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Yahoo Finance
- Is Medical Properties Trust a Safe Dividend Stock in 2024?
- Uber to acquire Foodpanda's Taiwan unit from Delivery Hero for $950M in cash
- These Stocks Are Moving the Most Today: GameStop, AMC, Home Depot, Alibaba, Walmart, Paysafe, and More
- Futures lackluster with inflation data, Fed Chair Powell speech on tap
- Nvidia Stock Is Drifting but Wall Street Is Excited About Earnings
- Tencent Beats Estimates After WeChat, Video Lift Ad Growth
- Warren Buffett Holds $175 Billion of His Portfolio in 2 Stocks That Could Rise 34% and 17%, According to a Pair of Wall Street Analysts
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Google Business
- These are the 2024 Disruptor 50 companies: See the full list of startups riding the AI wave
- Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles
- Home Depot misses on revenue, as high interest rates hurt sales
- GameStop Shares Surge Again as Meme-Stock Phenomenon Returns
- German final inflation confirmed at 2.4% in April
- FACT SHEET: President Biden Takes Action to Protect American Workers and Businesses from China’s Unfair Trade Practices
- Anglo American rejects BHP’s revised $43 billion proposal
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Tipranks
- CV Sciences Inc Expands with Strategic Softgel Acquisition
- Uber Expands Delivery Business with Foodpanda Taiwan Acquisition
- Winvest Group COO Tham Yee Wen Resigns
- American Resources Sets Special Dividend Dates for Shareholders
- Lucid Diagnostics Insights: Performance and Outlook Update
- AMC Entertainment Raises $250M Through Equity Offering
- Anchun International Convenes Successful AGM
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Movers
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AP News
- US investigating Waymo autonomous vehicles after reports of crashes or possible traffic violations
- Home Depot's sales continue to soften in 2024 as inflation, delayed start to spring weigh on sales
- Katharina Wagner will lead the Bayreuth Festival for 5 more years
- Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum
- Migration tracking group says 76 million people were displaced within their countries in 2023
- Protesters in Pakistan-held Kashmir end rallies that killed 4 after authorities revoke price hikes
- Cave-in leaves 3 miners missing and 11 injured at a coal mine in Poland
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Wall Street Journal
- Australian Government's Budget Bets On Rapid Fall In Inflation
- Private Equity's Deal Machine Restarts But Exits Still Sputter
- Colorado Wants to Become the Nation's Quantum Hub. So Does Chicago
- OPEC Sticks to Oil-Demand View
- Baseball Catchers Keep Getting Whacked By Hitters. It's No Accident
- What's on TV? For Many Americans, It's Now YouTube
- Sky-High Housing Costs Propel Construction of Rental Homes
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Financial Times
- Putin to visit China this week
- US sharply raises tariffs on Chinese EVs and semiconductor imports
- Wegovy users sustain weight loss for 4 years, new analysis shows
- Uber to buy Delivery Hero’s foodpanda Taiwan business in $1.25bn deal
- Modi launches candidacy in India’s marathon election
- Danish biotech says companies should tap China’s ‘impressive innovation’
- Anglo American to break itself up after rejecting BHP bid
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Bloomberg
- Treasuries Gain With Rates Traders Braced for Key Inflation Data
- Alphabet’s Waymo Probed by US After 22 Autonomous Car Incidents
- Foreign Private Investors Set to Top Central Bank Bond Buying
- US Small-Business Optimism Increases for First Time This Year
- Home Depot Posts a Sixth Sales Drop Amid Housing Market Woes
- WuXi Says Parent Owned a DNA Pioneer But It Never Accessed Data
- Grifols Drops as Short-Seller Gotham Criticizes Fund Transfers
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Reuters
- Vodafone reports 2% rise in annual profit after stronger final quarter
- Virgin Money flags tepid second-half on higher costs, margin hit
- Bayer's first-quarter adjusted profit falls less than expected
- Sony sees higher profit from image sensors, to conduct stock split
- Brazil's Petrobras reports worse-than-expected 38% drop in first quarter profit
- Walmart to lay off hundreds of corporate staff and relocate others, WSJ reports
- Australia's Qantas to suspend flights to Shanghai on low demand
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Marketwatch
- Check out Ferrari’s new 12Cilindri supercar
- Shein and Rasperberry Pi IPOs could drive new wave of London floats, analyst says
- ‘Big Bang Theory’ star Kaley Cuoco just sold this gorgeous Southern California home for $5.5 million
- What’s it like to drive the 2024 Lucid Air lineup?
