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☆ GameStop, AMC rallies like 'watching a sitcom on repeat,' expert says. Here are the risks to monitor
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesShares of AMC Entertainment and GameStop have surged once again in a new "meme stock" rally triggered by social media. A social media account named "Roaring Kitty" posted an image for the first time in three years, prompting the trading frenzy. The man purportedly behind the Roaring Kitty account helped lead a meme stock frenzy between 2020 and 2021. watch nowIn some ways, this time differs from when the stocks surged during the Covid-19 lockdown. Roaring Kitty gives the impression that a guy is in his basement trading stocks instead of big investors like hedge funds and investment banks, he said.

Persons: Spencer Platt, Kitty, Dan Egan, Egan, aren't, Roaring Kitty Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, Getty, AMC Entertainment, GameStop Locations: New York City, Las Vegas

☆ Uber to acquire Foodpanda's Taiwan business for $950 million, creating a potential monopoly
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Sheila Chiang | In Sheilachiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

(Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Uber Technologies will acquire the Taiwan business of Delivery Hero -owned Foodpanda for $950 million in cash, as Foodpanda focuses on other markets. In a separate agreement, Delivery Hero will sell $300 million in newly issued ordinary shares to Uber. Taiwan's food delivery market is dominated by Foodpanda and Uber Eats. Delivery Hero said in February it had ended talks to sell its Foodpanda business in selected Southeast Asian markets. Östberg told CNBC the same month that the firm was "happy" to hold on to its Foodpanda business in Southeast Asia "forever."

Persons: Walid Berrazeg, Niklas Östberg, Pierre, Dimitri Gore, Uber, Foodpanda, Östberg, – CNBC's Ryan Browne, Dylan Butts Organizations: Getty, Technologies, Coty, Foodpanda, CNBC Locations: TAIPEI, TAIWAN, Taipei, Taiwan, Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia

☆ I've flipped burgers and hauled packages, but I didn't realize how bad hourly service jobs were until I got a 9-to-5 office job
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Jane Zhang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

So I got a job at a shipping company handling packages because I needed health insurance. AdvertisementAt the shipping company, it felt like management had the mindset that if we could be somewhere else, we would be there. It also makes the work feel more meaningful by scratching the itch in the creative side of my brain. You don't get that same sense of being "in the dirt" together when you're working a corporate job. Sometimes, there's that sentiment in office jobs, too, but it's a different kind of dirt when you're working these physical labor jobs.

Persons: —, Justin Jordan, I've, I'd, We've, couldn't, — there's, Kristen Davis, Jane Zhang Organizations: Service, Business, NBC4 Locations: NBC4, janezhang@businessinsider.com

Deutsche Bank maintained a hold rating on Nvidia ahead of earnings next week, while Wells Fargo raised its price target. The firm downgraded shares to neutral from buy while lowering its price target to $35 from $55. He has a $850 price target on shares, indicating shares pulling back nearly 6% from Monday's close. The analyst raised his price target on the stock to $1,150 from $974, implying upside of more than 27%. He also raised his price target to $78 from $68, implying upside of 19% from Monday's close.

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☆ The US dollar has become so weaponized that central banks are snapping up politically-neutral gold
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Central banks accounted for one-quarter of gold demand in 2022 and 2023, as the institutions bought over 1,000 tons of gold each year, according to the World Gold Council in a recent report. Related storiesThe world's central banks continued buying gold, snapping up 290 tons of gold in the first quarter of this year — the strongest start to any year on record, according to the council. AdvertisementThis suggests that gold purchases by some central banks may have been driven by concerns about sanctions risk, Gopinath said. Central banks will keep buying, despite high pricesWhile China's central bank gold buying has been hogging the headlines, other central banks are also loading up on gold. The World Gold Council wrote in its recent report that other big gold buyers included Turkey and India.

