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MLB roundup Astros streak halted at 10
Matt Chapman broke a sixth inning tie with a home run Wednesday night helping the host Oakland Athletics snap the Houston Astros 10 game winning streak with a 2 1 victory Frankie Montas 3 1 gave up one run and three hits in 6 1 3 innings and the Oakland bullpen got the final eight outs as the A s beat the Astros ...
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Doctors assessing when Madeira bus crash survivors can fly home to Germany
By Miguel Pereira and Rafael Marchante CANICO Portugal Reuters Doctors from Germany are working with a Portuguese medical team to evaluate when the German tourists who survived a fatal bus crash on the island of Madeira can be transferred home the hospital said on Friday The bus carrying 55 tourists and a tou...
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Warriors ready to unleash playoff mode Durant
By Jahmal Corner LOS ANGELES Reuters When Kevin Durant rained down shots on the Los Angeles Clippers with his deadly playoff performance on Thursday he also provided a glimpse of what life will be like for Golden State and their competition without the injured DeMarcus Cousins In short less Cousins will equal mo...
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Sprint Collaborates With Telstra For Advanced IoT Solutions
Sprint Corporation NYSE S recently announced that it has inked an agreement with Telstra Corporation Limited NYSE S to deploy its IoT platform Curiosity to Australian customers Telstra is a leading Australian telecommunications provider The partnership is likely to boost Sprint s international footprint and...
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Nokia Rides On Commercial 5G Deals Momentum To Continue
Recently Nokia HE NOKIA Corporation NYSE NOK communicated that it has reached 63 commercial 5G contracts worldwide with 18 live networks to date The Finnish telecom equipment maker s 5G technology has been contracted by all four nationwide operators in the United States all three in South Korea and all three i...
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Your money Should you pay to stop phone spam
By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK Reuters If your phone log is anything like mine the list of incoming scam calls makes it look like you work for the State Department Sri Lanka Lithuania Russia Bosnia Benin Croatia and Sierra Leone And if you are anything like me the thought that may cross your mind is I would pay...
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FCC set to let phone companies block more robocalls
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON Reuters U S Federal Communications Commission FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday proposed allowing phone companies to block unwanted robocalls by default in a bid to reduce the flood of nuisance calls from telemarketers and scammers Pai said many service providers have held off ...
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Verizon Rises 3
Investing com Verizon NYSE VZ rose by 3 09 to trade at 59 89 by 09 35 13 35 GMT on Monday on the NYSE exchange The volume of Verizon shares traded since the start of the session was 1 25M Verizon has traded in a range of 58 95 to 59 89 on the day The stock has traded at 59 8900 at its highest and 56 1700...
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T Mobile s deal for Sprint gets big boost from FCC commission
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON Reuters T Mobile US Inc s 26 billion acquisition of rival Sprint Corp appeared to win the support of a majority of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday in a significant step toward the deal s approval FCC Chairman Ajit Pai a Republican came out in favor...
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What Makes ExxonMobil Attractive
It s no surprise that ExxonMobil NYSE XOM is not getting much love from Wall Street The company s 2019 earnings fell largely due to lower oil and gas prices Moreover its downstream and chemical earnings which should grow when oil prices are lower also fell in 2019 due to lower margins and higher downtime Howev...
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Exxon Mobil Stock Rises 3
Investing com Exxon Mobil NYSE XOM Stock rose by 3 03 to trade at 61 79 by 10 39 15 39 GMT on Wednesday on the NYSE exchange The volume of Exxon Mobil shares traded since the start of the session was 7 25M Exxon Mobil has traded in a range of 60 74 to 61 80 on the day The stock has traded at 65 1900 at ...
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China Reneges on Commodity Deals Worsening Global Trade Chaos
Bloomberg Global commodity trade plunged deeper into chaos as Chinese companies started walking away from purchase contracts because of the spread of the deadly coronavirus A Chinese buyer of liquefied natural gas and a copper importer declared what s known as force majeure meaning they are reneging on deals a...