- Here’s how Biden’s slapping tariffs on Chinese EVs, chips, medical gear and more
- Delivery Hero shares rally on deal to sell Taiwan business to Uber
- GameStop shares surge for a second day
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Seeking Alpha
- AMC Entertainment: Ignore The Meme Madness
- The Fed Should Cut Rates Before A Credit Crisis Forces Their Hand
- Blackstone: Rock-Solid Fundamentals Attractively Valued
- The Big Inflation Week Starts Today
- Innovative Industrial Properties: Fair Price, No Signs Of Recreating Its Past
- Wall Street Lunch: Roaring Kitty Returns!
- Earn A 10% Yield From A Great CEF: PTY
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Benzinga
- CIM Awards Calibre's Valentine Gold Mine With the John T. Ryan National Safety Trophy for an Outstanding Safety Record in 2023
- Aztec Group Launches AIFM Service
- Avia Scores Big in 2024 NYX Game Awards: Season One
- Shandong Showcases Yellow River Culture at Foire de Paris 2024
- Radware Powers Lightpath's New AI-Driven DDoS Protection Service
- TrueCommerce Sets New Standard With Direct EDI Integration for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
- Uber Spices Up Taiwan's Food Delivery Scene With $950M foodpanda Deal: What's On The Menu?
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Barchart
- Stock Index Futures Tread Water Ahead of Key U.S. PPI Data and Powell Remarks
- 1 'Strong Buy' Dividend Stock to Buy and Hold
- Cattle Mixed Around on Monday, as Boxed Beef Prices Improve
- Cotton Bounces Higher on Monday
- Wheat Rallies Hard to Start New Week
- Hogs Weaker on Monday, Despite Pork Strength
- Corn Squares Up to Close Monday Slightly Higher
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SEC / FED
Remarks at Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement Spring Conference 2024
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Agencies announce inflation-adjusted dollar thresholds for Regulation CC funds availability
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Federal Reserve Board accepting applications for its Community Advisory Council
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There’s Got to Be a Better Way: Statement of Dissent Regarding Wayzata Investment Partners LLC
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SEC, FinCEN Propose Customer Identification Program Requirements for Registered Investment Advisers and Exempt Reporting Advisers
Marketplace
- Consumers don’t expect their incomes to grow as fast as prices
- Primary home stock gets a boost as second-home demand drops
- More companies are adopting policies to support employees recovering from addiction
- Why value meals might make a comeback
- Why does the U.S. export domestic crude oil and refine foreign oil?
