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Yahoo Finance
- What's Going On With Super Micro Computer Stock?
- Worried About a Stock Market Correction? Here Are 3 ETFs That Can Help You Sleep at Night
- Why the 2024 meme stock action is much tamer than 2021
- Novavax Stock Just Tripled. Is It Too Late to Buy?
- Lydia, the French payments app with 8 million users, launches mobile banking app Sumeria
- Prediction: 2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Could Be Worth More Than Nvidia 5 Years From Now
- Is Plug Power Stock a Buy After Cratering 75%?
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Google Business
- Inflation Data Could Show Signs of Progress After Disappointing Run
- Cream cheese sold at Aldi, Hy-Vee recalled in 29 states over salmonella concerns
- With America Off-Limits, China EV Makers Aim to Conquer Rest of World
- CPI Report Today: Inflation Report in Limelight
- Red Lobster to close dozens of restaurants, including Stony Brook location
- GameStop, AMC soar as meme stock rally roars on
- OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever departs
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Tipranks
- SPWR, NOVA, LCID: What Pulled These Stocks Higher Yesterday?
- Qurate Retail Group Announces Virtual Annual Stockholders Meeting
- Synchrony Financial Releases Monthly Credit Statistics
- Liberty TripAdvisor Announces 2024 Virtual Annual Meeting
- HSBC Holdings Concludes Multi-Billion Tender Offers
- Bank of America Alters Stake in EasyJet
- Superdry Executive Buys Shares, Signals Confidence
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Movers
Trending Topics
AP News
- Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves
- Edmunds: The five things you need to know before buying your first used Tesla
- Voice-cloning technology bringing a key Supreme Court moment to 'life'
- The WNBA's challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league
- CNX plans $1.5B hydrogen fuels plant at Pittsburgh airport, but wants federal tax credit to build it
- Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review
- A third miner is declared dead in a cave-in in southern Poland
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Wall Street Journal
- Westminster Dog Show 2024: A Miniature Poodle Named Sage Wins Best in Show
- Kimberly-Clark Taps New Chief Growth Officer as It Heads Into Restructuring
- Singapore Airlines Posts Record Annual Profit on North Asia Rebound
- EBay Boosts Investments in GPUs in Push to Harness AI
- Raspberry Pi Plans London IPO
- Google Regains AI Initiative by Playing to Its Strengths
- U.S. Billionaire Frank McCourt Organizes Bid to Acquire TikTok
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Financial Times
- Visual analysis: how tiny Al-Mawasi grew into Gaza’s latest tent city
- Putin blasts west ahead of state visit to Beijing
- Eurozone inflation to fall faster than expected, EU says
- EU asks member states to accept severely ill Palestinians from Gaza
- Burberry warns of tough first-half trading as profits fall sharply
- Uber’s food delivery buy should serve up more consolidation
- Small-caps: Part Deux
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Bloomberg
- Novo’s Weight-Loss Drugs Have ‘Huge Fan’ in Denmark’s Premier
- Turkey May Face Growth Trade-Off in Inflation Fight, Simsek Says
- All Eyes on CPI: The Bloomberg Open, Americas Edition
- Six Ways Congress Plans to Make Flying Better With the FAA Bill
- To Help Biden, Gavin Newsom Must Fix California
- Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day: Americas
- Tesla Board Rallies Retail Investors to Vote for Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package
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Reuters
- Xiaomi becomes 8th largest EV upstart in China after successful SU7 launch
- E.ON posts stable Q1 profits, raises investments by a quarter
- Conflict, high borrowing costs clip growth in EBRD regions
- BYD to nail down Mexico plant site by year-end, Americas head says
- TUI hopeful for summer despite higher prices after strong Q2
- Allianz posts better-than-expected 22% increase in Q1 net profit
- Thyssenkrupp cuts sales, profit forecasts as market remains 'gloomy'
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Marketwatch
- Is it worth it to own Treasurys right now? These 5 charts might hold the answer
- ‘I’m weary of repeating myself’: How do I deal with rich friends who take $22,000 cruises and book $800 hotel rooms? Prices are crazy enough already
- ‘I’m torn’: Is it creepy to give my 13-year-old daughter her late grandfather’s iPhone number?
- TotalEnergies CEO: Moving main listing to New York would be ‘no matter of emotion.’
