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Yahoo Finance Australia and Thrive Global have announced a partnership to improve mental health and financial wellbeing. Yahoo Finance Australia today announced it will become the exclusive media partner to behavioural change platform Thrive Global APAC. The two platforms will work together on a number of events and editorial initiatives throughout 2021 to promote mental and financial health amongst their audiences. Kicking off the partnership is Yahoo Finance Breakfast Club’s ‘Women’s… Source link

How stimulus checks can give you a $14,000 windfall this year Congress is nearing the finish line as lawmakers race to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package by mid-March. Included in the package is the third round of stimulus checks — for up to $1,400 this time — plus an extension of emergency federal unemployment benefits, an expanded child tax credit and more. So if you need more help to pay down debt or cover household expenses, you may start to receive it in a few… Source link

The Conversation Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire Inspiration for a mob of angry white men? Getty ImagesFrom Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. Displays of Crusader shields and tattoos derived from Norse and Celtic symbols are of little surprise to medieval historians like me who have long documented the appropriation of the Middle… Source link

ESPN reportedly wanted to lure Skip Bayless back, but all that did was make the pundit an even richer man with Fox Sports. Bayless has signed a four-year, $32 million deal to remain at Fox despite a similar offer from ESPN. Per Andrew Marchand of the New York Post, ESPN offered Bayless somewhere in the range of $26.5 million to $31 million as part of a planned reunion with former “First Take” partner Stephen A. Smith. Bayless famously left ESPN back in 2016 when Fox Sports, as part of a new… Source link

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MMA Weekly Khamzat Chimaev says he’s done; Chechen leader and Dana White say he’s not retiring In the space of 24 hours, rising UFC star Khamzat Chimaev indicated that he was done fighting, but then was talked into continuing on by controversial Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. UFC president Dana White also backed that sentiment, telling MMA Junkie that Chimaev “ain’t quitting.” Chimaev’s UFC career was off to a brilliant start in 2020. The Chechen fighter rattled off three consecutive… Source link

MIAMI, FLORIDA – FEBRUARY 04: A ‘Help Wanted’ sign is posted in front of a business on February 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The Labor Department announced weekly unemployment claims declined to 779,000 last week. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week increased slightly, with the latest weekly total of initial claims coming in at 745,000. While some states have seen unemployment applications recede from record highs after the… Source link

TipRanks 2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks Insiders Are Snapping Up In a casino, if you play long enough, the House always wins; this is just a matter of probabilities and available resources. It’s different in the stock market, even though there is a tendency to refer to stock investing as a game. Smart investors don’t have to ‘beat the house’ to come out ahead; this is not a zero-sum game. Rather, it’s a game of strategy. Successful investors will look for some edge, an ‘in’ that will… Source link

Current Kansas coach Les Miles was banned from being alone with female students while he was the coach at LSU following allegations of inappropriate behavior. LSU released a 2013 internal investigation into the coach’s behavior after USA Today sued to make it public. Its release comes after the investigation’s existence became known in late February. Per USA Today’s summation of the report, Miles was issued a letter of reprimand for his behavior in addition to being ordered to not be alone… Source link

Bloomberg Oil Sands Give OPEC a Boost With Half-Million-Barrel Output Cut (Bloomberg) — Major oil sands producers in Western Canada will idle almost half a million barrels a day of production next month, helping tighten global supplies as oil prices surge.Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s plans to conduct 30 days of maintenance at its Horizon oil sands upgrader in April will curtail roughly 250,000 barrels a day of light synthetic crude output, company President Tim McKay said in an… Source link