Stock futures open little changed

Stock futures opened flat Tuesday evening after a recovery rally during the regular trading day, with the major equity indexes recouping some losses after three consecutive sessions of declines.  Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Futures on the Nasdaq were little changed, after the tech-heavy index outperformed to jump 2.4% during Tuesday’s session.  With trading volume relatively light during the holiday-shortened week, investors have continued to assess a multitude of developments on the… Source link

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India Is on a Tear

skyscrapers in mumbai Getty Images “Adventures do occur, but not punctually,” writes E.M. Forster in A Passage to India. In other words, exciting things happen in India, but a little patience is required. In recent years, however, it seems events have sped up in the Asian subcontinent, and that’s fueling a stock market rally. Government reforms initiated a few years ago have finally started to pay off. The changes, plus a rebound in economic activity, have lifted India’s stocks. The MSCI… Source link

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White House says it will set up a website to distribute 500 million free COVID tests

President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to order free COVID tests from a government-run website, which is not yet available. “We’ll have websites where you can get them delivered to your home,” he said of the 500 million at-home tests the government is purchasing to combat the Omicron surge. Details on this website are murky, however. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said today that “We will have more information as it is available including what the… Source link

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Unvaccinated Cole Beasley placed on COVID-19 list

Buffalo Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley made headlines over the summer after speaking out against the NFL’s COVID-19 policy. On Tuesday, Beasley was reportedly placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. If Beasley tested positive, he would automatically miss 10 days due to his unvaccinated status. In that scenario, Beasley would miss the Week 16 game against the New England Patriots. The game has massive implications in the AFC East, as the Patriots sit a… Source link

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Google Voice now lets you set custom rules for phone calls

Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having Google Voice automatically ignore certain contacts for you. Even though Google Voice already has a call forwarding feature, the new rules let you customize it even further — you can set up a rule that forwards calls from a contact (or a group of contacts) to any of your linked numbers. … Source link

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Google CEO addresses employee concerns over loss of candor and honesty

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google employees are pressing executives to bring back a part of the company’s culture that, in the past, made it a desirable place to work: candor. At a year-end all-hands meeting, held virtually earlier this month, CEO Sundar Pichai read aloud one of the most popular questions from employees, based on the company’s internal… Source link

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How to Delete Your Yahoo Account Permanently

You can choose to delete your Yahoo account with just a few clicks, but Yahoo will remove it completely after about a month. If you change your mind, you can recover the account as long as you log back in within 30 days.  Before you can delete your account, you must cancel any paid Yahoo subscriptions.  Visit Insider’s Tech Reference library for more stories. … Source link

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Fox News, RFK Jr. attacks ‘accelerated’ death threats

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he and his family continue to receive death threats amid inflammatory statements made by critics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent anti-vaxxer whose new book is filled with wild claims attacking the nation’s top infectious disease expert. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious,” Fauci said of Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News on Tuesday. “I just think he’s a very disturbed individual.” The… Source link

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Google buys more land in Kansas City for possible data center

FILE – In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is once again postponing a return to the office for most workers until mid-January 2022. The internet search giant is also to requiring all employees to be vaccinated once its sprawling campuses are fully reopened. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) After more than two years of quiet, Google might be feeling lucky… Source link

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Rite Aid is closing more stores during COVID — here’s how many stores have been closed

Many people in the country are out now again looking for COVID-19 tests and vaccines with the Omicron variant raging, but that isn’t stopping publicly traded Rite Aid (RAD) from closing underperforming locations in a bid to further improve its profits.  The pharmacy chain revealed Tuesday it will shutter up to 63 stores in coming months. Closures began in November, Rite Aid said. The closures are expected to pad earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by $25… Source link

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