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Long suffering New York Giants fans are marking an auspicious anniversary. This February will be 10 years since the Giants beat the New England Patriots, 21-17, in Super Bowl XLVI . The former star wide receiver Victor Cruz helped lead the Giants to victory, catching four balls for 25 yards and a touchdown. Since then, the team has been unable to win a playoff game. In an exclusive interview, Cruz told Yahoo Finance Live that the team needs to first “get healthy” after a number of players… Source link

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, December 10, 2021 ‘Learning to live’ with the virus has become a credo Last Sunday, after nearly suffering a heart-attack watching Pittsburgh play Baltimore in a classic Steelers-Ravens thriller, I attended my first concert of the pandemic era: Genesis, which played to a packed-to-the-rafters crowd at Madison Square Garden. Tomorrow… Source link

UK prime minister Boris Johnson said that people must work from home where possible from Monday and that face masks would be a legal requirement in most public indoor areas such as theatres and cinemas from Friday. Photo: Adrian Dennis-WPA Pool/Getty Images European stock markets tumbled into the red on Thursday as England is set to impose its COVID Plan B amid fears of a rise in Omicron cases. In London, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) shed 0.4%, while the CAC (^FCHI) dropped 0.3% and the DAX (^GDAXI)… Source link

The Covid-19 pandemic once again featured heavily in internet searches in Australia this year, as lockdowns gripped the two largest states, and people sought vaccines. Google has compiled data on the most popular search terms from the previous 12 months, which showed Covid’s dominance in Australia was only challenged by people looking for an escape in sport. The NBA, AFL, cricket, NRL, football, Wimbledon and the Olympics took out the top spots for most searched topics in Australia in 2021…. Source link

Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic, May 19, 2021, at Gillette Stadium, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) Omicron happened this week. (You think?) And with the arrival of this new variant all the depressingly familiar potential pain points come tumbling back — along with some brand-spanking new ones. On Thanksgiving (just nine days ago) we could really believe that COVID was… Source link

Not all airline stocks are created equal in the currently topsy-turvy market environment. Renewed volatility in the airline sector should be considered the short-term new normal as traders assess the risk from the new Omicron variant. But there are a few names in the troubled space to consider as longer term buys if one is able to stomach the near-term wild up-and-down swings. Long-time airline sector analyst Helane Becker of Cowen said in a note to clients on Tuesday she continues to have Buy… Source link

The emergence of a new COVID variant spooked markets on Friday, forcing some Fed watchers to question if the Federal Reserve will change course on its plans to slow its monetary support to the U.S. economy. “Policy normalization already looked like it was going to be gradual but the… growth worries we’re seeing come back into the market’s consciousness in the last 24 hours could mean that monetary policy needs to be a little bit more dovish than that,” HSBC Asset Management Chief… Source link

U.S. stock futures slumped Friday, with global markets rattled by a new coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, which fanned concerns that new growth-crushing lockdowns could be imposed.  Trading volumes were low due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., which could be could contributing to the volatility. However, major benchmarks indicated a rough opening on Wall Street’s abbreviated post-Thanksgiving session. Dow futures contracts (YM=F) plunged 800 points, or 2.5%, while… Source link

Hundreds of Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto calling on the Big Tech giant to retract its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Google has asked its more than 150,000 US employees to report their vaccination status to the company by Dec. 3 whether they plan to work in the office or not, CNBC reported, citing internal company documents. And all Google employees who work either directly or indirectly with government contractors are required to be… Source link

An obscure COVID stimulus benefit will pay you up to $9,000 for a funeral The nation’s massive pandemic rescue plan includes one kind of funding that gets less attention: a funeral assistance program, offering families of those who have died of COVID up to $9,000 to cover burial costs. Part of the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief plan signed in March, the funeral expenses program extends much-needed help to families who may have gone into debt or lost wages in the… Source link