Live Stream Shopping Startup Bambuser Gets LVMH Innovation Prize

PARIS — Bambuser, a startup that specializes in livestream shopping, has won the annual innovation award of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton for 2021, signaling the channel is on the rise. The luxury group took to the stage at Vivatech for its fifth annual awards ceremony — resuming the tradition after last year’s event was shifted online due to pandemic […]

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Wall Street ends sharply lower after hawkish Bullard spooks investors

(Reuters) – The three main Wall Street indexes all finished sharply lower on Friday, after investors were spooked by hawkish interest rate comments by Federal Reserve official James Bullard. The blue-chip Dow and the benchmark S&P 500, which started the week at record closing levels, slumped after Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, said he was among the […]

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Asian Shares Inch Higher In Thin Holiday Trading

Asian stocks rose broadly on Monday after the G7 summit ended with a pledge to continue to support economies with investment until pandemic subsidies. Amid inflation worries, investors awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday for more clues about the economic recovery and monetary policy. Markets in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong were closed […]

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Kyle Dean Massey Drops Out Of Broadway’s ‘Company’

Kyle Dean Massey has announced that he will not return to the Broadway revival of Company when it resumes performances post-shutdown this December. In a since-expired Instagram story, Massey, who, with husband Taylor Frey is expecting the couple’s first child this fall, wrote that he feels “very sad about withdrawing” from the Sondheim musical, but “I will be getting something […]

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Hawkish Bullard comments roil Wall Street, indexes drop

(Reuters) – Wall Street stocks fell on Friday after comments by Federal Reserve official James Bullard that inflation was stronger than anticipated shook investors’ confidence in their existing positions, sending all three major indexes sharply lower.FILE PHOTO: A street sign is seen in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street in New York, February 10, 2009. REUTERS/Eric […]

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Biden announces steps to reduce racial wealth gap in US

(CNN)The financial standing of Black and White Americans is anything but equal. When it comes to wealth and income, major disparities persist despite the years of economic prosperity that preceded the coronavirus pandemic. This long-standing racial divide has garnered renewed attention in the Biden administration, which has committed to improving equity as it guides the nation out of the virus-fueled […]

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New York Theater Remains Overwhelmingly White, Marginalized Communities “Vastly Underfunded”, Study Finds

A new study analyzing racial equity in arts funding in New York City finds that public and private contributions to the 18 largest and predominantly white non-profit theater companies garner 92% of total funding, a disparity the study suggests calls into question the industry’s oft-stated commitment to racial equity. The study, called The Visibility Report and released by the Asian […]

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