Apple will produce Ridley Scott’s upcoming Napoleon biopic

TipRanks Raymond James: 2 Big 7% Dividend Stocks to Buy Now Watching the markets with an eye to the main chance, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt sees both risk and opportunity in current market conditions. The opportunity, in his opinion, stems from the obvious factors: the Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats in the recent runoff vote, giving the incoming Biden Administration majority support in both Houses of Congress – and increasing the odds of meaningful fiscal support getting… Source link

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Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan could wreck Wall Street’s favorite money-making trade

TipRanks Raymond James: 2 Big 7% Dividend Stocks to Buy Now Watching the markets with an eye to the main chance, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt sees both risk and opportunity in current market conditions. The opportunity, in his opinion, stems from the obvious factors: the Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats in the recent runoff vote, giving the incoming Biden Administration majority support in both Houses of Congress – and increasing the odds of meaningful fiscal support getting… Source link

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Google Doodle celebrates James Naismith inventing basketball in Springfield

You may recognize a product of Springfield, Massachusetts featured on Google’s homepage Friday. It’s called “basketball.” You may have heard of it. Friday’s Google Doodle is aimed at celebrating the life of Dr. James Naismith, who is best known for inventing the game of basketball in 1891 during his time at the YMCA International Training School, which is now Springfield College. The Google Doodle is a regular feature on the search engine’s homepage where the service’s logo is… Source link

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Google celebrates inventor of Basketball, James Naismith

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. On December 21, 1891 Naismith held the first-ever game of basketball as the physical education teacher at the YMCA college in Springfield. When an article about the game rules titled  “A New Game” was published in the college newspaper on January 15, 1892, basketball became popular. The doodle that Google made up to… Source link

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Banned on Twitter? Try these Russian social networks!

Legion Media; Global Look Press; Elitsy; Yandex.zen We’re not guaranteeing you won’t be banned for being outright obscene, but if American social networks have become too much for you with their loose interpretations of what’s harmful and what’s not, here’s a list of Russian messengers and social networks that’ll help fill the gap! 1. VKontakte (VK.com) Vkontakte social media page as seen on a computer screen Natalia Seliverstova/Sputnik… Source link

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Saphyr Solves Genetic Mysteries, Enables Study of Complex Genetic Diseases, Simplifies Muscular Dystrophy Testing

Saphyr can measure large expansions of disease-causing genomic repeats, impossible with other modern techniques, enabling study of a broad range of currently inaccessible genetic diseases Genetic disease cases undiagnosed using existing methods were solved by optical genome mapping Assays developed on Saphyr by University of Iowa and KU Leuven for FSHD muscular dystrophy testing provide unambiguous results in half the time, for half the cost of current standard Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome,… Source link

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Buy now, pay later boom brings ‘shift away from credit to debit’

Americans are increasingly taking advantage of the buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) offerings thanks to a growing number of financial technology companies. Splitting payments — as opposed to bulk purchases on credit cards that would accrue interest until being paid — is built on the premise that there is a “shift away from credit to debit,” Nicholas Molnar, co-founder and U.S. CEO of Afterpay, an Australian BNPL startup with more than 11 million customers that operates with 64,000 merchants,… Source link

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Yankees nearing deal to re-sign DJ LeMahieu

DJ LeMahieu, the soft-spoken infielder who for two seasons was the New York Yankees’ most productive player, on Friday morning was nearing an agreement to re-sign with the Yankees, according to sources close to the LeMahieu family. MLB Network’s Jon Morosi first reported the progress. Terms of the deal were not known, though LeMahieu sought a contract in the range of $110 million over five years. At 32, and after playing those two seasons under the team-friendly terms of $12 million per,… Source link

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SPACs are a new part of the same market story: Morning Brief

Friday, January 15, 2021 This article first appeared in the Morning Brief, sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe There are mini-bubbles everywhere. The most unique feature of the modern market is how fast everything happens. As we wrote back in November, the 2020 stock market essentially plotted the entire seven-year journey investors endured around the financial crisis in just seven months. And as markets have moved to more quickly and efficiently discount… Source link

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Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle Join Hands To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

TipRanks Raymond James: 2 Big 7% Dividend Stocks to Buy Now Watching the markets with an eye to the main chance, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt sees both risk and opportunity in current market conditions. The opportunity, in his opinion, stems from the obvious factors: the Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats in the recent runoff vote, giving the incoming Biden Administration majority support in both Houses of Congress – and increasing the odds of meaningful fiscal support getting… Source link

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