- Communities were sometimes winners in the Numbers gambling game
- The days of free refills may be over
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ZeroHedge
- Transitioning Fleet Trucks To Electric Raises Costs By Up To 114 Percent, Report Warns
- The Tide Turns: Research On COVID Vaccine Harms, Once A Taboo Subject, Now Appearing In Some Medical Journals
- Mapping All The Countries Where Recreational Cannabis Is Legal
- Poland's Border Fortification Buildup Has Nothing To Do With Legitimate Threat Perceptions
- US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation'
- 1000s Of Islamists Protest Against 'Censorship' After Calls For A Caliphate In Germenay Are Banned
- WHO Makes Key Concessions Ahead Of Pandemic Treaty Vote
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Investing.com
- Futures muted, GameStop surges, OpenAI announcement
- GameStop, AMC surge 40% in premarket trade as meme stock rally pushes higher
- Bitcoin price today: stuck at $62k as inflation angst deters big bets By
- Asian stocks rangebound before U.S. inflation, China hit by property woes
- JPMorgan says not worth 'taking on equity risk' now
- Stock Market Today: S&P 500 flat ahead of key inflation data By
- HSBC ups Nvidia stock price target amid NVL server pricing strength
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Morning Brew
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
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Northern lights go on world tour to rave reviews
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Biden to slap 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs
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Turntable: May 13
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Let AI date for you, says Bumble founder
The Hustle
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
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Why, tho? Atari’s 55-week flop
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Fast-fashion brands are saying “I do” to the booming wedding market
CNBC
- Why OpenAI is the first company to be No. 1 on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list two years in a row
- ‘Frankly stupid’: Fund manager weighs in on reignited meme stock frenzy as GameStop soars
- These are the 2024 Disruptor 50 companies: See the full list of startups riding the AI wave
- Home Depot will report earnings before the bell. Here's what to expect
- Diamond giant De Beers faces spin-off amid wider restructuring as Anglo American takeover pressure mounts
- Biden raises tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports: EVs, solar panels, batteries and more
- Tencent posts fastest profit growth in 3 years as online ads, business services offset slower gaming
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CBS
- WNBA season getting underway featuring Caitlin Clark's debut and more
- Biden to announce new 100% tariffs on EVs
- Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama voting on whether to join UAW
- Looking to save money? Try shopping at bin stores
- "Roaring Kitty" trader returns, causing GameStop shares to jump more than 70%
- Melinda French Gates says she's resigning from the Gates Foundation. Here's what she'll do next
- How to save money on buying products that other shoppers return
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NYT Business
- Biden Will Raise Tariffs on Chinese Electric Vehicles, Chips and Other Goods
- How China Rose to Lead the World in Cars and Solar Panels
- How Biden’s Trade War With China Differs From Trump’s
- Luxury Hotels Are Adding More and More Guest ‘Experiences’
- High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest
- What Forecasters Say About Interest Rates (and Why They Disagree)
- Pursuit Makes the Case for Their Innovative Job Training Program
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Stocktwits
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GME GameStop Corp
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BYND Beyond Meat Inc
HD Home Depot, Inc.
SONY Sony Group...
RENT Rent the Runway...
MRNA Moderna Inc
LUNR Intuitive Machines Inc
ONON On Holding AG
RDDT Reddit Inc.
ATNM Actinium...
SE Sea Ltd - ADR
STNE StoneCo Ltd
VKTX Viking Therapeutics Inc
DMRC Digimarc Corporation
FENC Fennec...
PSFE Paysafe Limited...
BNTX BioNTech SE - ADR
TCEHY Tencent Holdings...
IESC IES Holdings Inc
MSNBC
- Trump trial in 60 seconds
- Biden is swinging right to beat Trump. That's a mistake
- Georgia GOP’s scandal makes its ‘election integrity’ argument very awkward
- Kari Lake keeps showing why she may be the worst Senate candidate in Arizona history
- 'He lied for the benefit of Donald Trump not for himself': Michael Cohen's attorney speaks out
- Andrew Weissman attends Trump trial: 'I don't usually see the defendant asleep'
- 'He needs to be like Stormy Daniels': Weissmann offers on-air advice for star witness Michael Cohen
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NBC
- Caitlin Clark ready take the WNBA by storm: ‘This is what you've worked for'
- Biden moves ahead on tariff hikes for numerous Chinese goods
- College commencements face pro-Palestinian disruptions