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Fighters step up attacks in Mozambique gas region beheadings reported U N
GENEVA Reuters People are fleeing a surge of attacks in northern Mozambique where witnesses have described beheadings mass kidnappings and villages burned to the ground the United Nations said on Friday Officials said armed groups had stepped up assaults in Cabo Delgado province the center of an Islamist insurg...
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Williamson adds to haul wins Wooden Award
Zion Williamson s freshman season at Duke didn t end with a national championship but he s won just about everything else he s been up for The likely No 1 overall pick in June s NBA draft on Friday added to his postseason hardware haul with the John R Wooden Award given to the nation s top player The honor comes ...
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NBA notebook Kings reportedly to hire Walton as head coach
Luke Walton and the Kings have agreed to a multi year contract to make him Sacramento s next coach The Athletic reported Walton met with Kings general manager Vlade Divac on Saturday and The Athletic s Sam Amick reported the two had reached agreement on a deal that is expected to run through the 2022 23 season ESPN...
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Hamilton back on top after landmark win in China
By Abhishek Takle SHANGHAI Reuters Five times world champion Lewis Hamilton returned to the top of the Formula One standings on Sunday with a comfortable victory in China that ticked off two more milestones in an already stellar career The 34 year old already one of only three drivers to have won five or more tit...
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Trump Obama join sport greats heaping praise on Masters winner Woods
By Amy Tennery AUGUSTA Ga Reuters World leaders and some of the most decorated sports figures alike flooded social media on Sunday to congratulate American Tiger Woods after he clinched his fifth Masters title Congratulations to TigerWoods tweeted U S President Donald Trump realDonaldTrump who earlier t...
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Legendary Beginnings
Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors gets personal with Real Vision s Grant Williams NYSE WMB in a discussion about the unconventional trajectory of his career He credits the pressure of providing for his family as the motivator that led to his late in life successes which eventually earned him legendary status This c...
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Motor racing Mercedes look more dominant than ever
By Alan Baldwin LONDON Reuters The first three races of the Formula One season have made a mockery of pre season predictions that Ferrari NYSE RACE would set the pace and leave Mercedes struggling to keep up The standings may not tell the full story and luck has played a part but on paper Mercedes are more dom...
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Poroshenko 2 0 Ukraine leader reboots campaign ahead of presidential run off
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB and Pavel Polityuk PARIS KIEV Reuters Flanked by rock musicians wearing yellow overalls and black t shirts with skulls on them Ukraine s President Petro Poroshenko pumped his fist danced to the music and waved to supporters outside a soccer stadium in Kiev on Sunday Standing on a ...
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T Mobile U S profit beats estimates as it signs up more customers
By Sheila Dang and Akanksha Rana Reuters T Mobile US Inc first quarter revenue and profit jumped from a year earlier beating Wall Street s estimates as competitive pricing lured new subscribers to its monthly cellphone plans Shares of the Bellevue Washington based company rose marginally after hours to 73 00 ...
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U S attorney general recuses self from T Mobile Sprint merger probe
WASHINGTON Reuters U S Attorney General William Barr has recused himself from the Justice Department s deliberations on whether to allow T Mobile to proceed with its 26 billion acquisition of Sprint according to a source familiar with the decision The department s Antitrust Division headed by Makan Delrahim i...
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Verizon looking to sell Tumblr WSJ
Reuters Verizon Communications Inc NYSE VZ is seeking a buyer for its blogging website Tumblr the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter The ongoing sale process which may not result in any transaction comes as the wireless carrier tries to improve the fortunes of V...
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Sprint loses more phone subscribers than feared in fourth quarter
By Akanksha Rana and Angela Moon Reuters Sprint Corp on Tuesday reported deeper losses than feared of monthly phone subscribers despite discount offerings raising concerns that the wireless carrier may not be sustainable if its pending merger with T Mobile is not approved Sprint said it lost a net 189 000 phone s...
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Why ExxonMobil s Q4 2019 Results Were Worse Than They Looked
Low prices have been hitting companies across the energy sector as they report their fourth quarter 2019 earnings Even the industry bigwigs aren t immune Top U S oil major ExxonMobil NYSE XOM reported lackluster numbers for the quarter on Jan 31 While production numbers were up very slightly year over year ear...
