(Bloomberg) — Moderna Inc. joins the S&P 500 on Wednesday as the index’s the best performing stock this year — by a mile. The move caps the drugmaker’s transformation from an early-stage biotech to a vaccine maker supplying Covid shots to the world. With a gain of more than 180% so far in 2021, Moderna’s share performance tops the index’s existing leader, L Brands Inc., which has risen about 100%. In the runup to its inclusion in the U.S. benchmark, Moderna’s stock has made fresh… Source link
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Following the election of President Trump in 2016, a growing number of software engineers and product developers began to question Silicon Valley contracts with the U.S. military and police departments. They formed into activist groups like the Tech Workers Coalition and publicly challenged management decisions. The Google walkout in 2018 was the most dramatic public showing of this growing discontent. Last year, a group of about 80 subcontracted white-collar workers at a Google office… Source link
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