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Can-Am F3-S Special Series Throughout the pandemic, motorcycle brands such as Harley-Davidson (HOG) saw a surprising boost in sales as Americans gravitated toward outdoor leisure activities en masse. Among the motorcycle manufacturers experiencing a heyday in growth in North American markets, Can-Am On-Road makes motorcycles that ride on three wheels instead of two. “Can-Am On-Road [has performed] two times better than the motorcycle industry average,” Can-Am On-Road Director of Global… Source link

Walmart “flexed its muscles” in an inflationary environment with a solid third quarter out on Tuesday, says Jefferies analyst Stephanie Wissink.  But the world’s largest retailer also posed in front of fierce rival Amazon (AMZN) by adding a significant number of new third-party sellers to its Walmart.com business. Walmart (WMT) said it added about 21 million new items to its online marketplace in the third quarter.  Growing its marketplace business to take on Amazon’s dominant position has… 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 Friday, November 5, 2021 How the vaccine mandate could be making the job crunch worse With jobless claims hitting a new pandemic-era low and the October jobs report on tap for Friday morning, it’s worth revisiting a theme the Morning Brief recently explored. Namely, are looming vaccine mandates helping or hurting a labor crunch that’s still… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A plunge of more than 20% in U.S. stocks is looking more like a real possibility, according to Morgan Stanley strategists led by Michael Wilson. Most Read from Bloomberg While it’s still a worst-case scenario, the bank said that evidence is starting to point to weaker growth and falling consumer confidence. In a note on Monday, the strategists laid out two directions for U.S. markets, which they dubbed as “fire and ice.” In the fire outcome, the more optimistic view, the… Source link

Google and ProMedica Health System are jumping into the rapidly growing virtual care market to get a piece of the $213 billion that’s spent annually on musculoskeletal care. The two companies are partnering with IncludeHealth to launch a musculoskeletal (MSK) operating system that any provider can use to offer integrated virtual physical care for MSK patients. The platform is hardware-free and device-agnostic, according to the companies. “The landscape of care delivery has… Source link

As coronavirus cases in the U.S. begin a concerning climb upward and virus variants threaten a return to normalcy, a handful of businesses have announced COVID-19 vaccination mandates as they prepare to welcome workers back to the office. The Equal Opportunity Employment Commission said employers can legally require COVID-19 vaccinations to re-enter a physical workplace, as long as they follow requirements to find alternative arrangements for employees unable to get vaccinated for medical… Source link

As many employers push for workers to return to the office with new COVID-19 infections contained and vaccinations widely available, many workers would rather continue working from home (WFH) for the long term. And both internally and externally, some are pushing back — and sparking a heated debate about the future of work. “I find it interesting (stupid) how WFH was considered a “vital necessity” to keep companies afloat last year…But now that companies want people back in the office… Source link

Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link

The Oracle of Omaha has become a streaming star. Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate’s moves are closely followed by the investment community, presides over the company’s annual meeting each spring. While every company has a shareholder event, Berkshire’s is something different. With 40,000 fervent attendees, it is equal parts financial forum, convention, rally and county fair. Held in non-pandemic times in the company’s Nebraska home base Omaha, it yields… Source link

With the growing demand for data privacy, Google announced it will stop selling ads based on … [+] individual users’ web browsing habits. However, privacy-focused browser Brave advances the ambition with a new search engine. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Privacy browser Brave created a competitor to Google’s GOOG flagship search engine with its latest acquisition. But the timing could have been better. Announced yesterday, Brave… Source link