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☆ A Trump judge and Biden’s Justice Department agree that a Texas map is illegal. But that doesn’t mean it will change
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —A county redistricting plan in Texas that a Donald Trump-appointed judge deemed “a clear violation” of the Voting Rights Act is back before a notoriously conservative appeals court. After the 2021 Census, the Republican-led county commission broke up that district, locking in four majority-white districts instead. Their opponents argue that Congress did not intend for multiple “classes” of minorities to be considered together when assessing a map’s Voting Rights Act compliance. Black and Latino voices ‘extinguished,’ judge saysThe 2021 map split up the long-established Precinct 3, spreading those minority voters across the four total commission precincts. “It would be devastating for minority voters as devastating as it was for Galveston’s Black and Latino voters.”

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☆ Amazon's cloud CEO departs with dour views on his tenure, amid growing competition and AI woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Ashley Stewart | Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Selipsky's three years as AWS CEO were marked by mixed results. AdvertisementHe steered through some of the cloud business' slowest growth rates, largest layoffs, and biggest challenges in the artificial intelligence space. AdvertisementAmazon's generative AI service Bedrock was delayed after originally being scheduled to launch in the fall of 2022, the person said. Garman was once considered a frontrunner to replace former AWS CEO Andy Jassy in 2021 when Jassy took over as Amazon's CEO. Some insiders referred to Selipsky as "just a sales guy" and "uninspiring," as the cloud leader faced unprecedented competition in generative AI.

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☆ MDMA therapy could be legalized by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

Last summer, thousands of tie-dyed Burners and Patagonia-clad tech founders converged on the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver. The experience "broke the spell of this trauma, and she was able to rebuild her life," Doblin told The Guardian . The video team's job was to store recordings of every MDMA therapy session performed in the clinical trials. Grof believes in something called an "inner healing intelligence," an innate capacity for self-healing that psychedelic therapy helps unleash. Another time, a patient who had come to an MDMA therapy session later acknowledged they had been under the influence of LSD during treatment.

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☆ India elections 2024: Once again, millions of migrants are unable to vote
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Noemi Cassanelli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Often referred to as the “city of dreams,” Mumbai draws migrants from across the country hoping to find wealth and success. Noemi Cassanelli/CNNThe Covid-19 pandemic only underscored the volatility of migrant workers’ circumstances when millions lost their jobs almost overnight and were forced to go home. The biggest group is in the United Arab Emirates, with 3.4 million NRIs, followed by 2.5 million in Saudi Arabia; next is the United States with 1.2 million. The massive group of disenfranchised migrant workers stands in sharp contrast to these achievements – with no solution in sight. That means for now, voting remains an unlikely reality for many migrant workers.

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☆ Catalan separatists lose majority as Spain’s pro-union Socialists win regional elections
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A pro-unity rally marches through Barcelona, Spain, on October 8, 2017, in response to last Sunday's disputed referendum on Catalan independence. This was the first time the Socialists led a Catalan election in both votes and seats won. Illa led Spain's response to the COVID-19 pandemic before Sánchez sent him back to Barcelona to lead his party. The Socialists are already in a coalition government in Madrid with the Sumar party, which now has six seats in the Catalan parliament. Separatists have held the regional government in Barcelona since 2012 and had won majorities in four consecutive regional elections.

Persons: Carles Puigdemont, Salvador Illa savored, Illa, Catalonia's, Sánchez, bode, Pedro Sánchez, Puigdemont, pardoning, Puigdemont's, Pere Aragonès, Vox Organizations: Socialist Party, Socialists, Sánchez's Socialists, Republican, Popular Party, Catalan Alliance Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Catalonia, Madrid, Catalan, France, Spain's, Spanish, Catalans

☆ I studied to be a surgeon, but I became an electrician instead. I have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lexis Czumak-Abreu, a 27-year-old electrician in New York state. But now I work as an electrician. I did an apprenticeship with an electrician company in 2015 and kept up electrician jobs on the side when I needed money for my family. I became a full-time electrician instead of continuing in medicineI could no longer work as a personal trainer under the COVID-19 restrictions. I'm happy where I am and excited to move into working with even higher voltage in the future.

