With the Q4 2021 earnings season now underway, Wall Street analysts are mostly bullish in regard to the corporate profitability landscape in spite of slowing growth rates. According to DataTrek Research, however, analysts are still underestimating the S&P 500 (^GSPC). “Wall Street analysts have started increasing their S&P 500 Q4 earnings estimates again, and they’re getting more bullish on 2022 as well. We still think their numbers are too low,” DataTrek Research Co-Founder Nicholas… Source link

GameStop (GME) and AMC (AMC) climbed into green territory on Tuesday after opening lower, as the overall ‘meme’ stock group has slumped recently. GameStop shares closed 8% higher while AMC gained more than 5%.  “We call them meme stocks but in essence there’s another name for them and that’s story stocks,” Market Strategist Michael Antonelli told Yahoo Finance Live., “Story stocks are usually high fast growers, high flyers, that benefit from flows and cheap money,” he said. “These story… Source link

Apple and Google have a “vice-like grip” over people’s mobile phones and their duopoly over the market should be investigated by the proposed new “big tech” regulator, the UK’s competition watchdog has said. The two companies effectively control users’ mobile phone experience in the UK, with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems installed on 99.45% of all phones in use in the country. “Apple and Google have developed a vice-like grip over how we use mobile… Source link

Paying up at the quarterback position isn’t a move we go out of our way to make very often. However, Kyler Murray has as much upside as anyone at the quarterback position, and we can include him in our Week 15 Yahoo DFS tournament picks without sacrificing elsewhere. Since we’re playing in GPP tournaments, we’ll have our fair share of guys with low floors and high ceilings, but that’s part of it. We’re also calling on a few chalky DFS plays, but we’ll have… Source link

It’s been over two years since our initial response to Google’s Manifest V3 proposal. Manifest V3 is the latest set of changes to the Chrome browser’s rules for browser extensions. Each extensions manifest version update introduces backwards-incompatible changes to ostensibly move the platform forward. In 2018, Manifest V3 was framed as a proposal, with Google repeatedly claiming to be listening to feedback. Let’s check in to see where we stand as 2021 wraps up. Since announcing Manifest… Source link

Wall Street is getting more comfortable with crypto as regulation looms and investment-grade infrastructure shapes up for the emerging asset class, with more traditional hedge funds reporting plans to boost their exposures and get in on the digital asset boom. Nearly one-third of hedge fund managers plan to add crypto to their portfolios in the near future, according to firms surveyed by EY for a recent report on the global alternative fund industry. The report, which deemed digital assets an… Source link

Week 14 was a mix of blowouts and down-to-the-wire games. Unfortunately, like most weeks this season, injuries played a big part in a lot of Sunday’s outcomes. Today, we are going to touch on all this and more. Here are my takeaways from Week 14. King Kamara King Kamara, we have missed you so. Our liege, Alvin Kamara, finally returned in Week 14 after missing four games due to a knee injury. Prior to getting injured, he was fifth in receiving yards per game (39), fourth in receiving touchdowns… Source link

Phillip Adams, a former NFL cornerback who was accused of shooting six people to death before killing himself in April, had “unusually severe” chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma and concussions.  The results of Adams’ brain examination were announced Tuesday by Dr. Anne McKee, a neuropathologist who serves as director of Boston University’s CTE Center. She compared Adams’ brain to the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New… Source link

Google wants to make sure you’re only seeing the invitations you want. Taylor Martin/CNET … Source link

The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country’s competition rules will target tech giants Apple and Google — including their duopolistic command of the mobile market, via iOS and Android; their respective app stores; and the browsers and services bundled with mobile devices running their OSes. So it could mean good news for third-party developers trying to get oxygen for alternatives to dominant Apple and… Source link