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Somehow, we get Washington Football Team on Sunday night when the NFL has what amounts to two division title games. So much for flexing.  There are two great matchups in the NFL in Week 16 and both happen at 1 p.m. ET. Both should directly affect who wins a division title.  Let’s start with the undercard, and that’s the Baltimore Ravens at the Cincinnati Bengals. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns are still hanging around a wild AFC North race, but whoever wins Ravens-Bengals will… Source link

Season-long leagues are winding down — some may even have crowned their champion — but fantasy owners who need their fix can turn to daily fantasy football moving forward. We’re headed into Week 16 which means there are three more main slates remaining in 2021. Our Week 16 Yahoo DFS tournament picks include several low-price, high upside values, and we think we have the right configuration to take a shot at the top spot in GPP tournaments.  We’re also calling… Source link

Investors will closely monitor reports in a packed economic release schedule this week leading up to the long holiday weekend.  The stock market will be closed all day on Friday in observation of Christmas Day, which falls on a Saturday this year. The U.S. bond market is also set to close early on Thursday at 2 p.m. ET, and close entirely on Friday as well.  In the days ahead, inflation data will be a central focus. This will especially be so following the Federal Reserve’s latest monetary… Source link

Paying up at the quarterback position isn’t a move we go out of our way to make very often. However, Kyler Murray has as much upside as anyone at the quarterback position, and we can include him in our Week 15 Yahoo DFS tournament picks without sacrificing elsewhere. Since we’re playing in GPP tournaments, we’ll have our fair share of guys with low floors and high ceilings, but that’s part of it. We’re also calling on a few chalky DFS plays, but we’ll have… Source link

The New England Patriots are being praised as perhaps the NFL’s best team after a seven-game winning streak.  Yet, they’re not even favored to win this week at a 7-6 Indianapolis Colts team. Seeing the Patriots as an underdog at the Colts is a surprise, though the Colts are probably better than their record. They’re a well-coached team that is good on both sides of the ball, like the Patriots.  Here’s a first look at the Week 15 lines in the NFL, with the spreads from BetMGM:  Week 15 starts… Source link

The NFL is a game of stars. We know their names, we know their faces, we know their allure and their magnetism. Fantasy football is a game about numbers. Sometimes you get them from a star, sometimes you don’t. It really doesn’t matter. Just score more than your opponent. Taysom Hill, this is your moment. Taysom Hill showed the power of the running quarterback The early window of Week 14 wasn’t particularly elegant. A lot of games were blowouts and plenty of stars disappointed. But at the… Source link

Investors this week are set to focus on the Federal Reserve’s final monetary policy decision of 2021, which may include more signaling of a monetary policy adjustment amid elevated inflation and a strengthening economic backdrop.  Members of the Federal Open Market Committee are set to hold their two-day policy-setting meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, after which they will release their monetary policy statement and hold a press conference with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The… Source link

Whether you are playing in the biggest tournament of the week on Yahoo! or prefer to play in smaller GPPs, there are some general positional strategies that you can implement in any size tournament. These concepts include stacking, finding pivots off of popular players, and looking for leverage in other spots. While it’s important to implement these into your lineup-building approach, the foundation of any tournament lineup is a solid core, usually players that you would use in cash… Source link

New initial jobless claims improved much more than expected last week to reach the lowest level in more than five decades, further pointing to the tightness of the present labor market as many employers seek to retain workers.  The Labor Department released its weekly jobless claims report on Thursday. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial unemployment claims, week ended Dec. 4: 184,000 vs. 220,000 expected and an upwardly… Source link

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, December 8, 2021 Blank-check companies have matured, but still look like the ‘Wild West’ It’s been a rough week for special purpose acquisition companies, the funding vehicles better known as a SPAC. Once upon a time referred to as “blank-check” companies, SPACs are firms that go public with the express purpose of raising capital to… Source link