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Fourth stimulus check: Will Biden and Congress give you another payment? As millions of Americans still wait for their third stimulus check, speculation is heating up over the prospects for a fourth round of cash payments to help households and the U.S. economy recover from the pandemic. Online searches for the phrase “fourth stimulus check” have mushroomed over the past few weeks, according to Google Trends, and one economist says another payment is “certainly possible.” More than 60 members… Source link

Indiana University has hired former Atlanta Hawks and New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson as head coach. The program announced the news Sunday afternoon, confirming multiple reports from earlier in the day. Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports that Woodson had been in the mix for the job since it opened and became a priority for Indiana after Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens and Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann turned it down. The position opened on March 15 when Indiana fired Archie Miller…. Source link

MMA Weekly Francis Ngannou wants to fight Jon Jones, despite Dana White’s doubts After knocking out Stipe Miocic in the second round to win the UFC heavyweight championship at UFC 260, Francis Ngannou spoke to the media at the post-fight press conference about what could be next for his career. Earlier in the evening at the press conference, UFC president Dana White said he was 100-percent willing to make a title fight between Ngannou and Jon Jones. But White also expressed doubt that Jones… Source link

The Los Angeles Lakers have their new big man. Free agent center Andre Drummond is planning to sign with the Lakers on Sunday, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, one day after officially agreeing to a contract buyout with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Drummond will be eligible to officially sign when he clears waivers at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday. Drummond’s tenure with the Cavaliers came to an end shortly after the trade deadline, when teams declined to acquire the big man on his $28 million salary…. Source link

What goes up must come down, as we all know. This fact of physics is the underlying worry of the stock market, that fuels our suspicions of bubbles. But investment firm Goldman Sachs doesn’t believe we should worry; the firm’s chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer gives several reasons to expect that the market’s current upward trend is real. His key points include the equity risk premium, the real profits realized by the Big Tech giants, and the high savings rate of US… Source link

undefined Traders are heading into a packed week of economic reports, with a surfeit of new information on the state of the U.S. labor market set to be released. One of the most closely watched prints will be Friday’s March jobs report from the Labor Department. Equity investors will have a couple of days to digest the results, however, as the stock market will be closed on Friday in observance of Good Friday. The March jobs report is expected to be the first this year to show meaningful… Source link

The IRS is under serious stress — what does that mean for your refund? If you’ve ever had trouble staying on top of your paperwork, you’re probably still doing great compared to the IRS. Along with a serious backlog of unprocessed returns and yet more stimulus checks to send out, the tax agency is now under the microscope for their falling audit rates as it struggles to keep up with its increased workload. As Biden considers big tax hikes, a new report is putting a spotlight on how the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Tucked between the Gulf of Oman and a craggy mountain range, the dusty port Fujairah isn’t an obvious base from which to try and revolutionize the Middle East’s oil markets. But on Monday, when Abu Dhabi begins selling futures contracts for its oil and then shipping the barrels from Fujairah, it will mark an aggressive shift by the emirate. It hopes to change the way nearly one-fifth of the world’s crude is priced. Persian Gulf states pump nearly 20 million barrels of oil… Source link

InvestorPlace 7 Bellwether Stocks to Buy That Will Soar As Normalcy Nears The stock market seems to be pricing in a lot of “normality” into valuations across the board. Stocks aren’t cheap, with investor sentiment broadly bullish. That makes scouting out bellwether stocks, true signals our world is returning to pre-pandemic ways, a difficult task. Furthermore, what’s “normal” is a matter of subjective interpretation. However, when I think of what normal looks like, it looks a lot… Source link

LAS VEGAS — The new UFC heavyweight champion is so powerful and so scary that when Dana White was asked about putting Jon Jones in the cage against him, the UFC president had some stunning advice for his long-time light heavyweight champion. “If I’m Jon Jones and I see that, I’m moving to 185,” White said in an obvious tweak to the man he’s had an uneven relationship with over the years, but also an acknowledgement of new champ Francis Ngannou’s scary punching power. That was the… Source link