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Yahoo Finance
- 'experiment generation.' Here's how that's playing out
- Futures fall as rate worries push bond yields higher
- Starbucks' Stock Just Plunged. Is Now the Time to Invest?
- Energy Transfer Continues Its Acquisition Binge With This $3.3 Billion Deal (Giving It a Lot More Fuel to Increase Its High-Yielding Payout)
- 2 Cathie Wood Biotech Stocks That Could Be Worth the Risk
- 3 No-Brainer Dividend Growth Stocks to Buy With $1,000 and Hold for Decades
- US consumers show the Fed its backward problem with high rates: Morning Brief
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Google Business
- Exclusive
- Faraday Future Reports 4 Vehicles Sold, 6 Leased For the Full Year of 2023
- Volkswagen aims to debut new affordable electric vehicles in 2027 with prices around $22,000
- Robinhood stock jumps on $1 billion buyback plan
- Chinese Tesla rival BYD says its new hybrid cars can go 1,250 miles without stopping for gas or charging
- Volkswagen's Rumored Sub-$22k Electric Car Is Real
- Stocks Slide With Bonds After US Yield Spike: Markets Wrap
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Tipranks
- Guangzhou Bank Achieves RMB12 Billion Bond Listing
- PICC P&C Co Declares Year-End Cash Dividend
- Clarity Medical Group Appoints New Director
- Clarity Medical Group Reveals Board Structure
- Shangri-La Asia Echoes Subsidiary’s Announcement
- Yunfeng Financial Group Schedules 2024 AGM
- Watts International Alters Employee Share Scheme
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Movers
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AP News
- Mining giant BHP pledges to invest in South Africa economy as it seeks support for Anglo bid
- Edmunds: The best used vehicles for young drivers under $20,000
- Dortmund seals sponsorship deal with arms manufacturer ahead of Champions League final
- Inflation pressures lingering from pandemic are keeping Fed rate cuts on pause
- Owner of UK's Royal Mail says it has accepted a takeover offer from a Czech billionaire
- Sweden will donate $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine
- IMF upgrades its forecast for China's economy, but says reforms are needed to support growth
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Wall Street Journal
- He's Baseball's Most Exciting Pitcher---and He Plays In an Empty Ballpark
- Rapid G-Force Fluctuations Caused Injuries on Singapore Airlines Flight
- Homecoming Capital Backs Port Developer for Offshore Wind Projects
- BYD Launches Hybrids With 1,300-Mile Driving Range
- Kim Jong Un's Balloon Barrage: Bags of Excrement Fly Into the South
- Edison Partners and StepStone Lead $110 Million Investment in Technology Company Solutions by Text
- Norwegian Cruise Line Looks to Cut Costs and Debt---'No Sacred Cows'
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Financial Times
- ‘Black box’ of ill-fated Singapore Airlines flight shows rapid G-force changes
- Predict the UK general election result
- Diane Abbott says she has been banned from standing for Labour
- BHP calls for extension of Anglo American takeover talks
- Merck signs $3bn deal for Kate Bingham-backed eye disease biotech
- ConocoPhillips in advanced talks to buy Marathon Oil
- Czech billionaire Křetínský agrees to buy Royal Mail owner in £5.2bn deal
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Bloomberg
- Texas Storm Leaves Thousands of Homes Without Power: Weather Watch
- Junior Doctors Plan to Strike Ahead of UK General Election
- EU Aims to Start Ukraine Membership Negotiations by End of June
- Police Search EU Parliament Office in Russia Meddling Probe
- Saudi Arabia’s Lenovo Deal Showcases Cash for Investments Strategy
- What Mexico’s Investors Are Watching Ahead of Elections
- Out of Time: The Bloomberg Open, Americas Edition
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Reuters
- Central European countries amp up pressure on EU over German gas tariff
- German vice chancellor remains committed to TenneT takeover, reports Rheinische Post
- Canadian lender BMO's second-quarter profit falls on US business weakness
- Hungary's government signs deal with Belarus to help build nuclear reactor
- China gears up to make a deal with Europe as EV tariffs loom
- Three tips for parents of 'boomerang' kids who move back home
- Boeing, firefighters union reach tentative contract deal
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Marketwatch
- My sister inherited $350,000 from her father’s estate, but her husband was diagnosed with dementia. Should they divorce so he can qualify for Medicaid?
