Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter (TWTR) for $54.20 per share in a filing made public Thursday, calling it his “best and final offer.” But the Tesla (TSLA) CEO will have to reconsider that offer if he’s serious about taking over the social media company, according to one analyst. “No one believes this is the final price. No board in America is going to take that number,” said Jefferies analyst Brent Thill. Twitter shares jumped 4% on news of the all-cash offer, before falling in the… Source link
Read More »Urban Meyer discusses story of him not knowing Aaron Donald
There were countless stories out of the Jacksonville Jaguars surrounding Urban Meyer’s disastrous tenure, but perhaps the most fascinating was the tidbit that Meyer didn’t know who Aaron Donald was. Most anyone with an interest in pro football knows Donald, the Los Angeles Rams star defensive tackle who has an argument as the best player in all of football. It’s mind-blowing to think an NFL head coach didn’t know him. A report from The Athletic in March, citing a source, said Meyer asked a… Source link
Read More »Stocks flat as investors weigh mega bank earnings
U.S. stocks resumed losses on Thursday after a rally in the previous session on hopes for an earnings season boost to markets. Investors are digesting a flurry of mixed quarterly reports from Wells Fargo (WFC), Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Citigroup (C). The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, heading towards another week of losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated from a slight advance earlier in the session to hover below the flatline. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 1.7%, reversing… Source link
Read More »Players to drop for waiver wire pickups
Many potential fantasy waiver wire gems emerge during the initial weeks of every season. This year, I constantly see recommendations to pick up the likes of Steven Kwan, Tylor Megill, Jesus Luzardo and many other players who started the season on waivers in most leagues before producing inspiring April statistics. Unfortunately, rosters don’t grow in size after Opening Day, and every addition means that someone needs to go. Based on early season numbers, here are some commonly-rostered… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter probably has Facebook and Google quaking: Mark Cuban
Elon Musk’s big bid to buy all of Twitter has probably awakened numerous executives inside of Google and Meta, said tech titan and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Every major tech company, Google, fb, et al is on the phone with their anti trust lawyers asking if they can buy Twitter and get it approved. And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight. Gonna be interesting,” Cuban said in a new tweet on Thursday. Yahoo Finance reached out to Mark Cuban… Source link
Read More »Google Cloud launches its new data loss prevention tool for BigQuery – TechCrunch
Inevitably, large businesses will collect all kinds of sensitive data. Often, that’s personal identifiable data (PII) of their customers and employees, or other information that only a select number of users should get access to. But as the amount of data that large businesses collect increases, manual data discovery and classification can’t scale anymore. With Automatic DLP [Data Loss Prevention], Google recently launched a tool that helps its BigQuery users discover and classify… Source link
Read More »Another 185,000 Americans filed new claims last week
U.S. jobless claims held near multi-decade lows last week as companies worked to keep employees on their payrolls amid ongoing labor shortages. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended April 9: 185,000 vs. 170,000 expected and a revised 167,000 during prior week Continuing claims, week ended April 2: 1.475… Source link
Read More »Google touts stalled reconciliation package in energy agenda
“Many existing zero-carbon energy plants across the world are at risk of shutting down, even if they could continue operating safely for decades longer,” the company said. “The loss of such large quantities of carbon-free electricity will increase carbon emissions and make the task of decarbonizing the electricity system more challenging.” Google pointed to the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, and a bipartisan 2021 bill (S 2475) from Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho…. Source link
Read More »Elon Musk offers to buy 100% of Twitter for $54 a share
Elon Musk is sort of becoming like billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn. The Tesla CEO, who has a 9.2% stake in Twitter, offered to buy the social media platform for $54.20 a share on Thursday. Here is what Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor, as disclosed in a new SEC filing. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However,… Source link
Read More »Ahead of an earnings ‘growth scare’ investors should eye these stocks: Morning Brief
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 Thursday, April 14, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him @SPYJared First quarter earnings are trickling in with mixed results. JPMorgan Chase expressed a more cautious outlook on borrowers Wednesday and finished the day down 3.2% to its lowest level since January 2021, while… Source link
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