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Costco (COST) may be about to put the burden on its members to pay for higher worker wages. The warehouse retailer could be “poised” to lift its membership fees within the next 18-months, Wells Fargo analysts said in a research note this week. Wells Fargo views any hike as an earnings catalyst, and lifted its rating on Costco shares to Overweight from Equal-weight ahead of that happening. “In addition to some sustainability of the COVID benefit, Costco is rapidly approaching its next… Source link

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 9%; BTIG Says ‘Buy’ How important are dividends to a stock investor’s profits? Speaking before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) on October 15, 2007, investing guru John Bogle laid out the case: “Over the past 81 years… reinvested dividend income accounted for approximately 95 percent of the compound long-term return earned by the companies in the S&P 500. These stunning figures would seem to demand that mutual funds… Source link

TipRanks Raymond James: 2 Big 7% Dividend Stocks to Buy Now Watching the markets with an eye to the main chance, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt sees both risk and opportunity in current market conditions. The opportunity, in his opinion, stems from the obvious factors: the Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats in the recent runoff vote, giving the incoming Biden Administration majority support in both Houses of Congress – and increasing the odds of meaningful fiscal support getting… Source link

Benzinga Benzinga’s Final Bulls And Bears Of The Year: Alibaba, Apple, Intel, Tesla And More * Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. * The week’s bullish calls included the iPhone maker and electric vehicle stocks. * A semiconductor maker and a Chinese internet giant were among the bearish calls.The final trading week of a tumultuous year offered little in the way of a Santa Claus rally, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average up… Source link

The Telegraph Italians accuse Germany of taking more than its fair share in European vaccine distribution Italians scrambling for Covid-19 vaccination appointments on Monday complained about “extra doses” of the Pfizer vaccine delivered to Germany as part of a scheme designed to treat all EU countries equally. Some politicians and public health experts bristled at the news that Germany received 10 times the number of doses as Italy on the first day of the vaccine roll-out. “The accounts… Source link

The Guardian How California went from a leader in the Covid fight to a state in despair California was the first state to lock down and avoided overwhelming its hospitals. Nine months later, its leaders are struggling as conditions worsenAt the San Joaquin hospital in California’s Central Valley, nurses cover infectious Covid-19 patients with clear, tent-like barriers – or, when those aren’t available, white sheets – as they’re wheeled through the ICU.“It’s for everybody’s… Source link

The letter, sent to CEO Sundar Pichai, is titled “The future of Ethical AI at Google.” It lays out the moves the researchers want the company to make in order to “rebuild trust” with the team and create an environment in which they can continue their work. The team researches the ethical repercussions of artificial intelligence and advises the company on AI policies and products. It comes in the wake of the sudden exit of Timnit Gebru, who until early December was the co-leader of Google’s… Source link

Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. Just think about the savvy investors who held Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) shares for the last five years, while they gained 315%. And this is just one example of the epic gains achieved by some long term investors. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 51% gain in the last three months. The company reported its financial… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports In Yahoo Best Ball, simply picking the right players is not a realistic strategy. We also need to consider the implications of the no-transaction format. A big part of that is roster construction. In other words, how many players at each position should we draft? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer for a couple of reasons. First, our decisions should be dynamic to our positional strength — which is a function of draft capital. If our QB1 is Patrick… Source link