- Cathie Wood’s latest bold forecast: El Salvador economy to grow tenfold in five years
- Should you buy a car out of state? Here are a few things to know to see if it’s worth it
- Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani just scored this $7.8 million mansion in a swanky L.A. suburb
- These 7 cities are reaping the benefits of awesome public art
- There’s plenty to like about the sleek, plush 2025 Audi SQ7
- Vivek Ramaswamy calls on BuzzFeed to cut staff and hire ‘top talents’ like Tucker Carlson
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Seeking Alpha
- Lithium Americas: Don't Get Lost On Distorted Reports
- Digital Turbine Earnings: A Stock You Should Not Buy, Debt Is A Problem
- Apple: Relatively Immune From AI Disruption
- The Bank of Nova Scotia 2024 Q2 - Results
- RTX: Defense Play With Commercial Growth Engine, A Cautious Buy
- Starwood Property: Don't Miss This Drop And Lock In A 10% Yield
- Leggett & Platt: Our Previous Thesis Is Invalidated
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Benzinga
- What's Going On With VinFast Stock Today?
- Cybersecurity Skills Shortage Is Ranked as the Biggest Risk to MSPs and Their Clients
- Global 50 Manufacturing Giant Trusts eGain for Knowledge-Powered Customer Service
- What's Going On With American, United Airlines & Delta Air Lines Shares Today?
- South Korea Accuses Kim Jong Un's North Korea Of Sending Balloons Filled With Trash And Excrement
- Mercury Studios Announces New Documentary "One to One: John & Yoko" from award-winning director, Kevin Macdonald
- Epson to Illustrate Power of High Impact Experiences Through Large, High-Resolution Displays at InfoComm 2024
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Barchart
- Stock Index Futures Plunge as Bond Yields Climb on Rate Fears, U.S. Inflation Data Awaited
- Stock Index Futures Plunge as Bond Yields Climb, U.S. Inflation Data Awaited
- Should Nvidia Consider Paying a Special Dividend in 2024 to Reward Shareholders?
- Soybeans Pulled Lower By Meal Weakness
- Feeders Were the Leaders to Start the Short Week
- Wheat Post Gains, But Far From Highs
- Hogs Close Mixed on Tuesday
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SEC / FED
Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on April 8 through May 1, 2024
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SEC Charges Hudson Valley Wealth Management Advisory Firm and Founder for Failing to Disclose Conflicts of Interest
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A Crowd of Angels: Remarks before the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee
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Federal Reserve Board accepting applications for its Community Advisory Council
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SEC, FinCEN Propose Customer Identification Program Requirements for Registered Investment Advisers and Exempt Reporting Advisers
Marketplace
- What would happen if Israel severs bank ties with the Palestinians?
- Farming is “not easy and it’s a lot of risk” says Iowa soybean farmer
- Home prices have reached new records, yet consumer confidence rose. What gives?
- What, exactly, does “cost of living” mean
- Are we in the midst of a climate housing bubble?