- Burberry’s profits plunge as sales slump on slowing luxury demand
- Hold my beer…6 emerging cities in the craft brew scene
- IEA lowers 2024 oil-demand forecast
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Seeking Alpha
- Alibaba: Top Dividend Value
- DLocal Q1 Earnings: A Reality Check (Rating Downgrade)
- Diageo: AI Won't Change How We Drink
- How The Fed Uses Quantitative Tightening To Address Inflation
- MannKind Outperforms As Tyvaso DPI Captures Market Share
- Asbury Automotive: Strength In Maintenance Can Lift Shares
- Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
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Benzinga
- Democracies are better at managing pandemics than autocracies, according to a new study by Airfinity
- Grocery Business Hall of Fame announces 2024 inductees
- Ocugen Announces Dosing Completion of Subjects with Stargardt Disease in Cohort 2 of Phase 1/2 GARDian Clinical Trial of OCU410ST
- Making Waves: Experience Abu Dhabi x Vilebrequin Launch a Swimwear Capsule Collection Inspired by Abu Dhabi
- Making Waves: Experience Abu Dhabi x Vilebrequin Launch a Swimwear Capsule Collection Inspired by Abu Dhabi
- Faraday Future Basking In The Glory Of GameStops, AMC? Here's What EV Maker's 100% Jump In Pre-Market Indicates
- Chengdu International Aviation Hub Exceeding 1.2 Million Passengers during China's "Labour Day" Holiday
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Barchart
- Options Outlook: Calendar Spread Screener Results for May 15th
- S&P Futures Tread Water Ahead of U.S. Inflation Data
- This Wannabe Dividend Aristocrat Looks Cheap After the Crash: Time to Buy?
- Wheat Bull Hit Speed Bump on Tuesday
- Cattle Rally Alongside Boxed Beef Pop
- Cotton Close With Limit July Losses
- Hogs Close Tuesday with Strength
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SEC / FED
Agencies announce public meeting on proposed acquisition by Capital One of Discover; public comment period extended
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SEC Seeks Candidates for Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee
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Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on February 20 and March 20, 2024
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Prepared Remarks Before the 2024 43rd Annual Small Business Forum
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AMPLIFYING VOICES: Opening Remarks at the SEC’s Small Business Forum
Marketplace
- “It’s Jenga meets pick-up sticks, which meets slinky rubber band”
- How tariffs compare in the Biden and Trump eras
- New federal rule aims to create more long-distance power lines
- Why is GameStop stock surging again?
- How will new tariffs affect American consumers?
- The biggest middleman in the prescription drug supply chain now makes drugs
- 211 call centers show financial strain above the poverty line
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ZeroHedge
- "They Left Us No Choice": Woman With Vaccine Injury In Clinical Trial Sues AstraZeneca
- Should You Believe Faulty U.S. Crime Stats Or Your Own Lying Eyes?
- Rail Union Warns German Train System Turning Into "Battleground" Thanks To Male Migrants
- Emergency Blackouts Introduced Across Ukraine As Temperatures Dip
- NATO's Newest Member Open To Hosting Nuclear Weapons
- Where Wealth Is Concentrated In Africa
- 7 In 10 Europeans Say Governments Allowing Too Much Immigration
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Investing.com
- US stock futures largely flat ahead of important CPI release
- US CPI, Cisco earnings, meme stocks
- Jefferies: Strong M&A activity in software likely to continue in the near term By
- Bitcoin price today: pinned below $62k with CPI data on tap By
- Fund managers see 5% to 10% upside in Asian stocks: BofA survey By
- Asian stocks drift higher as CPI test approaches; China dips on US tariffs
- Upcoming data may help Powell, but trend will prevail to put hike on Fed table
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Morning Brew
Red Lobster closes at least 99 locations
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Why you can’t read this harrowing crime story in the UK
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Driverless cars are in the regulatory hot seat
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Word Search: Las Vegas hotels
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Women’s basketball will never be the same
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The meme stock king revived $GME with 1 tweet
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to become Melindaless
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Brew Mini: Mischief
The Hustle
Before Avon was a beauty brand, it was a door-to-door bookseller
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Are e-cargo bikes the future of delivery?
