Jalen Duren and the Pistons travel to San Antonio to face the Spurs Friday night at 8 ET. The NBA closes out the work week with 11 games on Friday. Injuries and players resting will once again take center stage. The 76ers have already ruled out Joel Embiid, who will be missing his second straight game because of a foot injury. The Cavaliers have said Donovan Mitchell will sit out their matchup with the Nuggets for rest. The Nuggets will be playing the second game of a back-to-back set, so… Source link
Read More »‘Now is the time to take some action’ on credit card debt, expert says
The new year may bring higher interest rates that could increase credit card debt for many Americans. “If the Fed is going to raise rates another 100 basis points, one full percentage point, your credit card rate is going to go up one full percentage point,” Bankrate.com Chief Financial Analyst Greg McBride told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “So this is really important. If you’re carrying a balance, now’s the time to take some action.” He advises credit card holders to increase their… Source link
Read More »If McCarthy withdraws, other alternatives could become viable for speaker, source says
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters as he leaves the House of Representatives floor after the House voted to adjourn for the evening on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (Jose Luis Magana/AP) If Kevin McCarthy steps aside, House Republicans could quickly coalesce around another candidate who could easily get the 218 votes needed to become speaker, according to a Republican opposing McCarthy’s bid for speaker who spoke with Yahoo News. Republicans have repeatedly floated top House… Source link
Read More »House members blocking McCarthy speaker bid meet at offices of ex-Trump chief Mark Meadows
Several Republican House members fighting to stop Rep. Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker met Friday morning at the offices of the Conservative Partnership Institute, an organization run by Mark Meadows and Jim DeMint. Meadows, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina, was chief of staff to former President Donald Trump and played a central role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He joined CPI as senior partner in January 2021, a few weeks after Trump supporters stormed… Source link
Read More »Is Anthony Edwards’ immense talent ready to fulfill the burden of Minnesota’s great expectations?
Anthony Edwards has busy ears. There are the whispers from Timberwolves teammates, as he’s heading back to the huddle, as he’s sitting on the bench, as he’s stepping out of the postgame showers. There is veteran guard Austin Rivers’ counsel and hype from the locker next door. Sitting courtside before every pregame warmup, Edwards attends assistant coach Joe Boylan’s private film lessons with an iPad in their lap. He’s wrapped in a constant exchange with head coach Chris Finch,… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Partners With Scope3 To Offer a Carbon-Neutral Private Marketplace
Yahoo has announced its partnership with Scope3 to provide advertisers with a carbon-neutral private marketplace in the Yahoo SSP. Discover what this means for ad buyers and why this is important in today’s business environment. Yahoo has announced an integration with Scope3, a company that measures end-to-end emissions across the advertising and media supply chain. The integration aims to offer advertisers a carbon-neutral private marketplace (PMP) in the Yahoo… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Partners With Scope3 To Offer a Carbon-Neutral Private Marketplace
Yahoo has announced its partnership with Scope3 to provide advertisers with a carbon-neutral private marketplace in the Yahoo SSP. Discover what this means for ad buyers and why this is important in today’s business environment. Yahoo has announced an integration with Scope3, a company that measures end-to-end emissions across the advertising and media supply chain. The integration aims to offer advertisers a carbon-neutral private marketplace (PMP) in the Yahoo… Source link
Read More »Tesla stock tumbles after company cuts prices in China
Tesla (TSLA) stock fell early Friday after the company cut the price on two of its models in China, the automaker’s second cut in three months as it battles waning demand in the country. Tesla cut prices on its China Model 3 by 13.5%, which now starts at $33,515, and its Model Y by 10%, which now starts at $37,899, according to calculations from Reuters. Shares of the company fell more than 7% at the market open on Friday following the news, setting a new 52-week low for the automaker. Tesla… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: January 6, 2022
U.S. stock futures were higher Friday morning after the December jobs report showed the economy added more jobs than expected in the final month of 2022. About 40 minutes before the market open, futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) were up about 0.9%, while contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) were higher by closer to 1%. The Labor Department’s final jobs report of 2022 showed the economy added 223,000 jobs last month while the… Source link
Read More »Payrolls rise by 223,000, unemployment rate falls to 3.5%
The last read on U.S. job growth in 2022 showed the labor market remained strong in the final month of the year, even as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to the highest level in 15 years. The Labor Department published its monthly jobs report for December at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Here are highlights from the release, compared to Wall Street estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Non-farm payrolls: +223,000 vs. +202,000 expected Unemployment rate: 3.5% vs. 3.7% expected Average hourly… Source link
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