- Do Facebook and Instagram influence your politics? 35,000 took a break to find out
- 'The benefit of Mr. Trump': Longtime fixer Michael Cohen testifies in hush money trial. What you missed on Day 16
- Troop movement suggests Israel could expand operations in Rafah soon, U.S. officials say
- San Francisco could ban firefighters' uniforms over cancer risk
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investors.com
- Check Out AI Chip Leader ARM, Others Named To IBD Lists Of Top Stock Performers
- CarGurus Stock Sees Relative Strength Rating Speed Up To 80
- Nio Readies Its First Mass-Market EV After 'Taking Apart A Lot Of Tesla Vehicles'
- Kroger Winning Food Fight? Near Buy Point Amid Intense Rivalry
- Stock Quotes, Company News And Chart Analysis
- Stock Quotes, Company News And Chart Analysis
- Industry News And Stocks To Watch
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ABC News
- Japan's Sony reports surge in profit on strong sales of movies, games and music
- Czech power company CEZ reports net profit of $592 million in Q1, up by a quarter year-on-year
- Cave-in leaves 3 miners missing and 12 injured at a coal mine in Poland
- Australian judge says it is unreasonable to require X to hide video of church stabbing for all users
- Bumble's billboard ads sneered at celibacy as an alternative to dating
- Xi's visit to Hungary and Serbia brings new Chinese investment and deeper ties to Europe's doorstep
- K-pop fans around globe rally for climate and environment goals
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Fox Business
- 'Roaring Kitty' social media return: What to know about the meme stock trader
- Credit card debt poised to smash another record high
- Nearly half of Americans say finances are taking toll on their mental health
- Economist blasts 'terrorist sympathizers' for pushing universities to divest from Israel: 'Almost impossible'
- US home prices have surged 47% since the start of 2020
- GameStop soars after 'Roaring Kitty' posts on X
- Americans expect high inflation to stick around in latest NY Fed survey
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CNN
- Trump has promised an immigration crackdown if reelected. That could backfire on the economy
- How Melinda French Gates became one of the world’s wealthiest and most important philanthropists
- McDonald’s, Apple and Tesla can’t bet on making a fortune in China anymore
- Ghost Shark and Manta Ray: Australia and US unveil undersea drones
- Red Lobster is abruptly closing dozens of restaurants
- WABC owner: Rudy Giuliani’s show canceled after defying order not to discuss false 2020 election conspiracy theories
- GM’s self-driving car unit restarts testing on public roads
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Ticker
German 2Y Schatz Auction Results
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German 2 Yr Bund Yield Actual 2.93% (Forecast -, Previous 2.91%)
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German 2 Yr Bid-to-Cover Actual 2.5 (Forecast -, Previous 2.7)
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US Trade Representative: Further action is required beyond tariff changes to address China's unfair policies
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ZEW: Signs of an economic recovery are growing, bolstered by better assessments of the overall Eurozone and of China as a key export market
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ZEW: The increased optimism is reflected in particular in the sharp rise in expectations for domestic consumption, followed by the construction and machinery…
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German ZEW Economic Sentiment Actual 47.1 (Forecast 46.4, Previous 42.9)
Barrons
- It’s Not Just GameStop or AMC. SunPower and More Shorted Meme Stocks Are Flying
- Home Depot Kicks Off Retail Earnings With Falling Sales. The Stock Trades Lower
- Dollar, U.S. Treasury Yields Could Fall if Inflation Eases
- Tesla Stock Is Rising After a Wild Day for EV Makers
- Gold Flat as Market Favors Dollar Ahead of Inflation Readings
- Nvidia Gets Wall Street Boost Ahead of Earnings. The Stock Is Drifting
- GameStop Stock Keeps Soaring. Why the Meme Ride Isn’t Over
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The Economist
- App stores are hugely lucrative
- America hits Chinese biotech
- Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
- Sergei Shoigu’s sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
- Sergei Shoigu’s sacking presages yet more attrition in Ukraine
- As Russia’s attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support
- Checks and Balance newsletter: The history of national conventions in Chicago offers hope to both parties
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MarketBeat
- What Is Earnings Season? A Complete Overview of Earnings Season
- Why These Companies Are Buying Back Stock Lately
- GameStop is Roaring Based on Speculation Not Substance
- 3 Hot Stock Upgrades That Should Be on Your Radar
- 3 Affordable Stocks That Won’t Stay Down Much Longer
- Amazon and the Compelling Case for 30% Upside
- Sweetgreen: Is There Meat Behind the 30% Earnings Surge?
