Tag Archives: March

A hotter-than-expected February inflation print was largely driven by two components: shelter and gas. The shelter index rose 5.7% on an unadjusted annual basis and 0.4% month over month, a deceleration from January’s 6% annual increase and 0.6% monthly rise. Sticky shelter inflation is largely to blame for higher core inflation readings, according to economists. The index for rent and owners’ equivalent rent (OER) rose 0.5% and 0.4% on a monthly basis, respectively. Owners’ equivalent rent is… Source link

TruTV is becoming another sports channel. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) For years, TruTV’s presence in the sports world has been “That channel you have to look up to watch some of the less-hyped March Madness games.” That is about to change in a very big way. TruTV’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is planning for it to shift its primetime lineup to a new sports slate beginning on March 11, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The channel, which previously focused on reality… Source link

March 7 (Reuters) – Shareholders of Dutch-registered Yandex NV approved the sale of “Russia’s Google,” the country’s most valuable technology asset, to a management-led consortium of Russian investors, the company said on Thursday. Yandex last month struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.27 billion) deal after months of negotiations to sell its assets in Russia at a heavily discounted price due to Kremlin demands on foreign asset sales. (Reporting by Alexander Marrow and… Source link

Paramount Global (PARA) shares skyrocketed more than 10% in early trading on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported media mogul Byron Allen made a $14.3 billion bid to buy all of Paramount’s outstanding shares. According to the report, Allen offered $28.58 each for the company’s voting shares, marking a 50% premium compared to recent trading levels, and $21.53 for non-voting shares. Including existing debt, the total value of the deal amounts to roughly $30 billion. It’s unclear how he would… Source link

Paramount Global (PARA) shares skyrocketed more than 10% in early trading on Wednesday after Bloomberg reported media mogul Byron Allen made a $14.3 billion bid to buy all of Paramount’s outstanding shares. According to the report, Allen offered $28.58 each for the company’s voting shares, marking a 50% premium compared to recent trading levels, and $21.53 for non-voting shares. Including existing debt, the total value of the deal mounts to roughly $30 billion. It’s unclear how he would… Source link

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge has moved below 3% for the first time since March 2021, before the start of the central bank’s rate-hiking campaign. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index grew 2.6% year-over-year in December, in line with last month’s print. “Core” PCE, which excludes the volatile food and energy categories, grew 2.9%, down from 3.2% from the month prior and below the 3.0% economists surveyed by Bloomberg had expected. Core PCE is the inflation measure… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Marcel Marceau: What does Google’s March 22 homepage mean?  MassLive.com Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]March Madness 2023: Games, scores, schedule, times and TV channels for NCAA men’s tournament Day 2  Yahoo Sports Source link

Despite inflation cooling down a bit in August, up 8.3%, Americans can still expect to pay up on their next trip to the grocery store. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ August Consumer Price Index (CPI), the overall cost of food rose 11.4%, with the food-at-home category, groceries, up 13.5% year-over-year. For the overall food category, that’s the highest increase since May of 1979, but for the food-at-home category, that’s the largest increase since March of 1979, according to… Source link

U.S. stocks rose Tuesday as traders returned from a long weekend, with equities recouping some losses following the S&P 500’s worst week since March 2020. The S&P 500 advanced by 2.45% in its best day in three weeks, ending at 3,764.84 and recovering some declines after plunging by 5.8% last week. The Nasdaq Composite gained 2.5% to end at 11,069.30, and the Dow added more than 643 points, or 2.2%, to end at 30,531.77 and post its best single-day gain since May 4. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) rose back… Source link