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Despite Republican opposition in Congress, majorities of Americans favor every key aspect of President Biden’s infrastructure plan, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. The survey of 1,649 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 6 to April 8, found that most (51 percent) say they would support “another big legislative package to invest in America’s infrastructure and combat climate change”; far fewer (30 percent) say they would oppose it. Both Democrats (80 percent to 8… Source link

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tells Yahoo Finance Presents it’s well beyond time to correct the racially inequities weaved into the fabric of the nation’s infrastructure.  “So one of the problems with the racially destructive choices that were made in the past is that it’s a lot harder to reverse when it’s in the form of a big concrete highway. There are many places in the country where it’s been shown that choices were made to run a highway right through the heart of what had been… Source link

Joining the “ETF Report” with host Alexis Christoforous on Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CEO, Tom Lydon, was on hand to talk about where the record amount of ETF flows has been heading over the past couple of quarters, in addition to China’s recent tech stock decline, and the potential for infrastructure. Finishing the first quarter of 2021 with close to $240 billion in new assets, Lydon explains how that puts the market on pace for a trillion-dollar year in ETFs, which would be… Source link

The New York Times As Mask Mandates Lift, Retail Workers Again Feel Vulnerable Marilyn Reece, the lead bakery clerk at a Kroger in Batesville, Mississippi, started noticing more customers walking around the store without masks this month after the state mandate to wear face coverings was repealed. Kroger still requires them, but that doesn’t seem to matter. When Reece, a 56-year-old breast-cancer survivor, sees those shoppers, she prays. “Please, please, don’t let me have to wait on… Source link

President Joe Biden is set to unveil a $2 trillion economic recovery plan on Wednesday afternoon, which includes raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% to help pay for a massive overhaul of America’s infrastructure. The proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is the first of the two economic recovery plans the administration plans to roll out in the coming weeks. Biden will detail the first plan focusing on the infrastructure overhaul on Wednesday in Pittsburgh and the second plan… Source link

The Biden administration is keen on rebuilding America’s infrastructure, including a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project that the Trump administration blocked. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg recently told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that the administration would be prioritizing the Gateway Program, a project to upgrade the Northeast Corridor rail lines between New York and New Jersey. “This is a regional issue, but one of national significance… Source link

Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. There is a whole art to keeping services running at scale up and running, and the people who do it are called site reliability engineers, or SREs. More and more, the practices that Google created are being adopted and so is the SRE term. Most companies can’t hire the smartest people in infrastructure in the world, like the hyperscalers and cloud builders can. And so… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Places Bet on 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks When billionaire financier Ray Dalio makes a move, Wall Street pays attention. Dalio, who got his start working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange trading commodity futures, founded the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 1975. With the firm managing about $140 billion in global investments and Dalio’s own net worth coming at $17 billion, he has earned legendary status on Wall Street. Summing… Source link

Google Cloud has partnered with its newly signed customer Nokia to develop infrastructure solutions aimed at telcos that are building 5G networks with compute nodes at the edges of those networks. The goal of the partnership, announced Thursday, is to give telecommunications companies infrastructure they can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications across public and private clouds and edge locations. Tying it all together will… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Are Still Undervalued After a year that most of us want to forget, 2021 is shaping up to start with stability and an even keel. The election is safely behind us, the new Biden Administration promises a ‘no drama’ approach, a closely divided and hyper-partisan Congress is unlikely to enact any sweeping legislation, reform or otherwise, and COVID vaccines are ready for distribution. It’s a recipe for a calm news cycle.Which makes it a perfect time to… Source link