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The Hill
- United, Delta, American among airlines suing Biden admin over fee disclosure rule
- Melinda French Gates to leave namesake foundation, launch new effort
- Ernst, Gillibrand seek to strip federal pensions from convicted sex criminals
- GameStop shares surge as Roaring Kitty returns to social media
- Record travel expected this Memorial Day weekend
- 5 lobbying fights roiling Congress
- Gen Z is struggling financially more than Millennials did at their age: Study
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BBC
- Asda reveals plans for giant store and 1,500 homes for Park Royal
- UK mining giant Anglo American unveils break-up plan
- Workers leaving steel town as 2,000 job cuts loom
- UK unemployment ticks up as job vacancies shrink
- US bans China crypto-miner from nuclear base area
- Cow dung's key role in India's energy mix
- OpenAI’s new model GPT-4o can teach maths and flirt
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The Guardian
- Anglo American to sell De Beers in break-up plan to avoid BHP takeover
- Vodafone hails turnaround progress as Germany returns to growth
- Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles
- UK unemployment may not reach its worst, but economic rebound will stall
- Fossil fuel firms forcing countries to compensate them, Mary Robinson says
- I’ve seen how firms cheat the law to exploit workers and here’s a warning: those days are ending
- Union chiefs to hold showdown talks with Starmer over workers’ rights
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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 higher with inflation on deck; GameStop roars
- Luxury apparel chain shuts U.S. stores in Chapter 15 bankruptcy
- Analysts adjust JPMorgan stock price target before investor day
- Goldman Sachs unveils startling S&P 500 prediction
- Walmart store closing, auctioning off laptops and flat screen TVs
- Analyst revamps Planet Fitness stock price target after membership change
- How Roaring Kitty's return impacted GameStop stock and some crypto assets
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Insider
- A woman whose husband died snorkeling in Hawaii is suing its tourism board, saying it failed to warn them of the risk
- OpenAI gave Jensen Huang a shout-out at the GPT-4o launch in a nod to Nivdia's huge influence on AI
- Americans with a college degree say they'd need at least a $100K salary to change jobs. But roles that pay in that range are getting harder to find
- Don't call them DINKs. Many childfree adults are ALICEs, living paycheck to paycheck without government assistance
- Texas' labor market is booming. Here are the 26 highest-paying jobs in the Lone Star State
- 10 cities where Social Security and retirement incomes are the highest
- Austin offers the jobs and city life of San Francisco but with Atlanta's cost of living. Here's how
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AOL Finance
- How Melinda French Gates became one of the world’s wealthiest and most important philanthropists
- No, ChatGPT-4o isn't coming for your job. Yet
- Apple desperately needs its Next Big Thing
- China's Tencent posts strong revenue growth as ad sales, business services shine
- ‘Overhyped’: Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller sold 30% of his Nvidia stake, compares AI to 1999 internet boom
- US small business sentiment rebounds in April
- The streaming wars are over: Morning Brief
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Podcasts
24/7 Wall Street
- These Are the Most Tax Friendly States
- America’s Worst Counties America to Live In
- See The Tax Burden In All 50 States
- Towns in Washington State With the Worst Poverty
- The 7 Dish Soap Brands You Should Not Avoid
- The 4 Korean Car Brands You Should Not Avoid
- The Most Decisive Events of the American Revolution
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LA Times
- Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
- Where every cent of $1 goes at one L.A. restaurant, explained
- Granderson: Here's one way to bring college costs back in line with reality
- FDA approves bladder cancer treatment by Culver City company
- Wonderful Co. sues to halt California card-check law that made it easier to unionize farmworkers
- Gov. Newsom seeks faster review of insurance rate hikes. What to know
- Erewhon sues city to stop Sportsmen's Lodge development in Studio City
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Washington Post
- Are home prices still rising? See how prices have changed in your area
- Silicon Valley once chafed at dictatorships. Then came a Middle East gold rush
- Biden to hit Chinese EVs with tariffs topping 100% as election looms
- OpenAI wants users to act natural around ChatGPT
- GameStop shares soar again after ‘Roaring Kitty’ returns to social media
- U.S. bans Russian uranium imports, key to nuclear fuel supply
- The end of Google search as we know it
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Chicago Tribune
- Downers Grove 4-bedroom home with heated sunroom: $2.5M
- Metra changes to UP-N, MD-N lines to impact North Chicagoland riders
- South Shore Line’s Double Track project chugs past the finish line
- Roaring Kitty is back and so are meme stocks. GameStop and AMC surge like it’s 2021
- Here’s how Boeing delivery delays are hitting Chicago ahead of busy summer travel season
- Eagle Scout project returns painted rose compass to Lansing airport taxiway
- Landmarks: Story of Roosevelt’s globe highlights revived Dixie Highway tour
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Seattle Times
- US investigating Waymo autonomous vehicles after reports of crashes or possible traffic violations
- Biden hiking tariffs on Chinese EVs, solar cells, steel, aluminum
- Japan’s Sony reports surge in profit on strong sales of movies, games and music
- Protesters in Pakistan-held Kashmir end rallies that killed 4 after authorities revoke price hikes
- Cave-in leaves 3 miners missing and 11 injured at a coal mine in Poland
- Czech power company CEZ reports net profit of $592 million in Q1, up by a quarter year-on-year
- Stock market today: Asian shares mixed in muted trading after Wall Street barely budges
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Boston Herald
- 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?
