The most productive stocks appear to be doing more than their fair share this year. According to Barclays U.S. equity strategist Keith Parker, just 10 stocks — predominantly technology names — have accounted for 41 percent of the S&P 500’s 8 percent return so far this year. This contribution from …

Lucas Jackson | Reuters Snap cofounders Evan Spiegel (C) and Bobby Murphy ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with NYSE Group President Thomas Farley shortly before the company’s IPO in New York, U.S., March 2, 2017. Shares of Snap snapped back to life on Monday …

Pierre Suu | Getty Images The car that smashed a police van is seen at Avenue Des Champs Elysees on June 19, 2017 in Paris, France. “It appears to have been a deliberate act on the part of the individual,” said Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet. Brandet told reporters the …

Getty Images White House Director of Strategic Initiatives Chris Liddell (L) talks with White House Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn before a meeting with small business people in the Roosevelt Room at the White House January 30, 2017 in Washington, DC. “We are really going to try …

Getty Images Incoming Energy Secretary Rick Perry (R) gives a double thumbs up during the Inaugural Parade for U.S. President Donald J. Trump January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. The EPA’s webpage on the causes of climate change used to state, “Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is …

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees place labels on prybars at the Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Co. facility in Bushnell, Illinois. U.S. inflation is a bit low but should rise alongside wages as the labor market continues to improve, allowing the Federal Reserve to continue gradually tightening U.S. …

Jason Alden | Bloomberg | Getty Images George Soros, billionaire and founder of Soros Fund Management LLC Brexit negotiators from Britain and the EU began formal talks on the U.K.’s exit from the bloc on Monday, however, billionaire financier George Soros predicted that if all goes well, both parties could …

Goran Tomasevic | Reuters A Kurdish fighter from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) looks at a smoke after an coalition airstrike in Raqqa, Syria June 16, 2017. Russia’s defense ministry says it will treat U.S.-led coalition planes in Syria, west of the Euphrates River, as targets after the U.S. military …

Getty Images (L to R) Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon, Larry Page, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. (parent company of Google), Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, Vice President-elect Mike Pence listen as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of technology executives at Trump Tower, …

For those who’ve been growing impatient with all the long sequences involving Agent Cooper’s addled alter-ego “Dougie Jones,” this episode had to come as something of a relief. It only has two relatively short Dougie scenes: one where the police drop by his office (at the same time Janey-E is …