NewsWatch: Google officially charged with antitrust by Justice Department

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The Justice Department formally charged Alphabet Inc.’s Google with antitrust violations Tuesday, the first major action against Big Tech for its staggering market power and values. See full story.

Thursday’s presidential debate looks like the last-chance saloon for Trump, analysts say

It’s the last-chance saloon for President Donald Trump if he wants to turn around the polling trends in the White House race, according to some political analysts. See full story.

Peter Schiff, who predicted stock-market meltdown, readying defamation suit after report says his firm linked to money-laundering probe

A Puerto Rico-based financial institution founded by Peter Schiff, the chief executive of Euro Pacific Capital, and a market pundit who often espouses what critics describe as a bearish outlook for the market, is being investigated for tax evasion and money laundering, a report conducted jointly with the New York Times and The Age alleges in a report published on Monday. See full story.

She said Tesla could hit $15,000 a share, and then billions of dollars came pouring in to her fund

Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management took issue with Catherine Wood for taking ARK Invest in a “trollingly bizarre direction” with a tweet “smashing value investors, innovation doubters and other nonbelievers over the head.” See full story.

‘I wish there were more and better protections’: Do you feel unsafe going to work because of COVID-19? Here are your options

One third of grocery-store workers say their employer hasn’t taken the proper steps to keep employees safe during the pandemic, according to one survey. See full story.

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‘Test results are too slow in most cases to support a successful strategy of contact tracing.’ See full story.