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Stocks fell Monday as investors gave back some of last week’s gains, which sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to fresh record highs and the Dow above 30,000 for the first time ever. [Click here to read what’s moving markets heading into Tuesday, Dec. 1] However, the three major indices capped off November with major monthly gains. The Dow posted a monthly gain of nearly 11.9% for its best month since early 1987. The S&P 500 tracked toward a rise of about 10.7%, and the Nasdaq posted an 11.9%… Source link

The Conversation Homeless patients with COVID-19 often go back to life on the streets after hospital care, but there’s a better way In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been steadily decreasing since 2007, in the past two years it has started to increase. For New York City, even before COVID-19, 2020 was already turning out to be a record year for homelessness. But as the lockdown commenced in mid-March, the 60,923 homeless people… Source link

Australia’s mandatory news code no longer excludes the ABC and SBS from receiving payments from Google and Facebook for using their content. The addition of the public broadcasters is one of the significant changes treasurer Josh Frydenberg has made to the draft mandatory news code before it is tabled in parliament by 10 December. Labor, the Greens and several crossbenchers suggested the ABC and SBS should be added to the ranks of Australian news publishers to benefit from the code, in the… Source link

One of Russia’s most successful technology companies, Yandex, has launched an online grocery delivery service in Israel as part of its international expansion program. The service, which has expanded greatly in Russia since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, will operate in Israel under a new brand, Deli, according to the company’s statement. Read more … Source link

Bloomberg China to Take Oil-Refining Crown Held by U.S. Since 19th Century (Bloomberg) — Earlier this month, Royal Dutch Shell Plc pulled the plug on its Convent refinery in Louisiana. Unlike many oil refineries shut in recent years, Convent was far from obsolete: it’s fairly big by U.S. standards and sophisticated enough to turn a wide range of crude oils into high-value fuels. Yet Shell, the world’s third-biggest oil major, wanted to radically reduce refining capacity and couldn’t… Source link

The Week I was wrong about Mitt Romney The Donald Trump phenomenon is purported to have divided friendships, families, and even marriages. I can attest to this fact in my own suburban Washington household, for this perhaps peculiar professional reason: It has occasioned my wife, the longtime sufferer of all my hot takes, to ask approximately one-thousand times whether I finally feel bad about all the mean things I said about Mitt Romney.The short answer is, yes!Romney, now the junior senator… Source link

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Triller announced today: Dear Mr. Google: I am writing this letter in hopes someone more senior may be able to help me with an issue Triller currently has with a listing by Google causing serious confusion in the marketplace. Specifically, we have spent significant time and money putting together an event the Mike Tyson Roy Jones Junior fight for this Saturday, November 28, an event we have learned is one of the most anticipated events of the year. As… Source link

The Telegraph Novak Djokovic’s controversial season over as Dominic Thiem books place in ATP Finals showpiece Novak Djokovic’s strange and controversial tennis season is over, after Dominic Thiem eliminated him from the Nitto ATP Finals in a spectacular denouement to the first semi-final. In a year when the sport has been overshadowed by off-court events, Djokovic has never left centre stage. The pandemic was clearly the main story, but we have also seen the launch of a rival player union… Source link

On Monday, news broke that Antonio Brown was accused of destroying a security camera and throwing a bicycle at a security shack in his gated Florida community. The incident allegedly happened on Oct. 15, prior to Brown signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On Tuesday, news broke that the NFL was not previously aware of the incident. And that could be a problem for Brown and the Bucs. It’s up to the NFL how hard a line it wants to take with the latest Antonio Brown incident. (Photo by Mike… Source link

DOJ ‘basically letting everyone off the hook’ for Epstein deal A 350-page report faulted Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, for exhibiting “poor judgment” in deciding to resolve the Jeffrey Epstein case via plea deal. ‘Like another slap in the face’ to victims » Source link