- In Hollywood, video games are the new superheroes
- Saving big when your cash stash is small
- Workers switching jobs find grass isn’t always greener
- ‘Kingdom’ reigns at box office
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Financial Post
- Wealthy Canadians sour on state of economy in wake of capital gains tax changes, poll finds
- An often overlooked jobs indicator reveals deep cracks in Canada’s labour market
- 'Worst of both worlds': Markets shudder as U.S. GDP slows, inflation reading spikes
- Canadian banks provided US$100 billion in fossil fuel funding: report
- Posthaste: This missed CPP opportunity is costing Canadians thousands, says report
- A 50-cent Canadian dollar, $3,000 gold and housing market fixes: FP top videos
- Remembering Arthur Irving, a determined businessman and generous friend
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The Trade
- 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
- BNP Paribas picks up execution-to-custody mandate from Swissquote
- Banque Havilland multi asset trader joins Marex prime services team
- People Moves Monday: Citi, Societe Generale, Cantor Fitzgerald and more…
- Broadridge’s LTX integrates with MultiLynq to enhance its platform connectivity
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Observer
- 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
- Anthropic’s Sibling Founders On Leaving OpenAI to Start a $15B Startup
- A Major Donation of Fossils Will Help Rebuild the National Museum of Brazil
- Reid Hoffman Warns Against Unchecked A.I. Advance Amid ‘Broader State of War’ on Internet
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Semafor
- Biden hikes tariffs on $18 billion in Chinese goods
- US and China’s AI talks likely won't result in any deals
- Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen is the prosecution's risky star witness at hush-money trial
- OpenAI reveals new ChatGPT model with real-time voice and video chat
- China makes headway in Iraq’s oil industry as US influence fades
- Pentagon official quits over US support for Israel’s war in Gaza
- Melinda Gates resigns from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Reason
- AI can do paperwork doctors hate
- Brickbat: Backseat Driver
- Campaigns can't get worse, can they?
- 'Dozens' of Duke students walking out of Seinfeld's commencement speech is not a story
- OpenAI is open to AI-generated erotica… but not ‘porn’
- New Jersey mayors want the power to sue you for asking too many questions
- Trillions
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Nikkei Asia
- Sony annual profit drops 3.5% amid faltering results in finance, sensor units
- Tencent beats forecasts with 6% revenue rise in Q1
- Japan to take on servicing of F-15 and F-16 U.S. fighter jets
- Biden unveils major China tariff hikes with EV rate to hit 100%
- Hong Kong chief defends foreign offices after manager's arrest in U.K
- Sony profit drops 3.5% in fiscal 2023
- India can be a real alternative to China in pharmaceuticals
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Institutional Investor
- 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
- A Generation Is Retiring From Asset Managers and Allocators. What’s Next?
- Everything Investors Know About Hedge Funds Is Based on Flawed Data
- Tigers Sidestep Sell-Off
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- Daily Discussion Thread for May 14, 2024
- US announces higher China tariffs, including 100% for EVs – DW
- 2 years of investing 68% increase!
