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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an offer tabled by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump to attempt to reverse Joe Biden’s election victories in key swing states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The ruling dealt a death blow to Trump’s desperate and unsuccessful efforts to undo Biden’s planned victory at the electoral …
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Still from the “The Mandalorian” series on Disney’s streaming service Disney +. Disney Disney’s four-hour Investor Day on Thursday was a sign of power. It is absurd to have people in front of screens for four hours to watch an investor day. The event had several breaks! But when Disney brought out show after show …
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The Japan Exchange Group logo is displayed on a glass door at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) in Tokyo, Japan. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images SINGAPORE – Asia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday as investors watched negotiations over additional fiscal stimulus in the US The South Korean Kospi index rose 1.21% while the …
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[The stream is slated to start at 9 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] A panel from the Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to vote on whether to recommend Pfizer and BioNTech’s emergency approval of the coronavirus vaccine. Prior to voting by …
US stock index futures were slightly higher in overnight trading on Wednesday as investors continued to assess progress on additional stimulus measures and developments in the Covid-19 vaccine space. Futures contracts linked to the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 45 points, or 0.14%, while S&P 500 futures rose 0.13%. The Nasdaq 100 futures were flat. …
LONDON – The Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has a “distinct comparative advantage” over other leading candidates, according to the editor-in-chief of the medical journal The Lancet. It comes shortly after the vaccine candidate, made in collaboration between Oxford University and UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, was found safe and effective in a peer-reviewed article. The researchers …
US stock futures were unchanged in night trading Tuesday, building on recent strength that pushed key averages to record highs. Dow futures rose 34 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.12% and 0.1%, respectively. Fueling the rally is optimism about the launch of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in the UK on Tuesday. Hopes …
U.S. Treasury bond yields rose slightly Tuesday morning as investors watched the coronavirus stimulus move in Congress. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 0.936% at 5:05 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury note rose to 1.694%. The returns move inversely to the prices. Government bond yields rose Tuesday …
Uber’s self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), is being acquired by its start-up competitor Aurora Innovation, the companies said on Monday. The deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021, values ATG at around $ 4 billion. The unit was valued at $ 7.25 billion in April 2019 when Softbank, Denso …
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden shows reporters as he arrives to announce candidates and candidates for his economic policy team at his interim headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 1, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters If President-elect Joe Biden keeps his campaign promise to provide student loans to many borrowers, he will tick an important box …