Persons: —, Lexis, Abreu, I'm, I've, haven't Organizations: Service, Business Locations: New York

☆ Homes are more expensive than ever—here's how much prices have skyrocketed since 1965
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

If homes seem more expensive than ever, it's because they are — even after adjusting for inflation. U.S. homebuyers are spending more than double to buy a home now than they were in 1965, when the median home price was $20,200, according to U.S. Census data. In 2024 dollars, that works out to roughly $202,215, which is less than half of the $420,800 that a home costs today, per U.S. Census data. With homes selling for a median price of $20,200, a median earner would spend just under three times their income on a home. In 2024, the median annual household income is estimated to be $78,171, according to data consulting firm Motio Research.

Persons: homebuyers Organizations: Motio Research, National Association of Realtors, CNBC Locations: U.S

☆ What the results of Wegovy’s longest clinical trial yet show about weight loss, side effects and heart protection
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Meg Tirrell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —New analyses of the longest clinical trial yet of the weight-loss drug Wegovy are shedding light on how quickly it helps people lose weight, how long they sustain that weight loss and how safe the medicine is over four years of use. A previous clinical trial showed even greater average weight loss for Wegovy: about 15% on average over 68 weeks, compared with 2.4% for people who got a placebo. It was sustained for up to four yearsThe results showed that the 10% average weight loss for people using Wegovy was sustained for up to 208 weeks, or four years. Patients stayed on the medicine while they sustained the weight loss. Almost 23% of people on Wegovy lost at least 15% of their body weight, compared with 1.7% on a placebo.

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☆ Jamaal Bowman may be the most endangered Squad member. He doesn't seem alarmed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +19 min

Advertisement"He was recruited by AIPAC to run against us because we called for a permanent cease-fire," Bowman said of Latimer. In January, Bowman lost the support of the liberal pro-Israel group J Street over his rhetoric on Israel. Like Bowman, Latimer has a blunt and direct speaking style that sometimes leades to gaffes, such as his invocation of the racist lynching of Emmett Till when commenting on the sexual misconduct allegations against then-Gov. When asked about Bowman's charge of racism, Latimer pointed to his appointment of Ken Jenkins, a Black man, as his deputy county executive. Bowman and Latimer have known each other for nearly four years, first meeting for coffee after the congressman's 2020 primary victory.

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☆ Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Hong Kong CNN —A Chinese citizen journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict. Zhang is due to finish her sentence on Monday, according to the court verdict on her case obtained and published by human rights groups. In the lead-up to her expected release on Monday, supporters and rights groups have called on the Chinese government to free Zhang on schedule. Failing healthThe 40-year-old has been on multiple hunger strikes since being detained and her health conditions have sparked concerns from supporters and rights groups. During a previous hunger strike, Amnesty International alleged Zhang was shackled and force fed, treatment the group said amounted to torture.

Persons: Zhang Zhan, ”, Zhang, ’ ”, Zhang’s, “, ” Zhang Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Twitter, YouTube, Amnesty International, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CNN, Foreign Ministry Locations: Hong Kong, Wuhan, Shanghai, China

☆ Just how bad are ultraprocessed foods? Here are 5 things to know
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Andrea Kane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

NOVA separates foods into four groups, starting with natural and minimally processed foods in the first category to ultraprocessed foods, which use industrial formulations and manufacturing techniques, in the fourth. Here are five things to know about ultraprocessed foods:Ultraprocessed foods are linked to bad health outcomesEating a lot of ultraprocessed foods isn’t healthy. We have one.”Ultraprocessed foods cause weight gainThat one randomized, controlled clinical trial showed that ultraprocessed foods actually caused people to gain weight. So, all those factors probably play a huge role in … the foods that we choose to eat in the real world.”Not all ultraprocessed foods are badSome ultraprocessed foods can provide important nutrients, such as whole wheat bread and yogurt. “Which goes to show that not all ultraprocessed foods necessarily drive this effect.”Hall’s team is conducting a new study to tease out which ultraprocessed foods are harmful and which are neutral, or even healthy.

