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Stephen F. Austin delivered the biggest blowout of the 2022 college football season on Saturday night. The Lumberjacks defeated the Warner Royals 98-0 in a game that was a rout before the first quarter was even over. Stephen F. Austin had 35 points after the first quarter and led 59-0 at halftime. Stephen F. Austin competes at the NCAA’s second-tier FCS level. Warner University, located in Lake Wales, Florida, is an NAIA school and plays three levels lower than the Lumberjacks. SFA had eight… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Investors are flocking to cash and shunning almost every other asset class as they turn the most pessimistic since the global financial crisis, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists. Most Read from Bloomberg Cash had inflows of $30.3 billion, while global equity funds saw outflows of $7.8 billion in the week through Sept. 21, the bank said in a note, citing EPFR Global data. Bond funds lost $6.9 billion, while $400 million left gold, the data showed. Investor sentiment… Source link

Housing affordability hasn’t been this bad since Ronald Reagan was president. It now takes 35.51% of the median household income to make a principal and interest payment on the median home with 20% down, according to figures mortgage technology and data provider Black Knight shared with Yahoo Money. That’s the highest payment-to-income ratio since October 1985 when it took 36.01% of household income to make that payment. Just in January, that ratio was 24.61%, below the long-term average… Source link

Albert Pujols crushed the 696th homer of his illustrious career on Saturday night, tying Alex Rodriguez for fourth on the all-time home run list. The St. Louis Cardinals legend now has 17 homers in a surprising 2022 resurgence, with time left to reach for 700. Facing JT Brubaker of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Pujols cranked a first-pitch slider 418 feet into the left-field stands. Albert Pujols climbing toward 700-homer club The year Pujols debuted in MLB, Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs on his way to… Source link

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Aristides Aquino entered MLB with a historic torrent of home runs, but his calling card these days can be located in his throwing arm. [It’s fantasy football season: Create or join a league now!] During the Reds’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, Aquino unleashed one of the most impressive throws in MLB this year on what should have been an RBI double for Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto. With Rhys Hoskins at first base, Realmuto hit a long fly ball… Source link

“Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported its Q2 earnings after the closing bell Monday, beating analysts’ expectations on revenue, but falling short on the bottom line as the industry contends with a slowdown from its pandemic-era highs. Here are the most important numbers from the announcement versus what Wall Street was anticipating from the gaming giant, as compiled by Bloomberg. Shares of Activision Blizzard were largely flat following the report. While Activision… Source link

Russia fined Google 21.1 billion rubles ($374 million) on Monday for repeatedly failing to “remove prohibited information” — content related to the country’s invasion and subsequent war in Ukraine. The country’s telecommunication watchdog Roskomnadzor cited a court order and said Google (particularly YouTube) didn’t take down content that discredited “the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” The watchdog’s press release also accused Google of… Source link

Ricardo Ramos just put his name in the pool for Knockout of the Year. The UFC featherweight pulled off an incredible spinning elbow KO at UFC on ESPN 37 on Saturday in Austin, Texas. Ramos (16-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC) slept a tough Danny Chavez 72 seconds into the first round. It was flawless performance by Ramos. The Brazilian immediately looked to pressure Chavez (11-5-1 MMA, 1-2-1 UFC) and walk him down as soon as the fight started. Closing in on Chavez near the cage, Ramos spun and clipped Chavez… Source link

A housing bubble requires both a rush of speculators entering into the market and “overvalued” home prices. Oh, and the bust at the end, of course. Unlike the housing bubble that popped in 2008, the pandemic housing boom isn’t underpinned by a frenzy of speculation, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi says. While home flipping has certainly ticked up during the pandemic, he says, we aren’t seeing the exuberance of the last bubble. So is the coast clear? Well, not so fast. While… Source link

U.S. consumer prices accelerated in May to the highest since 1981, as Americans grapple with a surge in the cost of gas, food, and shelter, data showed Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ May Consumer Price Index (CPI) showed a year-over-year increase of 8.6% last month, up from 8.3% in April. Economists were expecting an 8.3% increase in May, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. On a monthly basis, the broadest measure of inflation climbed 1.0%, compared to 0.3% in April. “Core”… Source link