GREEN BAY, Wis. — Bare tree branches don’t quiet the wind, and the ice on the bay is thick enough that the neighbors set up a hockey rink offshore. Nothing unusual for late January on the northeast side of town. Meanwhile, at a blue waterfront five-bedroom that was an occasional launch point for fishing charters until last summer, there’s a full scoreboard stashed in a wide-open garage, nothing in the planters on the small porch, and a Sheepadoodle named Vince Lombardi barking behind the front door.Doug Gottlieb opens it up and startles a bit; he apparently didn’t expect his expected…
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At least 60,000 prefabricated housing units and 200,000 tents should be delivered to Gaza during the first phase of the deal, in addition to equipment for rubble clearance, according to a copy of the agreement’s text seen by The New York Times.As of Friday, it remained unclear whether Israel had recommitted to allowing the supplies to enter Gaza. Omer Dostri, spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, said on Thursday that Israel was not allowing in prefabricated housing or heavy construction equipment, without explaining the rationale. He did not say whether that might change.But even as the deal appears…
There is a lot of uncertainty in the markets these days, but for fixed-income investors who remain agile, there could also be several opportunities, according to Wells Fargo. Bond yields remain elevated as investors grapple with uncertainty around the direction of interest rates and inflation . The yield on the 10-year Treasury is currently around 4.47%. Yields move inversely to prices. After cutting last year, the Federal Reserve opted to leave rates unchanged in January. The majority of market participants don’t think the central bank will lower again for several months, according to the CME FedWatch Tool . On Wednesday,…
A customer at a food market in Palma, Mallorca, Spain.Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesAs economists ring alarm bells over the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy on consumers and the U.S. economy, there’s a group of Americans who may benefit: tourists traveling abroad.That’s due to the impact of tariffs on the U.S. dollar and other global currencies. Economists expect tariffs imposed on foreign imports to strengthen the U.S. dollar and potentially weaken major currencies like the euro.In such a case, travelers would have more buying power overseas in 2025, economists said. Their dollar would stretch further on purchases like…
Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France.Chesnot | Getty ImagesDell shares jumped to a session high on Friday following a report saying Elon Musk’s startup xAI was getting ready to agree to buy $5 billion in artificial intelligence servers from the hardware maker.The equipment containing Nvidia’s GB200 graphics processing units would be delivered this year, according to Bloomberg, which cited unnamed sources.Many data center gear manufacturers have been seeing growth…
SAN FRANCISCO — They are Walk TMC now. Chris Mullin has a bum left foot, Mitch Richmond rarely shoots a basketball these days and Tim Hardaway arrived for this on-court reunion by patting the ample midsection of his tight-fitting jersey.“Maaaaan, we used to run around all sexy,’’ Hardaway, 58, lamented as he stepped into the Golden State Warriors practice facility. “Not now. It’s all pot belly.”Despite their infirmities, the mere sight of Hardaway, Richmond and Mullin reuniting to launch shots again was enough to quicken the pulse and widen the eyes. Somewhere, a long-ago defender felt a disturbance in the…
Workers picket in front of an Amazon Logistic Station on December 19, 2024 in Skokie Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesItalo Medelius-Marsano was a law student at North Carolina Central University in 2022, when he took a job at an Amazon warehouse near the city of Raleigh to earn some extra cash.The past month has been unlike any other during his three-year tenure at the company. Now, when he shows up for his shift at the shipping dock, Medelius-Marsano says he’s met with flyers and mounted TVs urging him to “vote no,” as well as QR codes on workstations that lead…
Baupost Group’s Seth Klarman found a handful of buying opportunities last quarter as the longtime value investor continued to seek cheap hidden gems in an expensive stock market. The widely-followed hedge fund manager took a new stake in industrial product distributor Ferguson Enterprises , worth nearly $200 million at the end of 2024, according to a regulatory filing. Ferguson was Baupost’s seventh-largest holding as of Dec. 31. Shares of Ferguson fell about 10% last year, and are up 6.5% so far in 2025. The investor also established new positions in health insurer Humana as well as auto parts provider Genuine…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Warner Music Group — The entertainment stock popped 3% following an upgrade at Citi to buy from neutral. Citi analyst Jason Bazinet said that Warner Music’s multiple is “far below” those of its peers. Roku – Shares popped nearly 14% after the streaming company reported fourth-quarter results that beat analyst expectations. Roku lost 24 cents per share on revenue of $1.2 billion. Analysts expected a loss of 40 cents per share on revenue of $1.14 billion, per LSEG. The company also said households using its platform grew by 12% year over…
Brian Chesky, co-founder and chief executive officer of Airbnb Inc., during a news conference in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAirbnb shares surged 14% and headed for their best day ever after the company reported stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings.The stock debuted on the Nasdaq in December 2020, and its sharpest rally to this point came in February 2023. The shares are up 22% this year.The online rental platform posted earnings of 73 cents per share on $2.48 billion in revenue. That topped analyst estimates of 58 cents per share of earnings and…