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Why, though? Atari's 55-week flop
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Did someone order an IV? A medical practice is dripping into our vacations
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Digits: People love boring videos, a huge French castle, and more newsy numbers
CNBC
- GameStop, AMC extend gains but broader meme stock rally shows signs of fizzling
- Mortgage demand from homebuyers drops even as interest rates pull back to April lows
- Jamie Dimon urges the U.S. to deal with its deficit sooner rather than later
- Here's everything to expect from Wednesday's key report on inflation
- Copper futures hit record high as data center build-up, EV growth fuels demand
- Putin wants 3 things from Xi as he seeks to deepen Russia-China ties, analyst says
- Baidu’s robotaxi unit expects to turn profitable next year
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CBS
- Meta to shut down Workplace app for business
- Should you tip your French waiter? Here's what to know ahead of Paris Olympics
- The Fed is struggling to break the back of inflation. Here's why
- Comcast unveils streaming bundle that includes Apple TV+, Peacock, Netflix
- Bumble dating app removes ads mocking celibacy after getting stung backlash
- Red Lobster is closing nearly 50 locations, liquidator says
- Meme stocks like GameStop and BlackBerry are back. Here's why
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NYT Business
- Inside the Rent Inflation Measure That Economics Nerds Love to Hate
- How MSNBC’s Leftward Tilt Delivers Ratings, and Complications
- Inflation Data Could Show Signs of Progress After Disappointing Run
- Why Is Car Insurance So Expensive?
- The Old-Fashioned Library at the Heart of the A.I. Boom
- Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation
- AI Program Aims to Break Barriers for Female Students
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Stocktwits
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WISH ContextLogic Inc...
RUM Rumble Inc
ULCC Frontier Group...
LEGN Legend Biotech
BORR Borr Drilling Ltd
CCL Carnival Corp
VOD Vodafone Group plc
MSNBC
- Michael Cohen’s past lies make him a more credible witness
- The details Trump wanted kept quiet in 2016
- Trump trial in 60 seconds
- ‘Nothing’: Maddow says Trump lawyers ‘didn’t bring it’ for Cohen cross-examination
- Michael Cohen’s cross-examination starts strangely and doesn’t get much better
- ‘It didn’t land’: Legal experts crush Trump defense performance in Michael Cohen cross examination
- ‘Beyond thin skinned, rude’: Andrew Weissmann tears into Trump’s defense team’s performance
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NBC
- Ukraine withdraws troops around Kharkiv as Russian offensive gains momentum
- More than half of Black women ages 15-49 live with little to no abortion access
- Caitlin Clark struggles in WNBA debut as Connecticut Sun dominate Indiana Fever
- Eight migrant farm workers killed in bus crash in Florida
- The doctor who saved Sen. Tammy Duckworth in Iraq is trapped in Gaza. Now she's trying to save him
- 'Was it a lie?': Michael Cohen faces tense questioning on Day 17 of Trump's hush money trial
- Jan. 6 felony rioter Derrick Evans loses GOP House primary in West Virginia
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investors.com
- Alibaba Stock Slides On Earnings Miss; Sales Increase 7%
- Catalyst Pharmaceuticals Stock Clears Technical Benchmark With 83 RS Rating
- Recursion Pharm Stock Sees Relative Strength Rating Rise To 84
- Meme Stocks, Tariffs, Inflation Data Trigger Some Volatile Trade: Rent The Runway, Plug Power, Rivian
- Oracle Stock Jumps On Report of $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Musk's AI Startup
- Vertex Stock
- Amazon Cloud CEO Stepping Down, With AWS Veteran Named To Role
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ABC News
- US energy panel approves rule to expand transmission of renewable power
- 700 hotel union workers launch 48-hour strike at Virgin Hotels casino near Las Vegas Strip
- US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot
- Here are the locations that Red Lobster is closing in the US
- James Simons, mathematician, philanthropist and hedge fund founder, has died
- Sony Group, The Container Store rise; Alibaba, Smart Sand fall, Tuesday, 5/14/2024
- Walmart lays off hundreds of employees and requires others to relocate
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Fox Business
- Credit card delinquencies are surging
- Used car sales booming as holdout buyers return: Edmunds
- Justice Department says Boeing breached 2021 737 MAX criminal prosecution agreement
- Amid rising debt levels, some borrowers face increased stress: NY Fed
