If Tyson Fury follows through on his intention to retire, the final punch of his career may wind up being his best. Fury hit an oncoming Dillian Whyte with a stiff jab and immediately followed it with a blazing right uppercut. The right landed on the point of the chin and Whyte was immediately out cold, doing a dead fall backward. He managed to get up but staggered into the corner and referee Mark Lyson waved it off at 2:59 of the sixth round in front of a deliriously happy crowd of 94,000… Source link
Read More »Stocks Will Shake Off Gloom and Shine, Defiance’s Jablonski Says
(Bloomberg) — Dreary headlines wash over investors every day — war in Ukraine, inflation, the unending spread of Covid-19, supply-chain troubles. All the gloom has market analysts downgrading prospects for U.S. growth and predicting a recession. Most Read from Bloomberg But what if their projections are overblown? Sylvia Jablonski, the chief executive officer, chief investment officer and co-founder of Defiance ETFs, joined the “What Goes Up” podcast to talk about why she’s optimistic… Source link
Read More »LeBron James vows to never miss the playoffs again
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James would rather be playing basketball right now. Instead, James is sitting at home watching other teams try and win it all. James made it clear Friday he’s not a fan of that arrangement. James, 37, vowed to never again miss the postseason, saying, “This s*** HURT.” James has appeared in an astounding 266 playoff games in his career. He’s only missed the postseason four times over his 19-year career. Two of those seasons have come since James joined the… Source link
Read More »Unions are on the rise. Guess why.
Unions are coming back and it’s pretty obvious, (to most of us), why. The numbers are pretty small, but because the organizing has been at companies like Starbucks (SBUX), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOG, GOOGL), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Etsy (ETSY) and even Apple (AAPL), the optics and implications are huge. “Starbucks was a company that everybody thought could not be organized. Amazon was a place people thought you didn’t even try to organize; digital media workers didn’t organize,”… Source link
Read More »Experts say China’s lockdowns will make inflation and the supply chain nightmare even worse
China’s strict COVID-19 lockdowns will exacerbate global supply chain woes and add to inflation in the coming months, experts say. President Xi Jinping’s zero-COVID policy is being tested as the country struggles to tame its worst virus outbreak yet. Frustration is rising over food shortages, people being locked down in their homes for weeks, and a policy of killing pet dogs suspected of being infected with COVID. While China’s tech hub Shenzhen has emerged from its nearly month-long… Source link
Read More »Cathie Wood Says Fed Won’t Hike as Much as Market Priced In
(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg The Federal Reserve isn’t going to hike rates as much as markets are currently betting, according to Cathie Wood. The strategies of ARK Investment Management LLC, where Wood is founder and chief executive officer, have struggled recently amid fear of inflation, she said via video to the Seedly Personal Finance Festival in Singapore. The firm’s flagship ARK… Source link
Read More »Trillions of Negative-Yielding Bonds Vanish
(Bloomberg) — After another wild week in global money markets, traders are betting big on the biggest regime shift in Europe in years: the end of the negative interest-rate era before 2022 is over. Most Read from Bloomberg Fueled by a flurry of hawkish monetary signals over the past week, the interest-rate swaps market now projects the European Central Bank will deliver three quarter-point hikes by December — winding down the eight-year experiment with sub-zero borrowing costs that’s… Source link
Read More »Mark Jackson, Mike D’Antoni among familiar reported coaching candidates interviewing with Kings
While 16 teams remain alive for an NBA championship, the rest of the league is making plans for next season. For three teams — so far — this means finding a new head coach. The Charlotte Hornets fired head coach James Borrego on Friday and joined the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings in their searches for a new bench leader. The Lakers and Kings previously parted with Frank Vogel and Alvin Gentry, respectively, after likewise missing the playoffs. Candidates emerge Per multiple… Source link
Read More »Nordstrom Settles Patent Suit After Yahoo’s $15M Trial Loss
By Lauren Berg (April 22, 2022, 6:26 PM EDT) — A California federal judge Friday signed off on an agreement dismissing Nordstrom Inc. from claims that it infringed Droplets Inc.’s patented technology for quickly updating web pages, just a month after Yahoo Inc. was hit with a $15 million infringement verdict over the same claims. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar signed a stipulation noting that the small Texas company and the Seattle retail giant have settled the dispute and agreed… Source link
Read More »NFL planning Christmas tripleheader this year
The NFL is about to give Christmas Day the Thanksgiving treatment. With the league due to release its schedule for the 2022-23 season next month, NFL vice president of broadcasting Mike North appeared on the “SalSports….and Stuff” podcast this week to discuss the upcoming slate of games. North revealed that with Christmas scheduled to fall on a Sunday in 2022, the league is going to play an unprecedented triple-header of games on the holiday typically earmarked for basketball on the sports… Source link
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