Lauren Sanchez, the girlfriend of Jeff Bezos, shared that she was rejected from becoming a flight attendant because of her weight. (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Journalist and helicopter pilot Lauren Sánchez was once rejected as a flight attendant by Southwest Airlines for weighing too much. In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, Sánchez, 53, shared that she didn’t make the cut for Southwest’s weight limitations back in 1989. After leaving home at age 18, Sánchez, who is currently… Source link
Read More »Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) – Yandex shares are trading lower as Russian stocks fall amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Sanctions, a drop in the ruble and threats of escalation have weighed on the Russian economy.
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Read More »Stocks jump to new records at the open; Tesla weighed by Musk pledge
Stocks on Monday extended a record-setting streak of gains on Wall Street, opening at new highs as traders looked ahead to a slew of new inflation data and earnings results in the coming days. At the opening bell, the Dow, S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq all notched fresh highs, carried by last week’s momentum when all three major indexes jumped to their best levels ever. Optimism over a batch of strong corporate profit reports, a better-than-anticipated October jobs report and a Federal Reserve… Source link
Read More »European markets weighed down as investors brace for ECB tapering
Markets made muted moves on Thursday morning in London. Photo: Getty European markets saw a muted open on Thursday morning in London, with the FTSE 100 pulling back slightly at the opening bell. Markets are being weighed by talk of the European Central Bank withdrawing its monetary stimulus due to rising inflation. BHP Group (BHP.L) was among the top fallers in the FTSE, falling 4.8% in early trade as it was outbid for a nickel miner active in Canada’s highly-prospective Ring of Fire region… Source link
Read More »Treasury, U.K. Yield Curves Weighed Down by Rethink on Reflation
(Bloomberg) — The pressure on long bond yields is going global, led by Treasuries and U.K. gilts, as investors reconsider reflation expectations and brace for an eventual pullback of central bank stimulus. The Treasury five- to 30-year yield spread, which reflects the balance between the interest-rate outlook and inflation expectations, narrowed to the smallest gap since August. Its U.K. counterpart narrowed the least since December. That compression was driven by 30-year yields’ decline… Source link
Read More »US STOCKS-Dow, Nasdaq weighed down by Microsoft, Amgen; all eyes on Fed
* Fed expected to stand pat on interest rates * Alphabet jumps on record profit * Microsoft shares down on valuation * Dow down 0.35%, S&P flat, Nasdaq off 0.23% (Updates prices to early afternoon) By Shreyashi Sanyal and Shivani Kumaresan April 28 (Reuters) – The Dow and Nasdaq indexes fell on Wednesday as Amgen and Microsoft weighed, while investors focused on a Federal Reserve meeting for updates on monetary policy and waited for another batch of earnings from big… Source link
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