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Shale pioneer John Hess says key U S fields starting to plateau
HOUSTON Reuters Shale pioneer John Hess said on Tuesday that key U S shale fields are starting to plateau calling shale important but not the next Saudi Arabia Over the past decade the shale revolution turned the United States into the world s largest crude producer and a force in energy exports Yet that did...
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Netanyahu s winning strategy big power statecraft and social media focus
By Dan Williams NYSE WMB JERUSALEM Reuters Benjamin Netanyahu s portrayal of Israel as a success story under his leadership and the showcasing of his rapport with U S President Donald Trump were vital ingredients in his triumphant election campaign The contest was effectively a referendum on Netanyahu s rule as...
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NBA roundup Pistons nail down final East playoff spot
Luke Kennard scored 27 points off the bench and the postseason bound Detroit Pistons closed out their regular season finale by walloping the host New York Knicks 115 89 on Wednesday The Pistons 41 41 qualified for the Eastern Conference playoffs for just the second time since the 2009 10 season They were swept by C...
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U S economy healthy from a monetary policy perspective Fed s Williams
NEW YORK Reuters The U S economy is in a healthy place from a pure monetary policy perspective but there is more work policymakers can do to make sure growth is widely shared a top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday We re closing in on the longest economic expansion on record unemployment is at histo...
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No comparing Tiger and Golden Bear says Player
By Amy Tennery AUGUSTA Ga Reuters Joe Montana or Tom Brady Serena Williams NYSE WMB or Steffi Graf there is no shortage of debate in sport over who is the greatest of all time but do not even try separating golfing icons Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus according to Gary Player Woods 14 and Nicklaus 18 ...
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Fed Officials Signal High Hurdle to Hike as Inflation Lags
Bloomberg Go inside the global economy with Stephanie Flanders in her new podcast Stephanomics Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes Federal Reserve officials are spelling out that there are high hurdles to raising interest rates while inflation continues to undershoot their 2 percent target and risks to the econ...
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Nomination for top U S diplomat for South Asia withdrawn White House
WASHINGTON Reuters The White House said on Thursday it had withdrawn a nomination it made to the U S Senate to fill the post of America s top diplomat for South Asia a position that has remained unfilled since President Donald Trump took office in 2017 The nomination of Defense Intelligence Agency official Rober...
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Ukrainian comedian gets serious with investors in bid for presidency
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KIEV Reuters In a popular TV series a fictional Ukrainian president gets so drunk at a dinner with the head of the International Monetary Fund that he throws her into a swimming pool He then forces bystanders to drink water from the pool thinking i...
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Lakers Walton mutually part ways
The Los Angeles Lakers and coach Luke Walton mutually parted ways on Friday general manager Rob Pelinka announced in a statement Walton s status had been tenuous even before Magic Johnson resigned as president of basketball operations on Tuesday Lakers owner Jeanie Buss was reportedly ready to OK a departure after ...
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Defiant Poroshenko Ukraine s voters will choose substance over style in election
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB and Sergiy Karazy PARIS Reuters Ukraine s leader on Friday said he was confident of turning the tables on his inexperienced opponent in the second round of the presidential election saying voters would choose a substantive program over his challenger s dangerous populism President ...
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T Mobile Sprint face new FCC questions on tie up
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON Reuters T Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp executives this week urged senior U S regulators to approve the proposed tie up saying the combined company would have the incentive to slash prices according to a filing on Thursday At the meeting Wednesday Federal Communications Commissio...
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Exxon Mobil Corp XOM Q4 2019 Earnings Call Transcript
ExxonMobil Corp NYSE XOM Q4 2019 Earnings CallJan 31 2020 9 30 a m ETContents Prepared Remarks Questions and Answers Call Participants Prepared Remarks OperatorGood day everyone and welcome to this ExxonMobil Corporation Fourth Quarter 2019 Earnings Call Today s call is being recorded and at this time I d lik...