Persons: Marion Nestle, Meg Tirrell, Paulette Goddard, Nestle, ”, ” Nestle, Kevin Hall, ” Hall, Tirrell, shouldn’t, you’re, we’re Organizations: CNN, University of São Paulo, NOVA, Nestle, New York University, National Institute of Diabetes, National Institutes of Health Clinical, ”, National Health, US Department of Agriculture, US Food and Drug Administration Locations: Brazil, Bethesda , Maryland

☆ Novavax stock jumps 50% as Sanofi deal kicks off turning point for struggling vaccine maker
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Shares of Novavax jumped as much as 50% on Monday as Wall Street cheered the company's new multibillion-dollar deal with French drugmaker Sanofi that sparked a dramatic turnaround for the struggling vaccine maker. Novavax's stock almost doubled on Friday after it announced the licensing agreement with Sanofi. Under the agreement, Sanofi will take a less than 5% stake in Novavax. Sanofi, one of the world's largest vaccine makers, will co-market Novavax's Covid vaccine in most countries starting in 2025. The deal also allows Sanofi to use Novavax's Covid shot and flagship vaccine technology, Matrix-M adjuvant, to develop new vaccine products.

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☆ Nicole Shanahan Ventures Onto the Stump for Kennedy
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She quoted Carl Jung as she opened her meandering speech, cited what she called the “ruthless” American psyche, alluded to her friendship with the director of the “Black Panther” movies and talked about how Americans needed to remember their ancestors. Nicole Shanahan, the Silicon Valley millionaire chosen by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate, had previously said that she would spend little time on the campaign trail, leaving stump speeches mainly to Mr. Kennedy. But in her first outing on the hustings, in Houston on Saturday about a month and a half after she joined Mr. Kennedy on his independent presidential ticket, Ms. Shanahan signaled that she was a fitting match for him, speaking about the electorate as if it were the victim of a vast Covid-related conspiracy and defying easy categorization along partisan lines. “I often said Covid was the truth serum,” she said of the pandemic. We’re not going to stand that anymore.”

Persons: Carl Jung, Nicole Shanahan, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Kennedy, Shanahan, Covid, ”, We’re Organizations: Silicon Locations: Houston

☆ Chinese Woman Jailed for Reporting on Covid Set to be Freed
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Vivian Wang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But in a sign of how eager the Chinese government remains to suppress public discussion of the outbreak, it was unclear on Monday evening whether Ms. Zhang, 40, had actually been set free. The lawyer who represented Ms. Zhang during her trial, Zhang Keke (the two are not related), said he could not reach her mother all day. The group, which gave Ms. Zhang a press freedom award in 2021, noted that journalists released from imprisonment in China are often kept under surveillance. Ms. Zhang was an early symbol of the mistrust that many Chinese harbored toward the government’s handling of the outset of the pandemic, and the hunger they had for unfiltered information. A former lawyer from Shanghai, she traveled in early 2020 to Wuhan, the city where the virus was first detected, as a self-styled citizen journalist.

Persons: Zhang Zhan, Zhang, Zhang Keke Locations: China, Shanghai, Wuhan

☆ Renters need to make 36% more than in pre-COVID years to afford today's average rent, Zillow says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Filip De Mott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

US average rent rose to just under $2,000 per month in April, Zillow reports. Tenants now need to earn 36% more than they did in 2019 to afford a typical rent. While rent growth continues, multifamily construction has softened its advance. Since the pandemic's start, rent has increased 31.4%, though income has only grown 23% through February. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now barred from entering nearly 20% of her state, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kristi Noem is now barred from entering nearly 20% of her state, The Associated Press reported. The governor has now been barred from land belonging to the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe, adding to her previous bans from the reservations of the Oglala, Rosebud, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock Sioux tribes, per the report. The moves mean Noem will be refused entry to the reservations of six out of the state's nine Native American tribes. AdvertisementTrump seemingly stood by the governor amid the backlash, saying of Noem: "Somebody that I love. She's been with me, a supporter of mine and I've been a supporter of hers for a long time."

