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Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1999, Yahoo! acquired Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Where The Market Was: The Dow finished the day at 9,832.51. The S&P 500 finished at 1,293.72. What Else Was Going On In The World? In 1999, Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) purchased U.K. supermarket chain ASDA. The U.S. saw its first cases of the West Nile virus. The average annual U.S. income was… Source link

Stock futures traded little changed Wednesday evening after a record-setting day on Wall Street. Contracts on the S&P 500 hugged the flat line, after the blue-chip index reached a record intraday high during the regular session, and closed out its best monthly gain since November. Nasdaq futures edged up after technology stocks lifted the index higher by more than 1.5%. In late trading, shares of electric-vehicle stocks including Workhorse Group (WKHS) and Plug Power (PLUG) increased as… Source link

Eric Lindquist brings you his Opening Day MLB DFS picks for Round 1 of the MLB Yahoo Cup Daily Fantasy Baseball | Fernando Tatis Jr. 3/31/21 Happy Opening Day, and welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest will consist of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the… Source link

 BOSTON (SHNS) – After a day-one crash of the state’s vaccine appointment finder website, the stakes were high for the new pre-registration system Massachusetts launched with Google’s help. The new site launched with few if any hitches, withstanding the pressure of what Google on Monday revealed was peak demand of 19 pre-registrations per second. In a blog post highlighting Google Cloud’s partnership with states on vaccine rollout, the company said more than… Source link

It’s Pi Day, the nerdiest of holidays because it’s all about a mathematical constant that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (yes, sometimes writing majors do pay attention in geometry class). March 14th has become known as Pi Day because it’s written numerically as 3.14 and pi starts at 3.14 … and goes on indefinitely. Irrational number, indeed. In case you’ve forgotten the digits of pi, Google is celebrating (marking? observing? idk, choose the… Source link

Coupang (CPNG) shares closed at $49.52 each on their first day of trading, well below their opening trade but still above their IPO price, in the largest initial public offering in the US this year. Dubbed the Amazon (AMZN) of South Korea, shares of the e-commerce giant opened at $63.50 after pricing its IPO at $35 a share, raising $4.6 billion. About 10 minutes after the opening trade, the stock was trading at around $59 a share. The IPO surpassed that of dating app Bumble (BMBL), which Source link

The latest Google Doodle celebrates hands that made a difference. Google Google… Source link

The Guardian Biden urged to ‘go big’ on New Deal-like economic plan – but can he bridge left-right gap? The president is planning a multi-trillion effort to fix America’s infrastructure and kickstart the economy. But can he get Republicans on board? Biden in the White House in January. During his presidential campaign, Biden cast the infrastructure effort as an economic road map to revitalize American industry and help the nation compete with China. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images… Source link

Bloomberg In a Flash, U.S. Yields Hit 1.6%, Wreaking Havoc Across Markets (Bloomberg) — After weeks of grumbling, the world’s biggest bond market spoke loud and clear Thursday — growth and inflation are moving higher. The message wreaked havoc across risk assets.Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields catapulted to the highest in more than a year at over 1.6% and traders yanked forward their opinion of how soon the Federal Reserve will be forced to tighten policy. Equities tumbled, as higher… Source link

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. What Happened: Musk was replaced by Amazon.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos as the richest person on the list after Tesla shares fell 8.6% on Monday eroding $15.2 billion from his net wealth, according to Bloomberg. A tweet by Musk over the weekend which touched on the high valuation of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) furthered the entrepreneur’s decline in… Source link