Interest Rate Decision to Come Amid Jobs Data, Chip Earnings The end of April and beginning of May will pack a punch, with an interest rate decision and plenty of earnings to unpack ... 04/25/2024 - 1:01 am | View Link
Employers added 303,000 jobs in March, surging past economic forecasts Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected businesses had added 200,000 jobs last month. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.8%, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Friday. "Today's jobs numbers ... 04/5/2024 - 5:22 am | View Link
Employers added 303,000 jobs in March, soaring past expectations The leisure and hospitality sector grew by 49,000 jobs in March ... The unemployment rate ticked down to 3.8 percent last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, extending the ... 04/5/2024 - 4:08 am | View Link
US employers add surprisingly strong 303K jobs in March, with gains fueled by migrants On Wednesday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said an upside of increased immigration has enabled the US economy to add more jobs without triggering ... highly anticipated rate cuts is still projected ... 04/5/2024 - 2:41 am | View Link
U.S. Employers Added 303,000 Jobs in 39th Straight Month of Growth Employers added 303,000 jobs in March on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department reported on Friday, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent, from 3.9 percent in February. 04/4/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
(NEW YORK) — Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable.
Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Truth Social itself.
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Several of these investors interviewed by The Associated Press say their bearish gambles using “put” options and other trading tools are driven less by their personal feelings about the former president (most don’t like him) than their faith in the woeful underlying financials of a company that made less money last year than the average Wendy’s hamburger franchise.
“This company makes no money.
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A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring Internet service providers to sell $15 broadband plans to low-income consumers. The ruling is a loss for six trade groups that represent ISPs, although it isn't clear right now whether the law will be enforced.
New York's Affordable Broadband Act (ABA) was blocked in June 2021 by a US District Court judge who ruled that the state law is rate regulation and preempted by federal law.
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Google says it has patched a nasty loophole in the Android TV account security system, which would grant attackers with physical access to your device access to your entire Google account just by sideloading some apps. As 404 Media reports, the issue was originally brought to Google's attention by US Sen.
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Hackers are assailing websites using a prominent WordPress plugin with millions of attempts to exploit a high-severity vulnerability that allows complete takeover, researchers said.
The vulnerability resides in WordPress Automatic, a plugin with more than 38,000 paying customers. Websites running the WordPress content management system use it to incorporate content from other sites.
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On Thursday, the US Department of Energy released its preliminary estimate for the nation's carbon emissions in the previous year. Any drop in emissions puts us on a path that would avoid some of the catastrophic warming scenarios that were still on the table at the turn of the century.
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Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly more than 3 billion Discord messages and details on more than 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down.
404 Media, which broke the story of Spy Pet's offerings, reports that Spy Pet seems mostly shut down.