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☆ Jane Seymour is booked and busy defying ageism in Hollywood at 73
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Ask Jane Seymour about her longevity as an actress and she can point to several things, including her willingness to take on a variety of roles. The show, which Seymour also executive produces, has humor as well as mystery and it’s a natural fit for the “Dr. There’s no too small a role.”And there’s no role too emotional for Seymour either. These days Seymour has found love with her boyfriend John Zambetti, who is a doctor and a musician. Now he says ‘Can we watch Dr. Quinn?’”Season 3 of “Harry Wild” premieres Monday on AcornTV.

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☆ Apple Store workers in Maryland vote to authorize strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Apple Store workers in Towson, Maryland, the first of the tech giant’s retail employees to unionize, made history again by voting late Saturday in favor of authorizing a strike. “We deeply value our team members and we’re proud to provide them with industry leading compensation and exceptional benefits.”The union at the Towson store has not disclosed what date members would strike. Apple employees at the Mall at Short Hills store in New Jersey voted against unionizing on Saturday, according to Bloomberg. The union, known as the Communications Workers of America, alleged Apple engaged in illegal union-busting activity and blamed the defeat on the Apple’s tactics. The labor wave hitting Apple retail stores echoes the mass organizing that began at other influential companies in the United States, such as Starbucks and Amazon.

Persons: ”, Apple, “, unionizing, ” Kate Bronfenbrenner, CNN’s Ramishah Maruf Organizations: New, New York CNN, Apple, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers Coalition, Retail Employees, IAM CORE, ” Employees, CNN, Towson, Bloomberg, Communications Workers of America, CWA, Labor, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Education Research, Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations Locations: New York, Towson , Maryland, Towson, Baltimore, Short, New Jersey, Washington, China, New York City, United States

☆ Opinion | Understanding My Son, One Game of Catch At a Time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Jessica Shattuck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As a child, I was not fast or coordinated or interested in anything that involved chasing, catching or otherwise playing ball. But in the long, cold and gloomy spring of 2020, I found myself the mother of an 8-year-old son who wanted nothing more than to play ball. My husband was game, but Will’s appetite for catch was voracious. American film and literature are threaded through with stories of fathers and sons playing ball, from Donald Hall’s essays “Fathers Playing Catch With Sons” to a father appearing on the baseball diamond in “Field of Dreams,” transcending death to participate in a game of catch with his son. But as I picked up a glove, the imagined maleness of the game offered me a certain freedom.

Persons: Hitler, Donald Hall’s, ”, Will Locations: Germany

☆ The most in-demand work-from-anywhere jobs companies are hiring for in 2024—they're not all in tech
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Remote work opportunities have fluctuated since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic but FlexJobs has seen a slight uptick in the companies actively recruiting for work-from-anywhere positions. To help job-seekers find the best remote, flexible gigs, FlexJobs has identified the most in-demand work-from-anywhere jobs companies are hiring for by analyzing its database for the work-from-anywhere jobs with the highest volume of postings between January and April 2024. Such jobs, however, are increasingly competitive to land, only accounting for about 5% of all remote roles, FlexJobs reports. Most remote jobs have location requirements, mainly due to state and federal regulations that dictate where companies can hire people and do business. If you're hoping to land a work-from-anywhere job, Spencer recommends highlighting in-demand soft skills that commonly appear in remote job ads, including project management and adaptability, on your resume and LinkedIn profile.

Persons: FlexJobs, Keith Spencer, Spencer, Slack Organizations: CNBC, Microsoft

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