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Microsoft, as expected, has synchronized the release schedule of its Edge browser with Chrome’s, which Google had earlier announced would accelerate to an every-four-week cadence. “As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster,” the Edge team wrote in an unsigned March 12 post to a company blog. The week prior, Google had… Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. accelerated in the final month of 2020 — the fastest pace in eight years. The results top off what was a record year for the housing market despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 10.4% annual gain in December, up from 9.5% in November — the fastest growth rate since 2013. The 20-City Composite posted a 10.1% annual gain, up from 9.2% the previous month — beating… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is selling bonds to take advantage of cheap borrowing costs, tapping the market for a third time since May as it looks to return more cash to shareholders. The company is issuing debt in six parts, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year security, may yield between 115 and 120 basis points above Treasuries, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the details are private. Until 2020, Apple hadn’t… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Governor Andrew Cuomo said more vaccines are on the way for New York, though he said the bigger challenge is getting skeptical Black and Latino residents to take the shot. Fatalities in the U.S. dropped below 4,000 for the first time in three days. A doctors’ group in the U.K. has urged the government to review the 12 weeks allowed for people to receive a second dose of the vaccine produced by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE. The manufacturer suggests 21 days. Meanwhile,… Source link

As if we needed any more evidence, this is why the New York Jets aren’t firing anyone on their winless coaching staff this season. Head coach Adam Gase is inevitably going to short-circuit the offense. And when he can’t come through, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams is going to blitz himself right off the cliff, if necessary. They are the twins of incongruous consistency. Two coaches. Two steering wheels. Both driving the Jets to nowhere, which, as luck would have it, is the… Source link

TipRanks Bull Moves: Analysts Just Upgraded These 3 Hot Stocks The world’s largest asset manager is impressed with the market’s recent gains, and it has made that sentiment clear by upgrading US stocks. In its recent reassessment of conditions in the American financial markets, investment giant BlackRock issued a general upgrade for Wall Street. This wasn’t an upgrade on particular stocks, but on the US market as a whole.Explaining the move, the BlackRock note points out that the daily… Source link

U.S. economic activity likely surged at a record clip for the July through September period, as an initial easing of virus-related lockdowns allowed business activity to return after a historic slump. The Bureau of Economic Analysis is set to release its advance print on third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday. Here are the main metrics expected from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: 3Q GDP, annualized quarter-over-quarter: 32.0%… Source link