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Well, it’s official: The Nasdaq Composite has entered bear territory. A bear market occurs when a major index drops over 20% from recent highs, and that’s precisely what has happened with the Nasdaq Composite, which is down around 24% from its Dec. 16 high. The index was already having a rough 2025, but it was sent plunging after President Donald Trump announced his new tariff plan on April 2. The new tariffs, which affect imports from around 180 countries, will raise costs on lots of goods, including key products from countries that top companies in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rely…

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Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/08/2025 – 2:49pm Humboldt High School junior Kate Sievers, involved in many school activities, will become a little bit busier as she joins the Humboldt Independent Newspaper as a freelance writer. Sievers will focus mostly on covering Wildcat sports and academic activities but will expand into news, features and special projects as needed. Sievers, the daughter of David and Ginger Sievers of Humboldt, is active in basketball, track, cross country and individual and large group speech. She is also president of the Best Buddies organization at the school, a member of the National Honor Society…

The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF (VOOG -1.62%) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the performance of the S&P 500 Growth index. The Growth index holds 208 of the best-performing growth stocks from the regular S&P 500 index, assigning much higher weightings to tech powerhouses like Nvidia. The Vanguard S&P 500 Growth ETF soared by 35.8% in 2024, crushing the 25% gain in the S&P 500. It marked the continuation of a long-term trend, because the ETF has averaged a higher return than the S&P 500 since it launched in 2010. With that said, the stock market is in…

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Freelance hiring is up by 260%getty Within the past two years, U.S. businesses have ramped up their freelance hiring by a whopping 260% between 2022 and 2024, according to a Mellow report. It’s been estimated that in another two years, by the year 2027, freelancers will dominate the U.S. workforce by an overwhelming 50.9%, making up more than half of the labor market. The U.S. leads the way in online freelancing, holding 28% of the global online freelance market, a new analysis from JobLeads revealed after combing through data from the Online Labor Observatory and the World Bank Group. After…

Some Alabamians may have until May 1 to file both state and federal taxes, according to a release from the Alabama Department of Revenue (ALDOR).The state is offering tax filing and penalty relief, on a case-by-case basis, to taxpayers who reside or have a business in federally declared disaster areas who may be unable to file timely tax returns as a result of damage or disruptions caused by Hurricane Helene, according to its website.The release added that taxpayers in areas not specifically designated as disaster areas “who encounter difficulty filing on time due to weather-related circumstances associated with Hurricane Helene”…

This Watches and Wonder 2025, Raymond Weil unveiled the Freelancer Skeleton (ref. 2795-BKC-20000) with the kind of fanfare you’d expect from someone announcing a new show on a streaming service… but forgetting to upload the trailer. It’s a sleek, openworked spin on the brand’s modern-meets-classic Freelancer line — and while there’s plenty to like here, it ended up in the shadow of its flashier sibling, the Freelancer Complete Calendar, which got all the attention (and all the applause). But get this: for a limited edition release, the brand gave us one single press image of the Raymond Weil Freelancer Skeleton.…

Cboe BZX Exchange has asked United States regulators for clearance to list an exchange-traded fund (ETF) backed by Sui (SUI), the native token of the Sui Network, public filings show. The request submitted on April 8 must be reviewed and approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) before the exchange can list any shares of the fund.If approved, the ETF — issued by asset manager Canary Capital — would be the first in the country to hold SUI. The token has a market capitalization of roughly $6.5 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.Sui is a blockchain network designed to provide users…

Photos by Ariel Adams Sometimes, it’s not the big flashy pieces that capture your eye. There’s plenty of that at Watches and Wonders, with high-end brands introducing super-limited watches that no one will ever see in real life except for the five diehard collectors to whom they were pre-sold. Even among other brands that don’t officially limit their production, it can be impossible for the lay consumer to see some of these watches in person. So, when a watch just seems right, well done, and actually accessible, it alway strikes a chord. And Raymond Weil struck that chord perfectly this…