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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Masters 2023 live: Brooks Koepka leads as weather halts Round 2  Yahoo Sports Source link

As the U.S. nears a potential recession, dairy producers are finding themselves impacted by both inflation and severe weather. “There’s certainly been a lot of talk about the inflation at the shelf and food prices,” Tillamook County Creamery Association CEO Patrick Criteser told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “And there should be because that’s an 8-12% — even higher in some categories — increase in costs year-over-year that’s impacting families.” Although inflation in the… Source link

With a recession potentially on the horizon, a new survey shows many Canadians aren’t sure they’re in a good financial position to make it through the downturn. A new poll has found that more than a quarter of Canadians feel they won’t be able to financially weather a recession. Twenty per cent of respondents to a Yahoo survey, conducted by Maru Public Opinion, say they won’t be able to withstand an economic downturn for more than a month, while eight per cent say their financial situation is… Source link

The reaction to retail earnings this week may be too bearish on the state of the consumer, says one investing expert. “Candidly, I think some of the read on the retailers is more pessimistic on the state of the consumer than what our data shows,” Andy Sieg, president of Merrill Wealth Management, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. “When we look at checking and savings accounts across Bank of America, we see our client base, which is 67 million households across the U.S. in strong… Source link

Two years ago, Las Vegas lost a chance to host the NFL draft when COVID-19 swept around the country, turning it into a one-off virtual event. Vegas will be the host for the 2022 draft, which kicks off with Thursday night’s Round 1 in Sin City, but natural phenomena are once again creating potential challenges for the league. There is no threat of the NFL draft being canceled or delayed, and this time COVID is not the acute concern — weather is. According to early forecasts, wind could be… Source link

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Google Home, the companion app for Google’s smart home products, is changing the way users interact with photos on the app and on Nest Hub devices. 9to5Google first noticed the changes, which include a revamped Photo Frame settings menu. Now, when you use Google Home to change the displayed album while your Nest Hub is idle, you’ll see a carousel-style UI that gives you the option to choose from curated groups of photos, categorized as “Select family & friends,” “Recent… Source link

Hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds during a high-altitude mountain ultramarathon led to the deaths of 21 experienced runners in northwestern China on Saturday, state media and the Associated Press reported. The 62-mile Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon race began in sunny conditions that morning. By 1 p.m. the weather turned to freezing rain, hail stones and gale winds, the state-run Global Times reported. Rescuers confirmed that 151 of the 172 total runners were safe, via AP, and eight… Source link

The Daily Beast This Belarusian Currency Trader Is Buying Up Tiny Vermont Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyA Belarusian currency speculator named Pavel Boguslavovich Belogour is buying up huge swaths of tiny Vermont—thousands of acres of the Green Mountain State, and even patches of land over the border in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.At first, Belogour, who goes by “Paul,” was received as something of a novelty. An idiosyncratic character with long hair and scant online… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Texas came uncomfortably close to another round of rolling blackouts Tuesday night because grid operators misjudged the weather. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state’s grid, had counted on a mild cold front sweeping the state, lowering demand for power. It didn’t happen. As a result, demand on the grid was about 3,000 megawatts higher than anticipated — or the equivalent of 600,000 homes. The forecasting error, coming as 25% of power… Source link