Monthly Archives: April 2021

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Stock Sinks As Market Gains: What You Should Know

Bloomberg Family Offices Targeting 800% Returns With SPAC Economics (Bloomberg) — The Pritzkers built an empire spanning hotels to manufacturing before agreeing two decades ago to split up their fortune among 11 descendants.Karen Pritzker, one of the heirs, has parlayed that wealth into venture capital, backing firms such as Snap Inc. and Spotify Technology. Now she’s joined the wave of investors turning to blank-check firms.The Pritzker Vlock Family Office is the anchor investor for… Source link

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Nike says it’s paid over $9 billion in taxes since 2016

TipRanks 2 “Strong Buy” Stocks Around $10 With Triple-Digit Upside Potential The S&P 500 rose to another record high on Friday, and at least one strategist believes we’re at the start of a new bull market. Writing from LPL Financial, chief market strategist Ryan Detrick noted several market-historical points that indicate sustained gains are in the offing. Key among his points are the first quarter returns and the breadth of the current stock rally. On returns, Detrick highlights that… Source link

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A $1000 bet on Dogecoin at the start of 2021 could now buy a Tesla

Maybe it’s fitting because Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been the biggest cheerleader of Dogecoin (DOGE-USD), but after the cryptocurrency’s more than 6,000% surge so far in 2021, a $1,000 bet on Dogecoin to start the year would now be worth enough to buy a brand new Tesla Model Y. That’s right.  If you placed a $1,000 bet on the popular cryptocurrency, which was founded back in 2013 as a joke to lampoon the boom in the number of altcoins, you’d be sitting on more than $60,000 based on the 35 cents… Source link

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The MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner: Round 4

Eric Lindquist brings you his MLB DFS picks for Round 4 of the MLB Yahoo Cup Daily Fantasy Baseball including Max Scherzer | 4/16/21 Welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest consists of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the end. You may join this multi-round… Source link

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YouTube Fortnite sensation Lachlan Power

He has a job that kids can only dream of: playing video games and making money (lots of money) from it. Lachlan Power, an industrious and charming 25-year-old from Australia, has built an empire creating videos of himself screaming, laughing and narrating as he plays online games. He started with Minecraft, but it’s Fortnite, the Epic Games phenomenon, that catapulted him to global fame. Today, his YouTube channel (GOOG, GOOGL) has nearly 15 million subscribers, with 4.7 billion views and… Source link

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Over/under win totals for all 32 teams

NFL team win totals used to typically come out over the summer. That release date keeps getting moved up, and now we can find those win totals before the draft even happens.  BetMGM released NFL season win totals for all 32 NFL teams. Those numbers will be picked over and bet for nearly five months before the season starts. And remember, this season there are 17 games on each team’s schedule. It’ll take a while to adjust our math to that.  The highest win total on the board is Kansas City at… Source link

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Why people are obsessed with chicken sandwiches: Wendy’s CEO

The chicken sandwich wars are in full swing across the country. And that definitely doesn’t come as a shock to Wendy’s CEO Todd Penegor.  “It’s easy, quick to make. You can serve it fresh and hot and you can do some unique builds along the way,” Penegor told Yahoo Finance Presents on why the fast-food industry is in love with selling new chicken sandwiches going on more than a year.  To be sure, the resounding success Popeye’s had with its fried chicken sandwich in late 2019 and in 2020 sent… Source link

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Dogecoin Is Not the Next Bitcoin – But Here Are the Similarities

To those of us who have been in the industry for a long time, Dogecoin has always been an oddity: A project that has exceptional approachability and appeal to new users while lacking most of the characteristics that make cryptocurrencies useful or valuable. Created in 2013 by Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus, the project was abandoned years ago by its founders and developers, if not its fans. Until recently, it was in such a weak state that it couldn’t even power its own blockchain… Source link

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Rams’ Aaron Donald not guilty of assault, attorney says

Aaron Donald never assaulted the man who alleged he severely beat him, the Los Angeles Rams star’s lawyer claimed Friday morning. Casey White, the attorney Donald hired to represent him, made his first public comments in an interview with Pittsburgh radio station 93.7 The Fan. White told the station that DeVincent Spriggs instigated last weekend’s confrontation and that Donald went from being restrained by friends to actually coming to Spriggs’ rescue. “He goes to the pile where this… Source link

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