- Record hurricane season could hurt oil and gas production
- “There is no economic solution for a political problem”: The state of the Palestinian economy
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ZeroHedge
- Business Exodus Continues: China's Cofco Has Enough With Crime-Ridden Downtown Detroit
- Momentum Cools Just As Indexes Hit Record Highs
- Knock On Wood
- 5 Reasons To Sign Up For Your Digital ID
- Yen May Ironically Get Help From The Fed Of All Places
- Study Finds Intermittent Fasting Protects Against Liver Inflammation And Cancer
- How The War Redirected Ukraine's Grain Exports
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Investing.com
- US stock futures retreat from highs; Fed cues, Salesforce in focus
- Futures lower, Salesforce to report
- Goldman highlights four buying opportunities in European small caps
- Bitcoin price today: steady at $68k amid rate fears, MT Gox risk eases By
- Asian stocks fall on inflation jitters, China buoyed by more stimulus
- Stock Market Today: Nasdaq closes above 17,000 for first time as Nvidia shines By
- Ethereum price forecast for 2024: Is ETH headed for a bull run? By
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Morning Brew
Milei’s plan to help Argentina: leave Argentina
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A billionaire wants to prove submersibles are safe
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Toyota is betting on alternative fuel engines over EVs
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Word Search: Sea creatures
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As temperatures rise, so will turbulence
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Brew Mini: Point
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Where are the primary data center hubs?
The Hustle
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Digits: The ‘Skinny House,’ influencers who don’t exist, and more newsy numbers
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Restaurants are serving up futuristic food trends
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Sky vacuums may not reduce carbon, but they sure are good at sucking up billions
CNBC
- Turbulence-hit Singapore Airlines flight fell 54 meters in less than five seconds, investigation finds
- RFK Jr. super PAC chair to publish tell-all memoir by mother of Hunter Biden's child
- Apple to open first store in Malaysia as Asia expansion continues
- Nasdaq closes at record high, Fed's Kashkari seeks more inflation data for rate cuts, GameStop soars
- BHP Group wants extension to $49 billion Anglo American takeover talks as deadline looms
- China's $47.5 billion chip fund will likely focus on AI amid U.S. export curbs, NYU professor says
- How Temu parent PDD dethroned Alibaba to become China's most valuable e-commerce company
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CBS
- Homeowners face soaring insurance costs as violent storms wreak havoc
- match is billed as "free money," but high-income workers may be getting an unfair share
- Why "stress bragging" can annoy your co-workers and hurt your career
- Amtrak changes schedule in the Northeast Corridor due to heat
- Intrigued by the "no-buy pledge"? Here's how to start
- T-Mobile to buy most of US Cellular in $4.4 billion deal
- Elon Musk's xAI says it raised $6 billion to develop artificial intelligence
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NYT Business
- Inside the Rent Inflation Measure That Economics Nerds Love to Hate
- ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ Goes Back to the Beginning
- The Ancient Art of Calligraphy Is Having a Revival
- Mark Zuckerberg is Popular Again Thanks to Meta’s Open-Source AI
- Saudi Arabia Eyes a Future Beyond Oil
- Elon Musk Dominates Space Launch. Rivals Are Calling Foul
- I.M.F. Is Upbeat on China’s Growth But Questions Industrial Policy
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BMO Bank of Montreal
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MSNBC
- Trump trial in 60 seconds
- Why so much hinges on Trump's New York trial verdict
- Why Trump is hobnobbing with rappers facing gang-related charges
- Trump trial in 60 seconds
- Here's what to expect in the Trump hush money trial's closing arguments
- Why university presidents have fared so poorly under congressional scrutiny
- Trump's crypto reversal reeks of desperation and hypocrisy
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NBC
- Jury deliberations set to begin in Donald Trump's criminal trial
