Like the broader stock markets, gig-economy companies staged a comeback of sorts to close out Monday’s volatile session, but not before DoorDash Inc. shares hit an all-time low and Airbnb Inc. flirted with its steepest drop on record. Major U.S. stock markets and indexes, which plunged in early trading due to a combination of factors …
Peloton Interactive Inc., which has seen its stock battered over the past year, is dealing with another potential PR disaster after a main character on Showtime’s “Billions” was shown suffering a heart attack while using a Peloton machine. The “Billions” scene comes on the heels of a fatal onscreen Peloton heart attack for a major …
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New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, Delhi reported 10,756 new Covid-19 cases, the state health department informed. The positivity rate on the national capital now stands at 18.04 per cent. There has been a steady rise in new cases of Covid in Delhi for the last few days. A total of 59,629 samples were …
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How big a toll has omicron had on the economy? Economists have been scratching their heads for weeks to estimate the damage the highly contagious COVID-19 variant is causing. The U.S. Census Bureau has some early answers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that omicron was the most dominant COVID-19 strain in …
In 2021, the enhanced Child Tax Credit gave millions of families some financial cushion through monthly payments. In 2022, the same tax credit might take away from the size of many income tax refunds — or even give some unanticipated tax bills — according to tax professionals who are bracing for agitated clients. “There’s going …
Evanston (US): A latest study on Zika virus conducted by Northwestern University scientists have discovered a key mechanism used by the virus to evade the antiviral response of the cell it is attacking. This finding contributed to a better understanding of how viruses infected cells, overcame immune barriers and replicated — information that is essential …
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New Delhi: India has recorded 2,82,970 (2 lakh 82 thousand 9 hundred and 70) new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Wednesday morning. The daily case positivity rate has once again increased to 15.13 per cent. The case positivity rate on Tuesday stood at 14.23 per cent. …
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The owner of a Florida laboratory has pleaded guilty to a $7 million Medicare fraud scheme in which he paid kickbacks to brokers for telemedicine firms and doctors to prescribe expensive but unnecessary genetic testing along with low-cost COVID-19 tests for thousands of patients. Christopher Licata, 45, of Delray Beach, Florida, admitted that his lab, …
The world’s top ten billionaires increased their wealth by $1.3 billion a day, or $15,000 a second, during the global pandemic. That’s according to a new report from global charity Oxfam International released on Monday, that said those billionaires doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion. Over the same timeframe, the incomes of …
After decades in hibernation, inflation woke up in 2021 in a terrible rage. The consumer price index increased 7% in 2021, the fastest pace in 39 years. The inflation story is bound to be a big one in 2022, as well, as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy, stock markets SPX, +0.08% DJIA, -0.56% tremble …
