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Mark Mahaney, Evercore ISI Senior Managing Director & Head of Internet Research, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the reopening trade, the streaming space, and outlook on the market.
Mark Mahaney, Evercore ISI Senior Managing Director & Head of Internet Research, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the reopening trade, the streaming space, and outlook on the market.
The kids seen by Dolores Mejia around suburban Phoenix have been growing heavier in recent years. “I’m a junk food person," said Mejia, an ardent Trump supporter. After hearing Kennedy out, she concluded: “We cannot trust the health organizations we’ve trusted for years to tell us that our foods are safe.”
Finland is considering pulling out of an international agreement banning anti-personnel landmines because of Russia's use of such weapons in Ukraine, Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said. Leaving the 1997 Ottawa Treaty prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel landmines would require majority backing by Finland's parliament. Quitting the agreement would enable Finland's military to start stockpiling mines again for the first time since the Nordic country, which is now a member of both NATO and the European Union, signed the treaty in 2012.
The Federal Reserve is expected to announce another quarter-point cut to its key interest rate Wednesday, an effort to boost what appears to some to be a steady but cooling economy.
Dutch authorities fined video streaming giant Netflix 4.75 million euros ($4.98 million) Wednesday over its handling of subscribers' personal data, which it said was unclear or incomplete in several respects."A company like that, with a turnover of billions and millions of customers worldwide, has to explain properly to its customers how it handles their personal data," said AP chairman Aleid Wolfsen.
Luigi Mangione was indicted Tuesday by the Manhattan district attorney in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The Barcelona subway grinds to a halt, the doors slide open and commuters pour out to go about their daily business. Little do they know that as they do so, a burst of energy is sent up to street level to help charge an electric car. Barcelona has put together a package of clean energy technologies to help public transportation go greener, while also doing its part to combat climate change and aid Europe's difficult shift to the privately owned electric vehicle market.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that she was preparing for an early presidential election, saying President Emmanuel Macron's time in office was all but over. Le Pen, who has brought her anti-immigrant National Rally (RN) party from fringe status into the political spotlight, is seen as a leading presidential contender. "I am preparing for an early presidential election, out of precaution, taking into account Emmanuel Macron's fragility, what little institutional levers he has left," she said in an interview with Le Parisien newspaper.
Full-size trucks are hugely popular thanks to their ability to get tough jobs done. The automotive experts at Edmunds have compiled four full-size light-duty pickups that won’t wilt over rough landscapes. The Chevrolet Silverado 1500 is well suited for fulfilling a broad range of driving needs.
Joseph Corcoran, 49, was executed after being convicted in 1999 for the 1997 quadruple murder of his older brother, sister's fiancé and their two friends.
UK annual inflation climbed further above the Bank of England's target rate in November, official data showed Wednesday, firming expectations that it will avoid cutting interest rates this week.That would follow a cut by the European Central Bank last week.
The owner of Britain’s Guardian newspaper confirmed Wednesday that it has sold the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, to Tortoise Media for an undisclosed fee. The Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, said in a statement that Tortoise Media is purchasing the Observer through a combination of cash and shares. The Observer, which was founded in 1791 and became part of the Guardian Media Group in 1993, is a bastion of liberal values in Britain’s media landscape.
Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a man from Uzbekistan over the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow a day earlier.
Damaso Lopez Serrano — who is known as "Mini Lic" — is accused of ordering the 2017 killing of award-winning journalist Javier Valdez.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is in talks with UK anti-immigration firebrand Nigel Farage about donating to his hard-right party, the British lawmaker has said.Foreign donations to UK political parties are technically banned, but there are loopholes in which donors abroad can give money through British entities.
In southwestern Turkey, imposing Lycian tombs are scattered everywhere, hinting at an ancient civilization that revered its dead. Tracking them down can be as fascinating as the search for the truth behind them.
Toxicology tests in Fiji have ruled out alcohol poisoning from a hotel bar's cocktails as the cause of a mystery illness that sent seven guests to hospital, the Pacific nation's government said Wednesday."The finding that there is no evidence of alcohol poisoning is great news for Fiji, especially for our vital tourism industry."
The Federal Reserve will conclude its final meeting of 2024 on Wednesday, and next year will likely be Fed Chair Jerome Powell's last full one at the helm of the U.S. central bank, with his four-year term due to expire in May of 2026. Powell's more than six years as Fed chief have been consequential, but the coming months could present new challenges as well as an opportunity to close out some unfinished business. Powell's main mission is "completing the 'soft landing' with inflation at 2% and full employment, in what's likely to be trickier weather" with tax, tariff and immigration policies that could make the economic landscape harder to read, said Donald Kohn, a former Fed vice chair who is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Helena Monteiro da Costa's father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century. "My father was enslaved and he obeyed ... everything they (enslavers) told him to do he did," Costa said at her home in Santos, the coastal Brazilian city where her father ended up after the brutal voyage across the Atlantic. From the 16th to the 19th century, Brazil received around 5 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country.
Stock markets mostly climbed and the dollar steadied against main rivals Wednesday with the US Federal Reserve set to cut interest rates. Across the Atlantic, official data Wednesday showed UK inflation picked up in November, firming expectations that the Bank of England will hold off cutting its key interest rate on Thursday.
The holidays are meant to be a time of celebration with family and friends. With credit card debt rising and prices for many items still high due to inflation, overspending during the holiday season can add to the financial stress many Americans are already experiencing, said Dr. Marketa Wills, CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association. “The idea that one is on the hook for buying gifts for all their friends and families adds an enormous amount of stress on someone trying to have a perfect holiday," Wills said.