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High quit rates and record new job openings point to an employees' market. Now that workers have more choices, many are rethinking their current careers. Here's how to make the most of it if you want to take time out to change career tracks. When the Covid-19 pandemic first erupted last year, Janel Abrahami quit […]
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Deaths due to coronavirus infection in the United States has come to the lowest level in more than two and a half months. This excludes low figures due to reporting delays at weekends. With 1,131 new deaths reporting on Thursday, the total number of Covid infections in the country rose to 751,555, as per the […]
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Disgraced New York real estate heir Robert Durst has contracted Covid-19 and is currently on a ventilator, his attorney told NBC News. The diagnosis comes just two days after Durst, 78, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a close friend more than two decades ago. Jurors convicted Durst last month in the death […]
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"I've never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate. I'm not in favor of that," Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told CNBC on Tuesday. However, Kelly said, the Dallas-based carrier is complying with federal rules put in place by the Biden administration. "The objective here, obviously, is to improve health and […]
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123269 cases of coronavirus infection were reported in the United States Wednesday, taking the national total to 43,349,448, as per the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. The weekly average of new cases fell by 26 percent to 112,798 in two weeks, according to data compiled by New York Times. An additional 2531 Covid deaths […]
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The White House COVID-19 Response Team says the Biden administration is off to a very strong start with the Covid-19 vaccine booster campaign and that booster doses are well tolerated. About 2.78 million people have received an additional booster dose so far, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a routine […]
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Economist Stephen Roach is warning that the U.S. may be on a collision course with 1970s-type inflation. The former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman is worried that the impact of energy price spikes on China's struggling supply chain will be the tipping point. Crude oil topped $80 a barrel this week for the first time since […]
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As coronavirus deaths crossing the 2000 mark on many of these days, the weekly average of COVID casualties in the United States is steadily increasing, data shows. From a low point of 188 weekly death average reported in the beginning of July, the seven-day average reached 2087 on Monday, according to data compiled by New […]
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The market's biggest bull predicts the S&P 500 will rally another 7%, but he warns a popular trade won't be along for the ride. Wells Fargo Securities' Chris Harvey recently cut software to underweight from neutral and declared it a crowded trade. He based the decision on technicals and earnings fundamentals and high valuations. "From […]
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Conservative radio host Phil Valentine spent months preaching vaccine skepticism to his followers in Nashville. It seems like many of them listened. Tennessee has experienced a dramatic spike in the Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant has swept the nation, with the case rate ballooning over 220 percent over the past two weeks, according to […]
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