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Stocks dipped on Tuesday, with the major indexes on track to close out August trading with another monthly gain.  The S&P 500 was slightly lower, pulling back after the Conference Board’s closely watched monthly report on consumer confidence fell more than expected in August amid the Delta variant’s spread. Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq had set fresh record intraday and closing highs during Monday’s trading day, powered higher by a jump in heavily weighted Big Tech stocks.  The S&P 500 is… Source link

Stock futures rose Monday evening, with the major indexes on track to close out August trading with another monthly gain.  Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up. Both the blue-chip index and the Nasdaq set fresh record intraday and closing highs during the regular trading day, powered higher by a jump in heavily weighted Big Tech stocks.  The S&P 500 is on track to post a seventh straight monthly advance in August, pacing toward a 3% monthly gain and bringing its year-to-date increase to nearly… Source link

The stock market is on one impressive stretch headed into year-end, which may bode well for future returns.  Through late last week, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) had gone 189 days — or nine straight months — without being more than 5% from a 52-week high, according to researchers at Sundial Capital Research. The S&P 500 also had logged its 43rd day with a 52-week closing before November.  Sundial says 2021 has been one of the most “consistent” years ever for markets. That recent bout of… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A continuing recovery in Bitcoin has put the largest cryptocurrency on course for its longest winning streak this year. The virtual coin rose as much as 6.1% to top $40,000 and was trading at about $39,700 as of 8:15 a.m. in London on Wednesday. It’s advanced for eight straight days. Other coins including second-ranked Ether climbed, boosting the Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index. “The current momentum is strong” and $45,000 is in sight but a conclusive break above $50,000… Source link

The New England Patriots went 7-9 in 2020, their first season without Tom Brady on the roster since 2000. The 2000 season was the last time the Patriots had a losing record, but one bettor at BetMGM thinks things will go a whole lot better for Bill Belichick’s group in 2021. According to BetMGM, one customer placed a $10,000 bet on the Patriots to win the Super Bowl next season at +3000 odds. If that comes to fruition, the bettor would win $300,000. Following that bet, BetMGM moved its odds… Source link

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the threat of the Chinese Communist Party, the obligation for the U.S. to help Taiwan and extending the nuclear treaty with Russia. An artificial intelligence commission led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is urging the U.S. to boost its AI skills to counter China, including by pursuing “AI-enabled” weapons – something that Google itself has shied away from on ethical grounds. Schmidt and current executives from Google, Microsoft, Source link

Tom Brady’s greatness has been dissected by millions of people, in millions of different ways. The average football fan, by now, knows the improbable tale, of a skinny kid from Michigan drafted 199th overall who became the greatest NFL player ever. But all the analysis, and glowing stories, and drooling commentators fail to capture just how improbable Brady’s accomplishments are. Set aside his sixth-round status for a second. What is the probability that a given drafted player would go on… Source link

About 19.1 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. out of the nearly 40 million distributed as the new Biden administration ramps up inoculation efforts. Dr. Steven McDonald, a New York-based emergency medicine physician, described the current situation as a battle between the vaccine rollout and coronavirus continuing to spread throughout the population. “It’s difficult to say which of these forces is going to win out more quickly,” McDonald said on Yahoo… Source link

With the coronavirus surging and the economy in tatters, President Trump seems to have decided that his surest path to reelection lies in portraying Joe Biden, his Democratic rival, as a “puppet of the militant left” who will allow “thugs” and “angry mobs” to “tear down” monuments to “our heritage” — including Confederate symbols and statues of early slaveholding presidents. Trump’s latest campaign ad hits all these notes, claiming that “you won’t be safe in Joe… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports In Yahoo Best Ball, simply picking the right players is not a realistic strategy. We also need to consider the implications of the no-transaction format. A big part of that is roster construction. In other words, how many players at each position should we draft? It’s a simple question with a complicated answer for a couple of reasons. First, our decisions should be dynamic to our positional strength — which is a function of draft capital. If our QB1 is Patrick… Source link