$2,000 might not seem like powerful capital, but it can still offer powerful returns if invested in the right company for a decent length of time.
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Comedies The Goldbergs, The Conners, and Home Economics and dramas The Rookie and A Million Little Things have all been renewed at ABC. The Goldbergs has been renewed for Season 9. The series stars Jeff Garlin, Wendi...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/goldbergs-conners-rookie-million-little-things-home-economics-renewed-abc-1234973509/

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Some 50% of workers in America reported feeling disengaged even before the pandemic. Companies need to invest in their workforce, but also need clear systems to measure the ROI

Warren Valdmanis, Partner, Two Sigma Impact
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Even before the pandemic, 50% of workers described themselves as ...

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Airbnb's average rates grew 35% during the first quarter. Executives said the increase is thanks to rentals of larger homes away from urban centers.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
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Airbnbs average daily rates grew 35% in the first quarter of 2021 compared to 2020.
Executives said ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-prices-higher-travel-rebound-earnings-hotels-spending-vacation-2021-5

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Adidas Yeezy Boost 350, Air Jordan 1, Nike Air Force 1, Nike Trainers, and MoreLondon, UK , May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fastsole.co.uk is pleased to reveal the release dates of the latest launches in branded shoes including the Adidas Yeezy Boost 350, Air Jordan 1, Nike Air Force 1, Nike ...

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Stifel Nicolaus analyst Derek Archila reiterated a Buy rating on Phasebio Pharmaceuticals (PHAS) today and set a price target of $8.00.
The post Stifel Nicolaus Thinks Phasebio Pharmaceuticals Stock is Going to Recover appeared first on Smarter Analyst.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Derek Archila ...

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri is set to become the last state to require out-of-state online stores to collect sales taxes on residents' purchases after the GOP House gave its approval Friday...

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee prosecutor is defending his marriage to a subordinate in his office.Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston said in a statement to the Chattanooga Times Free Press that his management decisions are "both legal and ethical...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A pipeline company must pay attorneys who won $30,000 for three fractional owners of land where the company began work before getting legal permission, the Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco's iconic cable cars remain sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic but officials said Friday the city's historic streetcars will start rolling again this weekend.As tourists start trickling back into San Francisco and the city reopens more of its economy, it plans to...

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Some Connecticut restauranteurs are questioning how they should handle the state's plans to require indoor mask-wearing for only unvaccinated people beginning May 19, a sudden change from the state's original plans to still continue the indoor mask-wearing rule for everyone...

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As U.S. markets rebound from a volatile week, battered growth segments have take the lead. Investors can also focus on the growth style with exchange traded funds. Stocks retreated earlier in the week after data revealed that consumer prices spiked in April, which stoked concerns that the surge in ...

https://www.etftrends.com/core-strategies-channel/growth-etfs-capture-the-market-rebound/

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Jim Cramer discusses the latest stock market news, including the selling in Disney's stock, Coinbase and inflation vs. Wood Stocks.Jim Cramer discusses the latest stock market news, including the selling in Disney's stock, Coinbase and inflation vs. Wood Stocks.Stocks were rising Friday as the ...

https://www.thestreet.com/jim-cramer/stock-market-today-with-jim-cramer-disney-coinbase-markets

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The Women's National Basketball Association tips off its 25th season Friday night (May 14), and all 144 players, along with friends and influencers of the league, are sporting a special hoodie as part of a collaboration with Twitter. The #W on the front of the hoodie is actually a QR code that can ...

https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/wnba-teams-up-with-twitter-on-a-hoodie-thats-more-than-a-hoodie/

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NBC is setting up a franchise-packed fall season, including a Thursday night entirely devoted to its long-running Law & Order franchise, but there won't be a lot to laugh about on the network: it is holding all of its comedies--as well as the final season of This Is Us--until midseason. The ...

https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/nbc-sets-franchise-heavy-fall-but-holds-all-comedies-and-this-is-us-until-midseason/

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Conflicting positions from state and local authorities put retailers and their employees "in incredibly difficult situations said one retail expert...

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/vaccination-police-new-mask-guidance-could-put-grocery-workers-risk-n1267420

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NBC unveiled a 2021-2022 fall season lineup that will feature a stack of Law Order series on Thursdays giving producer Dick Wolf two full nights of shows on the schedule as the network courts audiences with dependable procedurals and nary a comedy until mid-season...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/nbc-2021-2022-fall-tv-schedule-law-order-1234973459/

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Surging prices are leading some to believe that the market is entering a new commodity supercycle.
Economists are tracking a broad economic recovery across the globe that appears to be gathering momentum and commodity prices are trading at healthy-to-stratospheric levels amid recovering demand from ...

https://www.mining.com/analysts-voice-scepticism-on-supercycle-narrative/

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Cunliffe clarified the BoE will continue to make physical cash available, especially for the 1.2 million unbanked people who cannot access digital payments.

