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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Ellis gaining confidence after big game in Kings’ win vs. Magic  Yahoo Sports Source link

Ilia Topuria will meet Alexander Volkanovski in the main event at UFC 298 on Saturday. (Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC) It doesn’t take much to get Ilia Topuria to start telling you what he really thinks. All you have to do is ask and then wait. And honestly? You won’t have to wait long. I found this out recently when I questioned him about his claims that, after he beats UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (26-3) at UFC 298 in Anaheim, California, this Saturday, he won’t look to… Source link

IPO activity fell off in 2023 despite some high-profile market debuts. 2024 is expected to be a rebound year for the IPO market as brands strategize their public offerings. Torch Capital Founder and Managing Partner Jon Keidan sits down with Yahoo Finance Live in-studio to discuss the factors wavering IPO confidence right now — coming off of 2023’s pre-pandemic lows — and what criteria investors should be looking for in rising AI startups “It was a meh IPO market and I think people looking… Source link

Confidence among U.S. single-family home builders rose in January for the first time in a year, ending a 12-month stretch of declines and potentially signaling a turning point in the housing market. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo’s gauge of builder sentiment increased 4 points this month to 35, figures released Wednesday showed. Still, any figure below 50 is considered negative. “Probably past the worst, but a sustained improvement will have to wait,” Kieran Clancy,… Source link

The downfall of crypto exchange FTX and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been described as the “Lehman Brothers” moment of cryptocurrency. Its demise is impacting other cryptocurrency platforms as investors and customers rush to retrieve their money. In continuation of our series, “What to do in a bear market,” Yahoo Finance spoke to crypto industry experts to put into perspective what happened, and how to handle the losses from fallen exchanges. There’s a lot of retail investors that… Source link

The shares of the cash-rich special purpose acquisition company that seeks to merge with former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company surged on Thursday after Google said it would allow Trump Media & Technology Group’s flagship product to appear in its app store. The stock of that SPAC, Digital World Acquisition Corp., initially rose roughly 20 percent to just over $19 a share — the highest in nearly a month. Shares of Digital World have come under pressure because of… Source link

Bill Ackman is a billionaire investor and hedge fund manager.Elsa/Getty Images Markets aren’t confident that the Federal Reserve can tame record inflation, Bill Ackman tweeted Tuesday. He predicts that inflation can only come down if the Fed aggressively raises rates, or if stocks crash. “It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do ‘whatever it takes,'” Ackman said. Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, said markets are facing a… Source link

A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans’ confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court has collapsed over the last 20 months — a period that began with former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans installing a 6-3 conservative majority ahead of the 2020 election and culminated last week with the leak of a draft opinion signaling that five GOP-appointed justices plan to overturn Roe v. Wade. The last time Yahoo News/YouGov asked about confidence in the court was in September 2020,… Source link

Tesla (TSLA) is a “barometer” of market confidence, says TD Ameritrade chief market strategist JJ Kinahan. “This is a name that really is a confidence gauge in my opinion,” Kinahan told Yahoo Finance Live. “If it gets down near the $950-ish level, you’ll see clients coming in and buy it up until it gets to about $1,050. When it gets above $1,050, it seems to make clients a little be nervous, so the amount of buying there starts to dissipate a little bit.” Shares of the electric vehicle giant… Source link

Talk about industrial and materials stocks being as cold as a slab of frozen beef.  The industrial and materials sectors of the S&P 500 have tanked 6.49% and 7.47%, respectively, since Aug. 16, according to research out of Sundial Capital Research. That makes each sector the worst performers from within the S&P 500 over this time span. The S&P 500 is roughly flat going back to Aug. 16. Sundial says the selling pressure is “getting extreme,” and the data bears that out.  The percentage of… Source link