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Selection Sunday is nearly upon us and bids are at stake as conference championships play out. Before the Madness begins, a jam-packed slate of Saturday action delivered as teams punched their tickets to the Dance. With 13 conference final games and NCAA tourney implications abound, there’s plenty to monitor. Wisconsin won a thriller over Purdue to advance to the Big Ten final. No. 2 UConn outlasted No. 10 Marquette in the Big East tourney final, making a case for itself to be the No. 1… Source link

Donald Trump is getting a quick reminder of one of his administration’s low points after a verbal stumble during an interview that aired on Monday. The former president claimed on Newsmax that the country wouldn’t be able to function if President Joe Biden wins reelection. “Look at even things like supply change,” Trump said, likely meaning “supply chains,” which he claimed was a little-known phrase. “Things we never even heard about, you never heard that term,” Trump said…. Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bitcoin rediscovers its mojo as banks stumble, says Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick  Yahoo Finance Source link

U.S. stock futures were mixed ahead of the open Friday. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) added 0.1%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) were lower by 0.1%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by roughly 0.5%. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose to 3.437% from 3.397% Thursday. The dollar index added 0.1%, trading at $101.94 Friday morning. Stocks extended a string of losses Thursday as investors dissected economic data… Source link

U.S. stock futures wavered ahead of the open Thursday after inflation data for December showed prices increased at a slower annual rate, in a report that was in line with expectations from economists. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) hovered around the flatline. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) were down about 0.2%. U.S. Treasury yields ticked down. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell to 3.54% from… Source link

Women at Oracle Corp. suing over alleged pay disparities took a big step backward, while more than 15,000 female workers at Google crossed the finish line. Under a judge’s tentative ruling Friday, the Oracle women are poised to lose the class-action status they earlier won that gave them powerful leverage in a five-year court fight with their employer. Alphabet Inc.’s Google, meanwhile, agreed to pay $118 million to resolve claims filed under California’s Equal Pay Act that the company… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Cryptocurrency prices slumped as a broad selloff sparked by worries about contagion from China Evergrande Group swept through global markets. Most Read from Bloomberg Bitcoin was down 8.1% to trade around $43,743 as of 5:11 p.m. in New York. It had dropped as much as as 10.7% earlier, which pushed it below $43,000 and to its lowest level since the beginning of August. Ether briefly dropped below $3,000. Popular DeFi tokens some of the biggest declines: Cardano fell more than 10%… Source link