Yearly Archives: 2021

Sure, we could see another year of double-digit returns: Morning Brief

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

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Yahoo DFS Basketball: Monday Picks

We have a busy night in the NBA ahead of us with nine games on the schedule Monday. There are some exciting matchups, too, with the Rockets hosting the Mavericks and the Celtics taking on the Raptors. Let’s try to add to the excitement with a winning entry on Yahoo. Here are some players to consider for your entry, as well as a few to potentially avoid. GUARDS De’Aaron Fox, SAC at GS ($37): Fox has been excellent out of the gate, scoring at least 40.3 Yahoo points in four of six games. He’s… Source link

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Steph Curry appreciated Klay Thompson welcoming him to 60-point club

Steph planned to call Klay after joining 60-point game club originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea Steph Curry had scored at least 50 points in a game six times prior to Sunday night, but unlike Klay Thompson, never once had he reached the 60-point plateau. But after pouring in a career-high 62 points in the Warriors’ 137-122 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, Curry’s fellow Splash Brother no longer can hold that over him. Thompson wasn’t bitter that Curry had eclipsed his own career-high… Source link

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Philadelphia gifts Washington the NFC East – what was that?

Subscribe to The Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast On the final Sunday night of the 2020 regular season, to the horror of nearly every NFL fan (particularly a large portion of the ones in the New York city area), the Philadelphia Eagles pulled quarterback Jalen Hurts in favor of backup Nate Sudfeld for no clear reason, gifting in the process, a division championship to their rivals the Washington Football Team. Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson open on this embarrassing episode and what galaxy-brained… Source link

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Doug Pederson’s reasoning for pulling Jalen Hurts makes no sense

Of all the challenges that lurk amid the competitive carnage of an NFL game, getting kneecapped by your own coach generally isn’t one of them. Well, unless you’re a Philadelphia Eagle, who on Sunday was asked to fight and battle the Washington Football Team only to have coach Doug Pederson effectively tank the game by pulling starter Jalen Hurts in the fourth quarter of what was, at the time, a 17-14 game. Hurts was replaced by Nate Sudfeld, the franchise’s longtime third… Source link

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NFL announces Saturday schedule for first round of playoffs

Get ready for a super-sized NFL wild-card weekend. In 1982, there was a 16-team bracket due to a strike-shortened season. That was the last time we’ve had more than four games in the first weekend of the NFL playoffs, before this season. With the NFL expanding the playoffs from 12 to 14 teams, we’ll get wall-to-wall postseason football on wild-card weekend. Those games can be live steamed on the Yahoo Sports app. Here is the schedule for the three games on Saturday of wild-card weekend, all… Source link

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Did Matthew Stafford play his last game in Detroit?

Two days before the 2009 NFL draft, Matthew Stafford sat in the back of a league courtesy truck that drove him through Manhattan. He was about to become the No. 1 pick, about to agree to a contract worth $41.7 million guaranteed, about to head to the Detroit Lions where he was confident he’d reverse the supposed “Curse of Bobby Lane” and lead the woebegone franchise to some playoff victories, if not a lot more. As the truck drove through Midtown, Stafford spotted a storefront… Source link

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Alibaba founder, Chinese billionaire Jack Ma suspected missing

Bloomberg China’s Three Big Telcos Slide on NYSE’s Move to Delist ADRs (Bloomberg) — China’s state-owned telecommunications companies declined in Hong Kong after the New York Stock Exchange said it’s delisting them to comply with a U.S. executive order that sanctioned companies identified as affiliated with the Chinese military.Shares of China Mobile Ltd., the largest of the three, fell as much as 4.5% on Monday to their lowest level since 2006, while China Telecom Corp. dropped 5.6%…. Source link

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Trump’s ‘less-than-perfect’ call to Georgia officials could also be a crime

As word spread Sunday of President Trump’s astonishing phone conversation with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger the day before, there was widespread speculation that the president had committed one or more crimes in his effort to overturn the results of the election in Georgia, including extortion and, ironically, election fraud. A recording of the one-hour call was released Sunday by the Washington Post. The president is heard pressuring Raffensperger to “find 11,780… Source link

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