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Plenty of us have been on more virtual calls than we’d care to remember over the past year, but now there’s one we can all look forward to, thanks to Yahoo Fantasy’s latest groundbreaking feature, Draft Together! What is Draft Together? Draft Together allows fantasy players the chance to use video chat when drafting. With virtual communication becoming the new norm, using Draft Together is a way to bring the spirit of in-person drafting, even while socially distanced. Leaguemates can chat and… Source link

SoFi’s (SOFI) long-awaited IPO on Tuesday isn’t the first time CEO Anthony Noto has had a splashy deal day.  Noto is a former tech analyst and investment banker at Goldman Sachs who spent more than 12 years at the firm (1999 to 2008, then a return from 2010 to 2014 after a stint in between as the NFL’s CFO). He played a key role in Twitter’s IPO while at Goldman — he then joined CEO Jack Dorsey at the company as chief operating officer for an almost four-year period. Given that extensive… Source link

With the U.S. labor market likely to bounce back strongly this summer from a surprisingly tepid April showing, the risks of an overheating economy remain on the rise.  “I do think there is a very good chance it [economy] will overheat,” said Jefferies Chief Financial Economist Aneta Markowska on Yahoo Finance Live. “I expect us to reach a roughly 3% unemployment rate by the end of next year.” As Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung explains in the latest edition of Yahoo U, there is no official… Source link

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link

With our calendars having flipped to June, this is the perfect time to recap some of the best and worst performances from the month of May. There should be some nuggets in this article that shape your lineup and streaming decisions as we start June action. Top offenses (May OPS in brackets) Blue Jays (.813), Astros (.786), Red Sox (.771): These are your lineups to avoid at the moment. Some observers will say that Blue Jays will flounder when they shift from Dunedin to Buffalo, but I don’t… Source link

After winning just one match, bad luck has ended Petra Kvitova’s time at the French Open. The Czech tennis player announced on Tuesday that she’s withdrawing from Roland-Garros due to a freak ankle injury she sustained on Sunday during her post-match media conference. “It is with great disappointment that I announce my withdrawal from Roland Garros. During my post-match press requirements on Sunday I fell and hurt my ankle. Unfortunately, after an MRI and much discussion with my team, I have… Source link

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Baz Luhrmann’s masterpiece Moulin Rouge!, I want to take you back to 2001. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Northern California. And when I say “middle of nowhere,” I mean that my parents had to drive 100 miles into a town in Oregon just so I could be born because my hometown hospital was not equipped to perform C-sections. Like many youths, I struggled to connect my fellow teens. I just had nothing in common with the people I went to high school… Source link

It was a stunner when 35-year-old LaMarcus Aldridge announced his retirement in April after a 15-year career. He’d been playing great basketball and was part of a Brooklyn Nets team that was destined to make waves in the playoffs.  With all that in his favor, it wasn’t a decision he reached lightly. Aldridge played his entire career with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a heart condition that can cause a rapid or irregular heartbeat. He’d had it under control for years, but as he told The… Source link

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks with 100% Upside Potential Every stock investor wants a strong return; that’s axiomatic, it’s why people get into the stock market to begin with. But the markets are inherently risky, and finding the sweet spot – the right combination of risk and reward – seems as much an art as a science. You can use science, however, to minimize the risk. We’re talking about statistical science, the study of numbers, their patterns, and the relationships between… Source link

TipRanks Oppenheimer: These 2 Stocks Have Triple-Digit Gains in Sight When the best talk, people listen. It works in all walks of life, but especially the stock market. Investors are keen to read the latest stock reviews from Wall Street’s professional analysts, but knowing who’s the best is the place to start. Covering the markets for investment firm and brokerage Oppenheimer, Colin Rusch has built a reputation that puts him at the top of the Street’s analyst corps. He’s currently… Source link