The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) has surged 49 percent in 2017 to its highest level in more than two years, but some say the move isn’t over just yet. Erin Gibbs, a portfolio manager with S&P Global, points out that “the average stock in the XBI is trading at …

David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore presents at the Build developers conference in San Francisco in 2014. Microsoft is no longer developing new hardware or features for Windows 10 Mobile, the smartphone version of its flagship operating system, effectively killing off its presence in …

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images Thousands of demonstrators gather during a Pro-Unity march in response to last Sundays disputed referendum on Catalan independence and to support the unity of Spain on October 8, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. The potential constitutional crisis facing Madrid has not gone away and could reach a decisive …

The economics prize was established in 1968 in memory of Alfred Nobel and is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mainstream economics for much of the 20th century was based on the simplifying assumption that people behaved rationally. Economists understood that this was not literally true, but they …

Getty Images A bump stock device, (left) that fits on a semi-automatic rifle to increase the firing speed, making it similar to a fully automatic rifle, is installed on a AK-47 semi-automatic rifle, (right) at a gun store on October 5, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The powerful U.S. …

Monica Schipper | Stringer | Getty Images Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the 2017 Stephan Weiss Apple Awards on June 7, 2017 in New York City. Britons who supported Brexit in last year’s referendum on European Union (EU) membership “voted against modern Britain,” Hillary Clinton said in an interview published …

It’s especially tricky for Claire to settle her debts with Brianna. Here, we feel the narrative stress of leapfrogging through time: We’ve seen a bitter Claire and heard Brianna talk about her distant mother, but we only met Brianna when she and Claire were already on the verge of parting, …

Operation Dagger Operation Dagger’s famed ‘Egg’ cocktail, which blends salted egg yolk, rum, vanilla and caramel “The idea of closed loop for me is an ingredient that doesn’t just have a beginning and an end,” said head bartender and owner Luke Whearty, who previously ran a bar in Cape Town …

Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wolfgang Schaeuble, Germany’s finance minister, arrives for a meeting of European finance ministers in Luxembourg on Thursday, June 15, 2017. Unstable loans and escalating levels of global debt could plunge the world into another financial crisis, departing German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told …

Photo A scene from “The Islands and the Whales.” Credit Mike Day “The Islands and the Whales” examines the debate around a controversial, centuries-old tradition. And “Valor” is the latest military drama to hit the small screen this fall. What’s on TV POV: THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES (2017) 10 …