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Oil majors request more Mozambique troops after Islamist attacks sources
By Emma Rumney and Bate Felix JOHANNESBURG PARIS Reuters Exxon Mobil Corp N XOM and Total PA TOTF have asked Mozambique to send more troops to guard their operations in the far north after a surge of attacks by Islamist militants an industry source and two security consultants said Mozambique s northern p...
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Exxon Baytown refinery union workers reject contract offer sources
HOUSTON Reuters Union workers at Exxon Mobil Corp s N XOM Baytown Texas refinery rejected a contract extension in voting completed on Friday said sources familiar with the vote Members of the United Steelworkers USW local 13 2001 in the refinery and laboratory voted down the three year extension because ...
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Williamson wins Naismith player of year honor
Duke forward Zion Williamson continued his collection of accolades on Sunday when he won the 2019 Citizen Naismith Trophy as the top college basketball in the country the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced during a press conference in Minneapolis Williamson is the third freshman to win the honor joining Kevin Durant of T...
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Tennessee s Barnes wins Naismith coaching honor
Tennessee coach Rick Barnes was named the winner of the Naismith Coach of the Year Award the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Sunday during a press conference in Minneapolis Barnes is the first Tennessee men s coach to win the award Legendary women s coach Pat Summitt won it five times Barnes was selected over Texas T...
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Southern Roots
Ben Hunt author of Epsilon Theory joins Real Vision s Grant Williams NYSE WMB to discuss what attracted him to the financial world and how his roots in Huntsville Alabama helped to develop his investment philosophy This video is excerpted from a piece published on Real Vision on July 27 2018 Watch more at
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Murray meeting again with Cardinals report
Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray reportedly headed to Phoenix on Tuesday for another meeting with the Arizona Cardinals who hold the No 1 pick in this month s draft The NFL Network reported that the former Oklahoma quarterback and his agent are visiting the team on Wednesday Murray previously met with the Cardina...
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Tennessee s Williams testing NBA draft process
Two time SEC Player of the Year Grant Williams NYSE WMB announced Tuesday that he is entering the NBA draft but will remain open to returning to school for his senior season The 6 foot 7 Williams said he will go through the process and make a decision at a later date about whether to stay in the draft He has until ...
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Airbnb reverses on delisting Israeli settlements won t profit off West Bank
By Dan Williams NYSE WMB and Brendan Pierson JERUSALEM NEW YORK Reuters Airbnb said on Tuesday it would not implement a planned delisting of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and would donate proceeds from any bookings in the territory to international humanitarian aid organizations Heeding calls fr...
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Draft notebook SEC stars Washington Williams enter draft
Kentucky standout sophomore PJ Washington declared for the NBA draft on Tuesday and will hire an agent the school announced This place has been my home for two years and it s hard for me to put in words how much I ve grown in my time at Kentucky The staff challenged me from day one to become the best version of mys...
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Tennis Crisis What crisis Briton Moore completes amazing comeback
Reuters Britain s Tara Moore stared the dreaded double bagel in the face as she trailed 0 6 0 5 30 40 to French third seed Jessika Ponchet in this week s ITF World Tour event in Sunderland and could have been excused for wanting the ground to open up Instead she produced a great sporting comeback recovering ...
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Sprint Deploys Enhanced Applications To Thwart Robocalls
Sprint Corporation NYSE S recently announced the deployment of two robocall blocker applications Sprint Call Screener Basic and Sprint Call Screener Plus across its network The trailblazing technology will flag high risk robocalls trace unsolicited callers and allow users to block the same A robocall is an unwa...
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T Mobile Sprint lobby regulators to win U S approval for tie up
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON Reuters Senior executives at T Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp made the case to U S officials in Washington last week that they should approve a planned tie up between the two wireless companies arguing a combined firm would have incentives to aggressively lower prices T Mobile US ...
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Verizon Earnings Beat Revenue Misses In Q1
Investing com Verizon NYSE VZ reported first quarter earnings that Beat analysts expectations on Tuesday and revenue that fell short of forecasts The firm reported earnings per share of 1 2 on revenue of 32 13B Analysts polled by Investing com forecast EPS of 1 17 on revenue of 32 15B That compared to EPS ...
