many online stores selling unofficial Fortnite goods — at least until developer Epic Games shuts them down. Epic filed a lawsuit in an Illinois court against a group of “unincorporated associations” that are allegedly creating online storefronts to sell unlicensed and counterfeit Fortnite merchandise. The bootleg storefronts are designed to look authentic, like they’re selling merch from Epic, according to the lawsuit. Specifically, Epic said the counterfeiters

But in the school’s 2018-2019 financial report , Harvard stressed that the endowment does not give the school full financial freedom. Harvard’s endowment is made up of more than 13,000 individual funds invested as a single entity and is overseen by the Harvard Management Company. Last year, the school borrowed $1.9 billion from the endowment to cover some of the school’s operating costs. Additionally, many schools — including Harvard — see their endowments as a way to assure that they will remai

Facebook removes false ad that claims Sen. Graham supports Green New Deal3 Hours AgoFacebook removed an ad from its site over the weekend that falsely stated that Sen. Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal. A Facebook spokesman said that since the ad came from a political action group rather than a politician, it was eligible for review by the company’s third-party fact-checkers. Ed Lee, corporate media reporter for the New York Times, and Joanne Lipman, distinguished journalism fellow at

Bank of America initiated the online media streaming company and said it had “superior” brand recognition. “We view the stock as attractive for the following reasons: 1) The negative impact of new offerings from competitors is overestimated, in our view; 2) Strong platform rev growth should continue as advertisers shift ad budgets towards OTT; 3) Roku should continue to benefit from increasing consumer demand for affordable smart TVs, enabled by the Roku TV OS; 4) Roku continues to compete effec