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Dollar gains as investors bet on strong US recovery NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar advanced against major currencies on Tuesday, climbing to a one-year high versus the yen, as increasing U.S. vaccinations and a major stimulus package backed expectations of a strong recovery from the pandemic, lifting ...
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Free Markets And ESG Investing Won't Fix The Climate Crisis, Says Former Blackrock Sustainability Chief Tariq Fancy spent nearly two years as the first global chief investment officer for sustainable investing at $8 trillion investment management giant BlackRock. Fancy left the New York-based financial services conglomerate in September 2019, going on to found ...
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Consumer Confidence Soared in March Perhaps the only fly in the ointment is the specter of inflation, although Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said that there is enough slack in the labor market at the moment to limit inflation. Friday will bring the monthly jobs report for March from the ...
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Google starts trialing its FLoC cookie alternative in Chrome Instead of a personally identifiable cookie, FLoC runs locally and analyzes your browsing behavior to group you into a cohort of like-minded people with similar interests (and doesn't share your browsing history with Google).
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Banks May Take a $10 Billion Hit on Archegos. What That Could Mean for the Stocks. Analysts at J.P. Morgan Securities said in a note Tuesday that they expected that banks collectively would face trading losses in the range of $5 billion to $10 billion, as result of Archegos being "highly leveraged" at an estimated five to eight times holdings.
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Germany suspends use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in people under 60 after new reports of blood clots BERLIN — German health officials agreed Tuesday to restrict the use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in people under 60, amid fresh concern over unusual blood clots reported in a tiny number of those who received the shots. Health Minister Jens ...
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How much is car insurance in New Jersey? The average cost of car insurance in New Jersey is $1,757 a year for full coverage and $847 for minimum coverage. Although it may seem like a significant cost to factor into your financial goals, New Jersey is a state in which adequate coverage is highly ...
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'Lighting a Fuse': Amazon Vote May Spark More Union Pushes By JOSEPH PISANI and BILL BARROW, The Associated Press. What happens inside a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, could have major implications not just for the country's second-largest employer but the labor movement at large. Organizers are ...
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Virgin Galactic unveils 'VSS Imagine,' the first of its next-generation spaceship series "We need many more ships than we have right now and we also need the ships that [are] able to be maintained in a way that we can have much quicker [turnaround times between flights]," Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier said.
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Cleveland Clinic and IBM announce 10-year partnership to accelerate discovery in health care, life sciences Additionally, IBM plans to install the first of its next-generation 1,000+ qubit quantum systems at a client facility, also in Cleveland, in the coming years, according to the release. Along with ...
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High Court Weighs Class Curbs in TransUnion Terrorist List Case The U.S. Supreme Court considered putting new limits on class action lawsuits as it weighed a $40 million award to thousands of consumers who were categorized as potential terrorists by the credit reporting firm TransUnion. Hearing arguments by phone ...
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Crypto investor who bought Beeple's NFT for $69 million says he would have paid even more The buyer of the $69 million NFT by the artist Beeple said he was prepared to bid even higher, since it will be seen by history as the starting point of a new age of digital art. In his first TV interview, Vignesh Sundaresan, also known as MetaKovan, told CNBC, ...
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Bitcoin Is Moving More Mainstream. PayPal Users Will Be Able to Use Cryptocurrencies for Purchases. PayPal users soon will be able to use cryptocurrency to pay for merchandise at millions of retailers, a move that could further push digital currencies into the mainstream. The announcement comes a day after Visa (ticker: V) said it would process crypto ...
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Cathie Wood's Space ETF Sees Vigorous Trading on Its First Day Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management launched its first new exchange-traded fund in two years on Tuesday, a key test of the money manager's appeal after a choppy few months of both flows and performance. The actively managed ARK Space ...
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Canoo's Stock Is Cratering. The EV Maker Is Changing Direction. Canoo (ticker: GOEV) shares were down almost 25% in early Tuesday trading, hitting a new 52-week low at about $8.90 a share. That is below the $10 where Canoo's deal to merge with a special purpose acquisition company was struck.
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Your COVID-19 vaccine card: What to do if you lost it, why you should laminate it You will need to bring your vaccination card with you to your second vaccination appointment if you received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, so your provider can fill in the information about your second dose. Johnson & Johnson is a one-shot vaccine.
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Walgreens Eyes Wall Street's Turf With New Bank Account Offering "This new product offering will establish Walgreens as a destination for financial services, building on Walgreens's legacy as a one-stop shop for pharmacy and convenience," Stefan Happ, president of InComm Payments, one of the companies helping ...