- Vanguard Prepares to Tap Former BlackRock Executive as CEO: WSJ
- Fed's Powell says confidence that inflation will slow is 'not as high' as before
- Americans are carrying a record amount of household debt
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CNN
- How bad bets on meme stocks led to a $1 billion wipeout
- Think corporate greed is the leading cause of inflation? Think again
- YouTube blocks Hong Kong protest anthem after court order
- Here’s where child care costs at least twice as much as rent
- Video Both Trump and Biden made false claims about the inflation. Hear what they were 1:46
- China’s Alibaba profit tumbles 86% though revenue beats estimates
- OpenAI executive is out after key role in CEO Sam Altman’s ouster
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Ticker
Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu: The government rejects the UN decision to promote recognition of a Palestinian state
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Keep This In Mind About US Retail Sales Today (15 May 2024)
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Preview & Trade Plan For US CPI (15 May 2024)
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German 2.5% 30-Yr Auction
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German 30 Yr Bund Bid-to-cover Actual 3.074 (Forecast -, Previous 3.2)
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German 30 Yr Bund Yield Actual 2.62% (Forecast -, Previous 2.62%)
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ECB's Villeroy: Less than 10% of dollar variations pass to European inflation
Barrons
- Bitcoin Is Weak as AMC and GameStop Frenzy Hits Stocks. Crypto Needs Meme Fever
- GameStop, DJT, Bitcoin Share This Appeal. What the Meme Rally Is Really About
- GameStop, DJT, Bitcoin Show What the Meme Rally Is Really About, and 5 Other Things to Know Today
- Grayscale’s Bitcoin Fund Has Hefty Fees. Why You Might Be Stuck
- Elon Musk and Henry Ford Made the Same Mistake. They Waited Too Long
- Nvidia Stock Drops. This Is the Bar for the Chip Maker’s Earnings
- Nvidia Stock Drops. This Is the Bar for the Chip Maker’s Earnings
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The Economist
- Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
- Joe Biden’s assault on the $900 child-eczema cream
- Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
- How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America
- Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
- Escalating protests expose three fault lines on American campuses
- Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin
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MarketBeat
- Jack in the Box Bottoms and the Rebound is on
- On Shares Move Higher in Race to a New All-Time High
- What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know About Alibaba Stock
- Dutch Bros Gives Investors More Bang for the Buck than Starbucks
- Home Depot: Earnings Mixed, Wait to Buy the Dip
- Is GameStop’s 80% Rally a Sign of Small Caps Returning?
- Crypto Miners Strike Gold in AI: Stocks to Watch
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The Hill
- Cream cheese products sold at Aldi, other supermarkets, recalled in dozens of states
- Tenant rights organizer sees opportunity amid housing crunch
- Bottom Line: Shein steps up its lobbying game
- Buttigieg ‘speechless’ as airlines sue over new fee rules
- Biden, Trump battle over China tariffs
- Ship that caused Baltimore Key bridge collapse suffered two electrical blackouts: NTSB
- Who is Roaring Kitty and why is he causing a GameStop stock surge?
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BBC
- Taxpayers face much longer waits for HMRC helplines
- The illicit trade with China fuelling Mozambique's insurgency
- Viral dine and dash couple hit our pizzeria, say owners
- US government considers whether to criminally prosecute Boeing
- MDH and Everest: Indian spices face heat over global safety concerns
- 'Corrupt ship inspectors demand our food and cargo'
- Renters in scrum for homes as listing time slashed
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The Guardian
- Top US ethics watchdog investigating Trump over dinner with oil bosses
- Burberry profits slump by 40% as demand for luxury goods slows
- Can the civil service survive the chaos and incompetence of Team Sunak? Of course we can: we’re optimists
- Apple store workers vote to authorize first strike over bargaining delays
- Tech firm Raspberry Pi readies for London stock market float
- Global stock markets at record high ahead of crunch US inflation report
- UPS won’t accept return of £899 product it delivered
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YouGov
How well can Americans visualize images in their minds?
