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Jobless claims: Another 787,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week – Yahoo Finance

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding Over 7%; Raymond James Says ‘Buy’ Wall Street’s investment firms are burning the midnight oil as we approach the end of 2020, publishing their year-end notes and their New Year prognostications, both for investors’ edification. There is the obvious point: we’re in a moment of rising markets, and investor sentiment is riding high now that the election is settled and COVID vaccines have emergency approval and are getting into the distribution… Source link

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Another 803,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

TipRanks J.P. Morgan: 2 Cruise Line Stocks to Bet on (And 1 to Avoid) The coronavirus pandemic crisis shows no signs of abating, even with a vaccine coming on to the markets. We’re still facing severe social lockdown policies, with a number of states (such as California, Minnesota, and Michigan) forcing even harsher restrictions on this round than previously.It’s a heavy blow for the leisure industry that is still reeling from one of the most difficult years in memory. The difficulties… Source link

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Google rejects DOJ antitrust claims in court filing

(AP) – Google is pushing back in court this week on antitrust claims brought against it by the Justice Department two months ago. In a legal filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google denied or partially rejected almost 200 specific complaints against it. On only one count, that Google was “founded in Menlo Park garage 22 years ago,” did the company side with the Justice Department. It said that people use its search engine “because they choose to, not… Source link

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Google Denies Antitrust Claims in Early Response to U.S. Lawsuit

Google said on Monday that it had not used its multibillion-dollar deals with other large tech firms to protect its position as the dominant online search engine, in the company’s first formal rebuttal to the Justice Department’s accusations that those deals violated antitrust laws. The filing, a 42-page document, is a paragraph-by-paragraph — and sometimes sentence-by-sentence — denial of the claims made by the government and a group of states that have joined its lawsuit. In the… Source link

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Another 815,000 Americans likely filed new unemployment claims last week

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Are Still Undervalued After a year that most of us want to forget, 2021 is shaping up to start with stability and an even keel. The election is safely behind us, the new Biden Administration promises a ‘no drama’ approach, a closely divided and hyper-partisan Congress is unlikely to enact any sweeping legislation, reform or otherwise, and COVID vaccines are ready for distribution. It’s a recipe for a calm news cycle.Which makes it a perfect time to… Source link

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Another 712,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Are Still in the Buy Zone With markets generally rising for now – the S&P is up over 9% in the past 30 days – investors are taking a close look at growth stocks. These are the equities that show long-term appreciation, with returns to investors based mainly on share price gains. It’s an obvious move to make, when the mood on the Street is bullish.The professional analyst corps understand this, and they have been scouring the market for stocks that… Source link

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Wall Street catches breath after Dow hits 30K, jobless claims jump

Wall Street consolidated its gains on Wednesday, with stocks opening flat to slightly lower a day after major benchmarks scaled to new highs. Ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, optimism over the imminent deployment of a COVID-19 vaccine propelled the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 30,000 for the first time ever on Tuesday, extending a breathtaking rally that’s carried stocks deep into a bull market. However, caution set in early Wednesday, as investors digested weekly jobless claims… Source link

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Another 742,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

TipRanks Shift Into 5G Could Fuel a Rally in These 3 Stocks The tech world is in the midst of a shake-up. Since the end of 2017, the new 5G wireless technology has been moving forward, bringing with it a combination of faster connection speeds and lower latency, and the promise of great changes in how we connect to the online world. New technologies – connected automobiles and agile IoT come to mind – would not be possible without 5G.Investment research firm HSBC Global, in a recent report… Source link

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Ivanka Trump claims the media’s “silent” on violence against conservatives as Proud Boys clash in DC

Ivanka Trump Ivanka Trump, senior advisor to the president of the United States and daughter of President Donald Trump MUSTAFA ABUMUNES/AFP via Getty Images This article originally appeared here on Salon.com As right-wing groups clashed with counter-protesters at pro-Trump demonstrations over the weekend, Ivanka Trump, the senior White House adviser and daughter of outgoing President Donald Trump, condemned the media on Twitter for “near total silence” over alleged assaults on… Source link

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Another 709,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

Another 709,000 Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week, marking another modest improvement in the number of those newly unemployed even as coronavirus cases in the U.S. continue to creep higher. The Department of Labor released its weekly report on new jobless claims Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: The Labor Department report showed an eleventh straight week that new… Source link

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