Month: June 2022

Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022.  Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox vaccine doses for people who have had high-risk exposures to the virus, part of a nationwide public health response to stamp out the disease before it causes
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In this article GME HPE MDB MSFT Microsoft Corporation headquarters at Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, April 18, 2016. Charles Platiau | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Thursday. Microsoft — Shares of the technology giant slipped 0.6% after Microsoft cut its earnings and revenue guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter. Microsoft
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In a Monday Wall Street Journal column (paywall), President Biden urged Congress to help fight inflation by raising tax rates on the very wealthy and using the money to reduce the deficit. Does that strategy make sense in today’s economic environment? At least in theory, raising taxes could ease inflation. But not necessarily for the
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Loading chart… Verizon Communications Inc: “I’ve been recommending the oils, not the telecoms.” Loading chart… Occidental Petroleum Corp: “I would prefer to see you in Chevron.” Loading chart… Masimo Corp: “Johnson & Johnson … that’s a safer stock.” Loading chart… Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd: “I do not want to own a semiconductor capital equipment
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Before billionaire investor Ray Dalio built the world’s largest hedge fund, he went broke. On a recent episode of actor Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Dalio said he nearly tanked hedge fund Bridgewater Associates less than 10 years into running it: After incorrectly predicting that the world market would crash in 1982, Dalio lost investors,
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