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While many fans might be rooting for a comeback story this weekend as Tiger Woods returns to professional golf for the first time since a severe leg injury 14 months ago, sportsbooks likely aren’t rooting for the movie-esque comeback. All four of the sportsbooks Yahoo Finance collected data from on Thursday listed Tiger Woods as the most bet-on golfer to win the Masters Tournament. BetMGM (MGM) listed Woods as one of the sportsbooks’ biggest “liabilities” prior to the… Source link

Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [ Last time on Fact or Fiction: The Phoenix Suns are championship favorites ] We are approaching the two-month mark since the Philadelphia 76ers traded Ben Simmons, Seth Curry, Andre Drummond and two first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets for James Harden. Simmons has not yet played for… Source link

Biden administration officials have been publicly and privately cajoling energy executives to increase production and help lower gasoline prices, which are well above $4 per gallon. Asking won’t work, however. Even if they ask nicely. Oil and natural gas producers base drilling decisions on economic factors and profitability estimates, not on requests from politicians. If President Biden wanted to, his administration could adjust federal policy in ways that would make fossil fuel… Source link

Although the House’s recent approval of the MORE Act offered marijuana advocates a glimmer of hope for federal legalization, the Senate appears to be obstinate as ever on the issue. That isn’t stopping Tilray Brands (TLRY), a top cannabis producer in Canada, from making plans for the U.S. market. “By 2030, it’s a $100 billion business out there,” Tilray Brands CEO Irwin Simon said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “And even if it didn’t go legal, it’s still a good-sized business. Consumers… Source link

News flash: Chan Sung Jung, aka “The Korean Zombie,” is not really a zombie. Not even close, actually. The one thing zombies don’t have is emotions, and the Zombie admitted to a whole host of them in an interview with Yahoo Sports which impacted the way he performed in the two biggest fights of his life to date. Zombie fights Alexander Volkanovski for the featherweight title on Saturday in the main event of UFC 273 in Jacksonville, Florida. He said he believes the disappointments from… Source link

Employees at more than 100 U.S.-based Amazon (AMZN) facilities have contacted Amazon Labor Union (ALU) President Chris Smalls about unionizing their workplaces since a historic union victory at a warehouse on Staten Island a week ago, Smalls told Yahoo Finance on Friday. Smalls, a former Amazon warehouse worker who led the organizing campaign on Staten Island, said he plans to hold a “national call” with employees at the Amazon facilities within the next two weeks. When asked whether he… Source link

We’ve wrapped up the first week of April, and it feels like the April Fools’ pranks are still with us. Market headwinds have multiplied and receded, all at once. Covering the macro situation from banking giant JPMorgan, global market strategist Marko Kolanovic writes: “Equities risk-reward is not as poor as it is currently fashionable to believe… While the exogenous geopolitical crisis continues to present a binary set of outcomes, the activity momentum ahead of this shock was… Source link

Phoenix Suns guard Mikal Bridges made his case during the 2021-22 NBA campaign as to why he’s more than deserving of winning this season’s Defensive Player of the Year award. But it’s going to take voters — consisting of sportswriters and broadcasters — looking beyond traditional defensive stats that often favor a center’s candidacy. Bridges, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Sports, wants voters to dig deeper. “I would never discredit anybody, and obviously bigs have been… Source link

Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley chief economist and former Federal Reserve deputy director of monetary affairs, thinks there is no way around a sharp slowing of the economy as the Federal Reserve embarks deeper into its rate hiking cycle. “If you think about what the Fed itself thinks is the long-run sustainable growth rate of the economy, they think that rate of growth is below 2%. And so if you take a growth rate in the economy that’s above 5% or 6%, and you’re going to try to bring it down… Source link

Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is airborne. That simple declaration from the White House is what some experts around the world have known since 2020 — and it could have major implications for U.S. businesses and organizations. Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and deputy assistant to President Joe Biden, announced the highly-awaited words in a recent statement. “The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person… Source link