My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, March 22 1. The Fed meeting: does it really matter? Despite the banking crisis, the market is betting nearly 90% on another quarter-point interest rate hike on Wednesday afternoon. Investors are looking for any forward-looking comments in Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s policy statement and post-meeting press conference. The … Read more
We thought we were safe. Flu season is winding down. Spring was in the air (sort of, some places). As flu cases stabilized in January and February, Americans breathed a sigh of relief, put our collective feet up…and immediately realized we had accidentally ingested norovirus and paused for the bathroom. Welcome to the new season … Read more
MIAMI – The script, everyone kept talking about the script. Over the past month and a half, Mike Trout has heard all about how this should play out. Him in the batting box. Shohei Ohtani on the mound. The perfect match for the World Baseball Classic. And, once USA and Japan reach the final, the … Read more
Dow Jones futures rose slightly on Wednesday morning ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate hike decision and comments from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Retailer GameStop (GME) soared 50% on surprise earnings. X The Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting ends on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve may be reluctant to raise its target interest rate on Wednesday as … Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow appears in court for ski collision in Utah Sign up to our Evening Headlines email for your daily guide to the latest news Sign up for our free US Evening Headlines email Actress Gwyneth Paltrow could take the stand today to give evidence in her civil trial over a ski collision in 2016. … Read more
We’ve known for some time now that there’s a complex interplay between our hormones, our gut, and our mental health, but unraveling the most relevant connections within our bodies has proven difficult. New research has found a single enzyme that links the three, and its presence may be responsible for depression in some women during … Read more
The Fed should raise its key rate. Google launches its AI product Bard for testing. Nike sees momentum in China after Covid-induced crisis. Here are the most important information investors need to start their trading day: Decision day has arrived. Will the Federal Reserve raise its benchmark rate by another quarter point, as has long … Read more
The BAFTA Awards BAFTA/Marc Hoberman British Academy voters spread love for the small screen through the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards, with a wide selection of nominated shows. Announced March 22, BBC/AMC comedy-drama This is going to hurt and BBC crime drama The answerr leads the pack of nominees with six nods each, closely followed by … Read more
Comment this story Comment MIAMI — The big tragedy in Shohei Ohtani’s MLB career — and after seeing it in the World Baseball Classic final, the tragedy only seems like a minor exaggeration — is that he never had the chance to put a team on his shoulders in October. Because at the World Baseball … Read more
Doctors from Queen Mary University of London, Barts Hospital and Cambridge University Hospital have developed a new scanner to detect hormone-producing nodules in a gland, found in a person in twenty suffering from high blood pressure. The research was published in the journal Nature Medicine and solves a 60-year-old problem of detecting nodules without a … Read more