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Explaining the partisan gap in support for student loan forgiveness
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How Americans rate U.S. infrastructure after the Baltimore bridge collapse
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Majorities support a ceasefire in Gaza and oppose university divestment from Israel
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Will Trump get convicted in his hush-money case? Should he? What polls say
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Survey says what? How Americans characterize polls about policy support
The Street
- Stock Market Today: Stocks mixed as inflation data looms, GameStop higher
- National retail chain closes several more stores in bankruptcy
- Analyst reboots Palo Alto Network stock price target ahead of earnings
- Veteran fund managers weigh in on GameStop stock surge
- Costco selling out of viral (and cheap) kitchen appliance
- Caitlin Clark effect explained by a WNBA owner
- President Biden's new Chinese EV tariffs might bite back, experts say
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Insider
- A lawyer who wrote a book about sleepwalking is cleared of misconduct after she dozed off for 2 hours during an inquest
- People are raiding their savings and racking up debt, paving the way for economic pain, expert warns
- AI models like GPT-4o could give some blue-collar jobs a leg-up and force white-collar workers to adapt
- I moved to NYC from Ukraine for a tech job. Here are 3 main differences in America's work culture
- Boeing broke an agreement over the 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people, and could now be prosecuted, the Justice Department says
- French people are being told to 'drive like a woman' to reduce traffic deaths
- Peloton's demise is another in a long line of failed fitness fads
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AOL Finance
- Boeing broke an agreement over the 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people, and could now be prosecuted, the Justice Department says
- French people are being told to 'drive like a woman' to reduce traffic deaths
- Think corporate greed is the leading cause of inflation? Think again
- What is ChatGPT? Here's everything you need to know about ChatGPT, the chatbot everyone's still talking about
- Dell to start handing out red flags to staff who don't come to the office enough, and some employees feel 'tracked like kindergarteners'
- Why the 2024 meme stock action is much tamer than 2021
- These are the 13 mental health startups that could IPO, make acquisitions, or get bought this year, according to analysts
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Podcasts
24/7 Wall Street
- Cities With the Most Millionaire Households
- How Much a Trip to Tokyo Will Cost on a Budget or in Style
- Every Gun Used by the US Marines
- Here’s Why Super Micro Computer Will Likely Announce a Stock Split in 2024
- California’s Best Counties to Live In
- What Happens If Israel and Iran Go To War?
- These Are the Most Heavily Shorted Stocks Heating Up the Market
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LA Times
- Why Disney is doubling down on theme parks with a $60-billion plan
- Column: As taxpayers tire of handouts to billionaires, Major League Baseball demands public funding for a Vegas stadium
- The first big-rig hydrogen fuel station in the U.S. opens in California
- Column: With his Truth Social stock, Trump may be laughing all the way to the bank
- Red Lobster offered customers all-you-can-eat shrimp. That was a mistake
- How a negotiation over cable fees could weigh on Paramount's sale
- Pro-Palestinian activists protest at Google developer conference amid Israel-Hamas war
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Washington Post
- Senators unveil plan to regulate AI, as companies race ahead
- U.S. says Boeing broke terms of settlement over 737 Max crashes
- OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever leaves the AI company
- Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats
- Walmart will lay off hundreds of corporate workers, require others to relocate
- Everything TikTok users need to know about a possible ban in the U.S
- TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban
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Chicago Tribune
- As EV popularity grows, Illinois corn farmers turn to aviation as a possible market for ethanol
- Loop restaurants are clawing their way back to health
- Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes
- Red Lobster closes dozens of locations across the US just months after ‘endless shrimp’ losses
- Red Lobster is closing these US locations, including two in Illinois
- Michigan farmers squeezed by wage hikes under migrant worker program
- Waukegan casino’s owner reports record earnings: ‘We look forward to continued growth at American Place’
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Seattle Times
- The WNBA’s challenge: How to translate the Caitlin Clark hype into sustained growth for the league
- Labor laws largely exclude nannies. Some are banding together to protect themselves
- CNX plans $1.5B hydrogen fuels plant at Pittsburgh airport, but wants federal tax credit to build it
- Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review
- A third miner is declared dead in a cave-in in southern Poland
- Stock market today: Asian markets follow Wall Street higher ahead of key inflation update
- Indonesia seeds clouds to block rainfall after floods killed at least 58 people while 35 are missing
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Boston Herald
- TikTok content creators sue the U.S. government over law that could ban the popular platform
- Ticker: Survey finds 8,000 women a month got abortion pills despite their states’ bans or restrictions
- How to know if your car is tracking you, risking higher insurance
- New device could identify which babies will struggle with breastfeeding
- Ticker: Melinda French Gates resigns as Gates Foundation co-chair; Crews conduct controlled demolition on Baltimore bridge span
- Yes, you can balance homebuying and summer travel
- Breakthrough therapies are saving lives. Can we afford them?
