This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: As we came into 2024, a lot of strategists were calling for a broadening of the stock market rally beyond the Magnificent Seven. Those calls sounded familiar, because we’ve been hearing them for at least the past year. But the broadening hasn’t really materialized. And now the major averages are hovering at record highs. Maybe it’s time to put to bed the notion that… Source link
Read More »Google releases May 2022 broad core update
Google is now rolling out its first broad core algorithm update of 2022. It is named the May 2022 core update, Danny Sullivan of Google announced. The most recent core update was the November 2021 core update, over 6 months ago. The announcement. Google said “today, we’re releasing our May 2022 core update. It will take about 1-2 weeks to fully roll out.” “Core updates are changes we make to improve Search overall and keep pace with the changing nature of the web. While nothing in a… Source link
Read More »There’s ‘broad support’ for 4 parts of stalled Build Back Better bill
During his marathon press conference this week, President Joe Biden acknowledged the reality of the stalemate on Capitol Hill and announced that he would change tactics on his signature Build Back Better legislation and try to pass it in pieces. “I’m confident we can get pieces — big chunks of the Build Back Better law signed into law” he told the assembled reporters. Later during the event, the president highlighted two areas in particular: $500 billion around energy and climate… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin Drops Most Since September in Broad Retreat From Records
(Bloomberg) — Cryptocurrencies fell on Tuesday, with Bitcoin briefly dipping below $60,000 and Ether touching its lowest level this month, in a broad-based retreat from recent record highs. Most Read from Bloomberg The largest digital token dipped as much as 8.2% to $58,661, the biggest intraday drop since Sept. 24. Second-ranked Ether tumbled more than 10%. Global crypto market cap has dropped some 10% in the past 24 hours to $2.7 trillion, according tracker CoinGecko. “After several days… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin retakes $47,000 in broad crypto rally as anxiety eases over regulation
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) spiked by more than 10% on Friday, joining cryptocurrencies in a broad relief rally as investors cheered constructive remarks from officials about the industry’s regulation. Battered by developments in China and a volatile environment for risk appetite, digital currencies had a rough September. However, signals this week from U.S. regulators also appear to have given sentiment a boost, sending Bitcoin to its biggest intraday rally since July. Other cryptocurrencies like… Source link
Read More »China Stocks Tumble in ‘Panic Selling’ Amid Broad Crackdown
(Bloomberg) — A selloff in Chinese private education companies sent shockwaves through the equity market Monday, as investors scrambled to price in the growing risks from an intensifying crackdown by Beijing on some of the nation’s industries. Stocks slumped on the mainland and in Hong Kong, with the benchmark CSI 300 Index dropping 3.2% and the Hang Seng Index tumbling 4.1%, the most since May last year. Steep losses in education stocks in the wake of a sweeping overhaul spilled over into… Source link
Read More »Google Broad Core Algorithm Update Rolling Out June 2
Google is releasing a broad core algorithm update today on June 2, 2021. This will be followed by another core update in July. Google originally intended to pack more into today’s update, but couldn’t get everything ready in time. That’s the reason for releasing two core updates one month after another. It’s exceedingly rare for Google to roll out separate updates so close together. However, the company says most sites are unlikely to notice the impact of either of them. We’ll see… Source link
Read More »US STOCKS-Wall Street ends with broad sell-off on spiking inflation fears
(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * U.S. consumer prices jump most since June 2009 * Megacap growth stocks weigh heaviest * Energy shares gain as crude climbs * Indexes down: Dow 1.99%, S&P 2.14%, Nasdaq 2.67% (Updates with closing prices) By Stephen Culp NEW YORK, May 12 (Reuters) – Wall Street closed lower on Wednesday with the S&P suffering its biggest one-day percentage drop since February, as inflation data fueled… Source link
Read More »Eli Broad, billionaire who poured wealth into reshaping L.A., dies at 87
Eli Broad stands inside the Broad, his contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in Los Angeles, in 2015. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Eli Broad made his billions building homes, and then he used that wealth — and the considerable collection of world-class modern art he assembled with his wife — to shape the city around him. Dogged, determined and often unyielding, he helped push and prod majestic institutions such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art into… Source link
Read More »Thailand expects no broad economic impact after U.S. keeps it on currency watch list
Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s Record Quarter Stained by Archegos Collapse (Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley surprised investors with a $911 million loss tied to the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, staining what was otherwise a record quarter for revenue and profit.“The current quarter includes a loss of $644 million related to a credit event for a single prime brokerage client, and $267 million of subsequent trading losses through the end of the quarter related to the same event,”… Source link
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