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Stocks renewed declines Monday as investors looked ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings results, economic data and a Federal Reserve monetary policy-setting meeting after an already volatile stretch of trading. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each dropped more than 2%, while the Dow fell by more than 1.5%. During intraday trading, the S&P 500 was off by more than 10% from its record closing high from Jan. 3, putting it on track to enter a correction. And the Nasdaq Composite fell further into a… Source link

John Wall‘s absence only benefits the Houston Rockets‘ ability to lose games. Unless you consider being paid $44.3 million to not play at some cost to his own legacy a benefit for the 31-year-old five-time All-Star. The Rockets and Wall met on Sunday to discuss his future, and they left with little more clarity beyond the veteran’s desire to resume playing to his capability. Public discourse on the issue — largely framed as a refusal from Wall to accept less than a starting job — has… Source link

Thomas Kurian, chief executive officer of cloud services at Google LLC, speaks during the Google Cloud Next ’19 event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. The conference brings together industry experts to discuss the future of cloud computing. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images At Google’s weekly all-hands meeting on Thursday afternoon, CEO Sundar Pichai and cloud boss Thomas Kurian tried to address concerns about the company’s potential pursuit of a… Source link

Stock futures gained Tuesday morning after sliding a day earlier, as a bevy of concerns out of China and in Washington spurred a steep selloff across risk assets. Traders also turned their attention to the start of the Federal Reserve’s latest two-day monetary policy-setting meeting. Contracts on the S&P 500 advanced by about 0.8% after the blue-chip index logged its worst day since May by the end of Monday’s session. Dow futures added more than 300 points, or 0.9%, while Nasdaq futures… Source link

(Reuters) – China’s top securities regulator defended their crackdown on various industries in a private meeting with Wall Street executives, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. Investors’ concerns over the regulatory crackdown has led to sharp sell-offs on China’s share markets, reducing the market capitalisation of some of its largest companies including Alibaba Group Holding Limited. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai explained during the meeting that… Source link

To help employees better manage their day, Google Calendar is introducing new “Time Insights” that let paid Workspace users see “how [their] time is spent across meetings and collaborators.” Announced for Calendar back in March, Google calls Time Insights a “personalized, analytical experience.” The goal of these stats is to: With the changes to our working environments in the past year, some people have more meetings and may feel less control over how their work time is… Source link

Business leaders in sectors ranging from tech to insurance committed billions of dollars to beefing up cybersecurity efforts at a White House meeting Wednesday. The meeting comes in the wake of several high-profile cyberattacks, including on government software contractor SolarWinds and oil pipeline Colonial Pipeline, that have brought added urgency to such security issues. The commitments range from working toward new industry standards to supplying other businesses with stronger security… Source link

CEO Sundar Pichai is stressed about Google’s plan to become carbon free over the next decade. That means the company aims to use no carbon-based energy whatsoever by 2030. “It’s a long shot, it stresses me out in terms of how to get there,” Pichai said at a virtual climate change event hosted by earth-imaging platform Planet in July. But “you bet on technology and innovation,” he said. Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, Pichai said. That means that though Google’s operations still… Source link

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / June 28, 2021 / Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX)(MOEX:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that all resolutions proposed at Yandex’s 2021 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “AGM”) and the meeting of the holders of Class A Ordinary Shares, both held on Monday, June 28, 2021, have been approved. Yandex also announced three re-appointments to its Board of… Source link

MOSCOW and AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / June 28, 2021 / Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX)(MOEX:YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that all resolutions proposed at Yandex’s 2021 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (the “AGM”) and the meeting of the holders of Class A Ordinary Shares, both held on Monday, June 28, 2021, have been approved. Yandex also announced three re-appointments to its… Source link