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Financial Post
- Opinion: Capital gains tax hike is another fulfillment fiasco in the making
- Canada's capital gains tax hike another blow to productivity, say economists
- TD, RBC data point to slowing household spending in Canada
- Pressure building on Bank of Canada: What economists say about slowing GDP
- ‘Welcome news’ on inflation raises odds Bank of Canada will cut interest rate in June
- Canada's inflation rate ticks up to 2.9% on higher gas prices
- TD Bank to take $450-million provision in relation to U.S. probe
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The Trade
- Goldman Sachs and Citi trading heads latest to join Tradefeedr client advisory group
- Barclays connects to CLS’s cross currency swaps service
- Oriane Cochard: The future is versatile
- Erste AM joins Clearwater Analytics’ buy-side community to drive business growth
- BMLL data made available through Nasdaq Data Link
- Deutsche Bank joins global policy makers’ Project Guardian
- SGX FX realigns its CNH FX futures contracts to allow market participants to better manage their price risk exposures
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Observer
- ‘Godmother of A.I.’ Fei-Fei Li On Why You Shoudn’t Trust Any A.I. Company
- Jack Dorsey Pledges $21M Toward Open-Source Development to Advance Bitcoin
- Mark Zuckerberg Turns 40: A Look Back at Key Moments in the Facebook Founder’s Career
- What Melinda French Gates’s Philanthropy Could Look Like Post-Gates Foundation
- GameStop Co-founder Gary Kusin Says He’s Not Surprised By the Meme Stock Frenzy At All
- Starbucks, Sweegreen, McDonald’s CEOs Are All Seeing a Similar Shift in Consumer Spending
- How Technology Bridges Gaps in Maternal Healthcare
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Semafor
- Tech critic McCourt mounts TikTok Bid
- New York Times staff complain of ‘unwillingness to tolerate dissent’
- Have Democrats cracked the code on fending off pro-Israel groups?
- Biden’s China tariffs could undercut Democrats’ promised electricity grid revamp
- Google puts AI in search as tech giants jockey for supremacy
- Former fixer Michael Cohen testifies he committed crimes ‘on behalf’ of Trump at hush-money trial
- Tunisian lawyers strike to protest legal expert’s arrest as political tensions mount
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Reason
- Brickbat: Say Your Prayers
- The ‘heart’ of Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump is misdirection
- Black people overwhelmingly want to maintain—or increase
- Excluding "FCANCER" Personalized License Plate Violates First Amendment
- ‘The Best of Reason’: The future of porn is consensual deepfakes
- Alabama man faces jail time for refusing to apologize to a cop for cursing during traffic stop
- Setting Issue Priorities
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Nikkei Asia
- Climate stress means South Asia needs new formulas to share water
- Bangladesh banks in liquidity crisis, hit by forced merger plan
- Honda and IBM team up on next-gen chips for software-defined vehicles
- Vietnam tech startup VNG becomes Nvidia cloud partner
- Democratic camp must unite to contain the 'Putin empire'
- Malaysia overtakes Thailand as ASEAN's second-biggest auto market
- India's Instagrab: Modi's re-election bid weaponizes social media influencers
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Institutional Investor
- Internal Threats Pose Underappreciated Risks to Family Offices
- Our Man in East Setauket
- Most Life Sciences Hedge Funds Suffer Losses Last Month
- How Blackstone Bolted Past Rivals in Life Sciences
- Icahn’s Investment Fund Posts Small Loss
- Three Sustainability Markets Seeing Momentum
- The Relationship Between Elections and Volatility
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- Ban Airbnbs… Fix America? Palm Springs did it… Why can’t your city?
- Why FFIE Goes up 300% and is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
- What Biden’s tariffs on Chinese imports may mean for American jobs, the economy and inflation
- Daily Discussion Thread for May 15, 2024
- Need help to become a big & successful businessman
- Make it make sense
- Daily General Discussion and Advice Thread
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PYMNTS
- British Payments Sector Protests Fraud Reimbursement Rules
- Prove: Spike in Business Identity Theft Calls for Phone-Based Approach to Authentication
- Instant Payments Emerge as Balance Sheet Boost for Independent Restaurants
- Say Hello to Astra: Google Launches AI-Boosted Searches and a Smart Voice Assistant
- Report: Citi’s Heads of Legacy Franchises, Operations and Technology Depart
- Expedia Unveils AI Assistant to Help With Travel Planning
- Verizon Expects to Double Network Thanks to AI Demand
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Forbes
- Bargain Hunting With Technical Analyst Charles Kirkpatrick
- Gaining An Edge: 5 AI-Powered Strategies For Stock Market Success
- Gold Hit $2,200
- Federal Reserve Reduces Tightening, Keeping The Economy Juiced
- The U.K.’s FTSE Is Due To Get Boosted By Takeovers
- Are Clear Skies Ahead? How Airline Stocks Delta, American And Southwest Measure Up
- These Out-Of-Favor Stocks Are Showing Signs Of Life
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Fortune
- Africa’s car-making juggernaut prepares to capitalize on global race to produce affordable EVs at scale
- U.K. tax authority HMRC kept Brits on hold for nearly 800 years last fiscal year
- British billionaire Joe Lewis' pilot pleads guilty to tax evasion
- Chuck Schumer-led group calls for $32 billion emergency spending on AI over next three years
- Commerzbank rises on decade-high quarterly earnings
- EU inflation is surprising everyone
- Burberry follows Gucci-owner Kering on downward sales trend as consumers snub mid-market luxury fashion
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Inc.