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Verizon Falls 3
Investing com Verizon NYSE VZ fell by 3 48 to trade at 56 33 by 10 34 14 34 GMT on Tuesday on the NYSE exchange The volume of Verizon shares traded since the start of the session was 6 91M Verizon has traded in a range of 56 31 to 57 69 on the day The stock has traded at 58 9800 at its highest and 56 320...
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Exxon Mobil s fourth quarter earnings fall short of expectations
Exxon earned 5 69 billion in the fourth quarter down from 6 billion in the same period as weakness in the company s chemicals and downstream divisions as well as consistently lower oil prices pressured profits The company s quarter was boosted by one time events including a 3 7 billion gain from Exxon s Norway di...
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Exxon Mobil Stock Falls 3
Investing com Exxon Mobil NYSE XOM Stock fell by 3 12 to trade at 62 75 by 09 32 14 32 GMT on Friday on the NYSE exchange The volume of Exxon Mobil shares traded since the start of the session was 2 26M Exxon Mobil has traded in a range of 62 74 to 63 20 on the day The stock has traded at 66 9300 at its...
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Exxon quarterly profit falls 5 2 on weak refining chemical margins
By Jennifer Hiller HOUSTON Reuters Exxon Mobil Corp N XOM on Friday reported a 5 2 drop in fourth quarter profit on weakness in its refining and chemicals business and flat year on year oil and gas output with asset sales helping to stem the decline Oil companies last quarter suffered from weaker prices for ...
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Reports Raiders release WR Roberts
The Oakland Raiders released wide receiver Seth Roberts according to multiple reports The move comes a day after the Raiders signed WR Ryan Grant The Raiders have also added Antonio Brown Tyrell Williams NYSE WMB and J J Nelson to their receiving corps Roberts 28 was set to make 4 45 million this season He ...
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Fed Officials Resist Rate Cut Idea Pushed by Trump s Advisers
Bloomberg Federal Reserve officials are pushing back against the notion that the central bank should cut interest rates soon with several policy makers saying in recent days their next move still may be another hike I would never say never to a cut But in this point in my forecast I don t foresee it for this...
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NFL notebook Report details toxic Rodgers McCarthy dynamic
A day after ESPN aired an interview with former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy discussing how he was dismissed by the team last December an explosive report looked at the complicated and disastrous relationship between McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers and how it impacted the team The lengthy Bleacher Rep...
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Soccer Morgan nets 100th goal as USWNT tops Australia
Alex Morgan scored her 100th international goal and substitute Mallory Pugh scored twice when the U S Women s National Team rallied to defeat Australia 5 3 in a friendly at Dick s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City Colo on Thursday Megan Rapinoe broke a 2 2 tie in the 61st minute with a strike from 22 yards out ...
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NBA roundup Bucks lock up No 1 seed
Playoff intensity showed itself from the opening tip at Philadelphia on Thursday as Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 45 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the Milwaukee Bucks 128 122 comeback victory over the 76ers that clinched the best record in the Eastern Conference Khris Middleton scored 22 points for the Bucks who ...
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Comedian rips up the play book in Ukraine election success
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KIEV Reuters As a comedian TV host and actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy knows how to start a show with a bang He proved that by beating all comers in the first round of Ukraine s presidential election As he plans for the grand finale a runoff against Pr...
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The First Down Year
Leon Cooperman chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors sits down with Real Vision s Grant Williams NYSE WMB to discuss his firm s first down year In 1994 his firm did not take profits giving back all of their performance from the previous year Cooperman tells the story of his imperfect timing and the way in which he...
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Ravens agree to contract with ex Raiders WR Roberts
Wide receiver Seth Roberts a day after getting released by the Oakland Raiders has agreed to sign with the Baltimore Ravens on a one year deal pending a physical the team announced Roberts 28 was set to make 4 45 million this season with the Raiders He caught 45 passes for 494 yards and two touchdowns in 15 ga...
