NFL fines Ravens $250,000 for COVID-19 outbreak, but won’t strip draft pick, per report

The Baltimore Ravens are reportedly being punished for their recent COVID-19 outbreak, but not as harshly as other teams. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the NFL is fining the Ravens $250,000 for their late November COVID-19 outbreak, but they are not being stripped of a draft pick. The Ravens are the fifth team to be disciplined for protocol violations and team outbreaks, and it’s the smallest punishment. The New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans were fined $350,000, while… Source link

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Billionaire Larry Robbins’ Top 10 Stock Picks

In this article, we presented billionaire Larry Robbins’ top 10 stock picks. Click to skip ahead and see Billionaire Larry Robbins’ Top 5 Stock Picks. Billionaire Larry Robbins, 51, has been facing tough times as his Glenview Capital Management hedge fund’s 13F portfolio has seen its value decline by $22 billion in the past five years. Its 13F portfolio value hit an all-time high of over $25 billion in the second quarter of 2015 amid its famous Obamacare bets. The middle-aged billionaire Mr…. Source link

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NFL plans to expand regular season to 17 games in 2021, per report

The 16-game season will reportedly soon be a thing of the past. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero, the NFL is planning to expand the regular season from 16 games to 17 games in 2021. Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson reported earlier this month that the NFL had cleared a significant hurdle in moving toward a 17-game schedule by finalizing a formula to determine where that 17th game would come from. The league was reportedly considering cutting the preseason by a game… Source link

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Shot will be effective against COVID-19 variant

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Can Charge Forward in 2021 With 2020 winding down, there’s a growing belief that 2021 is going to be a growth year for the stock markets. The US elections have returned a divided government, one unlikely to have the broad majorities – or the broad support – needed to enact wide-ranging reform legislation from either the right or left, and that bodes well for the economy generally.The COVID vaccines are entering distribution, and while new anti-virus… Source link

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Google Expands Its Global Cloud Regions

Google has recently announced three new cloud regions; Chile, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, which will go live in the coming term. In total, Google Cloud currently operates 24 regions and 73 zones in 17 countries. There is no doubt that giving high-performance, low-latency cloud services are significantly important, and other players, AWS and Microsft Azure, also have bets in cloud expansion. While Microsoft  Azure is well ahead of the competition in terms of the total number of regions… Source link

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Bitcoin Tops $28K for 1st Time, Hours After Crossing $27K; Market Cap Now Exceeds $500B

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Can Charge Forward in 2021 With 2020 winding down, there’s a growing belief that 2021 is going to be a growth year for the stock markets. The US elections have returned a divided government, one unlikely to have the broad majorities – or the broad support – needed to enact wide-ranging reform legislation from either the right or left, and that bodes well for the economy generally.The COVID vaccines are entering distribution, and while new anti-virus… Source link

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Suze Orman’s financial survival tips until the vaccines take hold

Suze Orman’s financial survival tips until the vaccines take hold COVID vaccines have arrived and have slowly started rolling out in the U.S. Meanwhile, the virus is spreading out of control and threatening Americans’ health and financial well-being. Suze Orman says consumers need to buckle down and become “warriors.” But the personal finance author, TV personality and podcaster acknowledges that it’s not easy, as jobs disappear amid new lockdowns, markets gyrate and retirement savings are… Source link

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Bitcoin Faces Regulatory Scrutiny After Record-Breaking Rally

(Bloomberg) — It’s been a tough year by all accounts. But for Bitcoin, 2020 has been a marvelous time. The cryptocurrency almost quadrupled, surpassing $20,000 for the first time as it notched record after record. The diehards cheered it as an inflation hedge in an era of unprecedented central bank largesse. Wall Street veterans from Paul Tudor Jones to Stanley Druckenmiller blessed it as an alternative asset, adding to the rally. And companies like MicroStrategy Inc. and Square Inc. moved… Source link

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Foot traffic at Domino’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut tumble by more than half during COVID-19

The fast food industry’s pivot to digital and take-out has come with material benefits — but it’s come at a cost to foot traffic, according to recent data. In-person visits at fast food chains nationwide are still dramatically lower than before the onset of COVID-19, according to Gravy Analytics, a location intelligence platform. Those findings dovetail with similar data showing the pandemic — which sparked widespread lockdowns that forced many food and beverage establishments to… Source link

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Search engine start-ups try to take on Google

A new batch of search engine start-ups positioning themselves as potential rivals to Google is hoping that growing regulatory pressure will finally reverse two decades of the search giant’s dominance. The latest challengers include Neeva, launched by two former Google executives, and You.com, founded by Salesforce.com’s former chief scientist, as well as Mojeek, a UK-based start-up with growing ambitions to build its own index of billions of web pages. Though their odds… Source link

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