Russian gas giant Gazprom said Tuesday that China will start paying for Russian gas in rubles and yuan instead of Western currency, as Moscow seeks closer ties with Beijing in the wake of economic sanctions over the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.  “A transition was made to making payments for Russian gas supplies to China in the national currencies of the countries — the ruble and yuan,” Gazprom said in a statement following a video conference meeting with Chinese oil group… Source link

Yahoo has acquired The Factual, a company that uses algorithms to rate the credibility of news sources, Yahoo president and general manager Matt Sanchez told Axios. Why it matters: The deal could provide Yahoo News’ 200 million+ monthly visitors with ratings for the thousands of news sources Yahoo aggregates on its site. “One of the biggest things that we hear from our users is that they’re worried about bias and how to understand the content that they’re consuming,” Sanchez said. Details:… Source link

BELGRADE, Serbia — The lavishly decorated main entrance of Serbia’s baroque-style parliament building was barely visible behind a sea of protest tents and a makeshift stage adorned with billboards.  One of the billboards featured the face of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov alongside the caption “the world’s greatest diplomat.” “We are the same people,” one of the protesters, a smiling blonde woman in her 40s, answered cheerfully when asked… Source link

The preseason doesn’t mean much, especially to the New England Patriots. Still, it’s not like the panic over their offense is entirely misplaced. In the preseason finale, after a few weeks of alarmist stories about how bad the offense looked in training camp, the Patriots’ starting offense struggled against the Las Vegas Raiders. That’s bad. What’s worse is it came against the Raiders’ backup defense. The Patriots’ starting offense played four series. Two of those possessions ended with punts… Source link

Yahoo and StarHub, Singapore’s official broadcaster of the Premier League, have teamed up to launch a dedicated Premier League topic hub on Yahoo Singapore. A one-stop destination for avid Premier League fans, the topic hub will comprise all the latest news, results, analyses, and player transfers during the 2022/23 season. As part of the campaign, which will run till 31 December 2022, readers will be able to access all Premier League-related content within the topic hub – featuring a mix… Source link

We’ve heard a lot recently about how the troubled Bed Bath & Beyond retail chain plans to solve its financial problems by changing its merchandising to include more national brands, taking out expensive loans, closing 150 stores, firing 20% of its workforce and potentially selling 12 million shares of new stock, which would raise some $100 million as of Friday’s closing price. (And, of course, there was more turmoil in recent days with the tragic suicide of Chief Financial Officer Gustavo… Source link

Welcome to the Week 1 Sunday main slate edition of RotoBaller’s NFL DFS Bargain Bin, where the goal is to touch on some potentially mispriced players across the industry that find themselves in favorable match-ups and/or suddenly expanded roles. Each week I’ll give you my thoughts on where there may be some value spots to exploit on the Sunday main slate and I hunt for value that might be site-specific on Yahoo, FanDuel, and DraftKings. Week 1 usually offers a lot of mispricings, whether… Source link

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U.S. stocks sank lower Tuesday as traders return to Wall Street for a holiday-shortened week after Labor Day. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.3%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined by the same margin, or about 100 points. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was off by 0.5%. The moves come after three straight weeks of losses for the major averages. “The market will enter the first full week of September looking to snap a three-week losing streak as investors continued to digest the… Source link

Yahoo! Inc., besieged by class actions accusing the pioneering internet search engine of sending unwanted ads via text message in violation of federal law, turned to its insurer to provide and pay for its legal defense. But, despite the existence of specifically negotiated and distinct “personal injury” and “advertising injury” coverage provisions according to Yahoo, National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., denied coverage. A San Jose federal judge agreed with the carrier,… Source link