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AT T T Hikes Dividend Issues Capital Allocation Update
AT T Inc NYSE T recently announced a 2 year over year hike in its quarterly dividend payout The proposed dividend of 52 cents per share or 2 08 on an annualized basis is payable Feb 3 2020 to shareholders of record as on Jan 10 Based on the closing price of 38 26 on Dec 13 the proposed dividend affirms a y...
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Yahoo strikes 117 5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected
By Jonathan Stempel Reuters Yahoo NASDAQ AABA has struck a revised 117 5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history The proposed class action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticism...
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Trump to hold event Friday on 5G rural broadband White House
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON Reuters U S President Donald Trump is set to hold a White House event on Friday with the country s top communications regulator on next generation 5G wireless networks and efforts to boost rural broadband internet access A White House spokesman confirmed that Federal Communications ...
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Trump says he opposes nationalizing U S 5G network
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON Reuters President Donald Trump said Friday the United States should not nationalize its 5G network and said private companies should move quickly to deploy the faster next generation network In the United States our approach is private sector driven and private sector led The gover...
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U S Justice Department tells T Mobile Sprint it has concerns about merger deal sources
Reuters The U S Justice Department has told T Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp it has concerns about their proposed 26 billion merger in its current structure sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday although no final decision has been made Sprint shares fell about 9 percent after the bell as investors in...
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Morant joins Duke s Williamson Barrett on All American team
Freshmen Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett of Duke headline the 2019 college basketball All American team announced Tuesday Murray State guard Ja Morant Tennessee forward Grant Williams NYSE WMB and Michigan State point guard Cassius Winston round out the team Williamson and Barrett are the first freshman teammates n...
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College notebook Duke s Williamson Barrett headline All America team
Freshmen Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett of Duke headline the 2019 college basketball All America team announced Tuesday Murray State guard Ja Morant Tennessee forward Grant Williams NYSE WMB and Michigan State point guard Cassius Winston round out the team Williamson and Barrett are the first freshman teammates na...
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PG E Is Near a Deal With Hedge Funds on CEO Board Overhaul
Bloomberg Pacific Gas Electric Co NYSE PCG the bankrupt California power giant facing 30 billion in wildfire liabilities is nearing a deal with a group of investors that includes naming Bill Johnson as chief executive officer and overhauling its board according to people familiar with the matter PG E is ...
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NHL roundup Habs sink Lightning pull even with Jackets
The Montreal Canadiens gained a critical victory in their playoff chase with a 4 2 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday The win brings the Canadiens 43 29 8 94 points even on points with the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second Eastern Conference wild card slot Both teams have 94 points though Col...
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CMC shares hit record low on profit warning as finance chief plans exit
By Muvija M and Noor Zainab Hussain Reuters Shares in CMC Markets slid more than 10 percent to a record low on Wednesday after the online trading firm forecast a drop in income in the year to March as new rules curbed client activity and its finance chief decided to depart The profit warning dragged down shares i...
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Texas A M lands Va Tech s Buzz Williams
Buzz Williams NYSE WMB will be introduced as the new head coach at Texas A M on Wednesday Williams informed players at Virginia Tech he was moving on and accepted an offer to relocate to College Station as head coach of the Aggies Williams was scheduled to earn 3 million next season at Virginia Tech and has a cont...
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Tennessee G Bone to enter NBA draft Williams next
Tennessee junior guard Jordan Bone will enter the 2019 NBA Draft while the Volunteers are still waiting for a decision from junior All American Grant Williams NYSE WMB the team s leading scorer and 2019 SEC Player of the Year In a video shared via social media Wednesday Bone indicated he could still return and pl...
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NFL notebook McCarthy opens up on Packers firing
Former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy was surprised to be fired before the end of the 2018 season McCarthy addressed the situation in his first sit down interview since the Packers fired him Dec 2 which he said couldn t have been handled any worse If we missed the playoffs I expected change might happen ...
