USMNT players model their 2022 World Cup kits. (Nike) Long before Nike’s Thursday release of the U.S. men’s national team’s 2022 World Cup kits, and even before the jerseys leaked last month, some USMNT players got to glimpse and even model the threads they’ll wear in November — and Weston McKennie, midfielder and fashion aficionado, “tried to tell them.” “Them” was presumably Nike and U.S. Soccer. Players, Tim Weah said, were “just as angry” as fans now are. But by then,… Source link
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Google Adds New HTTPS Report to Search Console
Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new HTTPS report in Search Console. The announcement came via Google’s Search Central Blog and indicated the search engine expects the launch process to take a few months. “One of the common requests we heard from you was to provide more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not,” Google said in the blog. This new report will show how many… Source link
Read More »‘Our league definitely got this wrong’
The NBA announced its discipline of Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver on Tuesday, fining the billionaire $10 million and suspending him from all league functions for one year. While those are stiff penalties by most standards, many felt the league didn’t go far enough. That group now includes LeBron James. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar tweeted his displeasure that Sarver was allowed to maintain ownership of the Suns despite the 18 years of workplace misconduct and sporadic racial… Source link
Read More »Todd Rosenbluth Highlights Risk-Conscious ETFs on Yahoo Finance
Markets tanked yesterday on the release of August’s consumer price index report that revealed a 0.1% month-over-month rise in broad inflation in August on expectations of a decline, with core CPI (excluding food and gas) gaining 0.6% over the same period. Todd Rosenbluth, head of research at VettaFi, appeared on Yahoo Finance’s “ETF Report” to discuss risk-conscious investing options for advisors in a volatile market. The major indexes closed down yesterday on their… Source link
Read More »Rates at 4.5% Would Sink Stocks by 20%
(Bloomberg) — Ray Dalio came out with a gloomy prediction for stocks and the economy after a hotter-than-expected inflation print rattled financial markets around the globe this week. Most Read from Bloomberg “It looks like interest rates will have to rise a lot (toward the higher end of the 4.5% to 6% range),” the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates LP wrote in a LinkedIn article dated Tuesday. “This will bring private sector credit growth down, which will bring private… Source link
Read More »Housing affordability hits worst level in 37 years
Housing affordability hasn’t been this bad since Ronald Reagan was president. It now takes 35.51% of the median household income to make a principal and interest payment on the median home with 20% down, according to figures mortgage technology and data provider Black Knight shared with Yahoo Money. That’s the highest payment-to-income ratio since October 1985 when it took 36.01% of household income to make that payment. Just in January, that ratio was 24.61%, below the long-term average… Source link
Read More »Will 2022 be the Year of the Receiver?
The NFL is a snow-globe league and every week and every season is weird, and weird in its own way. You want to be careful with overarching fantasy themes and takeaways because we’re never far away from a set of unexpected results. That said, the top wide receivers sure ran pure in Week 1, and it has to make you wonder: Will Fantasy Football 2022 be defined by big-name, glamorous pass-catchers? Is this the year of the receiver? Consider the top-seven scoring wideouts in the opening week: •… Source link
Read More »Fortinet Championship Picks and Strategy
This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Golf series. Fortinet Championship Napa, CaliforniaSilverado Resort & Spa (North Course) – Par 72 – 7,123 yardsField – 156 entrantsPurse – $8M The Preview Upon the announcement of scheduling changes beyond the upcoming 2022-23 season, the PGA Tour’s final traditional fall series commences this week in wine country as Napa Valley’s Silverado Resort plays host to the Fortinet Championship for the ninth consecutive year. The 7,123-yard, par-72 layout… Source link
Read More »Biden approves $900M for charger spending at Detroit Auto Show
A Mustang stampede and a presidential visit are on offer at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. The show, also known as the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), usually takes place in January from the Huntington Place convention center next to the usually frozen Detroit River. But due to COVID-19 and other changes, the show was cancelled last year and moved to September. Though many automakers have been pulling away from traditional auto shows, some of the bigger automakers are still… Source link
Read More »Google cancels half the projects at its internal R&D group Area 120 • TechCrunch
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient — a comment some in the industry took to mean headcount reductions could soon be on the table. Now, it seems that prediction may be coming true. TechCrunch has learned and Google confirmed the company is slashing projects at its in-house R&D division known as Area 120. The company on Tuesday informed staff of a “reduction in force” which will see the… Source link
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