The picks are in, from No. 1 (Trevor Lawrence to the Jacksonville Jaguars) through No. 259 (Grant Stuard, aka “Mr. Irrelevant,” to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), and we have broken all of them down. Here are our final team-by-team grades for the 2021 draft (picks listed by round and overall pick): AFC East Picks: 1-30: Miami EDGE Gregory Rousseau; 2-61: Wake Forest EDGE Carlos Basham; 3-93: Northern Iowa OT Spencer Brown; 5-161: Miami (Ohio) OT Tommy Doyle; 6-203: Houston WR Marquez Stevenson;… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin’s domination of total cryptocurrency market value is declining as its next-biggest rival Ether reaches the $3,000 milestone, suggesting room for more than one winner among digital tokens as the sector evolves. The largest digital currency now accounts for about 46% of total crypto market value of $2.3 trillion, down from roughly 70% at the start of the year, according to tracker CoinGecko. Second-ranked Ether is up to 15% and a group of others outside the top few has… Source link

Bloomberg Warren Buffett Sees a ‘Red Hot’ Economy With Creeping Inflation (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett delivered a clear verdict Saturday on the state of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the pandemic: red hot.“It’s almost a buying frenzy,” the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive officer said during the conglomerate’s annual meeting, which was held virtually from Los Angeles. “People have money in their pocket and they’re paying higher prices,” he said.Buffett… Source link

The private equity firm has been on a buying spree in the past few months, announcing deals to acquire the crafts retailer Michaels and the Venetian resort in Las Vegas. It has also had a shake-up in its senior ranks, with its co-founder, Leon Black, announcing in late March that he was stepping down as chairman after the revelation he had paid more than $150 million to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Apollo declined to comment. Verizon didn’t respond to requests for comment…. Source link

Bloomberg Warren Buffett Sees a ‘Red Hot’ Economy With Creeping Inflation (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett delivered a clear verdict Saturday on the state of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the pandemic: red hot.“It’s almost a buying frenzy,” the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive officer said during the conglomerate’s annual meeting, which was held virtually from Los Angeles. “People have money in their pocket and they’re paying higher prices,” he said.Buffett… Source link

Investors will have another packed schedule of corporate earnings reports to consider, alongside the latest monthly jobs report from the Labor Department. The April jobs report will likely be the latest positive data point underscoring the U.S. economic recovery. According to Bloomberg data, consensus economists expect to see that non-farm payrolls grew by 978,000 for the month, accelerating from March’s gain of 916,000 and representing the biggest rise since August 2020. The unemployment… Source link

Mobile operator Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud entered a strategic partnership to jointly develop data services, Vodafone said on Sunday. About 1,000 workers in Britain, Spain and the United States will be to asked by both companies to create “Nucleus”, a new cloud-based storage and analytics portal which will host Vodafone’s data. Nucleus will be capable of processing around 50 terabytes of data a day within the cloud, Vodafone said in a statement. “Both… Source link

Add head coach Matt LaFleur to the chorus of voices struggling to imagine quarterback Aaron Rodgers in anything but a Green Bay Packers uniform.  LaFleur was clear in his desire for Rodgers, the reigning NFL MVP, to return to the Packers squad in 2021. He joins team president Mark Murphy and general manager Brian Gutekunst, who both voiced support for having Rodgers after reports surfaced that the star was unhappy with the team. LaFleur ‘can’t fathom’ Rodgers not in Green Bay LaFleur said he… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Berkshire Gets More Cautious on Stocks and Buybacks (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s capital-deployment machine pulled back on several fronts at the start of the year as the billionaire took a more cautious stance on stocks.Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s net stock sales in the first quarter were the second-highest in almost five years and the conglomerate, where the billionaire is chief executive officer, slowed its buyback pace, according to a regulatory filing Saturday…. Source link

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that near-zero interest rates have completely changed the financial landscape, warning that the consequences of easy money policies remain an unanswered question. As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the United States last year, the U.S. central bank slashed interest rates to near zero and began aggressively absorbing assets to prevent another financial crisis. Among the Federal Reserve’s purchases: government debt. Those actions allowed the Source link