Oil futures rose Monday, with traders shaking off another round of lackluster data from China to focus on upcoming decisions by global central banks during a week that’s likely to lead to “amplified” volatility. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Emily Bary | 9/16/2024 10:36 AM
A prominent Apple analyst says iPhone 16 Pro preorders were lower in the first weekend relative to last year’s iPhone 15 Pro performance. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Emily Bary | 9/16/2024 10:34 AM
With few big sector-specific catalysts on the horizon, one analyst thinks the direction of semiconductor and other technology stocks will be determined by the Fed’s next move and macro data. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Ciara Linnane | 9/16/2024 8:55 AM
Activist shareholder and billionaire Carl Icahn was taking somewhat of a victory lap Monday, after a judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against his company, finding it did not make material misrepresentations or omissions as alleged in a report by short seller Hindenburg Research. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Tomi Kilgore | 9/16/2024 8:53 AM
Zillow’s stock rallied toward a more than two-year high Monday, as falling mortgage rates and rental revenue strength prompted Wedbush analyst Jay McCanless to turn bullish on the provider of real estate information and brokerage services. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | James Rogers | 9/16/2024 8:50 AM
Manchester United Ltd., which reported fourth-quarter results last week, is well positioned for growth, says analyst firm Jefferies. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Greg Robb | 9/16/2024 8:30 AM
The New York Federal Reserve’s Empire State business conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in the state, jumped 16.2 points in September to 11.5, the regional Fed bank said Monday. That’s the first positive reading since last November. ... Read full Story
By MarketWatch.com | Ciara Linnane | 9/16/2024 8:03 AM
Eye-care company is working with Goldman Sachs on a deal that would extricate it from its indebted parent, the Financial Times reported. ... Read full Story
"Like clouds, the shapes of our galaxy’s glittery nebulae are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. They can look like all sorts of animals: tarantulas, crabs, a running chicken, and now, a cosmic koi swimming through space." — Laura Baisas, PopSci.com, 13 June 2024
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The history of nebula belongs not to the mists of time but to the mists of Latin: in that language nebula means "mist" or "cloud." In its earliest English uses in the 1600s, nebula was chiefly a medical term that could refer either to a cloudy formation in urine or to a cloudy speck or film on the eye. Nebula was first applied to great interstellar clouds of gas and dust in the early 1700s. The adjective nebulous comes from the same Latin root as nebula, and it is considerably older, being first used as a synonym of cloudy or foggy as early as the 1300s. Like nebula, this adjective was not used in an astronomical sense until centuries later.