Stocks have moved mostly lower over the course of morning trading on Tuesday following the mixed performance seen in the previous session. With the drop on the day, the Dow is pulling back off yesterday’s record closing high. The major averages have seen further downside in recent trading, falling to new lows for the session. The Dow is down 115.96 […]
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About 75% of Americans 65 and older have received at least one vaccine shot and more than half are fully vaccinated, according to CDC data. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said that emergency department visits and hospitalizations associated with that 65 and older demographic are declining. The U.S. is reporting about 64,600 daily new Covid cases and nearly 800 deaths, and […]
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Legislation enacted in March 2020 allowed individuals to withdraw, for Covid-related reasons, up to $100,000 from qualified retirement accounts last year without facing a 10% early withdrawal penalty if they were under age 59½. While only a small share of retirement savers made such withdrawals, most of those who did (69%) say they don't plan to replace the distribution, or […]
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Washington (CNN)A fresh batch of Covid stimulus payments will be issued this week, the Biden administration announced Monday, including paper checks and debit cards for those whose bank information is not on file with the government. Some of these payments are being sent via direct deposit with an official pay date of Wednesday, March 24. Money started reaching people’s bank […]
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INDIANAPOLIS — The 2020-21 men's college basketball season is officially in the books following one of the sport's most challenging years due to COVID-19 postponements and restrictions. But now that Baylor has cut down the nets and an epic 2021 NCAA Tournament is over, we can look at the season ahead. Events of the offseason – players entering the NBA draft, transfers and […]
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Biden administration to revisit Iran nuclear deal The Biden administration will participate in multilateral negotiations Tuesday over the fate of the Iran nuclear deal. American and Iranian negotiators will not hold direct talks, but both countries will have diplomats in Austria for the meetings. They will be facilitated by a top European Union official and other parties to the 2015 agreement. Under […]
Read moreTraffic through the Suez Canal has been partially resumed after a large container ship that ran aground in the strategic waterway’s southern end was refloated. The Panama-registered ship Ever Given, which has been wedged across the narrow single traffic lane of Suez Canal since last Tuesday, was dislodged at 3 pm Monday local time with the help of dredgers and […]
Read moreTelecom major T-Mobile US Inc. announced plans to shut down its TVision live-TV service, and instead offer Google’s YouTube TV at a promotional discount. In a statement, the company said it is expanding multi-year collaboration with Google to offer various customer services later this year. These include Messages by Google, Google One, and YouTube Premium, among others. T-Mobile also expanded […]
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Filmmaker Cullen Hobart believes he has uncovered the true identity of the QAnon movement’s “Q.” 8kun message board administrator Ron Watkins appeared to slip up during an interview with Hobart. It was long speculated that Watkins was posing as the shadowy “Q” and had written many QAnon posts. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A documentary filmmaker believes he […]
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