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U.S. stock futures sank lower to start the week, extending a sell-off that began Friday after a hawkish speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the central bank’s gathering in Jackson Hole. Futures tied to the S&P 500 tumbled 0.9%, and futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by roughly the same margin, or 290 points. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite shed 1.2%. Meanwhile in the bond market, the benchmark 10-year Treasury note surged above 3%, and the 2-year Treasury yield… Source link

Pittsburgh Steelers running back Najee Harris saw his first action of the preseason on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Harris carried the ball four times for 10 yards and seemed like a guy who has missed a lot of time. But after the game, Harris revealed that the reason he’s been out the past four weeks was more serious than the team had divulged. According to Harris, he’s dealing with a Lisfranc injury and is right at the four-week mark in his recovery. Harris didn’t run like a guy… Source link

Candace Parker did just about everything in her power to lead the Sky to a win on Sunday night. It just wasn’t quite enough. The Connecticut Sun fended off a massive fourth-quarter push, and a historic outing for Parker, to beat the Sky 68-63 in Game 1 of their semifinals series at Wintrust Arena. “A lot of free-flowing offenses of the four teams left, and we know who we are,” Sun coach Curt Miller said, via ESPN. “We’re blue collar. We’re going to be good around the basket. We’re going to… Source link

Colin Kaepernick and longtime girlfriend Nessa Diab announced the birth of their first child on Sunday. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is now officially a father. Kaepernick and his longtime girlfriend Nessa Diab announced the birth of their first child on Sunday afternoon on social media. “I thought long and hard about sharing our life changing news today. I decided to do so because today is the first day in a few weeks where I stepped… Source link

One of the Boston Celtics‘ reinforcements for the 2022-23 season may be out for some time. Forward Danilo Gallinari, who signed a two-year, $13.3 million deal with the Celtics last month, went down with a non-contact knee injury while playing for Italy in a FIBA World Cup qualifier on Saturday. Gallinari was diagnosed with a torn meniscus on Sunday, though there was no reported ligament damage, Italy announced. “It’s tough to talk about basketball after what what we saw happen to Danilo,” Italy… Source link

Stocks took a nosedive on Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave every indication that the central bank would continue raising interest rates to combat inflation. Investors with a weak stomach for volatility may be wondering if its better to stay in cash during these volatile markets. In continuation of our series, “What to do in a bear market,” Yahoo Finance asked the experts if holding cash is wise given how inflation eats away at savings. Do you recommend holding cash during… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. September, and the NFL, are right around the corner. For now, though, we can still enjoy a Sunday dedicated to MLB action. I’ve got 14 games worth of players to look at and have found these recommendations for you. Pitching Dylan Cease, CWS vs. ARI ($52): Cease recently had his first two off outings in a while. In the process, he elevated his ERA all the way to a still-excellent 2.27 and his FIP to 2.99. The Diamondbacks are in the… Source link

Ash, a 34-year-old accountant from Connecticut, graduated from college in 2009 year with more than $100,000 in private loans, she says. Still, she thinks of herself as relatively lucky. With the help of her husband, who didn’t have his own student loans, they managed to pay them off in March 2022, after 12 years of making sacrifices so they could afford the monthly loan payments. Even if Ash, who asked Fortune not to share her last name to protect her privacy, hadn’t completely paid off her… Source link

Tom Brady is back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but we still don’t quite know what caused him to miss 11 days of training camp (unless you’re still convinced by “The Masked Singer” theory). Brady, for his part, doesn’t seem interested in enlightening the public on what happened, and that continued on Saturday after the Bucs’ preseason finale against the Indianapolis Colts. Asked about the absence during his postgame news conference, Brady’s answer was at least honest in spirit. Brady’s full… Source link

The Seattle Mariners know how to get in the spirit of “Ichiro Weekend.” With Ichiro Suzuki slated to enter the Mariners’ Hall of Fame on Saturday, the team made a whole weekend out of the occasion and started it on Friday by bringing back one of their most famous fans, “Ichiro Girl,” a.k.a. Iris Skinner. Skinner found viral fame in 2010 during a game against the New York Yankees, when Suzuki accidentally struck her in the face while trying to catch a foul ball in the right-field stands. A… Source link