Author: super@dmin
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Bond Report: 10-year Treasury yield edges higher ahead of labor data
Long-dated Treasury yields edged higher early Thursday as investors awaited weekly data on U.S. jobless claims and policy decisions from the Bank of England and European Central Bank.
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Need to Know: Forecaster Yves Lamoureux has nailed several big market downturns. Here’s why he’s now turning bullish on stocks.
Yves Lamoureux, president of Lamoureux & Co. is back with a new call. Investors should start buying certain hard-hit stocks again, but be prepared for plenty of ups and downs.
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: Real-estate agents’ commission rates are shrinking amid a seller’s market — but that doesn’t mean they’re losing money
With so many sellers facing bidding wars for their homes, many Americans are finding they can negotiate the fees they pay to real-estate agents.
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How Sony can make a comeback in the console wars
FOR THE uninitiated, which includes your columnist, there are two things to know about video gaming. The first is that some things never change. For all the virtual worlds they can create, gamers, a mostly male bunch, like nothing better than to blow their on-screen opponents to smithereens. The second is that everything else is…
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Body language in the post-pandemic workplace
COMMUNICATION IS AN essential part of leadership. And body language is an essential part of communication. On these slim pillars rests a mini-industry of research and advice into how executives can influence, encourage and ascend without needing to say a word. The pandemic has made much of it redundant. Plenty of studies have looked into…
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China’s ski industry faces an avalanche of risks
IN MUCH OF the world the business of running ski slopes has, like most of tourism, been crippled by lockdowns and travel restrictions. China is no exception. Visits to Chinese ski areas slumped by 38% in 2020—steeper than a global decline of 14% after covid-19 hit. Two in five winter-sports businesses lost more than half…
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Market Snapshot: Futures point to end of four-session Wall Street winning run after Meta Platforms’ major miss
U.S. stock futures on Thursday pointed to the end of a four-day winning streak, pressured by the weak outlook from social-media giant Meta Platforms.
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How German companies court employees
HOYERSWERDA, BAUTZEN, Kamenz and Radeberg are cities in the eastern German state of Saxony that lost tens of thousands of inhabitants, especially the young and the educated, after the collapse of communism. Once a coal-mining hub, Hoyerswerda has seen its population shrink from 70,000 inhabitants in 1985 to 32,000; the average burgher is 53 years…
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Kelley Blue Book: The 2022 Toyota RAV4 Prime—the wildly popular SUV rises to a new level
The hybrid RAV4 Prime naturally takes fuel efficiency to the highest level possible, but it’s also one of Toyota’s faster and more powerful vehicles.
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NerdWallet: Is elite status worth it? Which airlines give the best value?
Here’s a deep-dive analysis of the major U.S. airline elite status programs, and how expensive they are to earn.