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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem speaks during a news conference (REUTERS/Blair Gable) The Bank of Canada raised its target for the overnight rate to 0.50 per cent. The 25 bps hike to contain inflation is the first since 2018, after cutting to help cushion the pandemic’s economic blow in 2020. Canada’s central bank says more rate hikes are coming but says it is following the situation in Ukraine closely. “The unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a major new source of… Source link

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina, decked out in the yellow and blue of her country’s flag, put on a clinic against her Russian opponent at the Monterrey Open on Tuesday. She defeated Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-1 in the opening round of the tournament, a match that just a day ago she had refused to play Svitolina, the 15th ranked women’s tennis player in the world and the No. 1 seed at the Monterrey Open, had originally refused to play against Potapova due to Russia’s invasion of her… Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now determined to ruthlessly crush Ukrainian resistance no matter what the cost to his country, and the Ukrainians fighting Russian forces will “all die,” says a former CIA station chief in Moscow. In an interview on the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast, Daniel Hoffman — for years one of the CIA’s top experts on Russia — said the Russian president is “not the Vladimir Putin I was tracking back in the day at the CIA. He’s a different… Source link

Yahoo Sports Signs First of its Kind Tourney NIL Deals with Top College Basketball Stars Paolo Banchero of #4 Duke and Chet Holmgren of #1 Gonzaga Los Angeles, CA, March 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — Troika Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRKA) (“TMG” or “Company”), a brand consultancy and marketing innovations company that provides integrated branding and marketing solutions for global brands, announced that it is collaborating with Yahoo Sports, its longstanding… Source link

Troika Media Group Yahoo Sports Signs First of its Kind Tourney NIL Deals with Top College Basketball Stars Paolo Banchero of #4 Duke and Chet Holmgren of #1 Gonzaga Los Angeles, CA, March 02, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — Troika Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRKA) (“TMG” or “Company”), a brand consultancy and marketing innovations company that provides integrated branding and marketing solutions for global brands, announced that it is collaborating with Yahoo Sports, its… Source link

U.S. private-sector employers brought back more jobs than expected in February as virus-related disruptions receded following the Omicron variants spread. Private payrolls rose by 475,000 in February compared to January, ADP said Wednesday. Economists were looking for payrolls to grow by 375,000, according to Bloomberg consensus data. February’s report also came alongside a sharp upward revision to January’s payrolls. In January, private sector employment rose by 509,000, ADP said in its… Source link

Peloton’s new CEO Barry McCarthy is known in tech circles and on Wall Street as Mr. No Bullshit. Direct. No nonsense. A deep strategic thinker who wants to get stuff done yesterday. A man who likes golf, but enjoys explaining the intricacies of tech subscription models and the ins and outs of a balance sheet perhaps way more. And overall McCarthy, 69, lived up to all of that external branding in an exclusive 30-minute Zoom chat with Yahoo Finance. “I could have stayed in retirement,” McCarthy… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, March 2, 2022 As sanctions close a few doors, a crypto window opens Cryptocurrency has finally started behaving like something that resembles a safe haven, with bitcoin (BTC-USD) and other digital tokens taking off on Tuesday as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine took a more dramatic turn. As Yahoo Finance’s David Hollerith has been… Source link

Yahoo has unveiled its latest ad solution, Video Lite, in Asia-Pacific (APAC) to help brands enhance their video assets for a stronger storytelling experience. Video Lite is Yahoo’s newest feature, available for private marketplace (PMP) campaigns via Yahoo Exchange, and allows advertisers to optimise existing video creatives for digital media placements through the addition of end cards or branded frames, CTA buttons, and messages.  With e-commerce in APAC, especially in South-East Asia… Source link

The son of Utah State football coach Blake Anderson has died, the university announced Tuesday. “On behalf of Utah State University, the athletic department and the football program, our thoughts and prayers are with coach Blake Anderson and his family following the tragic death of his son,” athletic director John Hartwell said in a statement. Details surrounding Anderson’s son’s death are unknown. Anderson had three children, two sons and a daughter, with his late wife, Wendy — who… Source link