South Korean officials are investigating a Jeju air crash that killed 179 people. The final two days of the trading year will help to determine just how strong 2024 is for stocks. U.S. futures traded lower Monday following a losing session for the major averages on Friday. Entering the week, the Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks to the congregation at Maranatha Baptist Church before teaching Sunday school in his hometown of Plains, Georgia on April 28, 2019.
Carter, 94, has taught Sunday school at the church on a regular basis since leaving the White House in 1981.president, served one term after his election in 1976. A peanut farmer who became governor of Georgia before becoming president, Carter faced challenges including stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis during his time in the White House. He had a prolific life after the presidency, campaigning around the world for human rights and working to build homes for the needy. Stock markets typically close for a day of mourning after a president's death.of the country's airline system. Officials at South Korea's transport ministry also said they would carry out a 'comprehensive special inspection' of theSundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020.as the company prepares to face tougher competition and more regulatory skepticism around the world. His comments follow a year in which Google made strides to keep up in the AI race and officials in both the U.S. and Europe moved to tamp down what they called anticompetitive practices. Pichai acknowledged to employees that the company faces 'scrutiny,' which he said comes with Google's 'size and success.'of a law that would ban the video sharing app in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not sell the platform to an American company. The top U.S. court is hearing arguments about the law on Jan. 1