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Google Doodle celebrates International Women’s Day 2024

Google Doodle celebrates International Women’s Day 2024

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Happy International Women’s Day! Google Doodle has created artwork to celebrate this global day on 8 March, celebrating all the progress that has been made towards gender equality. On this day in 1975, the United Nations celebrated International Women’s Day for the first time. International Women’s Day is celebrated across the globe,… Source link

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S&P 500 hits fresh record high ahead of jobs day

S&P 500 hits fresh record high ahead of jobs day

Another closely followed index is set to make a new record close. The S&P 500 equal-weight index (^SP500EW) is on track for its first record-high close since January 2022. While the traditional S&P 500 (^GSPC) is market-cap weighted, meaning a few large stocks have an outsized impact on the index’s performance, the equal-weight index values all 500 stocks in the index equally. As Goldman Sachs equity strategy team highlighted in Yahoo Finance’s Charbook back in January, this led to outsized… Source link

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Plane believed to be carrying Norway’s king departs Malaysia, a day after he received a pacemaker

Plane believed to be carrying Norway’s king departs Malaysia, a day after he received a pacemaker

LANGKAWI, Malaysia (AP) — An airplane believed to be carrying Norway’s King Harald departed Malaysia on Sunday, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker. Europe’s oldest reigning monarch was hospitalized in Malaysia for an infection during a private vacation in the northern resort island of Langkawi, the royal house said Tuesday. He underwent surgery at the Sultanah Maliha Hospital on Saturday to implant a temporary pacemaker due to a low heart rate, according to the royal… Source link

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Google Doodle celebrates Serbia’s National Day

Google Doodle celebrates Serbia’s National Day

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Google Doodle is celebrating Serbia’s National Day, also known as Statehood Day or Sovereignty Day on 15 February. The day, which is called Sretenje, marks two of the nation’s historic events. The Serbian government posted on X that the day is in memory of 15 February 1804, when the First Serbian Uprising began in Orasac, and also the same… Source link

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