- Are CEOs Sitting This Election Out?
- Taylor Swift and the Non-Limited Mindset: Research Reveals a New Way to Look at Willpower, Self-Discipline, and Perseverance
- An Early Facebook Employee Got Fired and Missed Out On $100 Million. Here's What He Says He Learned
- Do Reference Checks Really Matter?
- The Problem With Conflict Is There Are No Winners
- An Expert on Aging Says Women Must Do 5 Things to Live Better and Longer
- 6 Key Elements of Your Transition Into Any Executive Position
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Axios
- New program creates "youth corps" for mental health
- Chinese biotech crackdown would reset U.S. drug development
- Why Silicon Valley should "think really hard" about 2024 vote
- Jim Justice wins West Virginia Republican Senate primary, AP projects
- Democrats rage at GOP over "tough vote" on Israel arms sales
- Bibi's rant: Israel isn't a "vassal state" of the U.S
- Mike Johnson tests Democrats' patience with Trump embrace
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FastCompany
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Entrepreneur
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Politico
- Abortion-rights groups have never faced a state like Florida
- The 2026 election is already taking shape
- The budget roadshow continues
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- When man’s best friend becomes a politician’s worst nightmare
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Newsweek
- Princess Kate's royal transformation goes viral
- Taylor Swift fans panic over ticket issue
- Republican candidate's "don't be weak and gay" message sparks fury
- Ominous Russian Military Moves Spark Fears Over NATO's Southern Flank
- Taylor Swift faces fresh lip-syncing allegations
- Child tax credit boost on horizon for one state
- Kourtney Kardashian video sparks debate
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NPR
- Morning news brief
- Target scales back on its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride Month 2024
- Aldi and Hy-Vee stores recall cream cheese varieties for possible salmonella risk
- There's usually no need to panic when planes make emergency landings. Here's why
- Walmart lays off hundreds of employees and requires others to relocate
- DOJ says Boeing broke deal that avoided prosecution after 2 fatal 737 Max crashes
- The "Winner Take All" problem : The Indicator from Planet Money
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Globe And Mail
- Oil prices rise on U.S. inventories drawdown expectations
- The new due diligence: why M&A scrutiny is digging deeper (and taking longer) than ever before
- Opinion: Instead of importing millionaires, Canada needs to produce more of them
- Investment bank Greenhill hires former Couche-Tard CFO Claude Tessier
- The blind spots in diversity and inclusion
- Obsidian Energy, Woodland Cree standoff intensifies in Alberta
- Saputo announces transition plan for president, CEO in August
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CBC
- As AI becomes more human-like, experts warn users must think more critically about its responses
- A 1st in Canada, $1.6B EV battery separator plant to open in Port Colborne, Ont., in 2027
- U.S. raises tariffs significantly on EVs, other goods from China
- Frito Lay Canada recalls 2 of its most popular snacks for possible salmonella contamination
- OpenAI previews chatbot with real-time voice capabilities
- Remember the GameStop saga? It's happening again
- Luxury retailer Ted Baker begins store-closing liquidation sales
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Techmeme
- A leaked Dell XPS roadmap details Qualcomm's “Oryon V2” series, possibly named Snapdragon X Gen2 and launching in H2 2025, and “QC Oryon V3”, set for late 2027
- Apple letting the new iPad Pro run macOS would require major tradeoffs and adding touch to Mac would lead to “a lot of flakey software that doesn't really work”
- TSMC SVP Kevin Zhang says ASML's new machines, which cost €350M each, are too expensive, and the A16 node, due in late 2026, won't need to use the new machines
- Sources and documents: Chinese chipmaker CXMT and others are in the early stages of making high bandwidth memory chips, a major step in China's chip plans
- Yemen is holding back repairs on the key AAE-1 internet cable in the Red Sea during a criminal investigation into the cable owners' alleged Houthi militia ties
- AWS details its European “sovereign cloud”, designed to enable greater data residency, starting in Germany, and plans to invest €7.8B in the region by 2040
- The Crypto Industry’s Influence on U.S. Elections is Bigger Than Ever, Industry Insiders Say
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Silicon Valley
- Fearing layoffs amid budget crisis, Oakland’s unions put blame on unpaid business taxes
- Photos: Sports stars, celebrities rep new Golden State Valkyries merch
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Techcrunch
