We’ve wrapped up the first week of April, and it feels like the April Fools’ pranks are still with us. Market headwinds have multiplied and receded, all at once. Covering the macro situation from banking giant JPMorgan, global market strategist Marko Kolanovic writes: “Equities risk-reward is not as poor as it is currently fashionable to believe… While the exogenous geopolitical crisis continues to present a binary set of outcomes, the activity momentum ahead of this shock was… Source link

Phoenix Suns guard Mikal Bridges made his case during the 2021-22 NBA campaign as to why he’s more than deserving of winning this season’s Defensive Player of the Year award. But it’s going to take voters — consisting of sportswriters and broadcasters — looking beyond traditional defensive stats that often favor a center’s candidacy. Bridges, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Sports, wants voters to dig deeper. “I would never discredit anybody, and obviously bigs have been… Source link

Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley chief economist and former Federal Reserve deputy director of monetary affairs, thinks there is no way around a sharp slowing of the economy as the Federal Reserve embarks deeper into its rate hiking cycle. “If you think about what the Fed itself thinks is the long-run sustainable growth rate of the economy, they think that rate of growth is below 2%. And so if you take a growth rate in the economy that’s above 5% or 6%, and you’re going to try to bring it down… Source link

Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is airborne. That simple declaration from the White House is what some experts around the world have known since 2020 — and it could have major implications for U.S. businesses and organizations. Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and deputy assistant to President Joe Biden, announced the highly-awaited words in a recent statement. “The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person… Source link

More positive news for phone owners looking to take matters into their own hands. Google this morning announced that it’s teaming with iFixit to offer a suite of tools for fixing Pixel handsets. At launch (later this year), kits will be available for common repairs like replacing batteries, displays and camera modules. Along with those bundles, the company says it’s opening up third-party repair options to include more hardware devices like Chromebooks. Currently Pixel owners who… Source link

Katie Adams – Friday, April 8th, 2022 Print  | Email Google recently posted several job openings related to its health business. Below are 10 open positions as of April 8: Health information privacy lead: will lead development of health software products, investigate privacy events, perform contract reviews and manage key health privacy initiatives Director of product management, Google for Clinicians data platform: will develop the core strategy, lay the plans… Source link

Google has become the latest manufacturer to partner with DIY repair specialists iFixit to offer spare parts for its devices, the search giant announced today. It’s a deal that should make it far easier for the average customer to get parts to repair their own Pixel smartphone if it breaks. Parts like batteries, displays, and cameras will be available to purchase in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, and other European countries where the phones are sold. Parts will be available to… Source link

While the United States has suffered one of the deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks of any country on earth, the economic devastation of the pandemic has struck most acutely in countries mired in extreme poverty. Global wealth inequality worsened during the pandemic, concentrating 76% of wealth in the hands of the richest 10% and reserving just 2% of wealth for the bottom half of earners, according to a report released by World Inequality Lab in December. Coping costs, or the added economic burden… Source link

Google employees returned to the office this week after more than two years of remote work and changing plans about when – and how – to bring people back.   The tech behemoth joins a growing list of companies bringing workers back on-site this spring that includes Meta, American Express and Apple. Google’s new hybrid work arrangement requires most employees to be in the office at least three days per week, with the other two days spent working remotely.  Javier Soltero, the vice… Source link

Indexes extended their losses on Thursday as markets digested the latest Fed minutes, where Federal Reserve officials “generally agreed” to cut up to $95 billion a month from the central bank’s balance sheet to combat surging prices. In light of the Fed’s hawkish stance on inflation, CenterSquare Investment Management Chief Strategist Scott Crowe sees a sizable decline in economic growth levels ahead. “I think there is little doubt that we are at the beginnings of a significant… Source link