- How to Implement Call Routing Options for Job Seekers and Clients?
- What happened to Pegasus today?
- Leaders of regional rivals Greece and Türkiye meet in bid to thaw relations
- Looking for Advice on a Commercial Pasta Machine for Our New Business
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PYMNTS
- APAC Middle-Market Leaders Embrace External Financing for Growth
- Open-Loop Payments Help Advance Smart City Innovation
- Tanger Outlet Malls Court the Digital, Aspirational Shopper
- Anthropic Launches AI Assistant Claude in Europe
- Intellicheck Posts Record Quarter as Identity Fraud Continues to Run Rampant
- Fed Says Consumers See Higher-for-Longer Inflation
- Access Group to Acquire AP Automation Provider Lightyear
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Fortune
- Uber stokes monopoly fears with plan to pay almost $1bn for its only major food delivery competitor in Taiwan
- Switzerland shouldn't follow Europe's lead on tax, says Roche CEO
- Emmanuel Macron woos Wall Street as he tries to position Paris as Europe’s top financial hub, calling Basel banking regulations 'a killer for risk taking'
- BYD has been frozen out of the U.S. market so it’s debuting its first hybrid pickup truck in Mexico
- Vodafone turnaround: $11.9 billion earnings and a return to growth in Germany, but 'much more still needs to be done'
- Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen’s testimony in hush money trial was pivotal. Here’s what he said
- 32-year-old mother who dropped out of the workforce is back as state starts funding day care with oil lease money
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Inc.
- Inflation Is Still a Big Problem for Small Businesses--but There's Cause for Hope
- Neuroscience Says 1 Regular Habit Will Improve Your Brain Function and Strengthen Your Mind
- Google's Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella Drop Their Version of a Tech Diss Track. Who Comes Out on Top?
- This MIT Professor's 5Ss Rule Has Been Around for 40 Years. It's Still the Secret to Becoming a World-Class Speaker
- With 5 Words, Melinda French Gates Resigned From the Gates Foundation and Taught a Lesson in Emotional Intelligence
- Do You Need a Pure Manager or a Working Manager?
- The 2 Best Reasons to Buy the New M2 iPad Air
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Axios
- Spanglish is increasingly being used to reach Latino voters
- Biden targets China — and Trump
- Looking for EV sales growth? Check the used market
- School segregation surging 70 years after landmark Brown v. Board ruling
- Biden’s polling denial: Why he doesn't believe he's behind
- OpenAI's latest chatbot jokes and pretends to blush
- Biden signs Russian uranium imports ban into law
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Vox
- The messy SCOTUS drama about Black voters in Louisiana, explained
- How a bunch of Redditors made GameStop’s stock soar
- Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial, explained
- Pig kidney transplants are cool. They shouldn’t be necessary
- 8 surprising reasons to stop hating cicadas and start worshipping them
- The 9 worst court decisions since Trump remade the federal judiciary
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FastCompany
- Games Global curiously cancels its IPO hours before it was set to go public
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Entrepreneur
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Politico
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Newsweek
- Russia just found huge oil reserves in Antarctica
- What is 'operation blockout' and which celebrities are being targeted?