- White House says Israel's Rafah strike and ground assault don't cross Biden's 'red line'
- Clock ticks on U.S.-Saudi deal as election and Gaza war threaten to derail landmark agreement
- China is banning ‘wealth-flaunting’ behavior on social media
- Negro Leagues statistics to be officially incorporated into MLB historical record
- ‘All Eyes on Rafah’ image shared by millions on Instagram following Israeli airstrike
- U.S. aid deliveries to Gaza by sea suspended after damage to temporary pier
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investors.com
- American Airlines Slashes Outlook; Shares Tumble
- Nextracker Stock Sees RS Rating Jump To 87
- SiTime Stock Sees Relative Strength Rating Jump To 81
- Abercrombie & Fitch Earnings Due After Retailer's 385% Run
- Cava Earnings Due With Hot IPO Nearly Doubling In 2024; Watch For This
- Nvidia Stock Spikes To Record As AI Chipmaker Adds Elon Musk As Customer
- Celsius Dives Below Key Level As Analysts Caution On Sales
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ABC News
- Mining giant BHP pledges to invest in South Africa economy as it seeks support for Anglo bid
- Sweden to donate $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine
- IMF upgrades its forecast for China's economy, but says reforms are needed to support growth
- US consumer confidence rises in May after three months of declines
- Harris announces plans to help 80% of Africa gain access to the internet, up from 40% now
- Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
- Qatar's ruler looking to invest in energy, ports and high-tech in Cyprus, official says
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Fox Business
- Singapore Airlines flight that hit deadly turbulence fell 178 feet in 4.6 seconds
- Home insurance rates have surged nearly 40% since 2019
- Elon Musk urges Tesla shareholders to vote on pay with special offer
- Consumer confidence bounced back in May after months of decline
- National Debt Tracker: American taxpayers (you) are now on the hook for $34,577,128,968,551.63 as of 5/24/24
- Move to faster stock settlement creates unique hurdles for ETF market
- Fed's Kashkari wants to see 'many more months' of good inflation data before cutting rates
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CNN
- MacKenzie Scott upended philanthropy as we know it. Melinda French Gates is catching on
- Britain’s 500-year-old Royal Mail has been bought by a Czech billionaire
- Apple slashed iPhone prices in China. Sales are bouncing back
- Harvard to stay silent on issues that don’t impact university’s ‘core function’
- The average tax refund is over $3,000. Here are 7 ways to put it to good use
- March 12 marks Equal Pay Day this year
- 3 ways Apple’s monopoly lawsuit could change the iPhone experience for fans
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Ticker
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German 15 Yr Bid-to-Cover Actual 1.9 (Forecast -, Previous 1.6)
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Europe Sentiment: German State CPIs Put Downward Pressure on Euro
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German 15 Yr Bund Yield Actual 2.8% (Forecast -, Previous 2.54%)
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Italian Non-EU Flash Trade Balance Actual 4.91B (Forecast -, Previous 5.60B)
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Implied interest rate probabilities for major central banks
Barrons
- Indian Shares Close Down After Hawkish Fed Comments
- Bitcoin and Ether Drop. What’s Hitting Crypto Prices
- Bitcoin and Ether Drop. What’s Hitting Crypto Prices
- Faraday Future Stock Is Tumbling 40%. Here’s Why
- Why the AI Stock Market Divide Is Widening Amid Fed Rate Fears, and 4 Other Things to Know Today
- Why the AI Stock-Market Divide Is Widening Amid Fed Rate Fears
- Nvidia Stock Slips. How It Could Overtake Apple
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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?
- What are America’s Libertarians for?
- 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
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MarketBeat
- Which of These 3 Beaten Down Stocks Would You Own?
- GameStop Will Rocket Higher: The Move Won’t Last
- 3 Stocks Insiders are Buying That Should be on Your Radar
- Momentum Investing: A Guide to Getting Started
- Financial Sector: Potential Trend Change Looms with Double Top
- Ross Stores: Buy Off-Price Retail While It’s Still a Bargain
- Is Cigna Group the Nation's Best-Run Health Insurance Company?
