The days of sub 2% inflation — as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — look over for quite some time, thinks DoubleLine’s co-chief investment officer Jeff Sherman. Sherman assigns the blame to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and in part the extremely easy monetary policy employed by the Federal Reserve to gin up the economy throughout the health crisis.  “I don’t think we are going back to the old school one and a half to 2% inflation because it’s permeated the psyche for a period… Source link

It is 2022! Happy New Year! The fantasy football regular season has to come to an end for many players — well, some leagues are still playing in Week 18 — so even though it might seem early for such thoughts, why not look towards next fantasy season? Why not make some bold predictions for it too? Andy Behrens, Matt Harmon and Tank Williams do just that in the video above, sharing their biggest takes for three key players. [Play in Yahoo’s Week 18 Million Dollar Baller DFS contest] Matt… Source link

There are more scams you need to watch out for if you’re shopping online, especially on sites like Facebook Marketplace or CraigsList. What may seem like an attempt to verify your identity during a sale may actually make you a target for scammers. Image provided by the Federal Trade Commission FTC information on the Google Voice scam Here’s how it works… Scammers reach out to you and say they want to make sure you are who you say you are, so they send… Source link

We’re heading into Week 18, and we’re building our final main slate around a Saints stack as they aim for the final playoff spot in the NFC. We also want to do our best to feature players who will receive a full complement of snaps in our Week 18 Yahoo DFS tournament picks. The final week of the NFL regular season can be tricky to navigate in DFS, but we see it as an opportunity to take advantage. As always, we’ll have some sleepers and under-valued dart throws… Source link

Bond king Jeffrey Gundlach has a lot on his mind as it pertains to markets when Yahoo Finance sits down with the DoubleLine founder at length inside his California estate on the first trading day of 2022.  China isn’t a great market to be investing in, contends Gundlach. Stock valuations as measured by the DoubleLine favorite the CAPE ratio appear too rich, says Gundlach.  But it’s Gundlach’s warning on the path of the U.S. economy — in part caused by looming interest rate hikes by the… Source link

Cincinnati cornerback Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner, the defensive star of the Bearcats’ run to the College Football Playoff, is leaving school early to declare for the NFL draft, he told Yahoo Sports in a phone interview. Gardner projects as a first-round draft pick with the strong potential to end up in the top 15, according to NFL scouts. His productive junior year thrust him into the conversation among the top corners in the 2022 class. Gardner, who is 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, earned… Source link

The Google name is displayed outside the company’s office in London, Britain November 1, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Jan 4 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc-owned (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup Siemplify, at a time when there has been a significant rise in cyber attacks and data breaches. Since the pandemic started in 2020, Google’s revenue from the cloud business nearly doubled to around $5… Source link

Cybersecurity breaches are at a high watermark, and so any company serious about expanding its credibility and business in enterprise IT has to continue investing in tackling it. To that end, Google is kicking off the new year by stepping up its operations in cloud-based and enterprise security. Today the company confirmed that it has acquired Siemplify, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup that specializes in end-to-end security services for enterprises, typically referred to as… Source link

Between the 2013 and 2019 seasons, all 14 Super Bowl teams had first-round byes. From 1990 to 2019, the last season of the 12-team playoff field in which two teams in each conference got byes, 80 percent of Super Bowl participants had byes (h/t to CBS Sports).  Stories like the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a wild-card team that won a Super Bowl, did happen. But it was rare. Teams with byes had a big advantage, for obvious reasons. Then the NFL expanded the playoff field, taking that edge teams… Source link

Dallas Cowboys NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is ready to take on Big Beer names such as Budweiser and MolsonCoors with the same intensity as he did long-time rivals the New York Giants on a Sunday primetime matchup.  Well sort of, but you get the point.  Aikman, 55, revealed Tuesday he will be launching EIGHT beer after two years of developing the product along with award-winning brewmaster and beer industry veteran Phil Leinhart. Billed as suds for the modern beer drinker — in… Source link