There is an epic fight between the two major types of investors, which may determine whether the bull market can go on. Raymond James explained how value investors, who strictly study fundamentals, and technical analysts, who only look at charts, see the world differently right now. Market “battle lines are …

Capturing the idiomatic contours of an adolescent voice, in a serious novel, is notoriously difficult business. When an author gets it right, as did Mark Twain in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Margaret Atwood in sections of “Cat’s Eye” or Mark Haddon in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the …

Munshi Ahmed | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee inspects a coil of copper rod at the Luvata Malaysia Bhd. plant in Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia. Copper prices zoomed 1.7 percent higher on Monday to reach levels not seen in nearly three years as investors bet on further global economic …

Photo Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic in June. He has increasingly criticized the rulers of his native Venezuela and the government has canceled Mr. Dudamel’s United States tour with the National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times After struggling to remain above …

David A. Grogan | CNBC A 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Series 1 Cabriolet, was estimated to sell between $5 million and $7 million. Pictured here on display at the 2017 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Aug. 16, 2017. The big star of the weekend, however, was the McQueen Porsche auctioned …

Jim Young | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker operates a forklift to move parts used to assembled car seats at the Lear Corp. manufacturing facility in Hammond, Indiana. U.S. workers see little hope for higher paychecks, and while they are increasingly searching for new jobs, they expect fewer offers …

PASCAL GUYOT | AFP | Getty Images Police officers stand guard on the Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona on August 19, 2017, two days after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing 13 persons and injuring over 100. The main suspect in the Barcelona van attack that killed 13 people …

Photo Denzel Washington is to return to Broadway in the spring. Credit Kevin Winter/Getty Images Denzel Washington will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh.” Mr. Washington will play the lead role of Theodore Hickman, a.k.a. Hickey, a charming traveling salesman, in this …

Maurizio Gambarini | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel attends a press conference in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany on July 05, 2017. German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized her predecessor, Gerhard Schroeder, on Monday for taking a new job at Russian oil producer Rosneft and said …

BERTRAND LANGLOIS | AFP | Getty Images French forensic police officers gesture to pedestrians as they take images while searching a vehicle following a car crash in the southern Mediterranean city of Marseille on August 21, 2017. At least one person has died in Marseille after a car crashed into …