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The Hill
- Republicans prepare to fast-track tax cuts in reconciliation
- A fight over SNAP funding could derail the farm bill
- Ramaswamy calls for changes to BuzzFeed after acquiring activist stake
- Freddie Mac proposes buying home equity loans
- Consumer confidence rises in May after falling for three straight months
- After ‘whites only’ job posting, tech staffing firm settles with DOJ
- Uvalde families sue tech and arms companies
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BBC
- Singapore Airlines plane dropped 178ft in five seconds, black box data reveals
- BHP wants more time for Anglo American takeover talks
- The farmers counting the cost of a wet winter
- Samsung Electronics union calls first-ever strike
- Former FTX executive Salame sentenced to over 7 years in prison
- Insulation scandal: ‘I have to scrape mould off the walls twice a week'
- Universities: PM pledges to scrap 'rip-off degrees'
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The Guardian
- Singapore Airlines plane dropped 54 metres in seconds, flight data shows
- Sir Jim Ratcliffe seeks urgent solution to Manchester United injury problems
- As avian flu hops to cows and at least two humans, migrant farm workers are at risk
- Ofwat could cut sewage fines for financially struggling water firms, say reports
- BHP seeks extension to talks on move to take over mining rival Anglo American
- Royal Mail agrees to £3.57bn takeover by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský; Ofwat ‘to cut fines’ for stressed UK water companies
- A trip down the mines: West Midlands industry in the 1970s
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YouGov
Explaining the partisan gap in support for student loan forgiveness
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Americans support a ceasefire in Gaza but half oppose student protests
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Polarization is getting worse: Few see shared values with those in the other party
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Will Trump get convicted in his hush-money case? Should he? What polls say
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How do Democrats and Republicans feel about the two parties?
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What Americans think about recent pro-Palestinian campus protests
The Street
- Fed official's latest thoughts upend rate cut chances
- Stock Market Today: Stocks slide Treasury yields spike on inflation worries
- Don't let the Fed keep you from buying your dream house, real estate expert says
- New study suggests EVs are supercharging an impending environmental crisis
- Toyota, Mazda and Subaru aren’t ready to give up on “real” engines any time soon
- Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos hints at more live events, but sports is still a mystery
- A fast-growing rival is a big problem for Nike
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Insider
- Nvidia insiders reveal how Jensen Huang wants emails to be written
- 6 things you do at work that annoy your boss
- A millennial who had a mini-retirement at 38 shares her strategies for achieving financial independence
- Denmark has the solution to America's broken housing market
- New Mexico experimented with a basic income program that gave $500 a month to immigrant families. They used the money to pay rent and secure jobs
- Gen Z wants work flexibility almost as much as they want fair pay
- I helped my aging dad get a job in the kitchen of the hospital I work at. It's hard to see him in such a thankless job, but I'm so proud and love being his…
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AOL Finance
- ‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry just made a big bet on gold
- ‘I’ve never seen so many overdrafts!’: 24-year-old dropped steady jobs to pursue unprofitable gigs
- A millennial who had a mini-retirement at 38 shares her strategies for achieving financial independence
- Want to retire early? Here are the top 5 regrets of Americans who called it quits too soon
- Denmark has the solution to America's broken housing market
- US consumers show the Fed its backward problem with high rates: Morning Brief
- 'experiment generation.' Here's how that's playing out
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Podcasts
24/7 Wall Street
- 3 Reasons Intuit Will Issue a Stock Split After NVIDIA
- Are Aircraft Carriers Still Relevant For Defense?
- 3 Dow Stocks That Are Must Buys in June
- The US Navy’s Newest Ships in June 2024
- Social Security Taxable Earnings Cap Penalizes Low-Income Earners
- The US Military’s Most Expensive Weapons Programs, Ranked
- 7 Worst Jeep Patriot Years to Avoid
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LA Times
- Millions of Americans need drugs like Ozempic. Will it bankrupt the healthcare system?
- Column: With Live Nation lawsuit, government says it's fed up with alleged corporate scofflaws
- Dozens of shuttered 99 Cents Only stores could reopen under a familiar name: Dollar Tree
- What's going on with loan-out corporations? Hollywood workers seek answers
- How a negotiation over cable fees could weigh on Paramount's sale
- Pro-Palestinian activists protest at Google developer conference amid Israel-Hamas war
- OpenAI forms safety and security committee as concerns mount about AI
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Washington Post
- Chosen to be the first Black astronaut, he got to space six decades later
- How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok safer
- Apple and Microsoft want you to notice how their AI works. But why?