The Deputy Governor for Financial Stability of the Bank of England, Sir Jon Cunliffe, arrives at a treasury select committee meeting at ...

https://www.businessinsider.com/cbdc-uk-bank-of-england-britcoin-digital-asset-crypto-cunliffe-2021-5

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Elliot Stablers return to New York paid off: Law Order: Organized Crime has been picked up by NBC for a second season. In addition, Dick Wolf fans will be treated to a triple-header on Thursdays after Wednesday nights Chicago lineup newcomer to the ...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/law-order-organized-crime-season-2-renewed-christopher-meloni-1234973447/

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Implications: Industrial production continued to recover in April, rising for the second month in a row as many factories that were damaged by February's severe winter weather returned to operation. But, while good news, the production side of the economy still has a way to go.&...

https://www.ftportfolios.com/blogs/EconBlog/2021/5/14/industrial-production-increased-0.7percent-in-april

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In decades past, the networks sports departments were usually given just a sliver of the overall time in any upfront presentation. In 2021, Fox Sports is stepping out on its own. The Fox Corp. unit on Friday put on a separate presentation to advertisers, rather than just having Joe Buck take ...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/fox-sports-tv-advertising-revenue-seth-winter-1234973522/

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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's daily new COVID-19 case count is continuing a week-long upward trend with 854 known cases reported Friday along with nine deaths. The state Department of Health Services' latest figures come as some cities and counties wrestle with whether to follow new guidance and allow ...

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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Alaska plans next month to end its participation in a federal program that provides an extra $300 a week in unemployment aid, the state labor commissioner announced Friday...

https://apnews.com/article/alaska-government-and-politics-business-e0fd2b309e1fa809013aa1b565a90f2f

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Its cold comfort that the DarkSide hackers are apolitical and didnt intend to cause social havoc.Its cold comfort that the DarkSide hackers are apolitical and didnt intend to cause social havoc...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2021/05/14/cyber-ransom-of-5m-nothing-to-colonial-pipeline-which-has-paid-hundreds-of-millions-in-dividends-to-billionaire-koch-family/

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Did China Just Kill The Commodity-Craze?

After weeks of vertical rampage, commodity prices broadly tumbled this week as everything from lumber to iron ore saw their first weekly drop in months.

Source: Bloomberg

While it may be early, the sudden reversal across the commodity space has many ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/did-china-just-kill-commodity-craze

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For Republicans, at least 44.8% of House members are vaccinated and at least 92% of senators are.By Lauren Fox, Kristin Wilson, Sarah Fortinsky and Ali Zaslav | CNN
Democratic lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have a 100% vaccination rate against Covid-19, a CNN survey of Capitol Hill found ...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/14/congressional-democrats-have-a-100-vaccination-rate/

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NBC is counting on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to make the reforms necessary to allow the network to resume carrying the Golden Globe Awards. Frances Berwick, NBCUniversals chairman of entertainment networks, told reporters Friday that the company believes the Globes will ...

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/golden-globe-awards-hfpa-nbc-executives-1234973555/

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TheStreet's weekly guide to upgrades, downgrades and price-target changes includes Nike, Facebook and Amazon.TheStreet's weekly guide to upgrades, downgrades and price-target changes includes Nike, Facebook and Amazon.Stock analysts this week were busy with upgrades, downgrades and price-target ...

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/latest-upgrades-and-downgrades-nike-amazon-virgin-galactic

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LONDON Northern Irelands largest British unionist party chose a religious conservative from the partys traditionalist wing as its new leader on Friday. Edwin Poots, currently Northern Irelands agriculture minister, won a two-person contest to lead the Democratic Unionist Party the ...

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A consulting firm projects that nearly 4 million fewer vehicles will be sold this year, up from an expected shortfall of 2.2 million.

Workers build Ford F-150 trucks at one of the automakers assembly plants.
Associated Press

The semiconductor shortage is expected to cost the global automotive...

https://www.businessinsider.com/chip-shortage-expected-cost-auto-industry-car-makers-110-billion-2021-5

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Sorry for trying to add it or sorry for cocking up the comms? Amid the smell of burning rubber, the new managers of open-source audio editor Audacity have announced a U-turn on plans to introduce "basic telemetry" into the product...

