Stock futures open flat after tech-led selloff

Bloomberg Sands to Sell Vegas Hotels to Apollo, Vici for $6.25 Billion (Bloomberg) — Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator by market value, agreed to sell its properties in Las Vegas to Apollo Global Management Inc. and Vici Properties Inc. for $6.25 billion, refocusing the company on its successful Asian resorts and other potential opportunities in the U.S.Apollo will run the properties, which will be owned by Vici, a real estate investment trust, the companies said in… Source link

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Daily Crunch: Google swears off ad-tracking

Google says it’s focusing on privacy-friendly approaches to ad targeting, Okta acquires Auth0 and a flying taxi startup raises $241 million. This is your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2021. The big story: Google swears off ad-tracking While Google had already announced it would be phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome, it went further today by declaring that “once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across… Source link

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Google’s third-party cookie ban, explained

Google announced on Wednesday that third-party cookies are over — at least, as far as its ad networks and Chrome browser are concerned. This represents a significant change for the ad business and seems to be a step forward for privacy, but it’s also a limited one. It doesn’t mean that Google will stop collecting your data, and it doesn’t mean the company will stop using your data to target ads. What Google… Source link

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Scaramucci says if GOP goes with Trump in 2024 he’ll ‘liquidate’ the party

Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of SkyBridge Capital and former White House communications director for the Trump administration, says if the Republican Party goes with Trump as its 2024 nominee, he’ll work to make the GOP a “minority party for at least a generation.” “I’m willing to fight for the country’s principles related to the Constitution and the democracy over policy. And so, if that’s where the Republicans are going, and they go with Donald Trump, I will look forward to —… Source link

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U.S. Inflation Expectations Hit Decade High as Yields Resurge

(Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasuries tumbled anew on Wednesday, driving long-maturity yields to their highest levels this week and pushing up inflation expectations as traders continued to price in a quicker economic rebound from the pandemic. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields surged as much as 10.3 basis points to 1.495%, a move reminiscent of last Thursday’s startling selloff in government debt. Meanwhile, a market proxy for the anticipated annual inflation rate for the next half-decade… Source link

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Kellen Winslow sentenced to 14 years on rape charges

The Guardian Amber Glenn: America’s pansexual skating star on coming out and breaking through Since coming out as pansexual, the US national silver medalist has delivered a series of career-best performances and thrust herself into the conversation for next year’s Olympics Amber Glenn is believed to be the first ever out woman to actively compete on the international senior circuit. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA “What is your sexuality?” Amber Glenn looked up from the questionnaire at… Source link

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Don’t expect an interest rate hike ‘anytime in 2022’

Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said Wednesday that he does not expect the Fed to raise interest rates in 2022, despite bond market bets that a rate hike could come next year. “I think we’ve got a ways to go,” Harker told Yahoo Finance in an exclusive interview on Wednesday. The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury reached 1.47% as of Wednesday afternoon, almost 50 basis points higher than where the bond traded a month ago. Higher bond yields imply higher longer-term… Source link

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We’ll play key role in lowering US health costs

Oscar Health (OSCR), the startup health insurance company heavily built on its technology capabilities, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday at $36 per share, under the IPO price of $39 per share, with a valuation of more than $7 billion. But the fall didn’t blunt the enthusiasm of CEO Mario Schlosser, who joined Yahoo Finance to discuss the decision to go public, as well as how he envisions the company to impact the health insurance industry in coming years. “Ten years from now, I… Source link

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Apple now lets you automatically transfer your iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos

Apple has added a service that lets you automatically transfer photos, videos, and albums from your iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos (via MacRumors). The feature has a support document outlining the procedure, which simply entails going to privacy.apple.com, logging in, and going through the “transfer a copy of your data” process. Apple says the transfer will take between three days to a week. Some things won’t transfer: Apple says shared albums, smart albums, photo stream… Source link

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