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Young Retail Investors Plan to Spend Almost Half of Their Stimulus Checks on Stocks, Deutsche Survey Claims
Responses in the survey showed that half of 25- to 34-year-old retail investors plan to spend 50% of their stimulus checks on stocks.
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US Presents Warring Afghan Sides With Draft Peace Agreement
Afghans involved in peace talks say the Biden administration has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to the country’s warring sides for review and told them to come to Turkey in coming weeks ready to move on it
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Melinda Gates Calls on Congress to Pass Paid Family Medical Leave to Bolster Economic Recovery
“We’re not going to get as robust or as quick of a recovery unless we look at this infrastructure that we’ve turned away from for too long,” Melinda Gates said.
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Pentagon Uncertain of U.S. Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan as Deadline Looms
The Pentagon said Monday that it has not decided on whether to withdraw U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
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Airbus-Boeing Truce Is Not a Complete Reset in U.S.-EU Relations, Experts Say
The U.S. and the EU have reached a trade truce, but some analysts have doubts over whether the two sides will be able to agree on other contentious issues.
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The 5 Cities With the Largest Number of Job Opportunities for 2021
A study by WalletHub ranked the most populated cities across the U.S. by which places offer the highest number of job opportunities this year.
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Here's Where the Jobs Are — in One Chart
The battered leisure and hospitality sector, which includes hotels and restaurants, saw the largest gain by far at 355,000 added.
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Doomsday Preppers Stock Up on Luxury Survival Kits, Emergency Food Supplies and Million-Dollar Bunkers
Covid fears turned many American shoppers into hoarders, but the community of ‘preppers’ was already stocked up on a wide range of emergency survival products.
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Too Much Stimulus in the U.S. May Bring ‘Imported Inflation' to China, Economists Warn
In China, economists are wary of risks to growth as the country tries to recover fully from the shock of the pandemic.
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Pentagon Confirms 10 Rockets Struck Iraqi Base Housing U.S. Troops
Pentagon confirms 10 rockets hit al-Asad airbase which hosts U.S. troops, kills one U.S. civilian contractor
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Creating Safe and Affordable Homes Is Reaching a Crisis Point
Climate disasters across the country have sparked concern about the safety of homes.
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Russia Slams ‘Hostile' New U.S. Sanctions and Vows to Retaliate
Moscow rejected new sanctions imposed on it by the U.S. late Tuesday, describing the restrictions led by President Joe Biden’s administration as “hostile.”
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Guggenheim's Minerd Says Don't Count on Rising Yields, Believes U.S. Could Even See Negative Rates
Scott Minerd told “The Exchange” that the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield could turn negative in the next 18 months.
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Taco Bell Owner Yum Brands Buys A.I. Business to Improve Marketing
Yum Brands has bought a business unit from Kvantum that uses artificial intelligence for marketing performance analytics.
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How Covid-19 Caused a Global Shortage of Semiconductors and Computer Chips
It’s not an overstatement to say that semiconductors power the modern world. They’re not only a key component of nearly every electronic device we buy and use, they also power the factories that make the electronic devices we buy and use. And now, there aren’t enough of them being made. To find a long-term fix, President Joe Biden just...
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Biden Needs Saudi Support, and That Could Make It Tough to Pressure Riyadh on Human Rights: Atlantic Council CEO
Biden previously said he would make Riyadh a “pariah,” but realizes Saudi Arabia’s support is important for the U.S., said Frederick Kempe of the Atlantic Council.
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All Apple Stores in US Open for Business for First Time Since Start of the Pandemic
The reopening of Apple’s last closed U.S. locations in Texas on Monday marks a milestone as the United States begins to emerge from lockdown.
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Experts Say Covid Could Become Endemic — Here's What That Means for You
Most experts say that Covid will become endemic after the pandemic ends. Here’s how that affects daily life, vaccines and infections.
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Biden's Immigration Bill Faces an Uphill Battle in Congress, But These Parts Could Find Bipartisan Support
Potential contenders for piecemeal reform include establishing a path to citizenship for “Dreamers,” reforming the agricultural worker program, and expanding employment-based immigration.
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China's Economy Could Double in Size by 2035 — and Surpass the U.S. Along the Way
China would surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy around 2027-2028, said an economist from the Bank of America.