- T-Mobile will buy U.S. Cellular’s wireless business in $4.4 billion deal
- Real estate agents are fleeing the field. Is that good for homebuyers?
- OpenAI starts training a new AI model to power ChatGPT
- Justice Department fines Va. tech firm over ‘whites only’ job posting
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Chicago Tribune
- Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Shane Waldron buys $1.85M Green Oaks home
- New O’Hare satellite concourse renderings show rebuild plan, but questions remain
- T-Mobile to buy almost all of U.S Cellular in deal worth $4.4 billion with debt
- Frankfort again closes downtown street for al fresco dining, adding parking
- CTA could provide up to 250 buses for use during the DNC. Will that leave enough for regular bus service?
- Lake Forest 7-bedroom home with carriage house, pool: $5.5M
- United flight to Seattle aborts takeoff at O’Hare after engine fire
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Seattle Times
- Owner of UK’s Royal Mail says it has accepted a takeover offer from a Czech billionaire
- Sweden to donate $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine
- IMF upgrades its forecast for China’s economy, but says reforms are needed to support growth
- Stock market today: Asian shares decline after a mixed post-holiday session on Wall Street
- Boeing, union firefighters reach tentative contract agreement
- The art of drag has become a target. With Pride Month nigh, performers are organizing to fight back
- Billionaire plans dive to the Titanic in a newly designed submersible
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Boston Herald
- Ticker: Kowloon goes in on pot-infused cocktail; US opens up banking to private Cuban businesses; Melinda French Gates to donate $1 billion
- Some people are down on the economy
- After GBH’s GM resigns, Boston public station names new leader of newsroom: ‘Impeccable credentials’
- Thirsty Scholar Pub in Somerville, which had a cameo in ‘The Social Network,’ has been sold
- Ticker: ‘Firm’ helps those cut off from China trade; G7 look to grab frozen funds from Russia
- Major retailers are offering summer deals to entice inflation-weary shoppers
- Best cities for freelancers and self-employed workers 2024
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Financial Post
- Proxy battle cost Gildan $65 million, newly returned CEO says
- TD Bank to take $450-million provision in relation to U.S. probe
- Bankman-Fried FTX lieutenant gets 7.5 years in prison, longer than what prosecution asked for
- Bank of Canada rate cuts will take months to help consumers, Scotiabank says
- Pirates, Middle East instability and drought disrupt the world's ports
- Bank of Canada risks recession if it waits to cut interest rates: Rosenberg Research
- Canadians think caring for aging parents limits career progression
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The Trade
- As cloud adoption across the market continues to rise, is the shift of liquidity itself next to follow?
