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CEO reveals how oat milk giant will spend its IPO billions

The king of oat milk Oatly (OTLY) has big plans on how it will spend the $1.43 billion or so it raised from a well-received IPO on Thursday.  Investors should expect an ambitious plan to expand manufacturing capacity to meet strong demand for Oatly oat milk, long-time CEO Toni Petersson said on Yahoo Finance Live.  “It’s to build supply, to build out our production capacity across the three continents,” Petersson said, referring to the use of its new capital infusion. Petersson — who has… Source link

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Retirement reform is on track for Biden’s signature ‘hopefully this year’: Rep. Kevin Brady

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Pulls the Trigger on 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks There are experts out there in the stock market whose investing moves command respect. They’ve earned this through the long-term cultivation of a reputation for true savvy in finding solid returns – and few of these experts have the stature of billionaire financier Ray Dalio. Dalio got his start trading commodity futures on Wall Street, and in 1975 he founded Bridgewater Associates from his New York City… Source link

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it’s time for America to be competitive in electric vehicles

Ford CEO Jim Farley is sending a clear message to those on Capitol Hill who are tepid to support President Joe Biden’s investments in America’s electric vehicle infrastructure.  Either sign-off on the funding, or risk America falling further behind in an EV race being won at the moment by China.  “I think it’s time for us to be competitive [on electric vehicles]. We have got to be globally competitive in batteries. All the chip manufacturing, some of it has to come back to the U.S. This is a… Source link

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Swedish Brothers Ride Oat Milk Boom to $562 Million Fortune

(Bloomberg) — It began with a group of scientists and a wild idea: That the byproduct remaining after making oat bran could be turned into non-dairy milk. That idea became the foundation of Oatly Group AB, the Swedish oat milk company that debuted Thursday in New York after raising $1.4 billion in an initial public offering. The share sale cements the fortunes of one of the scientists, Rickard Oste, and his brother Bjorn Oste, who co-founded the Malmo-based company. The American depositary… Source link

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Oatly goes public at $22.12 per share, 31% above its listing price

Bloomberg Don’t Fear the Taper: Fed to Dominate Treasury Market for Years (Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast.Treasury investors fretting about when the Federal Reserve will scale back its bond purchases may be missing the bigger picture: Its more than $5 trillion stockpile will make it a major force for years to come.The prospect of a pullback in buying edged a little nearer Wednesday when minutes of the Federal Open… Source link

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Andy Cohen on why it took so long to add a Black cast member to ‘RHOBH’

Andy Cohen is talking about diversity within The Real Housewives franchise. Cohen, who executive produces the series and hosts the reunion specials, appeared on Garcelle Beauvais‘s podcast and was asked why it took so long to have a Black cast member on the Beverly Hills franchise — and when viewers will see an all-gay cast. Cohen said on Going to Bed with Garcelle that it took to Season 10 of Bravo’s RHOBH, in 2019, to add Beauvais as the first Black woman in 10 seasons because they were… Source link

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Yahoo Fantasy Baseball: Updated outfield rankings

Shuffle Up season is here. How would we rank and sort players if a fantasy league were assembling from scratch right this second? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Included on this list is everyone roster-worthy who qualifies at outfield in the Yahoo game. I will not debate ranks on injured players. Of course, baseball is most fun when the best players are healthy and doing their thing; I root for everybody. But these weekly staples are not meant to be injury arguments. If you have… Source link

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Health care in America ‘is completely out of whack’ as millions face medical debt collections

Health care costs in the U.S. continue to grow year after year, leaving Americans with more and more debt. According to Credit Karma data provided to Yahoo Finance, roughly 21 million Americans holding $46 billion of medical debt as of April 2021 face collections — meaning that a third-party debt collector is trying to obtain the money owed. “Our system is completely out of whack,” Frederick Isasi, executive director at Families USA, a nonprofit and nonpartisan consumer health advocacy… Source link

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After verification freeze, here’s how you can get Twitter’s blue check mark

By Elizabeth Culliford Twitter users can once again apply to be verified after a years-long freeze on public submissions for the site’s blue check marks, though the company said only “notable” users would be awarded the badge. The social media company paused public submissions for these badges in 2017 amid criticism that its verification program was arbitrary and confusing. It said at the time the check mark was being confused with “an endorsement or an indicator of importance”. Under the new… Source link

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Billionaire Founder of China Property Giant Dies of Illness

(Bloomberg) — The billionaire founder of KE Holdings Inc. has died of an unspecified illness, a shocking development for a Chinese property company that pulled off one of the strongest U.S. market debuts of 2020. Zuo Hui, who turned the company known as Beike from a nationwide chain of real estate offices into China’s largest platform for housing transactions and services, died May 20 after an “unexpected worsening of illness,” his company said in a statement without elaborating. KE… Source link

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