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Consider it a wake-up call. Stock-market investors shouldn’t panic, but intensifying U.S.-Iran tensions bring home the potential for geopolitical turmoil to make for bumpier price action. See full story.
Rockets fired at Baghdad’s Green Zone and a U.S. air base Saturday after funeral march for Iranian general
Several rockets hit the Green Zone, a heavily fortified area in Baghdad that hosts the U.S. embassy and other diplomatic missions, on Saturday after thousands of people marched in a funeral procession through Iraq’s capital for Major General Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader killed in a U.S. airstrike on Friday. See full story.
The No. 1 ‘best’ diet for 2020, according to a panel of 25 health professionals
A panel of ‘nationally recognized’ experts in diet, nutrition, obesity, food psychology, diabetes and heart disease spent months deciding on the most and least effective diets, based on seven criteria. See full story.
3 trends that could change your retirement plans in 2020
Retirement isn’t what it used to be, financial advisers caution, and it’s still changing See full story.
This contrarian stock play is leading to big gains, and the party isn’t close to being over
David Marcus of Evermore Global Advisors explains the marine-shipping industry’s transition. See full story.
MARKETWATCH PERSONAL FINANCE
The study was published by scientists at the University of Exeter and presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2019 in Los Angeles. See full story.