- Stifel and Marex unveil outsourced trading partnership under new broker referral scheme
- Fabien Oreve: Fixing Europe’s future markets
- FalconX goes live with foreign exchange desk
- Commerzbank streamlines cross-asset trading with migration to Murex platform
- Nasdaq and FIA Tech partner to improve resiliency of post-trade infrastructure
- ABN AMRO set to acquire German bank, Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe in €672 million deal
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Observer
- The Digital Afterlife Industry Is Burgeoning
- Elon Musk Shares Unconventional Views on Future Jobs, Biden’s 100% Chinese EV Tariffs
- Hedge Fund Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Secret Money-Making Machine
- Paul Allen’s Foundation Puts $10M Toward Arts and Culture in Washington
- The Inevitable Decline of Movies
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Sees No Sign of Booming A.I. Chip Business Slowing
- Reimagining New York’s Approach to Fighting Climate Change
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Semafor
- South Africa votes in landmark election that could see ANC lose majority
- ‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over U.S. politics
- Building the wall, opening ANWR: The GOP starts mapping its reconciliation game plan
- As Trump’s hush-money trial winds down, the defense works to sow doubt
- Mexico's first woman president will inherit a huge public safety problem
- Georgian parliament pushes ‘foreign agent’ law through in blow to EU ambitions
- Japanese auto giants bet on hybrids while China pushes EVs
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Reason
- Brickbat: Mistyped Tickets
- California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Law Is Already Having Disastrous Unintended Consequences
- Trump decries disproportionate drug penalties while threatening dealers with death
- The Alito Flag Flap, Snyder v. Phelps, and Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
- The Best of Reason: Not Even Artificial Intelligence Can Make Central Planning Work
- Prosecutors say Trump tried to 'hoodwink the American voter,' which is not a crime
- 'An embarrassing mistake': Neil Gorsuch rails into Florida's use of 6-person juries
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Nikkei Asia
- China's drills appear to be 'rehearsal' for Taiwan invasion: U.S. admiral
- U.S. picks Asia hand as new de facto envoy to Taiwan
- Pakistani political parties have much to learn from Turkey's AKP
- India's Modi taps power of cricket on campaign trail
- Thaksin Shinawatra, former Thai PM, charged with lese-majeste
- IMF lifts China growth outlook but warns on property and trade troubles
- Japan-China-South Korea talks are good for regional stability
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Institutional Investor
- Directors Guild Taps Rockefeller University, Cambridge Alum as CIO
- NYU Taps Michelle Knudsen as Next CIO
- Trump Media Takes Hedge Funds on a Wild Ride
- Hedge Funds Double Down on a Crowded Trade
- Why Interest Rates Aren’t Stopping Gold
- How the Fed Uses Quantitative Tightening to Address Inflation
- Pensions Improve Productivity at Portfolio Companies. Here’s How
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- reuters.com
- The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: How Offshore Companies Can Level the Tax Playing Field for Developing Countries and are Finance Ministers' Secret Best…
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- Daily Discussion Thread for May 29, 2024
- Daddy Nvidia is coming for us all
- How to use 100+ long shares of AT&T stock (or any other long positions) to generate passive income?
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PYMNTS
- Food Delivery Platforms Lose $20 Billion as Diners Cut Back
- Small Businesses Confront Card Fraud Vulnerabilities
- New Data: Card-Linked Offers Improve Relevance and Value
- Unattended Payments Shape the Future of Retail Transactions
- Thredd’s McCarthy Gets Down to the Business of FinTech
- Former OpenAI Board Member Helen Toner Details Reasons for Sam Altman’s Firing
- Five Things to Watch as Synapse Bankruptcy Impact Shakes Up FinTechs
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Fortune
- Inflation's persistence is killing hope for a Fed rate cut in 2024
- Russia-linked cyber attacks on Europe have doubled since 2023, top EU cybersecurity official says
- Uber gears up for Paris Olympics by offering free cruises across the Seine and discounts to ease the load on public transport networks
- ONS dealing with 20% staf exodus weeks after facing strikes over return to office orders
- The future is a state of mind: What it takes to build a future-ready company
- Malaysia’s prime minister touts the country as a ‘neutral and non-aligned’ home for chip companies amid U.S.-China tensions
- U.S. is letting independent Cuban entrepreneurs open and access American bank accounts
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Inc.