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NBA roundup Heat s loss scrambles East standings
Boston s Gordon Hayward scored a game high 25 points and Kyrie Irving added 23 to lift the Celtics to a crucial 112 102 road victory over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night Jayson Tatum scored nine consecutive points in the fourth quarter to help Boston remain in a tie for fourth place in the Eastern Conference Al Hor...
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Frontier Unveils Call Authentication Technology With Neustar
In a bid to eradicate the growing risk of spoofed calls Frontier Communications Corporation NASDAQ FTR NYSE T recently collaborated with Neustar a leading tech company Following the partnership the subscribers are likely to detect accurate caller information and identify and mitigate unethical robocalls as we...
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Tencent shareholder Naspers plots Euronext e commerce listing
By Tiisetso Motsoeneng JOHANNESBURG Reuters Tencent shareholder Naspers plans to float a portion of its e commerce ventures on Euronext in Amsterdam a move South Africa s biggest company said on Monday will create a 140 billion European internet giant As well as a one third stake in China s Tencent which is wo...
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Verizon Falls 3
Investing com Verizon NYSE VZ fell by 3 06 to trade at 59 02 by 10 58 14 58 GMT on Thursday on the NYSE exchange The volume of Verizon shares traded since the start of the session was 5 79M Verizon has traded in a range of 59 02 to 60 89 on the day The stock has traded at 61 1900 at its highest and 57 11...
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South Korean U S telcos roll out 5G services early as race heats up
By Ju min Park and Kenneth Li SEOUL Reuters South Korea s three mobile carriers and top U S telco Verizon Communications NYSE VZ commercially launched 5G services on Wednesday ahead of their initial schedules as they rushed for first spot in the race to roll out the latest wireless technology SK Telecom and...
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College burned in militant attack in northern Mozambique
JOHANNESBURG Reuters Militants torched a teacher training college run by a local charity in northern Mozambique a director of the organization and a security analyst said on Thursday although it appeared that no one had been wounded The attack took place in the northern province of Cabo Delgado where a festerin...
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NBA roundup Warriors alone atop Western Conference
The Golden State Warriors vented their frustration over a controversial loss in their previous game on the playoff hopeful Charlotte Hornets on Sunday night using a 71 point first half to pave the way to a 137 90 blowout in Oakland Calif Stephen Curry 25 points and Klay Thompson 24 combined for 11 3 pointers he...
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QBs Murray Haskins to work out for Raiders
Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Kyler Murray will work out privately for the Oakland Raiders on Monday according to a report Albert Breer of the MMQB said the workout will take place in Dallas On Tuesday the Raiders brass will travel to Columbus Ohio to watch former Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins in ac...
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Comedian faces scrutiny over oligarch ties in Ukraine presidential race
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB and Natalia Zinets KIEV Reuters Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy is leading the race to become Ukraine s next president thanks to an insurgent campaign that rails against corrupt politicians influenced by rich oligarchs Yet it is his own relationship with one of the country s wealthiest...
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No 1 Notre Dame blasts No 2 Stanford to make Final Four
Jackie Young s 25 point 10 rebound double double Monday night helped top seeded Notre Dame rally from a nine point second half deficit and stop second seeded Stanford 84 68 in the title game of the Chicago Region at Wintrust Arena earning the right to defend its national championship The Fighting Irish 34 3 advanc...
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NFL notebook Browns trade Ogbah to Chiefs
The Cleveland Browns traded defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah to the Kansas Chiefs on Monday The Chiefs announced the trade and said they would send safety Eric Murray in return Ogbah selected by the Browns in the second round 32nd overall of the 2016 NFL Draft did not show up to the Browns training facility on Monda...
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Australia government promises back in black budget in election run up
By Colin Packham and Swati Pandey CANBERRA Reuters Australia s conservative government on Tuesday proposed tax cuts for low and middle income earners and record spending on health and education while promising the first budget surplus in more than a decade shaping its pitch for votes in an imminent election Treas...
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Superdry founder set to win investor backing for return to board
Reuters The founder and former boss of Superdry Julian Dunkerton is set to return to the board of the British fashion group after winning the support of shareholders by a narrow margin initial votes showed on Tuesday Superdry said proxy votes cast ahead of a meeting of investors showed Dunkerton had secured 50 ...
