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2024 NHL trade deadline live blog: Latest rumors, news, completed deals originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston A lot of moves were made this week as Friday’s 3 p.m. ET NHL trade deadline approaches, but there’s still the potential for fireworks in the final few hours. Plenty of contenders — including the Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks and Dallas Stars — have already made meaningful upgrades. But plenty of… Source link

Stocks climbed on Friday after the February jobs report showed an uptick in the unemployment rate, bolstering investor confidence that the Federal Reserve will cut rates following its June meeting. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.2% on the heels of another record close logged Thursday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) was flat. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) added 0.3% after a sharp gain the previous day. Friday’s non-farm payrolls report showed the US economy added 275,000… Source link

There are worse places for a president to introduce the themes of his final campaign than in a primetime, nationally televised speech before a joint session of Congress. So that’s precisely what President Biden did Thursday night, capitalizing on the pomp and circumstance of his annual State of the Union address — and the massive media spotlight it commands — to frame the coming general election clash with his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, as an existential struggle over… Source link

The Minnesota Timberwolves started Thursday on a bad note. Anthony Edwards made sure they didn’t on one too. The All-Star tied his season high with 44 points against the Indiana Pacers, with his biggest play coming on defense as time expired. After splitting a pair of free throws to move the T-Wolves up 113-111, Edwards had to run back and find Aaron Nesmith in transition. Nesmith appeared to have a clear path for a game-tying lay-up after getting around Mike Conley in the paint, and then… Source link

The Chicago Bears and Jaylon Johnson have reportedly worked out a four-year, $76 million deal, two days after the team placed a non-exclusive franchise tag on the 24-year-old cornerback. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, $54 million is guaranteed and the Bears will pay out $60 million over the first three years. The Bears gave Johnson a non-exclusive franchise tag before Tuesday’s deadline, meaning he was eligible to sign with a new team when the free agent market opens next week, but the… Source link

Another closely followed index is set to make a new record close. The S&P 500 equal-weight index (^SP500EW) is on track for its first record-high close since January 2022. While the traditional S&P 500 (^GSPC) is market-cap weighted, meaning a few large stocks have an outsized impact on the index’s performance, the equal-weight index values all 500 stocks in the index equally. As Goldman Sachs equity strategy team highlighted in Yahoo Finance’s Charbook back in January, this led to outsized… Source link

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Jay Powell always has a tough job — looking out for the US economy while avoiding partisan potholes along the way. Tough might be the kindest version of the task. And this position rarely looks more tenuous than when Powell is being grilled by members of Congress, as he was on Wednesday and will be again later this morning. “It’s a super difficult situation,” Seth… Source link

OpenAI is the world’s hottest startup. It not only set the stage for the generative AI explosion thanks to the launch of its ChatGPT in November 2022, but it’s also powering Microsoft’s (MSFT) push into the space via a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment that gives the tech giant a roughly 49% stake in the company’s for-profit subsidiary. The company is now valued as high as $86 billion, according to Bloomberg. And with its latest product, the generative AI video platform Sora,… Source link

The U.S. and Canada women’s national teams played in puddles Wednesday night in a W Gold Cup semifinal in San Diego. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) The U.S. women’s national team beat Canada on penalties Wednesday night in a wild Gold Cup semifinal that, by any reasonable measure, should not have been played. Torrential rain soaked Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. Standing water covered the field, and turned the first half into a farce. The ball wouldn’t roll. Passes… Source link

Indiana Hoosiers head coach Mike Woodson’s job is reportedly safe. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) Indiana basketball coach Mike Woodson will retain his job next season despite the difficulties of the current campaign, according to multiple reports Wednesday. Woodson, 65, led the team to the NCAA tournament twice in his first two seasons. He is 60-39 over his three seasons at the helm of Indiana. Last season was the best of his tenure so far, as the Hoosiers finished second in the Big Ten and… Source link