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The record-setting U.S. economy is here: Morning Brief

  Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Jobs growth soars, service activity hits a record, and it is still only April.  For months, we’ve written here at The Morning Brief about the coming surge in economic activity this year. And the days of realizing this growth are just beginning.   On Monday, data from IHS Markit and the Institute for Supply Management on activity in the services sector blew the doors off… Source link

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AstraZeneca under pressure as UK considers under-30s ban

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Says These 3 Stocks Are Ready to Rip Higher Current market conditions are pushing investors into stocks – and the result is record-high valuations. The S&P 500 has hit a new all-time high, and the NASDAQ, which peaked in February, remains within 3% of its record level and is headed back up. While this is obviously good for investors’ portfolios, there is some concern that we may be looking at a stock bubble. Weighing in from Goldman Sachs, however, strategist Petter… Source link

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Yahoo! Answers to Shut Down on May 4

(Credit: Yahoo) After more than 15 years on the internet, Yahoo! Answers is shutting down next month.  Users will no longer be able to post new content on Yahoo! Answers starting on April 20. Then on May 4, the site will officially go offline.  “While Yahoo Answers was once a key part of Yahoo’s products and services, it has become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed,” Yahoo said in an email sent to users on Monday.    Tweet Indeed, other… Source link

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Yahoo Answers is shutting down

Say “goodbye” to one of the internet’s favorite dinosaurs. Yahoo announced today that its’ social Q&A platform, Yahoo Answers, will shut down on May 4. In addition to the shut down, users will no longer be able to post questions or answers on the site beginning on April 20. Head on over to Yahoo Answers right now — what that’s not a site you already visit daily? — and you’ll find a message at the top of the page explaining the sunsetting of the service. Image: screenshot: matt binder /… Source link

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Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th

Yahoo Answers will shut down on May 4th, 2021. The website has been around since 2005, making it one of the longest-running Q&A platforms on the internet. In a FAQ spotted by The Verge, Yahoo (which is owned by Engadget’s parent company, Verizon Media) details how the process will unfold.  The company will start sunsetting the platform on April 20th. That’s when it plans to stop accepting new submissions. After May 4th, you’ll have until June 30th to download an archive of content you… Source link

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Yahoo Answers Is Shutting Down in May

Yahoo Answers, one of the internet’s most storied and often strange repositories of queries and advice, will shut down on May 4th. Posting on Yahoo Answers will be discontinued on April 20th, and after May 4th, Yahoo Answers will no longer be accessible, with the URL redirecting to Yahoo’s homepage. Up until June 30th, however, users will be able to download all of their Yahoo Answers data. Per an FAQ page, data download requests will return “all user-generated content including… Source link

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MLB All-Star game would put city’s ‘progressive voting system’ front and center

Major League Baseball (MLB) announced it will host its 2021 All-Star game in Denver this summer, just days after pulling the game out of Atlanta to protest Georgia’s new voting rights bill. “Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and the State of Colorado for their support of this summer’s All-Star Game,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “We appreciate their flexibility and enthusiasm to deliver a first-class event for our game and the… Source link

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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th

Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. The platform has been operating since 2005, and in the years since its relevance as a meme haven has remained intact while its practicality as a forum has waned during the rise of Reddit, Quora,… Source link

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Biden’s electric vehicle ambitions may send Tesla stock skyrocketing beyond $1,300: analyst

Tesla shares (TSLA) are getting a nice pop on Monday following much better than expected first quarter delivery numbers, but the real upside to shares in the medium-term will be in part due to efforts out of the Biden administration to get people into electric cars.  Or so says Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives, who lifted his rating on Monday to Outperform with a $1,000 price target. Ives’ bull case price target is $1,300, reflecting optimism on Biden’s EV ambitions.  “We are hearing from our… Source link

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What to know this week

undefined Traders returning from the long holiday weekend will turn their attention to more commentary out of the Federal Reserve, with the Federal Open Market Committee’s latest meeting minutes and a speech from Fed Chair Jerome Powell on deck. Relatively few new economic data reports or corporate earnings results are scheduled for release.  The FOMC’s meeting minutes, due out Wednesday afternoon, will elucidate members’ thinking from their March meeting. At the conclusion of that meeting,… Source link

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