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Calling Max Verstappen a massive favorite to win the Italian Grand Prix may be an understatement. Verstappen has won 10 of the first 14 races of the 2022 Formula 1 season and enters Sunday’s race (9 a.m. ET, ESPN2) at a wild -275 to win. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc is the No. 2 favorite at a distant +600 while Lewis Hamilton is at +800 to get his first win of the season. It’s easy to see why oddsmakers are confident in Verstappen’s chances at the win. Red Bull’s car has blown everyone… Source link

The energy transition is well underway as solar demand blazes higher. Rob Barnett, a senior clean energy analyst at Bloomberg, forecasted that solar capacity installations are on track to grow by 30% globally this year and see sustained double-digit growth in 2023 through 2025. “At the end of the day, the global solar picture is just staggering at this point,” Barnett told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We are on track to install something like 250 gigawatts of solar capacity this year…. Source link

Whether dodging taxes or legal peril, wealthy Americans often succeed in concealing assets from the government by hiding their money in offshore bank accounts. Research from the IRS and a group of economists last year found that the top 1% of earners in the U.S. neglect to report 20% of their income — and that random audits almost never detect offshore accounts. “The level of sneakiness around very wealthy American clients hiding their money abroad is kind of staggering,” best-selling… Source link

Google urges EU court to scrap or cut record fine EU regulators say fine is significantly below cap LUXEMBOURG, Sept 30 (Reuters) – A 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion) European Union antitrust fine was based on flawed calculations, Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Thursday, urging Europe’s second-highest court to scrap or reduce what it said was not an appropriate penalty. Google was fined for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals and cement its dominance in general… Source link