Optimism in the air. The S&P 500 is up 4% so far this year, and the Q4 earnings results – we’re about halfway through the reporting season – have been better than expected. The conventional wisdom, and hints from the Federal Reserve, say that interest rates will start coming down later this year, and there’s a growing belief that the economy may have dodged the recession bullet. In his recent market strategy note, Oppenheimer’s chief investment strategist John Stoltzfus describes the current moo
Kashmir Hill feels she spends too much time on her phone. That's why for a month in December, she traded her state-of-the-art iPhone 15 for an old-school flip phone.
New data shows those who spent 10 hours or less using the internet reported better mental health than those Canadians who spent 20 or more hours online.
"We're looking at some of the more subjective aspects of it, how it's influencing their life, and kind of less about the usage itself in terms of screen time," he said.