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News Heed the search engine’s advice this Thanksgiving and beyond. Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Between concerns about inflation and supply chain disruptions, not to mention the lingering possibilities of viral infection, the 2021 holiday season may be stressful enough already. Hoping to… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has all but announced that the central bank will take the first steps in paring back its extraordinary monetary stimulus, hoping that markets will not sour in response. Commentary from Fed officials over the last few weeks have pointed to an announcement on Nov. 3 that the central bank will slow its quantitative easing program. For months, markets have been wondering when the Fed would “taper” the pace of its U.S. Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed… Source link

By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) – Two Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday they would sell their individual stock holdings by the end of the month to address the appearance of conflicts of interest. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren issued statements saying they would invest the proceeds of those sales in diversified index funds and cash savings and would not trade in those accounts as long as they are serving in their roles. The announcements come… Source link

(Bloomberg) — When Broadcom Inc. reported slower sales growth than some of its peers on Thursday, Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan gave a surprising reason: It was on purpose. Even with demand for its chips surging, the company is tightly controlling which orders it fills, he said on a conference call Thursday following Broadcom’s third-quarter report. The idea is to sacrifice some current sales to avoid creating a glut in the future. “We can show bigger numbers, but that means we will… Source link

You may want to wait until you’ve had your first cup of coffee before diving into the news report from a Google Home. Dale Smith/CNET … Source link

Mindy Jensen Mindy Jensen is the co-host of the “BiggerPockets Money” podcast and the co-author of “First-Time Home Buyer, The Complete Playbook To Avoiding Rookie Mistakes.” She’s also a licensed real estate agent in Colorado and has been buying and selling homes since 1998. She is passionate about helping buyers make intelligent, informed decisions about their home purchases. Recognized by GOBankingRates as one of Money’s Most Influential, here she shares the types of properties… Source link

With more COVID hotspots popping up around the country and the Delta variant as the dominant strain, unvaccinated individuals in the U.S. may be more vulnerable than at any other point when vaccines were available amid the pandemic.  “If you are unvaccinated, this is probably the most dangerous point in time of the pandemic to date,” Dr. Sejal Hathi, faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s incredibly important that… Source link

Google is expanding the number of cities where Maps offers information about public transport crowding. The number of cities covered is increasing from around 200 today, to “over 10,000 transit agencies in 100 countries,” the company says. As well as crowdedness, Google says Maps is also being updated to offer more information about past travel. Google Maps’ crowdedness information originally launched pre-pandemic in 2019, but over the past year social distancing has made it more… Source link

Google Maps is rolling out more accurate indicators of transit crowdedness. Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo The world is slowly opening back up. You might be finding yourself using public transit for the first time in ages and trying to figure out how to get around. Some helpful new Google Maps features could help us all navigate through this time, both literally and figuratively. For folks finding themselves back on a bus or a train, Google is expanding its transit crowdedness predictions. The… Source link

The Federal Reserve managed to avoid turning to negative interest rates through the pandemic-induced recession of 2020. But if the economy faces another downturn, will the central bank be backed into short-term borrowing rates below zero? In a UBS survey of almost 30 central banks around the world, 21% of respondents said they could see the Fed turning to negative interest rates if needed. The concern: With U.S. short-term rates yet again backed up at near-zero, a Fed that may be slower to… Source link