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Three Floyds leaps to become the nation's 24th largest craft brewer; Revolution inches up to 39th After years of seeming content to stay small, Three Floyds Brewing continued its rapid growth in 2020, becoming the nation's 24th largest craft brewer, the Brewers Association said Tuesday. The iconic 25-year-old brewery in Munster, Indiana, has undertaken ...
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Highest-paying metros for real estate agents Each metro is ranked according to its median annual wage for real estate sales agents, and also includes data for the 90th percentile wage, median hourly wage, and employment in the metro. It's important to reiterate that this data was collected before the ...
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Big tech, Nevada repair shops clash over 'right to repair' CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Trade groups representing big tech companies faced off with independent repair shop owners Monday during a committee hearing in the Nevada Legislature over a proposal that would require manufacturers to give repair shops ...
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One hot neighborhood: Airport gets another commitment for additive manufacturing hub Neighborhood 91 has landed another resident. New York-Rusal America will be locating its new aluminum AM powders business into the hub for additive manufacturing being developed at Pittsburgh International Airport. Rusal, an affiliate of EN+ Group, will ...
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FDA Issues Complete Response Letter for Pembrolizumab as Neoadjuvant Therapy in Early TNBC The FDA's Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted in favor of waiting for additional event-free survival data to become available before making a regulatory decision regarding a biologics license application for pembrolizumab in early triple-negative ...
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Wisconsin to open COVID-19 vaccinations to the general public starting Monday The state Department of Health Services announced Tuesday that seven more pharmacy chains will receive vaccine this week as part of the federal retail pharmacy program. They are Costco; CVS; Hy-Vee; Good Neighbor and AmerisourceBergen Drug ...
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Damien Hirst to Debut 10000 Works on Paper on 'Environmentally Friendly' NFT Platform In an attempt to grapple with claims that the sale of NFTs consumes too much energy, a new digital marketplace called Palm has debuted with the aim of being more ecologically efficient. To kick off the platform, Palm has tapped major talent: artist Damien ...
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Why Danimer Scientific Stock Fell 17% at the Open Today What happened. Shares of Danimer Scientific (NYSE:DNMR) dropped a quick 17% as trading got underway on March 30. The news likely driving the decline was the company's after-the-market earnings release on March 29, the first quarterly report of its public ...
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Lexus unveils the LF-Z Electrified, a new concept EV symbolizing future lineup Lexus is planning to introduce 20 new or redesigned vehicles globally by 2025, at least half of which executives say will be all-electric or electrified hybrid models. To symbolize the direction of its future vehicles, the Toyota Motor-owned luxury brand unveiled ...
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Microsoft launches global skills initiative with free access to LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn, GitHub The company said it is focused on providing access to digital skills for a wide variety of people. It is also giving $20 million in cash grants to help nonprofit organizations worldwide. Job skills concept. Image: iStock/t:Radachynskyi ...
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FTC will not petition US Supreme Court in Qualcomm antitrust case The FTC, however, remains convinced that Qualcomm's practices absolutely demonstrate anticompetitive behavior and that the court has made a bad call. "Given the significant headwinds facing the Commission in this matter, the FTC will ...
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Sabra Hummus Recalled Over Salmonella Fears Sabra Dipping Co. announced the recall after salmonella was discovered during a routine screen of a single tub. The recall only applies to 10-ounce containers of Classic Hummus produced on Feb. 10, 2021, between 6 p.m. and midnight with a "best before" ...
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Substack confirms $65M raise, promises to 'rapidly' expand its financial backing of newly independent writers The company is motoring ahead on building out its infrastructure regardless, stating in its note that it intends to spend some of its new capital on creating "increasingly powerful subscription-publishing tools," and "a support infrastructure for independent writers." ...
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371 more COVID-19 cases, 4 deaths, 24K vaccinations reported Tuesday in Utah Tuesday's totals give Utah 385,127 total confirmed cases, with 15,503 total hospitalizations and 2,118 total deaths from the disease. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson are scheduled to provide a COVID ...
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Optimus Ride partners with Polaris to commercialize electric autonomous vehicles But Optimus Ride CEO Sean Harrington sees a market advantage in starting in a localized, geofenced environment, then, once the tech is safe and developed, expand it outward. "Microtransit ...
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Mack-Cali Sells NJ Office Portfolio for $254M Mack-Cali Realty Corp. has sold its four-property, Metropark portfolio for $254 million to Opal Holdings. The four office buildings comprise 945,906 square feet of space, located at 99 and 101 Wood Ave. South in Iselin, NJ, and 333 and 343 Thornall St. in ...