- Donald Trump prosecutors setting stage for Cohen cross-examination
- Trump 'Looked Most Like a Criminal' During Cohen Testimony: Legal Analyst
- IRS owes 930,000 Americans about $932
- Arizona delays enforcement of 1864 abortion ban
- Baltimore Bridge videos show explosion as officials work to free ship
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NPR
- Biden announces new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles
- More hotels are catering to the 'bleisure' — business and leisure
- Is 'government crypto' a good idea? : The Indicator from Planet Money
- Melinda French Gates resigns as co-chair from the Gates Foundation
- GameStop surges after meme stock investor 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces online
- With 'bleisure' and fewer workers, the American hotel is in recovery
- Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama begin union vote amid pressure from all sides
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Globe And Mail
- Considering layoffs to balance the books? Try these alternatives first
- Customers trade personal data for deals with in-store retail tech
- What Canada needs now more than ever is rental units
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- Ottawa loses taxi class-action lawsuit over lack of enforcement against Uber
- Japan’s Asahi Kasei to invest $1.6-billion in Ontario electric-vehicle facility: sources
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CBC
- Remember the GameStop saga? It's happening again
- Luxury retailer Ted Baker begins store-closing liquidation sales
- Melinda French Gates steps down from charitable foundation that bears her name
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- Prominent charity serving Black business community paid $1.5M to 2 board members' companies, records show
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Techmeme
- Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not say if this build would ever ship
- Square Enix falls 16%, the biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its big-budget games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short
- Intel announces another Foundry leadership change, naming Marvell executive Kevin O'Buckley as SVP, replacing longtime executive Stu Pann, in the role a year
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- https://on.ft.com/3yfEeCd
- Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22B, above ~$21.95B est., and net profit up 62% YoY to ~$5.8B, above ~$4.8B est., boosted by new WeChat monetization
- German companies are increasingly experimenting with AI tools to become more productive and efficient, but some say the gains AI promises could be years away
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Silicon Valley
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Techcrunch
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The Register
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Silicon Republic
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The Week
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PBS Newshour
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Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset obtains China quality certification ahead of official domestic release
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Tencent revenue jumps 6% in first quarter for sixth consecutive quarter of growth
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Chinese developer Agile’s interest-payment default on US$483 million bond sends shares tumbling
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Punitive tariffs on Made in China EVs likely to restrain BYD, Leapmotor and peers from US market, hurt go-global plans
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Asia Financial
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Japan Times
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Wikipedia Current Events
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May 13
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Rafah offensive
- The Israeli military advances into northern and southern Gaza. (Reuters)
- A staff member of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security is killed and another is injured in Rafah. (United Nations)
- Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis
- Hamas says that it has "lost contact" with the militants holding four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Reuters)
- At least 14 Palestinians are killed when an Israeli air strike hits a three-story house in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Most victims were women and children. (Middle East Eye)
- Rafah offensive
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive
- Russia claims that its troops have entered the town of Vovchansk, {{conv|74|km|mi}} from Kharkiv. (BBC News)
- 2024 Kharkiv offensive
Arts and culture
- Judge Judy Sheindlin sues A360media, the parent company of the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly, for defamation in the Menendez brothers case. (AP)
Business and economy
- GameStop short squeeze
- Three years after the previous GameStop stock squeeze, Redditors return to artificially inflate GameStop's share price by 75%, reaching an 18-month high. The share price of AMC Theatres also increases by more than 70%. (Reuters) (CNBC)
- Russia–United States relations
- U.S. President Joe Biden signs a bill banning imports of uranium from Russia. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
Disasters and accidents
- 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods
- Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
- The final remains of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, are demolished with explosives. (East Bay Times)
- The death toll from the flash flood and lahar in West Sumatra, Indonesia, increases to 43, with 15 others still missing. (Reuters)
- At least 14 people are killed, 75 are injured, and others are trapped after a billboard collapses during heavy rains in Mumbai, India. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- The Airlines for America trade association and several major American airlines file a lawsuit against the United States Department of Transportation over a rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees. (Reuters)
- Indonesian police conducts a major drug raid on a lab hidden in a villa in Bali, Indonesia. They arrested one Indonesian, two Ukrainians, and one Russian. (AP)
Politics and elections
- 2024 Lithuanian constitutional referendum
- A referendum to allow dual citizenship in Lithuania fails to pass. (LRT)
- 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
- Gitanas Nausėda and Ingrida Šimonytė advance to the run-off election, which will be held on 26 May. (The Guardian)
- An administrative court in Münster, Germany, rules that the Alternative for Germany political party could threaten democracy and can be spied on. (The Washington Post)
- The High Commissioner of New Caledonia imposes a curfew and mobilizes security forces after a general strike and violent protests over proposed constitutional changes in the capital city Noumea. (Al Jazeera)
Science and technology
- OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation. (Reuters)