WNBA draft night is a big night for all the players, fans, and draftees, but no one had quite the experience that Northwestern’s Veronica Burton had. Burton, a Newton, Massachusetts, native, was picked seventh overall by the Dallas Wings during Monday night’s WNBA draft, and shortly after she got a call from someone she absolutely did not expect: Tom Brady. “Hey, Veronica, what’s up? I just wanted to congratulate you on being drafted,” Brady said on the call. “The four-time Big Ten… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) on Monday unveiled a new “Two Thumbs Up” button that will allow subscribers to love content, moving beyond the thumbs up-down binary. Yes, we could love “Stranger Things” and like “Inventing Anna” before Monday — but there wasn’t a way for viewers to expressly help Netflix’s algorithm draw that distinction. Now, users will have the option to rate movies and shows they watch with a thumbs down, a thumbs up, or two thumbs up. This second thumb has a deeply practical… Source link

U.S. stock futures jumped in pre-market trading Tuesday as investors assessed fresh inflation data out of Washington that showed prices in March further accelerated to a new 40-year high. Contracts on the S&P 500 popped 0.7%, and the Dow jumped nearly 130 points ahead of the open. Futures tied to the Nasdaq Composite surged 1.3%. Meanwhile, Treasury yields slightly retreated, but the benchmark 10-year yield remained above 2.7%, the highest level since January 2019. The moves follow a down day… Source link

This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Andrew in Chatanooga, who wrote: “I have a client who is a personal injury attorney with a last name that is the same as a major U.S. city (City Name Removed). Google gets confused sometimes and puts his firm’s website on SERPs for that city plus our targeted keywords. In Google Search Console, these queries keep gaining traction over other, legitimate queries. Is there a way to let Google know that his last name is not in fact the city that… Source link

U.S. consumer price increases quickened in March, underscoring ongoing inflationary pressures as supply chain disruptions and shortages lingered across the economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.5% in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest report released Tuesday. That marked the fastest rise since December 1981. This followed a 7.9% annual increase in February. Heading into the report, consensus economists were looking… Source link

Goldman Sachs isn’t yet ready to join the chorus of its peers in calling a U.S. recession, but it sure appears to be inching closer to that frenzied camp. “We do put some weight on the historical patterns [of the labor market] and believe that the overheating of the labor market has raised the risk of recession meaningfully. The yield curve seems to discount a recession probability in 2023 of about one in three, roughly double the unconditional average, and we would broadly concur with this… Source link

Engineers at Russia’s biggest tech firm, Yandex, are fleeing the country and seeking foreign tech jobs. Current and ex-engineers recounted leaving Russia at short notice, often leaving spouses behind. Some said they are struggling to access their Yandex salaries from abroad. Alexei* doesn’t know when he’ll see his wife again. “She’s still in Russia. We call every night.”… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, April 12, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Emily McCormick, a reporter for Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter This week, first-quarter earnings season begins in earnest with the big banks, from JPMorgan Chase (JPM) to Goldman Sachs (GS), posting results. And this earnings season, there will be one clear factor separating the winners from… Source link

Yahoo Sports WNBA writer Cassandra Negley recaps all three rounds of excitement from the 2022 WNBA Draft. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] CASSANDRA NEGLEY: The WNBA welcomed 36 new players to its ranks on Monday night for the 2022 WNBA draft. The first was Rhyne Howard out of Kentucky. Atlanta Dream picked her number one after making a trade for that spot last week. Now the first round went off script, if you had followed mock drafts up until this point. And it started with the Indiana Fever,… Source link

Even Galileo would be shocked at how many bet slips are revolving around the Suns as we begin the NBA playoffs. Nearly 30% of all money wagered on championship futures is on Phoenix, who’s also seeing 55.2% of the Western Conference champs handle on BetMGM. If they rise from the ashes of last year’s Finals defeat to avenge themselves with a title, the sportsbooks are going to get burned by everyone who jumped onboard the Suns bandwagon. The cream of the NBA After Phoenix started this season… Source link