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One year ago, on the eve of the eventful day that signaled the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — March 11, 2020 — a plurality of Americans (44 percent) said the threat of the virus had been “exaggerated,” according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted at the time. More people said their peers were “overreacting” (36 percent) than said they were “behaving appropriately” (30 percent). Just 6 percent said they had worn a mask. And nearly everyone (88 percent) predicted that… Source link

The New York Times Inside the Lincoln Project’s Secrets, Side Deals and Scandals A few days before the presidential election, the leadership of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project gathered at the Utah home of Steve Schmidt, one of the group’s co-founders, and listened as he plotted out the organization’s future. None of the dissident Republican consultants who created the Lincoln Project a year earlier had imagined how wildly successful it would be, pulling in more than $87 million in donations… Source link

Quarterly total revenues reached RMB2,851.4 million (US$437.0 million) Quarterly deliveries were 12,964 vehicles Quarterly gross margin reached 7.4% Full year total revenues reached RMB5,844.3 million (US$895.7 million) Full year deliveries were 27,041 vehicles Full year gross margin reached 4.6% XPeng Inc. (“XPeng” or the “Company”, NYSE: XPEV), a leading Chinese smart electric vehicle (“Smart EV”) company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year… Source link

How stimulus checks can give you a $14,000 windfall this year Congress is nearing the finish line as lawmakers race to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief package by mid-March. Included in the package is the third round of stimulus checks — for up to $1,400 this time — plus an extension of emergency federal unemployment benefits, an expanded child tax credit and more. So if you need more help to pay down debt or cover household expenses, you may start to receive it in a few… Source link

Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the Internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from Chrome browsers in an upcoming overhaul aimed at tightening up privacy. The digital giant has been working on proposals to remove from Chrome third-party cookies — snippets of code used by a website’s advertisers to record browsing history in order to show users personalized ads. Third-party cookies have been a longstanding source of privacy… Source link

Monthly stimulus checks may be on the way for families later this year Almost a full year into the global pandemic, families across the U.S. are struggling to make ends meet — and more children are going hungry, advocates say. To fight child poverty that has worsened during the current crisis, a proposal in Congress would temporarily increase the child tax credit in a way that would essentially provide families with another set of stimulus checks, beyond the third, $1,400 relief payments now… Source link

Quarterly Total Revenues reached RMB6,641.1 million (US$1,017.8 million)iQuarterly Deliveries of the ES8, the ES6 and the EC6 were 17,353 vehiclesFull Year Total Revenues reached RMB16,257.9 million (US$2,491.6 million)Full Year Deliveries of the ES8, the ES6 and the EC6 were 43,728 vehicles SHANGHAI, China, March 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NIO Inc. (“NIO” or the “Company”) (NYSE: NIO), a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market, today announced its unaudited… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Letter to Break Months of Silence Amid Tumult in U.S. (Bloomberg) — While 2020 raged, Warren Buffett mostly held his tongue.He stayed quiet through a heated presidential election, a racial reckoning that sparked nationwide protests and an exuberance for stocks that’s gripped millions of Americans. Not to mention a global pandemic. Now, the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has a chance to break his silence with the release of his annual… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Places Bet on 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks When billionaire financier Ray Dalio makes a move, Wall Street pays attention. Dalio, who got his start working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange trading commodity futures, founded the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 1975. With the firm managing about $140 billion in global investments and Dalio’s own net worth coming at $17 billion, he has earned legendary status on Wall Street. Summing… Source link

The Telegraph How Naomi Osaka became the most formidable force in women’s tennis When Jennifer Brady walks out to face Naomi Osaka in Saturday’s Melbourne final, she will be taking on the human equivalent of a Formula One car, according to Osaka’s physical trainer Yutaka Nakamura. Of course, any trainer will naturally talk up his or her client – that’s just part of the job. But in Osaka’s case, the last fortnight has done much to support Nakamura’s claim. Always nifty around the… Source link