Monthly Archives: October 2021

Week 6 start ’em, sit ’em help

It’s Week 6 in the NFL and there’s no better place to prepare for your fantasy matchup than with the Yahoo “Fantasy Football Live” crew. We’ll tackle the tough sit-start questions, latest betting trends and preview the Monday night clash between the division leading Titans and Bills.  What should fantasy managers expect from Taylor Heinicke at home against Kansas City? Who should you target in single-game DFS contests this week? What are this weekend’s best bets as the Steelers host the… Source link

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Stock futures edge up after S&P 500’s best day since March

Stock futures opened slightly higher to extend gains after a rally on Wall Street, with stronger-than-expected earnings and economic data helping lift the S&P 500 by the most in seven months.  Shares of big bank stocks including Bank of America (BAC), Citi (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) steadied during the after-hours session. Each of these stocks had jumped earlier, after these banks posted much stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings results. Peer banking titan Goldman Sachs (GS) is… Source link

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NBA star Kyrie Irving could have little legal recourse to play while unvaccinated, experts say – Yahoo Finance

The Brooklyn Nets upset some fans this week by benching star point guard Kyrie Irving over his refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19, in violation of a New York City vaccine mandate for indoor venues. Experts say there is likely little legal recourse that could open up the Barclays Center and other New York city courts for him to play alongside his team, favored to contend for this season’s NBA championship. New York City’s mandate sidelining Irving became effective Aug. 19 and requires… Source link

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Google brings its 3D ‘Pocket Gallery’ art exhibition experiences to the web – TechCrunch

Google’s Arts & Culture team launched its “Pocket Gallery” experiences in 2018 to allow AR-enabled smartphone users to view artwork from artists like Johannes Vermeer for the first time in history, including pieces that are usually inaccessible publicly. Today, the team announced that it’s making the entire series of Pocket Galleries available to anyone on the web. The company’s original goal with Pocket Galleries was to digitally bring never-before-seen… Source link

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Get ready for Grinchonomics – Yahoo Finance

This year’s holiday season will be definitively better than last year’s. Nearly 220 million Americans have been vaccinated against Covid-19, compared with essentially none in 2020. Total employment is 5 million more than last December and work is slowly getting back to normal. Plus, there’s no presidential election for anybody to try to sabotage this year. Yet the outrage industry wishes you a Terrible Christmas, and pandemic hangover effects might just make it so. Snarled supply lines… Source link

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Big banks warn that Fed-induced market volatility is coming soon

Market volatility has dipped since September, but the nation’s top bankers are warning that choppiness could be coming back soon — thanks to the Federal Reserve. In earnings calls this week, executives at the largest U.S. banks said price swings could be back as the central bank attempts to slow (and then reverse) its easy money policies launched last year to insulate the economy from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s good to be watchful right now,” Morgan Stanley (MS) CEO… Source link

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Yahoo fantasy experts reveal their DFS lineups for Week 6

Week 6 of the 2021 Fantasy Football season is here, and our analysts have revealed whom they would choose in their Yahoo Daily Fantasy lineups this week using a budget of $200. The ultimate goal: To build the perfect lineup. It’s hard to ignore what Lamar Jackson is in the midst of doing right now. The Baltimore Ravens‘ quarterback is on pace for over 5,000 passing yards and over 1,000 rushing yards, which is mind-boggling in and of itself. So, it’s no surprise to see Lamar in nearly all of… Source link

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