- Restaurant365 orders in $175M at a $1B+ valuation to supersize its food service software stack
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- AWS confirms European ‘sovereign cloud’ to launch in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years
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The Register
- IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs
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- Global EV sales increase, and Plug-in Hybrid momentum grows
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Silicon Republic
- AWS to invest €7.8bn into European Sovereign Cloud project
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Japan Times
- Sharp to halt LCD plant in Osaka Prefecture by September
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Wikipedia Current Events
May 15
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 62, with 25 others still missing. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- Lawrence Wong succeeds Lee Hsien Loong as the 4th Prime Minister of Singapore. (BBC News)
May 14
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Israel–Hamas war
- Rafah offensive
- Israeli tanks enter residential areas of Rafah as they attempt to capture the city. Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades says that it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with a Al-Yassin 105 anti-tank missile, killing several troops and injuring several others, while the Israel Defense Forces claim to have "eliminated" several terrorists in the city. (Reuters)
- Rafah offensive
- 2024 New Caledonia unrest
- Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent white French settlers to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalise the Indigenous Kanak people. (Al Jazeera) (The Guardian)
- Three Kanaks residents are killed and many more injured during a drive-by shooting by a group of French settlers. (Reuters)
- At least 54 officers are injured and more than 130 people are arrested. Shops and cars are looted, while a prison break has been prevented. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
Arts and culture
- The 77th annual Cannes Film Festival opens in Cannes, France, with Meryl Streep receiving an honorary Palme d'Or award. (AP)
Business and economy
- China–United States trade war
- U.S. President Joe Biden passes tariff increases on Chinese imports, including electric vehicles and batteries, computer chips, and medical products. (Reuters)
- GameStop short squeeze
- The share price of GameStop increases by a further 61%. (Quartz) (Yahoo! News)
- Economy of Argentina
- Inflation in Argentina slows to a single digit number of 8.8 percent amid severe austerity plans by president Javier Milei. (AP)
Disasters and accidents
- The death toll from a building collapse in George, South Africa, last week, increases to 33. (Reuters)
- Thirteen people, including former Congressman Édgar Alarcón, are killed in a bus crash in Vinchos, Huamanga Province, Peru. (Reuters) (Infobae)
- Eight people are killed and 40 others are injured when a bus carrying farmworkers collides with a truck and overturns in Marion County, Florida, United States. (AP)
Law and crime
- Corruption in Russia
- Russian police arrest former head of personnel of the Ministry of Defence {{ill|Yuri Kuznetsov|ru|Кузнецов, Юрий Васильевич (военачальник)}} for bribery of over $1 million. Kuznetsov's charges carry up to 15 years of jail time. (Al Jazeera)
- Two prison guards are killed and three others are critically injured in an ambush of a prison van near Rouen, Normandy, France, to free an inmate with ties to a drug dealing gang. (BBC News)
- Tunisian police raid the headquarters of the Tunisian Order of Lawyers in Tunis and arrest Mahdi Zagrouba, who is known for his opposition to President Kais Saied. (Al Jazeera)
- The Supreme Court of Kazakhstan sentences former Minister of National Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev to 24 years in prison for torturing and murdering his wife. (Al Jazeera)
- Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza loses his appeal against a 25-year prison sentence. (Reuters)
- A court in Germany convicts and fines Alternative for Germany member Björn Höcke €13,000 ($14,000) for using a Nazi slogan that once belonged to the Sturmabteilung. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- 2023–2024 Georgian protests
- Riot police clash with protesters on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, after the parliament approves a controversial "foreign agent" law that requires media organizations to declare foreign funding. (BBC News)
- The United States warns Georgia that $390 million in planned economic support will be "under review" if the Georgian government considers the U.S. as an "adversary", and not as a strategic partner. (The Guardian)
Science and technology
- Russia places its nuclear capable submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile into service. (Reuters)