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Wednesday, February 10, 2021 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe People keep calling bubbles, but this cycle is just getting started. Fourth quarter earnings season is rolling along and results to date have been fantastic. As Sam Ro chronicled in Monday’s Morning Brief, through last week 81% of companies in the S&P 500 that had reported earnings so far beat expectations by an average of 15.2%. At the end of 2020, we argued in this… Source link

By Mike Spector (Reuters) – The chief executives of ExxonMobil Corp and Chevron Corp held preliminary talks in early 2020 to explore combining the two largest U.S. oil producers in what would have been the biggest merger of all time, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions, which are no longer active, are indicative of the pressure the energy sector’s most dominant companies faced as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold and crude prices plunged. The talks between Exxon Chief… Source link

About 19.1 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. out of the nearly 40 million distributed as the new Biden administration ramps up inoculation efforts. Dr. Steven McDonald, a New York-based emergency medicine physician, described the current situation as a battle between the vaccine rollout and coronavirus continuing to spread throughout the population. “It’s difficult to say which of these forces is going to win out more quickly,” McDonald said on Yahoo… Source link

In their first playoff appearance since January 2003, the Browns stunned the Steelers with 28 unanswered first-quarter points on their way to a 48-37 AFC wild-card win Sunday night. Cleveland scored a defensive touchdown on the first play from scrimmage — a botched snap over the head of Ben Roethlisberger — and finished with five forced turnovers. Pittsburgh, forced to play from behind the whole way, could not come up with momentum-shifting takeaways down the stretch. The Browns’… Source link

TipRanks Oppenheimer: These 3 Stocks Could Spike Over 80% Wall Street’s best firms don’t just look at the stocks, they look at the big picture, too. And Oppenheimer’s chief investment strategist, John Stoltzfus, is particularly adept at showing us the macro view. In his first note of the new year, Stoltzfus notes a series of factors that are going to impact the markets. The big news, of course, the 800-pound gorilla that cannot be ignored, is the ongoing COVID epidemic. The disease is… Source link

Tanya Roberts — the Bond girl and That ‘70s Show actress who was mistakenly reported dead on Sunday — has in fact died. “With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (age 65) last night on Jan. 4, 2021 around 9:30 p.m. PT at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,” her publicist, Mike Pingel, of Rainbow PR said in a statement to Yahoo Entertainment on Tuesday. “Her 18-year domestic partner Lance O’Brien received the phone call from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center… Source link

Google said on Monday that it had not used its multibillion-dollar deals with other large tech firms to protect its position as the dominant online search engine, in the company’s first formal rebuttal to the Justice Department’s accusations that those deals violated antitrust laws. The filing, a 42-page document, is a paragraph-by-paragraph — and sometimes sentence-by-sentence — denial of the claims made by the government and a group of states that have joined its lawsuit. In the… Source link

GlobeNewswire Global Concentrating Solar Power Market (2020 to 2030) – Players Include Abengoa, Acciona and Frenell Dublin, Dec. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Concentrating Solar Power Market by Technology – Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2020-2030” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The Global Concentrating Solar Power Market was valued at USD 37.40 billion in 2019 and is expected to garner USD 114.42 billion by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of… Source link

We’ll follow up with Andy Behrens’ full version of pickups on Monday, but first up, some early options to consider ahead of Week 10 waiver claims. Drew Lock, QB, Denver Broncos (20% rostered) We touted Drew Lock as a top quarterback streamer for Week 9, and even though the Broncos lost, Lock did not disappoint on the fantasy front. Lock threw for over 300 yards and two touchdowns against Atlanta, but he also added seven rushes for 47 yards and a touchdown on the ground! While Lock isn’t… Source link

With Joe Biden’s commanding lead in the polls, President Donald Trump will have to win pretty much every toss-up state tonight and in the coming days to secure re-election. It’s not unprecedented. That’s essentially what he did in 2016. If we’re in for another Trump wave, Republican pollster Frank Luntz lists the 4 states to watch for the first signs of it. These states “all come in early” on Election Day and “Donald Trump has to win all four” in order to get re-elected, Luntz… Source link