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The Ratings Game: GM ‘came out swinging’ in Q4, surprising Street with optimistic 2022 view
General Motors Co. earns praise from Wall Street after the auto maker paints a rosy demand and production picture for 2022 and renews its all-in bets on electric vehicles and driverless cars.
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The Fed: Fed’s Daly, in exclusive MarketWatch interview – says ‘gradual’ rate hikes won’t derail the economy
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly backs gradual path for interest rates, saying it won’t derail the strong labor market.
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The Ratings Game: Goldman Sachs downgrades Starbucks as cost pressures weigh on results
Goldman Sachs lowered its stock rating after Starbucks reported a fiscal first-quarter earnings miss with costs and inflation taking a bite out of results
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The Ratings Game: Alphabet stock rallies as earnings mark ‘one of the best performances’ in tech over the past year
Alphabet Inc. won praise on multiple fronts Wednesday as the digital-ad giant delivered upbeat financial results and announced a stock split that could make its stock more accessible.
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: A 690,000-person study tried to ‘nudge’ people to get vaccinated. Researchers found one way worked best
The ‘megastudy’ was published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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: ‘His end is a void of unknown’ — John McAfee’s body is stuck in a Spanish prison morgue as a fight rages over his legacy
More than seven months after he died in a Spanish prison, John McAfee’s body remains in a prison morgue freezer somewhere in or near Barcelona.
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: Just 3 in 10 parents say they’ll get their children under 5 vaccinated against coronavirus ASAP — but the share is growing
Parents are more willing to get their older children vaccinated, according to a new KFF report.
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The Conversation: 6 of 10 community college students never get their degree — how to address 11 big reasons why that happens
This study contacted over 27,000 former students of five large and diverse community colleges in Florida who had left in the prior four years without a degree.
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The Ratings Game: After a ‘sl(AMD)unk’ earnings report, AMD stock battles to get out of bear market
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. gave Wall Street analysts yet another quarter where they had to go out of their way to find fault with the chip maker’s strong quarterly report in an earnings season where the sector’s forecasts have been spotty.
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Spotify, Joe Rogan and the Wild West of online audio
NEIL YOUNG was five years old when, in 1951, he was partially paralysed by polio. Joni Mitchell was nine when she was hospitalised by the same illness around the same time. Both grew up to become famous singers—and, lately, prominent campaigners against anti-vaccine misinformation. The two musicians, followed by a handful of others, have withdrawn their…