‘The real question’ about inflation at this point, according to a market strategist

‘The real question’ about inflation at this point, according to a market strategist

With inflation hitting a 40-year high and gas breaking $5 a gallon, all eyes are on the Fed ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. According to Drew Matus, chief market strategist at MetLife Investment Management, the Fed addressing inflation isn’t a matter of “if” but rather to what extent for investors. “The real question right now is: What’s going to be the cost of handling the inflation story?” Matus said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I think… Source link

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Yahoo DFS Baseball: Tuesday Picks

Yahoo DFS Baseball: Tuesday Picks

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Get ready for a wild Tuesday with 16 games upcoming across baseball. The Cardinals and Pirates will play a doubleheader, with the first game of it being the only afternoon action of the day. One of the more appealing series will feature the Yankees hosting the Rays. Gerrit Cole will be on the mound for New York, while former Yankee Corey Kluber will start for the Rays. We’ll also have the battle of Los Angels with the Angels… Source link

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After $1 billion liquidations on crypto’s ‘Black Monday,’ selling wanes ahead of FOMC

After $1 billion liquidations on crypto’s ‘Black Monday,’ selling wanes ahead of FOMC

Cryptocurrency sell-offs continued through Tuesday morning, with drawdowns waning after the sector’s “Black Monday” saw over $1 billion in crypto derivatives liquidated over a 24 hour period according to data from Coinglass. Overall, the total crypto market cap has lost more than two-thirds of its value since peaking in November, according to Coinmarketcap, falling from $3 trillion at its apex to $952 billion as of Tuesday 11 am New York time. After briefly dipping to $20,950 per unit… Source link

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More than half of U.S. teachers are considering leaving the profession: Survey

More than half of U.S. teachers are considering leaving the profession: Survey

The U.S. teachers shortage could be getting worse. A March 2022 survey from the National Education Association (NEA) showed that more than half of teachers (55%) intend to leave the profession earlier than they planned, and that was before the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. “90% of teachers are saying they’re really thinking about what happened in Uvalde and what that means for them,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said on Yahoo Finance Live… Source link

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Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future

Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future

A Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became so enthralled by an AI chatbot that he may have sacrificed his job to defend it. “I know a person when I talk to it,” he told The Washington Post for a story published last weekend. “It doesn’t matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code.” After discovering that he’d gone public with his claims, Google put Lemoine on administrative leave. Going by the coverage, Lemoine might seem… Source link

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Do Computers Have Feelings? Don’t Let Google Alone Decide

Do Computers Have Feelings? Don’t Let Google Alone Decide

Placeholder while article actions load News that Alphabet Inc.’s Google sidelined an engineer who claimed its artificial intelligence system had become sentient after he’d had several months of conversations with it prompted plenty of skepticism from AI scientists. Many have said, via postings on Twitter, that senior software engineer Blake Lemoine projected his own humanity onto Google’s chatbot generator LaMDA. Whether they’re right, or Lemoine is right, is a matter for debate… Source link

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Celtics’ giveaway spree puts them on verge of giving away series to Warriors

Celtics’ giveaway spree puts them on verge of giving away series to Warriors

SAN FRANCISCO — A backdoor pass is intercepted. A crosscourt pass is picked off. A simple dribble handoff is fumbled, and a lob is robbed. These are the giveaways that have become routine for the Boston Celtics, and one of the central stumbling blocks causing them to be on the brink of giving away this NBA Finals after being up 2-1. Game 5 on Monday was no different — as they lost to the Golden State Warriors 104-94 to fall down 3-2 — and it involved the usual suspects. Boston coughed up… Source link

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Who owns Google? Alphabet, the same company that owns YouTube and Waze

Google Inc., the popular American search engine, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Originally titled Backrub, the two then-Stanford University graduate students built the engine in their college dorms, according to Google. The name is a play on the math term “googol,” which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. Google went public in 2004 and since then has grown to be the world’s most visited website, with 89 billion visits in April 2022. Who owns Google? The… Source link

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