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No Sleeping In for Stock Jocks Awaiting Good Friday Jobs Report

Yousef Abbasi will be checking his phone on Good Friday morning, thanks to the U.S. government and phases of the moon. Technically, he has the day off, with U.S. stock exchanges shut for the holiday. But the Bond trading will close at noon, while ...

Clock Full of Insects

Time has been so important to humans that we have been keeping track of it in some way for thousands of years. The earliest approach to chronicling time was probably related to obvious cycles in nature such as day and night, the phases of the moon and ...

Men's Watch-Buying Guide

Fifty years later, this technology found its way from wall-hanging clocks to wrists, and Switzerland's watchmaking industry, being slow to adapt, was decimated. In the 1980s, the Quartz Crisis Watch functions fall into two distinct categories ...

Daylight-Saving Time Is Bad for Your Relationships

“On the Sunday-Monday night after the spring time change, our bodies have not yet adapted to the new clock cycle,” Dr. Wagner says. “We have a hard time getting to sleep and a hard time getting up earlier.” We fight more with our partner on the day ...

See All the Winners of the 2015 Grammys

The 57th Annual Grammy Awards kicked off at 8 p.m. ET, but some awards for the pre-telecast program were already announced this afternoon: Beyonce took home an early award for Best Surround Sound Album, while Kendrick Lamar racked up two for Best ...

West Races to Defuse Ukraine Crisis

“We are at a key turning point” in the Ukraine crisis, the official said. “The next phase will be much better or potentially much worse.” —Laurence Norman and Gregory L. White contributed to this article. Write to Anton Troianovski at anton ...

Reviving the South Bronx Waterfront

One of the first things about the South Bronx's Mott Haven neighborhood that grabbed Keith Rubenstein was the waterfront and its views of Manhattan. As the real-estate developer explored the area more, he found an artistic crowd, a host of new ...