How the Sox will use Michael Kopech in rotation in 2022 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Chicago White Sox pledged a “creative” way to deploy Michael Kopech during the 2021 campaign. Come 2022, that creativity isn’t going anywhere. Kopech missed back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020, the first while recovering from Tommy John surgery and the second due to personal reasons. The White Sox never took him out of their long-term planning, but he obviously boasted limited experience and… Source link

The S&P 500 is showing its strength amid concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19 casting a shadow over markets, morale, and hospitals this holiday season. Despite the uncertainties caused by this latest chapter of the pandemic, the index’s large caps are doing much better than their smaller counterparts, hedge fund veteran Nicholas Colas pointed out on Monday in the DataTrek newsletter. The returns since Nov. 24, when the variant first was reported to the World Health Organization,… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) bulls shouldn’t get too comfy with the company’s market dominance continuing unabated, warns Guggenheim analyst Ali Faghri.  “Our balanced view [on Tesla] is based on: 1) a favorable near-term setup — with demand outpacing supply, we see visibility to volume upside in 2022 and 2023 as new factories in Austin and Berlin ramp; 2) competitive advantage over all original equipment manufacturers today, including a high degree of vertical integration, a software defined vehicle… Source link

Google has publicized two main ways it deals with child abuse images on its systems, but it doesn’t talk much about how it detects explicit animated material. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) Getty Images Over the last two decades, tech giants have had to deal with an ever-growing deluge of videos and images of child sexual abuse on their platforms. As Apple recently found out, it’s a difficult problem to solve, where scanning people’s devices and online accounts… Source link

The fast-spreading Omicron variant isn’t shaking the confidence (yet) on Goldman Sachs’ call for double-digit percentage returns for the S&P 500 next year.  Goldman’s chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin reiterated Monday an S&P 500 target by the end of 2022 of 5,100. The figure marks a potential 12% increase in stock prices as measured from the S&P 500’s current level.  “We expect that these gains will be driven primarily by earnings per share growth of 8% combined with a stable P/E… Source link

Nike (NKE) will report fiscal second-quarter results on Monday, with analysts looking for signs about whether the athletic giant can regain momentum it lost amid ongoing supply chain strains. Analysts polled by Bloomberg predict Nike will report adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.62 on revenue of $11.26 billion. Like many athletic wear brands, Nike was hit hard by COVID-19 related factory closures in Vietnam throughout the summer, as well as supply chain delays that have snared the… Source link

Russian language search engine has secured its backend infrastructure Russian search and internet services giant Yandex has resolved a potentially serious server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability discovered by Egyptian security researcher Momen Ali. Ali (AKA ‘theCyberGuy’) discovered the vulnerability after a systematic search of Yandex’s infrastructure. They reported the vulnerability through Yandex’s bug bounty, earning a spot in the… Source link

Starbucks (SBUX) on Monday reiterated its tough stance against unionizing, saying that while the movement was not in the best interests of its workforce, it would “bargain in good faith” with one location that voted to organize. Recently, partners at a store in Buffalo scored a big win after voting to form the coffee giant’s first ever union. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) confirmed the vote, according to an internal memo obtained by Yahoo Finance. Yet the… Source link

Stocks fell on Monday at the start of a holiday-shortened week of trading, with investors considering renewed virus-related restrictions overseas and prospects that a significant social policy bill may be scuttled.  The S&P 500, Dow Nasdaq each dropped more than 1%. Treasury yields fell as investors piled into safe haven assets, and the benchmark 10-year yield held below 1.4%. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked more than 20% to hover above 25.  U.S. crude oil prices sank 3% to trade… Source link

Nobody should have been rooting for more Monday afternoon and Tuesday NFL football after last season. But here we are.  COVID-19 has again caused massive disruptions across sports, and last Friday the NFL finally decided to push back three games due to outbreaks. The first of those rescheduled games is the Las Vegas Raiders at the Cleveland Browns, which was initially going to be played on Saturday.  Let’s discuss that game before the regularly scheduled Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears… Source link