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America is more divided than ever, but there is one bipartisan issue the majority of people seem to support — paid family leave. The U.S. is the only developed nation in the world that does not offer parents some kind of paid family leave. Some 84% of voters would like to see that change, according…

U.S. stocks on Thursday aimed to extend a win streak to a third day, as Wall Street looked to kick off November where it ended one of its most withering Octobers in years: on a high note. Closely followed quarterly results after the close of regular trade from Apple Inc., the world’s largest publicly traded…

Major digital currency prices cannot buck the recent trend, trading mostly unchanged. In Thursday trading one bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.00%  was fetching $6,321.71, unchanged since Wednesday 5 p.m. Eastern Time on the Kraken crypto exchange. The lull has analysts turning to stocks to cure their craving for volatility. “The average true trading range of bitcoin has…

Getty Images The U.S. dollar, measured by the ICE U.S. Dollar Index, came off the four-month high it touched Wednesday as a surging pound and euro did their part to knock the index lower. October had been the dollar gauge’s DXY, -0.65%   best month since May, when its strength led to a sell-off across…

The U.K.’s main stock index struggled for gains Thursday, as banks got a boost from reports of a potential Brexit-related breakthrough, but so did the pound, which worked against the FTSE 100’s exporters. How markets are performing The FTSE 100 UKX, +0.11% traded flat at 7,129.36, from Wednesday’s gain of 1.3%. For the month of…

Gold prices snapped back Thursday from the nearly three-week low touched a day earlier as a leading dollar index retreated sharply. Stocks indicators, meanwhile, pointed to the S&P 500’s SPX, +1.09%   attempt at a first three-day win streak in six weeks, a development that was partly limiting gold’s upside. Gold for December delivery GCZ8,…

The finances of Americans may not be as good as they look from the outside. Despite optimistic metrics like a soaring, if volatile, stock market, low unemployment levels, and consumer confidence levels nearing record highs, millions of Americans continue to struggle, a study released Thursday from financial consultancy nonprofit the Center for Financial Services Innovation…

Oil futures remained under pressure Thursday as the new month got under way, building on an October rout that left crude with its biggest monthly decline in more than two years. West Texas Intermediate crude for December delivery CLZ8, -0.57%  on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 35 cents, or 0.5%, to $64.96 a barrel.…

As stock markets tumble around the world, here’s something your money guy may not have told you. No, stocks may not produce the best long term returns anyway. That distinction may go instead to real estate investment trusts, or REITS. No kidding. Real estate investments overall have beaten stocks by more than a full percentage…

Michael Hayes, 60, an architect, and Jamie Brickhouse, 50, a writer, performer and owner of a speaking bureau, met in 1990. Jamie had been in New York for just six weeks. They’ve lived in a co-op in Chelsea since 2004. They spend their summers on Fire Island, N.Y. Brickhouse is the author of “Dangerous When…