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Volvo, Aurora Pair for Autonomous Trucking Service Volvo Group will partner with Aurora Innovation Inc. to develop and commercialize autonomous Class 8 trucks in North America. Working through its Volvo Autonomous Solutions unit, Volvo plans to use its trucks equipped with Aurora self ...
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DeKalb County rolls out mobile vaccine clinics for seniors, people with disabilities The mobile clinics will continue to vaccinate seniors and those with disabilities from Decatur to North Druid hills. 11Alive's Tracey Amick-Peer spoke with the first seniors to get shots from the mobile unit, ...
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1st all-electric Kia car can do 500 kms on single charge The EV6 is the first of 11 fully electric vehicles (EV) Kia plans to roll out by 2026 as part of its EV drive. The automaker's other EV models are the Niro and Soul, which are offered alongside gas and hybrid variants.
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Who needs Peeps? Make these Easter and Passover treats instead We took to our test kitchens (cleverly disguised as the kitchens in our homes) to see if do-it-yourself marshmallow eggs, peanut butter eggs, gumdrops and matzo brittle were better. Here are what we found out …
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Peeps is collaborating with Pepsi to release a limited edition marshmallow-flavored soda Nature gives us many signs that the spring season is upon us. Flowers bloom, snow melts, birds sing and, who could forget, Peeps make their annual return to grocery store shelves. The marshmallow treat is most widely recognized for its distinct chick and ...
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Nexans to Equip New York Offshore Wind Project The turnkey projects cover the full design and manufacturing, as well as the laying and protection of over 300 km of export cables that will deliver renewable energy to over one million homes. Mar 30, 2021. Related To: Nexans. Nexans has signed a preferred ...
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US Airlines, TSA Reporting Spike in Passenger Numbers Pent-up travel demand caused by the restrictions put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a spike in 2021 bookings for airlines. According to The Associated Press, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened more than ...
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City of New Orleans unlikely to adopt Louisiana COVID changes immediately That was the word from the city's director of communications, Beau Tidwell, at his weekly press address. Tidwell said the city is not aware of the details of Governor Edwards' new order, ...
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Lindblad Expeditions to Resume Cruising in June Lindblad Expeditions announced that it will begin to resume expeditions to Alaska and the Galápagos this June. Guests will be required to be vaccinated prior to their cruise, as well as test negative for COVID-19 twice, take daily temperature checks and more.
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Pizza Hut Races Into the Drive-Thru Game Pizza Hut is joining the restaurant rush to the drive-thru. The Yum! Brands chain unveiled Tuesday "The Hut Lane," a dedicated digital order pickup window available at more than 1,500 locations, with more to come. Similar to Chipotle's "Chipotlanes," of which ...
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Stanislaus County to open vaccinations to 16 years old and above this week | COVID-19 Updates in Northern California In a presentation on the decision, Stanislaus County Public Health Officer Dr. Julie Vaishampayan said that the MyTurn appointment system may not allow people who are under the age of 50 to make appointments before April 15, since MyTurn is a state-run ...
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Vaccine passports could prove to be a privacy minefield for regulators Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the concept of a "vaccine passport" has been floated regularly. Once inoculated against Covid-19, a person could carry proof of vaccination that would allow them to travel or access services that are otherwise shut ...
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Apple supplier Foxconn's profit slips, warns on 'materials shortages' People wearing face masks listen to the annual general meeting at the lobby of Foxconn's office in Taipei, Taiwan, Jun 23, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Ann Wang). 30 Mar 2021 02:05PM (Updated: 30 Mar 2021 06:18PM ) ...
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Blank-check firm backed by former Warner Music CEO files for $300 mln US IPO March 30 (Reuters) - A blank-check firm backed by Edgar Bronfman Jr., the former chief executive officer of Warner Music Group Corp WMG.O, on Tuesday filed to raise $300 million in an initial public offering in the U.S.. The firm, Waverley Capital Acquisition ...
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The truth about working from home: 'It's the first time I've ever burnt out' What is often called "the privilege of remote working" is now the norm for many, and looks set to remain part of the landscape of our working lives. But ...
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Flagship startup Omega takes lead 'epigenomic controller' candidate closer to the clinic with new $126M round Managing Editor. In its quest to drug the undruggable, Flagship Pioneering startup Omega Therapeutics is chasing a moonshot with "epigenomic controllers" to get all of the benefits of gene editing without the actual editing.
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Navigating tax season HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -. You have an extra month to file your taxes this year with the deadline extended to May 17. The date is fast approaching, and for many, the unpredictable year brings more anxiety when it comes to tax returns. Founder of ...
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