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Read More »Is Tom Brady’s absence a fantasy concern?
In the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Frank Schwab discuss the 45-year-old quarterback’s leave from training camp and if that’s a risk for fantasy managers. Video Transcript [AUDIO LOGO] MATT HARMON: I think there’s a chance he’s just back, and it’s whatever. But they are breaking in a lot of new pieces here on this Bucs team. Right? They’re breaking in Russell Gage, who’s been in and out in training camp. Mike Evans’s been in and out in training camp, not that that connection… Source link
Read More »Hybrid work ‘bigger concern’ than inflation or recession for commercial real estate: expert
Commercial real estate is down and hybrid work is a big reason why, according to one real estate executive. According to data from MSCI, commercial real estate transactions fell 22% in the second quarter from a year ago. And while inflation and an economic recession are both weighing heavily on the minds of real estate investors and “creating some hesitation,” Marcus and Millichap CEO Hessam Nadji said that it’s “not really a long-term concern.” “The bigger concern is this hybrid work… Source link
Read More »Why the tanking Japanese yen should concern investors: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, March 31, 2022 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) was in a bind on Monday. Its currency, the yen, was crashing while yields on their government bonds were surging. The solution — four days of unbridled bond buying by the BOJ to stem the hemorrhaging and contain interest rates. While the gambit worked (for now), Wall Street is waking up to this… Source link
Read More »Privacy advocates raise concern over Google’s access to Messages and Phone metadata
In recent years, tech giants and other companies have come under scrutiny on how they collect and use user data. Google itself has focused on making privacy improvements to its products and services in response. However, it looks like its efforts did not go far enough. A new research paper reveals that Google’s Messages and Dialer/Phone apps have been collecting and sending scrambled user data to its servers, potentially violating the European Union’s GDPR. Douglas Leith, a computer… Source link
Read More »Avocado supply faces ‘big concern’ as inflation, scarcity send prices on a tear
On one hand, they are deliciously creamy, versatile and gloriously Instagram-mable. On the other, they leave an enormous carbon footprint, which hasn’t stopped consumers from slathering them on everything in a way that’s led to a dramatic boost in consumption in recent years. Americans have a “hefty” appetite for avocados — one that’s adding to widespread food price pressures and general scarcity, according to Zhengfei Guan, an associate professor of food and resource economics at the Source link
Read More »This should be stock market investors’ biggest concern, strategist says
Stock valuations are still looking too lofty even as the major indices continue to retrench on the one-two punch of Omicron variant fears and a hawkish shift in Federal Reserve policy. “I worry about markets because stock market valuations look relatively high,” said Torsten Slok, Apollo Global Management chief economist, on Yahoo Finance Live. (Apollo is the parent company of Yahoo Finance.) Slok said the potential for interest rate hikes from the Fed in 2022 could be a headwind to markets,… Source link
Read More »Google pursuit of JWCC among issues of top concern at TGIF meeting
Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images At Google’s weekly all-hands meeting on Thursday afternoon, CEO Sundar Pichai and cloud boss Thomas Kurian tried to address concerns about the company’s potential pursuit of a… Source link
Read More »SEC Chair Gensler reiterates concern over investor protection, despite bitcoin ETF optimism
The hot demand for investment securities linked to bitcoin does not appear to be moving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s stance toward other products more directly linked to the cryptocurrency. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he still has concerns about investor protection in the $2.5 trillion market for crypto assets. “Investors aren’t protected the way they are, whether they go into the stock or bonds markets that we’ve overseen so long,” said Gensler at Yahoo Finance’s… Source link
Read More »Texas Instruments Forecast Stokes Concern Over Chip Demand
(Bloomberg) — Texas Instruments Inc. gave a revenue forecast for the current period that disappointed some investors, raising concerns that a jump in chip demand caused by the pandemic will be short-lived. The stock fell in early U.S. trading.Sales will be $4.4 billion to $4.76 billion in the period ending in September, Texas Instruments said Wednesday in a statement. Profit will be $1.87 to $2.13 a share, the company said. On average, analysts predicted profit of $1.97 a share and sales of… Source link
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