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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bitcoin moves above US$28,000, Ether gains, XRP surges, U.S. equities rally  Yahoo Finance Source link

U.S. stock futures were mixed ahead of the open Thursday, with tech stocks leading the way up following the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) added 0.4%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) lagged, dipping 0.4%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by 1.2%. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note ticked up to 3.415% Thursday morning. The dollar index was flat. The major U.S. stock… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Dozens of Google workers from across the country rallied at Google headquarters Wednesday to demand higher wages and benefits from Google’s parent company Alphabet. With the backing of the Alphabet Workers Union, a group of Google contract workers known as “raters” made their voices heard on Google’s main campus calling for fair pay and benefits. “I support the largest revenue stream that Google has, and I don’t have healthcare from my employer, and I don’t have the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google ‘rater’ contract workers rally at Mountain View headquarters to demand higher pay  CBS San Francisco Source link

Michelle Curtis has rated Google searches professionally for eight years — training, testing and evaluating the algorithms for the company’s dominant search engine — while making $13.50 an hour. On Jan. 1, Curtis received a raise to $14.50 an hour, which is still lower than the $15 minimum hourly wage that Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.61% GOOG, +1.56% has established for its temporary, contractor and vendor workforce,… Source link

Tesla stock has risen too fast this year based on numerous uncertainties around the EV maker’s business, JP Morgan analyst Ryan Brinkman argues. “Tesla’s softer trend and below-consensus adjusted automotive gross margin comes before the impact of large price reductions that will primarily be felt beginning in the first quarter,” Brinkman said in a new client note. “As such, we view margin trajectory negatively and expect that consensus margin expectations are likely to decline.” Brinkman… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, January 27, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Alexandra Semenova, markets reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow Alexandra on Twitter @alexandraandnyc. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. It’s been “risk on” for investors in the first few weeks of 2023. The Nasdaq has gained 9% after losing one third of its value… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, January 26, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Stocks mounted an impressive comeback Wednesday, with the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) nearly erasing its biggest opening deficit… Source link

To build a fire — but not destroy the market by doing so. That’s the goal right now. It’s not as easy as in the famous Jack London short story (“Too Build a Fire”) where in the end the survivors profit rather than freeze to death in their sleep. In the early part of this decade, we saw the rise of Robinhood (HOOD) and the distribution of investments from the serious to the ephemeral. These days, Robinhood has the appearance of one gigantic bonfire of young peoples’ money. The gamification… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Stock-market investors are hoping for a strong finish to a chaotic year. Most Read from Bloomberg A less hawkish Federal Reserve and encouraging inflation data could unleash a mega-rally in December, which has proved to be a strong month for the stock market over the past 70 years. This year, though, it may get off to a late start: With all the twists and turns heading into 2023, even bulls may sit on the sidelines until the release of the next key inflation report on Dec…. Source link