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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Starbucks and more
Close-up of vertical sign with logos for ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft. Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Lyft — Shares of Lyft tumbled about 32% after the ride-hailing company issued disappointing guidance for the second quarter and said it would increase spending to attract more drivers, […]
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Dave Chappelle attacked on stage by an audience member in Los Angeles, police say
Chappelle was not injured as a result of the attack, LAPD said. Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images U.S. stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked by an audience member during a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A male suspect on Tuesday […]
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EU expected to announce sanctions on Russian oil; Mariupol steel plant evacuees reach safety
EU expected to announce sanctions on Russian oil The EU is expected to announce further sanctions on Russia on Wednesday, this time targeting Russian oil imports. The move is difficult for the bloc as some member states, particularly Hungary and Slovakia, are heavily reliant on oil imports from Russia, prompting expectations that these countries could […]
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Stock futures inch higher ahead of Fed’s big rate decision
Stock futures inched higher in overnight trading as investors braced for the Federal Reserve’s big interest rate decision on Wednesday, where the central bank is widely expected to hike rates by half a percentage point. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were flat. S&P 500 futures inched 0.17% higher, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose […]
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This is Ukraine’s ‘finest hour,’ UK says, as it boost military supplies; Russia seen trying to annex eastern regions
Russia’s military now ‘significantly weaker’ because of its invasion of Ukraine A member of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces stands on a damaged Russian tank on the outskirts of Nova Basan village in Ukraine on April 01, 2022. Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 coincided with what’s known locally as the “muddy road season,” or “Rasputitsa” […]
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Fears of a Fed mistake grow as this week’s anticipated interest rate hike looms
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, attends the National Association of Business Economicseconomic policy conference in Washington, D.C, United States on March 21, 2022. Yasin Ozturk | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The Federal Reserve is tasked with slowing the U.S. economy enough to control inflation but not so much that it tips […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Global Payments, Moderna, Activision Blizzard and more
Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi, December 20, 2020. Paul Sancya | Pool | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Monday. Global Payments — Shares of the company sank 9.8% despite a better-than-expected earnings report. The payments […]
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Evacuations from besieged Mariupol steelworks continues; explosions heard in Russian border region. Follow our live updates
Explosions heard in Russian city of Belgorod, regional governor says Two explosions took place in the southern Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border, the region’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in a social media post. “There were no casualties or damage,” Gladkov wrote, according to a Reuters translation. Belgorod is home to fuel and […]
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Pelosi visits Kyiv; ruble to be used in occupied Kherson from today, UK says. Follow our live updates
Russia wants to impose ‘strong political and economic influence’ over Kherson, UK says A Ukrainian soldier stands outside a school hit by Russian rockets in a southern Ukraine village. The U.K. Ministry of Defence said Russia has been seeking to legitimise its control of Kherson since seizing it in March. Bulent Kilic | Afp | […]
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Russia forced to merge depleted forces, UK says; Lavrov claims West will fight until ‘the last Ukrainian’
Lavrov claims West will fight until ‘the last Ukrainian’ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made another string of assertions in an interview with Chinese state media agency Xinhua, published Saturday morning. Lavrov claimed that NATO was interfering with a political settlement in Ukraine and that the West intended to fight until “the last Ukrainian,” according […]
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