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Saturday was a wild day in men’s college basketball. Upsets occurred throughout the day, including No. 2 Duke in a thrilling ACC battle with Miami. By the end, seven ranked teams fell. Here’s everything that went down throughout the top 25 on Saturday: Miami shocks No. 2 Duke Miami’s winning streak continues. The Hurricanes picked up their ninth straight win on Saturday night with a huge 76-74 road win over the Blue Devils, thanks largely to a hanging layup from Kameron McGusty in the final… 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 30, 2021 What COVID-19 ‘on our terms’ means for the market, and everyone else Another day, another shattered record of COVID-19 infections in the United States — and yet another set of new milestones in the Dow (^DJI) and S&P 500 (^GSPC), as Santa Claus continues to bestow gifts on Wall Street. One of the aforementioned records… Source link

The Christmas Day battle between the NBA’s top two teams did not disappoint on Saturday afternoon. Thanks to a late and historic explosion from Stephen Curry, the Golden State Warriors will head back to the Bay Area with a huge win in their ninth consecutive holiday game. The Warriors, behind 33 points from Curry, beat the Phoenix Suns 116-107 at the Footprint Center. That performance marked a career-high for the Warriors star on Christmas Day, as he’s never scored more than 20 points in… Source link

Stock futures opened higher Thursday evening to hold gains after a recovery rally, with an initial wave of concerns over the economic impacts of the Omicron variant at least temporarily easing. Contracts on the S&P 500 advanced. The blue-chip index closed higher by 1.4% during the regular session, marking its biggest jump since Oct. 14 Thursday. The Dow and Nasdaq each also advanced. Volatility from earlier this week retreated, and the CBOE Volatility index (^VIX) dipped 10% to below 28. And… Source link

Stocks jumped Monday morning to recover some losses after Friday’s slide, when uncertainty over a new coronavirus variant stoked volatility across global markets.  The Dow gained more than 300 points, or about 0.9%. On Friday, the index had seen its worst day since October 2020, dropping more than 900 points, or 2.5%.  U.S. airlines and other travel stocks were mostly higher to steady after steep losses from late last week, when initial concerns over the newly discovered Omicron variant of… Source link

Customers navigate through the aisles during the Black Friday sales event on Thanksgiving Day at Target in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski Big-box retailers like Target, Best Buy, and Walmart closed their doors for Thanksgiving Day, giving their employees a day off before the Black Friday rush. However, in most parts of the U.S. it would be legal for these retailers to mandate employees clock in during this holiday, experts say. Thanksgiving, along with 11… Source link

Sweetgreen (SG) shares closed 76% higher — at $49.50 each — on their first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The salad restaurant chain almost doubled its valuation during its public debut. Shares opened at $52 each after the IPO was priced at $28.  Sweetgreen sold 13 million shares, raising $364 million in the initial public offering.  The company has been expanding beyond urban areas into suburban communities. It also has a growing online order presence.  “We built out a… Source link

November 11, 2021 Columbus State alumnus and Army veteran Steve Tette’s work is being seen by hundreds of millions of Google users on Thursday, Nov. 11. The American realist artist was chosen to design the “Google Doodle” for Veterans Day. The doodles are a Google program to alter the search engine’s logo in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of influential… Source link

Investors are chowing down on shares of newly minted publicly traded hot dog chain Portillo’s.  Shares of Portillo’s (PTLO) — a Chicago-founded outfit with a cult-like following across nine states — exploded more than 50% as investors ate up the stock on its first day of trading on Thursday.  “While we are a 58-year-old company, we are still infants when it comes to our growth inflection point,” Portillo’s CEO Michael Osanloo said on Yahoo Finance Live. Osanloo isn’t kidding when he said… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher to extend gains after a rally on Wall Street, with stronger-than-expected earnings and economic data helping lift the S&P 500 by the most in seven months.  Shares of big bank stocks including Bank of America (BAC), Citi (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) steadied during the after-hours session. Each of these stocks had jumped earlier, after these banks posted much stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings results. Peer banking titan Goldman Sachs (GS) is… Source link