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Top Apple Executive Is Leaving After Making Crude Remarks in TikTok Video

Top Apple Executive Is Leaving After Making Crude Remarks in TikTok Video

(Bloomberg) — One of Apple Inc.’s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making an off-color joke that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living. Most Read from Bloomberg In the video, published on Sept. 5, Apple’s Tony Blevins was approached by TikTok and Instagram creator Daniel Mac as part of a series where he asks owners of expensive cars their occupations. The executive was stopped by Mac while parking a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, an… Source link

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Stocks fall for third day as investors mull rate hike, Powell remarks

Stocks fall for third day as investors mull rate hike, Powell remarks

U.S. stocks closed lower Thursday to cap a turbulent session after the Federal Reserve’s latest policy announcement and subsequent remarks from Chair Jerome Powell sent markets into disarray. The benchmark S&P 500 slid 0.9%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 100 points, or 0.4%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite tumbled 1.4%. The moves extend a Fed-induced sell-off Wednesday that saw the S&P 500 and Dow each erase around 1.7% and the Nasdaq plummet 1.8%, and mark a third… Source link

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Stocks extend losses as investors weigh hawkish Powell remarks, more corporate earnings

Stocks extend losses as investors weigh hawkish Powell remarks, more corporate earnings

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday as investors weighed a bevy of corporate earnings and braced for more aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve in coming months. The S&P 500 tumbled 1.9%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 580 points, placing both major indexes at a five-week low. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite declined 1.9%. Meanwhile, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield remained at 2.9%, the highest level since December 2018. The losses follow remarks from Fed Chair… Source link

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Whoopi Goldberg Suspended From ‘The View’ for Holocaust Remarks

Whoopi Goldberg Suspended From ‘The View’ for Holocaust Remarks

Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from “The View” for two weeks after facing wide criticism for her remarks that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Goldberg’s suspension was announced in a statement released by ABC News public relations on Tuesday night. More from Variety “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” reads a statement attributed to Kim Godwin, president at ABC News. “While Whoopi has apologized,… Source link

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Asia Stocks Steady as Traders Mull Powell Remarks: Markets Wrap

Asia Stocks Steady as Traders Mull Powell Remarks: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks were steady Monday and Treasuries held an advance as traders weighed Jerome Powell’s signal that pandemic-era Federal Reserve policy support will be withdrawn cautiously and gradually. Shares gained in Japan, slipped in Hong Kong and fluctuated in China, where Beijing’s regulatory broadside remains in focus. U.S. futures were steady after a record Wall Street close in the wake of Chair Powell’s Jackson Hole speech. Powell said the Fed may start paring bond… Source link

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Stock futures tick up ahead of Powell’s Jackson Hole remarks

Stock futures tick up ahead of Powell’s Jackson Hole remarks

Stock futures edged higher Thursday evening after closing lower during the regular trading day, as jitters over the prospects of less accommodative monetary policy compounded with fresh geopolitical concerns. Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Earlier on Thursday, the index closed lower to end a five-session winning streak and pull back from an all-time high. Both the Dow and Nasdaq had also ended in the red. More hawkish commentary from Fed policymakers ahead of the central bank’s key… Source link

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McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star

McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star

Republican leaders in Congress sought to distance themselves Tuesday from comments made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., that compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate in the House of Representatives to the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.  The controversy was just the latest in a series of incendiary comments from Greene that stretch back to before she was elected last year. “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of… Source link

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Mariners prez apologizes for controversial remarks

Mariners prez apologizes for controversial remarks

Seattle Mariners president and CEO Kevin Mather issued an apology Sunday night after a video surfaced on YouTube of controversial remarks he made to the Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club on Feb. 5. During the video conference with the club, which lasted over 45 minutes and included a question and answer portion, Mather made racist remarks criticizing his own players’ English skills, called a player overpaid, got the name of one of the team’s prospects wrong, trashed the facilities of their own… Source link

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