Yahoo fantasy football analyst Scott Pianowski reveals his weekly NFL betting ticket in his Throwing Darts column. Check out where he’s putting his jelly beans for Week 5. All lines are courtesy of our friends at BetMGM. So far, so good with the 2022 ATS picks, but it’s a long season. Keep the head down, keep grinding. Cowboys +5.5 at Rams Forget home field, this will feel and sound like a Dallas home game. And until I see the Rams offense fix itself, I can’t trust Los Angeles, certainly… Source link
Read More »Mortgage rates close in on 6%, highest since 2008
Mortgage rates hit their highest point since November 2008 this week, crushing homebuyer demand. The rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage jumped to 5.89% from 5.66% the week prior, according to Freddie Mac. Rates have surged nearly three-quarters of a point in just three weeks and are now over 2.5 percentage points higher than the start of this year. Elevated borrowing costs and inventory shortages have pushed inflation-struck homebuyers to the sidelines, while those who remain in the market are… Source link
Read More »Sue Bird retires as legendary career comes to close after Storm fall in WNBA semifinals
The chants were swift and boisterous. A raucous crowd that rode the roller coaster of Game 4 — and the entire semifinals series — sent off Sue Bird in legendary fashion. “Thank you, Sue,” the crowd chanted as Bird acknowledged fans from center court after the No. 1-seeded Las Vegas Aces beat her Seattle Storm 97-92 to end the Storm’s season and Bird’s career on Tuesday night at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. “It’s sad,” Bird told ESPN’s Holly Rowe in a televised postgame interview while… Source link
Read More »Stocks close mixed ahead of July jobs report
U.S. stocks were little changed Thursday following uneventful trading as investors looked ahead to July’s jobs report on Friday and barreled through more earnings. The S&P 500 edged down 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped roughly 0.3%. After rallying on Wednesday, tech stocks tried to build back momentum, with the Nasdaq up 0.4%. The biggest action in markets on Thursday, however, was happening away from the major stock indexes with the price of WTI crude oil falling below… Source link
Read More »China box office ‘close to turning point,’ emphasizes ‘the movies are back’
On the heels of IMAX’s (IMAX) strong second quarter earnings report, CEO Richard Gelfond is more than confident that the movies are back in business. “It’s not just that the movies are back — they’re back for different age groups,” Gelfond told Yahoo Finance Live in a new interview, referencing the wide variety of available content. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Jurassic World: Dominion” helped lift overall box office performance in the second… Source link
Read More »Kajeet and Google Partner to Close the Homework Gap – EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12
New Emergency Connectivity Funding Could Help Schools Support 5G School districts seeking funding for connectivity can also look to the Federal Communications Commission, the organization responsible for E-rate and the Emergency Connectivity Funds. The FCC announced last week that it’s adding $266 million to the Emergency Connectivity Program. The funds will be available to school districts and public libraries in two new rounds, and they must be used to support off-campus learning and… Source link
Read More »production capacity now close to 2 million units
Tesla (TSLA) stock was up over 10% Thursday afternoon, as the electric vehicle maker reported a better quarter than feared, given production challenges in China, component shortages, and the resources it’s using to gear up production at new factories in Austin and Berlin. In Tesla’s shareholder letter, the company noted that its installed annual capacity, or theoretical max production, increased by nearly two-fold. Tesla’s Fremont production capacity expanded to 650,000 vehicles from… Source link
Read More »Stocks close higher after upbeat retail sales, strong Citi earnings
U.S. stocks rallied Friday to cap a four-day losing streak on Wall Street. Sentiment was buoyed by better-than-expected retail sales data and a surprise earnings beat from Citigroup (C). The S&P 500 surged 1.9%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 657 points, or roughly 2.2%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 1.8%. Blowout second-quarter results from Citi lifted shares of banking industry peers to post the best intraday rally for the sector since May, according to Bloomberg data. The mega… Source link
Read More »NBA investigation into Robert Sarver ‘getting close to the end’
The NBA’s independent investigation into allegations of misogyny, racism and toxic culture by Phoenix Suns and Mercury owner Robert Sarver is “getting close to the end,” league commissioner Adam Silver told Yahoo Sports this week. In November, ESPN’s Baxter Holmes published a bombshell report that included more than 70 current and former team employees’ claims against Sarver. Among them was Sarver allegedly using the N-word repeatedly, discussing sexually explicit topics in the… Source link
Read More »Stocks close mixed in back-and-forth session after struggling to recover from sell-off
U.S. stocks were mixed at the end of a choppy session Tuesday as markets struggled to recover from a sharp sell-off that sent all three major indexes to their lowest level year-to-date to start the week. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher after the benchmark closed below 4,000 for the first time since March 2021 on Monday, deepening losses from its longest streak of weekly declines since 2011. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell for a fourth straight day to close 85 points, or 0.3% lower, and the… Source link
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