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The free clinics will be open for several days at a number of schools around the county.Contra Costa County will open COVID-19 vaccination sites at designated middle and high school campuses, offering doses to all eligible recipients, health officials announced Friday.
The free clinics will be open ...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/14/covid-contra-costa-county-to-open-vaccine-sites-at-middle-and-high-school-campuses/

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The already planned 5 nm Arizona plant may be joined by a second, 3 nm plant.

Enlarge / In a few years, Phoenix residents will be seeing a lot more of this logo. (credit: SOPA Images)
Reuters reports that TSMCTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the chip foundry making advanced processors ...

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1765205

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Data mining is a process that turns large volumes of raw data into actionable intelligence, and it's used by a wide variety of industries.

Data mining involves a variety of techniques that sift through large amounts of data for conclusive trends in a range of industries.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-data-mining

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Here Are The Industries Crushed By Biden's "Generous Unemployment Benefits"

When even Goldman - which has a history of aligning with the White House and the prevailing political administration du jour - refutes the falsehoods spread by the Biden administration about the origins of the ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-are-industries-crushed-bidens-generous-unemployment-benefits

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Said one San Jose basketball coach: "Its essentially the same thing, except its hot and Im sweating; the courts a little dirty and theres volleyballs flying over."SARATOGA Some hundred feet below the top of the tallest of the trees that shade the sidelines, the boys from Leland and Gunderson high ...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/14/these-san-jose-high-schools-moved-basketball-and-volleyball-outdoors-over-covid-hows-it-working/

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There are tonnes of different ways to gain exposure to cryptocurrencies in Canada, but this Ethereum ETF offers the best growth potential.
The post Heres Why ThisEthereum ETF Might Be the Best Crypto Stock in Canada appeared first on The Motley Fool Canada.

The cryptocurrency industry has exploded ...

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Ballmer Group, an organization created by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is donating $38 million over the next few years to create and strengthen multiple programs that support mental health services. The funding comes at a time when the state is confronting a mental health ...

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/ballmer-group-gives-38m-bolster-washington-states-ailing-mental-health-services/

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Crypto currencies like bitcoin and doge coin are all the rage, but a potentially more important development will be the launch of central bank digital currencies. Crypto currencies like bitcoin and doge coin are all the rage, but a potentially more important development will be the launch of central...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeosullivan/2021/05/14/will-digital-currencies-wipe-our-crypto-central-banks-to-target-bitcoin/

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By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day From Ethopia. I thought cranes would have more interesting calls than they do, but they all honk in more or less the same way. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, Ive added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/05/200pm-water-cooler-5-14-2021.html

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A recent Waymo ride in Chandler went from bad to worse as inability to handle a construction zone, followed by incorrect instructions from remote ops led to a comedy of errors.A recent Waymo ride in Chandler went from bad to worse as inability to handle a construction zone, followed by incorrect ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2021/05/14/waymo-peforms-embarrassingly-in-construction-cone-situation/

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From a movie prop master in Texas to a professor in New York, people across the country have found themselves swept into the misinformation maelstrom, their online posts or their very identities hijacked by anti-vaccine activists and others peddling lies about the outbreak.By Ali Swenson and ...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/05/14/unwitting-are-the-target-of-covid-misinformation-network/

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DBS, a Singapore-based private bank has launched the first-ever bank-backed crypto trust in Asia. The bank reached this milestone by leveraging its fully-owned subsidiary, DBS Trustee. Through this launch, the bank seeks to offer its private banking clients an opportunity to invest, custodize, and ...

https://invezz.com/news/2021/05/14/dbs-rolls-out-the-first-bank-backed-crypto-trust-solution-in-asia/

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Maxim Group analyst Tate Sullivan maintained a Buy rating on Natural Gas Services Group (NGS) yesterday and set a price target of $14.00.
The post Natural Gas Services Group (NGS) Gets a Buy Rating from Maxim Group appeared first on Smarter Analyst.
Maxim Group analyst Tate Sullivan maintained a Buy...

https://www.smarteranalyst.com/new-blurbs/natural-gas-services-group-ngs-gets-a-buy-rating-from-maxim-group-3/

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Exxon Mobils (NYSE: XOM) investor meeting is on May 26 and the company has been facing increasing pressure from activist investor Engine No. 1 to shake up its board since December of last year. Engine No. 1 has recommended its own slate of four new directors. With some leading proxy advisory firms ...

https://invezz.com/news/2021/05/14/exxon-mobil-ceo-disagrees-with-board-recommendations-of-activist-investor/

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IBM's comeback remains nascent and speculative, but CEO Arvind Krishna is making good moves in AI and cloud software.
The post Will 2021s Digital Acceleration Bring Back the Once Great IBM? appeared first on InvestorPlace.
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