Benzinga Benzinga’s Final Bulls And Bears Of The Year: Alibaba, Apple, Intel, Tesla And More * Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. * The week’s bullish calls included the iPhone maker and electric vehicle stocks. * A semiconductor maker and a Chinese internet giant were among the bearish calls.The final trading week of a tumultuous year offered little in the way of a Santa Claus rally, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average up… Source link

The Guardian Belichick’s exit plan and a JJ Watt trade: NFL subplots to watch in 2021 Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered… Source link

Texas head coach Tom Herman has been fired. The university announced the news on Saturday in a statement. The school said that Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte recommended moving on from Herman to president Jay Hartzell. The news comes just days after Texas trounced Colorado, 55-23, in the Alamo Bowl to finish the 2020 season with a 7-3 record. That win gave Herman a 32-18 record over four seasons, including a 22-13 mark in Big 12 play. With the move, Texas now owes Herman and his… Source link

The Guardian Belichick’s exit plan and a JJ Watt trade: NFL subplots to watch in 2021 Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered… Source link

It took bitcoin (BTC) 10 years in existence to reach the $20,000 mark, on Dec. 15. Then it took just 17 days to reach $30,000. It took the Dow Jones almost three years to make the same move. Bitcoin started 2020 at $7,200. It ended the year very close to $30,000, up 296%. (For comparison, the Nasdaq rose 43% in 2020, the S&P 500 rose 16%, the Dow rose 7%.) The surge continued full-steam into 2021: On Jan. 2, bitcoin broke through $30,000 for the first time, then broke through $31,000. The 2020… Source link

“Google is more likely to become an energy company of the future than a lot of utilities” Shuli Goodman, executive director at LF Energy, said during an interview earlier this year when she shared her latest prediction for what’s to come in the energy industry. If this prediction sounds like it’s coming out of left field, let me assure you it’s not. Google has been slowly upending the traditional utility business for the past 10 years.  The Current Situation We are at a… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Set for Monster Growth in 2021 We’ve turned a new page on the calendar, Old Man ’20 is out the door, and there’s a feeling ‘21 is gonna be a good year – and so far, so good. The markets closed out 2020 with modest session gains to cap off larger annual gains. The S&P 500 rose 16% during the corona crisis year, while the NASDAQ, with its heavy tech representation, showed an impressive annual gain of nearly 43%. The advent of two viable COVID vaccines… Source link

The Telegraph Karen Carney deletes her Twitter account after receiving barrage of sexist abuse Former England international Karen Carney has deleted her Twitter account having received a barrage of sexist abuse from social media users following Leeds United’s criticism of her punditry via their official account. The Premier League club “completely condemned” the abuse on Wednesday, although they have not deleted their post, which was aimed in response to comments Carney made while… Source link

If the largely uncompetitive College Football Playoff semifinal games on Friday could be distilled to two distinct moments, they’d be easy to select. No. 1 Alabama’s systemic dispatching of No. 4 Notre Dame will long be remembered for tailback Najee Harris leaping over Notre Dame cornerback Nick McCloud, an athletic marvel that could well be the frozen moment which this Alabama season is remembered. In No. 3 Ohio State’s 49-28 blowout of No. 2 Clemson later on Friday, the indelible image… Source link

Britain has reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday (local time) to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the novel coronavirus. With more than 50,000 new daily cases of Covid-19 for the last four days, the health service said it was preparing for an anticipated rush of patients and needed more beds. The announcement comes just days after the Royal London Hospital told staff in an email it was now… Source link