| | | Faith in the economy is reason to think this current stock market correction is unlikely to deepen into a full-blown bear market. That is the read of stock market strategists and other market watchers looking at past pullbacks of at least 10 percent on the S&P 500 and whether the benchmark index is likely to extend its decline to 20 percent, or bear market territory.
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| Chloe Kim blew away the competition to win the women’s snowboard halfpipe gold at Pyeongchang’s Phoenix Snow Park today, the American teenager finishing well clear of China’s Liu Jiayu and compatriot Arielle Gold.
However, not everyone was looking at the slopes; a normally obscure attraction is drawing curious crowds of visitors from the nearby Winter Olympics. South Korea’s port of Sinnam is home to Haesindang Park, better known as “Penis Park”, a monument to fertility, born from a legend about a virgin and fish. View more of our Winter Olympics coverage here. | | |
| U.S. President Donald Trump said he would push for a “reciprocal tax” against countries, including U.S. allies, that levy tariffs on American products, but officials did not provide details on how such a tax would be structured or what goods it would apply to. | | |
| Trump’s daughter-in-law Vanessa Trump was taken to a New York hospital yesterday after she opened a piece of mail containing an unidentified white powder that was later determined to be non-hazardous, officials said. | | |
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