U.S. stocks ended sharply lower Friday as investors parsed mixed signals from the February jobs report amid ongoing concerns about contagion in the banking sector from the troubles at Silicon Valley Bank.

The author of two books on being child free talks about how she fills her life with younger and older friendships, passions, and goals.

Whether you’re wagering on March Madness from your couch or flying to Las Vegas for a weekend at the tables, you’ll have to pay taxes on your winnings.

‘I quit my job in 2014 in order to take care of my elderly parents so they could live out their lives in their own home.’

Shares in European banks slumped on Friday on worries over their health after a series of interest-rate hikes around the world.

The country’s gross domestic product expanded 0.3% in the first month of 2023 compared with the prior one, from a 0.5% fall in December, meeting economists’ expectations.

Consumer prices rose 8.7% in February compared with the same month a year earlier measured by national standards, data from the German Federal Statistics Office Destatis showed Friday.

The German trucks and buses manufacturer XE:DTG reported adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of 1.03 billion euros ($1.09 billion) for the fourth quarter of 2022, up from EUR594 million the previous year.

Prior to the BOJ policy announcement on Friday, Japanese financial stocks were already down, after U.S. bank stocks fell sharply overnight.

The Swiss pharmaceutical company said Friday that the oncologic drugs advisory committee had voted 11 to two in favor of Polivy in combination with Rituxan plus cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone to treat the disease, though the move isn’t binding.