- Neuroscience Reveals 3 Powerful Ways to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence (and Reduce Stress and Anxiety)
- Why Short and Fast Meetings In the Name of Efficiency Is Completely Wrong
- Jerry Seinfeld's 1,000-Second Commencement Speech Was Set to a 5th-Grade Reading Level. It's the Best Ever Done
- Star Psychologist Adam Grant Says Having a 'Failure Budget' Radically Increases Your Chances of Overall Success in Life
- Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark Have This 1 Thing In Common. It Explains Their Extraordinary Success
- Why Surrounding Yourself With the Right Communities Is Pivotal to Your Success
- Leading with Love: Chewy's Masterclass in Turning Empathy into Profit
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Axios
- The $1T question of how to address Black inequality
- Restaurant menus lean hard on "limited time offers"
- Survey: Asian Americans back teaching about slavery but oppose race in college admissions
- Biden launching new strategy to win Black voters
- Four potential global crises rear their heads
- Sam Altman is starting to look like Mark Zuckerberg
- Warnings grow about unlicensed cosmetic treatment providers
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Vox
- A new strategy to house the homeless: Pay landlords more money
- Your favorite brand no longer cares about being woke
- The WNBA’s meteoric rise in popularity, in one chart
- The slaughter in Rafah and Israel’s moral nadir
- Why we need a Memorial Day for civilian victims of war
- The enormous stakes of India’s election
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FastCompany
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Entrepreneur
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Politico
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Newsweek
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NPR
- Can dental therapists fill the gap in oral care? : The Indicator from Planet Money
- Melinda French Gates to give $1 billion to women's rights groups
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Globe And Mail
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CBC
- Is mass timber the next big thing in cheaper, greener construction? More provinces are saying yes
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Techmeme
- Sensor Tower: Tencent's Dungeon & Fighter Mobile generated $140M+ in player spending in its first week in China, and 2.6M iOS users downloaded the game in China
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- https://on.ft.com/3yBrRRh
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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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Dealbreaker
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PBS Newshour
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Japan Times
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Wikipedia Current Events
May 29
Armed conflicts and attacks
Politics and elections
- 2024 South African general election
- South Africans vote for members of the National Assembly and elect provincial legislatures. (The Guardian)
- 2024 Vanuatuan constitutional referendum
- Vanuatuans hold the first national constitutional referendum to vote on amendments related to party switching. (Radio Free Asia)
- 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election
- Citizens of Madagascar vote for members of the National Assembly (Radio France Internationale)
May 28
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israel–Hamas war
- Rafah offensive
- Israeli tanks reach central Rafah for the first time with heavy clashes being reported. (Reuters)
- At least 21 people are killed and 64 others are injured in an Israeli attack on a tent camp in al-Mawasi, Rafah Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
- Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
- The U.S. removes the Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather. (AP)
- Rafah offensive
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Russian guided bombs hit a block of apartments in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, killing at least two civilians and injuring six others. (Reuters)
- Eastern Ukraine campaign
- Red Sea crisis
- A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier takes on water after being hit by three missiles off the coast of Yemen. (Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
- Cyclone Remal
- Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. (The Hindu)
International relations
- International recognition of the State of Palestine
- Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
- The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so on May 22. (The Journal) (Euronews) (AP)
- The parliament of Denmark rejects a proposal to recognise a Palestinian state. (Reuters)
- Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
Law and crime
- Animal rights in Colombia
- The Senate of Colombia approves a resolution banning Spanish-style bullfighting in the country. (La FM)
- Bankruptcy of FTX
- Former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame is sentenced to more than seven years in prison and fined more than $11 million for fraud and criminal conspiracy. (Reuters)
- South Africa's genocide case against Israel
- Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of South Africa. (Middle East Eye)
- Belarus–European Union border crisis
- Polish Border Guard soldier is seriously injured in an incident among a surge in migrants trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Polskie Radio)
Politics and elections
- 2023–2024 Georgian protests
- The Georgian parliament overrides a presidential veto of the foreign agents law, thereby requiring president Salome Zourabichvili to endorse the bill within five days. (DW)
- 2024 Taiwanese legislative reform protests
- The Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party pass amendments granting the Legislative Yuan greater powers to oversee the executive and to question officials and citizens, despite claims that these amendments violate civil liberties and could reduce the powers of president Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party. (The Guardian)
- Haitian crisis
- Dr. Garry Conille is named the new Prime Minister of Haiti by the Transitional Presidential Council. (AP)