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 Monday, September 20, 2021 But there are green pastures Against a noisy backdrop of mounting corporate earnings warnings and a steady drumbeat of market correction calls by Wall Street pros, I have been on a covert mission to find a few good things for investors to chew on midway through a volatile September. I inhaled a whiff of hopium on the… Source link
Read More »Big investors are starting to get worried: BofA survey
Big investors are beginning to worry about several key fundamentals that underpin the stock market. Global growth expectations have continued to “fall markedly” in September, according to the latest survey of fund managers out of Bank of America. The survey found that economic growth expectations are at their lowest level since April 2020. Expectations for economic growth plunged 14 percentage points from BofA’s August survey. BofA said in the report that macroeconomic optimism is… Source link
Read More »Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ‘starting to plant the seeds’ to step down: Author
When Amazon (AMZN) Chairman Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO earlier this month and wasted no time launching into space, some may have wondered when Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg would step down from the tech giant he founded. In fact, Zuckerberg is already starting to prepare for his own exit, says Cecilia Kang, a New York Times technology reporter and co-author of a new insider account of Facebook called, “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination.” Kang, whose book draws on… Source link
Read More »Google is starting to tell you how it found Search results
Google app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo July 22 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google will now show its search engine users more information about why it found the results they are shown, the company said on Thursday. It said people googling queries will now be able to click into details such as how their result matched certain search terms, in order to better decide if the information is relevant. Google has… Source link
Read More »Inflation fears may be starting to pass: Morning Brief
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 Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Pricing pressures stopped getting worse for the service sector last month If we wind back the clock to mid-May, the only idea it seemed investors wanted to discuss was inflation. The argument from many economists and Federal Reserve officials — then and now — was that pricing pressures would prove “transitory,” or that… Source link
Read More »Trump Organization prosecutors are starting small, aiming bigger
It sounds anticlimactic: After years of chatter about widespread tax evasion, Russian funding and sketchy shell companies, the first charges prosecutors are leveling against the Trump Organization involve fringe benefits for one employee. It wouldn’t even be news if it weren’t the Trump Organization. But the employee, Allen Weisselberg, is the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, with intimate knowledge of all the money that flows in and out of the family business of former… Source link
Read More »Google Search Activity Show Consumers Starting To Pull Back
A look at search activity on Google indicates that U.S. consumers may be cooling off a little bit. Ben Breitholtz, a data scientist at Arbor Research, examines Google search activity as a gauge for consumer sentiment. On an episode of the “Odd Lots” podcast last year, he explained how watching this data was helpful in navigating the recovery in real time. Right now, he’s seeing some signs that the torrid pace of consumption we’ve seen is starting to cool just a little. … Source link
Read More »White Sox’ Michael Kopech continuing on road to starting rotation
Kopech stays on road to rotation with latest spot start originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Michael Kopech‘s journey to the starting rotation took another step forward Friday. We’ll see how many steps it will take him to finally get there. The White Sox slow-playing of Kopech makes all the sense in the world after the fireballer missed the last two seasons. His use this year as a multi-inning bullpen weapon/spot starter has been a revelation, and it’s hard to imagine things working out… Source link
Read More »Google to begin opening some Seattle-area offices for optional in-person work starting April 20
A Google office building in Seattle’s South Lake Union. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Google has announced plans to start bringing workers back to the company’s offices in the Puget Sound region, including on campuses in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood and in Kirkland, Wash. Some buildings in those areas will be opening on April 20. The plan is to operate at less than 20% capacity, the company told GeekWire Wednesday, and employees will have an opportunity… Source link
Read More »Bears name Andy Dalton as starting QB over Nick Foles
It did not take long for the Chicago Bears to tap Andy Dalton as their starting quarterback. One week after signing the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback to a one-year, $10 million deal, the team tweeted a concise announcement Wednesday that Dalton had been named QB1: The announcement quickly puts to bed any idea of a quarterback competition in Chicago between Dalton and Nick Foles. Dalton had actually revealed the Bears told him he would be the starter if he signed, which might explain why he… Source link
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