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Black Friday starts with a whimper

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 40% Expectations of good news on the near horizon are buoying markets right now. Over the past month, both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are up 11% to new record highs.Investors are excited at the prospect of a COVID vaccine coming before the winter is out. And the electoral results, that Democrat Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency while the Republicans will emerge strengthened in Congress, promise the avoidance of extremes typical of… Source link

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Wall Street aims for re-test of Dow 30K; Tesla cruises to new record

Wall Street opened higher on Friday, with stocks aiming to re-test the week’s records in thin, post-Thanksgiving trading, as hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine momentarily counterbalance soaring infection rates. The New York Stock Exchange will end the trading day at 1p.m. Eastern. Stocks are consolidated their gains after the Dow Jones Industrial Average was catapulted above 30,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday, with an increasing number of investors encouraged by expectations that a… Source link

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EV battery developer QuantumScape begins trading on NYSE

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 40% Expectations of good news on the near horizon are buoying markets right now. Over the past month, both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are up 11% to new record highs.Investors are excited at the prospect of a COVID vaccine coming before the winter is out. And the electoral results, that Democrat Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency while the Republicans will emerge strengthened in Congress, promise the avoidance of extremes typical of… Source link

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Trevor Milton Can Dump His Nikola Stock On Monday — Will He?

TipRanks Goldman Sachs: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 40% Expectations of good news on the near horizon are buoying markets right now. Over the past month, both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are up 11% to new record highs.Investors are excited at the prospect of a COVID vaccine coming before the winter is out. And the electoral results, that Democrat Joe Biden will ascend to the Presidency while the Republicans will emerge strengthened in Congress, promise the avoidance of extremes typical of… Source link

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Carson Wentz, Eagles face Seahawks on Yahoo Sports app

It’s understandable why we want to make excuses for Carson Wentz. Wentz was a dynamic player for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017 before a season-ending knee injury. He was a leading candidate for MVP. Patrick Mahomes was still at Texas Tech, and Wentz was considered the future of the NFL. It’s hard to believe that player we saw early in his career has fallen off. We’d rather blame his lack of a supporting cast. Wentz’s play has fallen off. We’ve heard all about how his offensive line… Source link

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Consumer confidence dropping as Black Friday arrives: Morning Brief

Friday, November 27, 2020 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Expectations are high for the holiday shopping season. Will consumers disappoint? It is Black Friday in America. This most American of all holidays — a celebration of profligate consumer spending — marks the official start of the holiday shopping season for most retailers. And expectations in this year like no other are high. Back in October, the Morning Brief covered… Source link

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Previewing every Week 12 game

The Telegraph How Diego Maradona’s life spiralled to leave him a hobbling, arthritic shadow of his former self The final moments of Asif Kapadia’s magnificent film Diego Maradona are almost too painful to watch. To a soundtrack of an interview conducted when he was at the peak of his powers in Napoli, when he talks of the football pitch being a refuge, a sanctuary, a place of freedom where he could express himself without fear, we see Maradona in his late fifties attempting to play… Source link

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Why this town was forced to change its name

An Austrian town, famed for it’s name, will be renamed come January 1 next year, after locals reportedly got sick of English-speakers sniggering and stealing signs. F**king, a village of some 100 people located 350km from Vienna will change its name in the new year to ‘Fugging’ the local council has revealed. The municipal council revealed the name change will take effect on January 1. As it turns out the locals were growing tired of English-speaking tourists stopping off to take photos… Source link

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Bitcoin Steadies After Biggest Slump Since March’s Meltdown

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin and other digital coins steadied Friday after posting some of the biggest declines since the onset of the pandemic, a selloff that stoked fresh questions about this year’s boom in cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin climbed above $17,400, following a slide of as much as 14% to $16,227 on Thursday. Fears over tighter crypto regulations and profit-taking after a frenetic rally were among the reasons cited for the tumble. “After big rallies in shares and various other assets,… Source link

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Trump snaps over election question

As he struggles to come to terms with losing the election, US president Donald Trump has lashed out at a journalist in a bitter tirade at the White House. On Thursday (local time) Trump took questions from the media for the first time since election day, but didn’t like being confronted with the reality of his loss. The president renewed baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states cost him the election. He angrily denounced officials in Georgia and… Source link

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