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Chicago heads to the polls to elect city s first black woman as mayor
By Brendan O Brien and Karen Pierog CHICAGO Reuters Chicago voters went to the polls on Tuesday to choose between two African American women running for mayor with the winner of the historic vote inheriting a city steeped in violent crime and wracked by fiscal woes Lori Lightfoot 56 the former president of inde...
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Superdry founder named interim CEO as majority of board steps down
Reuters Superdry named its co founder and former boss Julian Dunkerton as interim chief executive officer on Tuesday after a majority of the British fashion group s board stepped down The company said Chairman Peter Bamford CEO Euan Sutherland and Chief Financial Officer Ed Barker have resigned and will stand dow...
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TELUS Unveils Call Validation Technology To Combat Robocalls
In order to thwart unsolicited calls TELUS Corporation NYSE T recently showcased its SHAKEN STIR authentication standard for telecom regulators Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission and the Federal Communications Commission FCC SHAKEN STIR are acronyms for Signature based Handling of A...
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Verizon restores text service after East Coast outage
Reuters Verizon Communications Inc NYSE VZ said on Tuesday it had fixed the issue that caused a widespread text outage on the East Coast of the United States for a few hours We experienced an issue impacting texting services for some customers this morning Our engineers were able to identify and resolve the ...
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U S lawmakers at T Mobile Sprint hearing spar over stay at Trump hotel
WASHINGTON Reuters U S lawmakers questioning the chief executives of T Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp over their planned merger sparred with each other on Tuesday over T Mobile s executives staying at President Donald Trump s hotel where they spent 195 000 while in Washington T Mobile Chief Executive John Legere...
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Making the Bullish Call
Fahad Khalid founder CIO of JaguarAnalytics joins Real Vision for the first time to explain how to take advantage of the opportunity in 5G He discusses the upside potential for shares of Verizon NYSE VZ and reviews an options trade to play the thesis in this interview with Justine Underhill Filmed on March 12...
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ExxonMobil I m a Bull and Even I Have to Admit Business Is Bad Right Now
The energy industry is in the doldrums and there s no way to sugarcoat it On top of that it has to deal with a negative environmental image Put simply ExxonMobil NYSE XOM the one energy company I own and its peers are getting hit from every direction I think Exxon can survive these tough times but that doesn ...
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Take Five The shape of you world market themes for the week ahead
Reuters Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them 1 YIELD CURVEBALLS Which is it growth or gloom With 10 year U S bond yields below 3 month T bill rates for the first time in more than a decade recession fears...
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Georgia lawmakers pass heartbeat abortion ban joining four other U S states
By Brendan O Brien Reuters Georgia s Republican controlled legislature on Friday passed one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States outlawing abortion if a doctor is able to detect a heartbeat The state s House of Representatives passed the bill with a 92 78 vote sending it to Republican Gover...
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UConn upends UCLA to reach 14th straight regional final
Napheesa Collier s 25 points and 10 rebounds helped second seeded Connecticut rally in the fourth quarter to eliminate sixth seeded UCLA 69 61 Friday night in an NCAA Women s Tournament regional semifinal in Albany N Y Crystal Dangerfield added 15 points for the Huskies 34 2 who will meet top seeded Louisville on ...
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Report Texas A M to offer coaching job to Williams
Texas A M reportedly is pursuing Virginia Tech s Buzz Williams NYSE WMB to replace Billy Kennedy as head coach CBS Sports Jon Rothstein reported Saturday morning that Texas A M is prepared to offer Kennedy a multiyear contract that would pay him at least 3 5 million annually Williams is scheduled to earn 3 milli...
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Comedian in front as curtain rises on Ukrainian presidential election
By Matthias Williams NYSE WMB KIEV Reuters Ukrainians began voting in a presidential election on Sunday in which a comedian with no political experience and who plays a fictional president in a popular TV series is tipped to win the first round Volodymyr Zelenskiy 41 who is appealing to voters fed up with ent...