Category: Market
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British Billionaire Strikes Deal to Acquire Minority Stake in Manchester United
Updated Dec. 24, 2023 10:36 am ET British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has struck an agreement to buy a minority stake in Manchester United in a deal that values the renowned soccer club at around $6.3 billion including debt and ends more than a yearlong sales process. The deal is expected to be announced later Sunday.…
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Medi-Cal will soon be open to all, ‘papers or no papers.’ She wants her neighbors to know
As parents hustled to pick up their kids from a school in South Los Angeles, Juana Dominguez greeted one after another with the same question in Spanish: “Do you have Medi-Cal?” “Don’t be afraid to get it,” she urged mothers pushing strollers in the afternoon sun. She paused to chat up street vendors hawking raspados…
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Venomous snake bites kill thousands every year. A California doctor may have a solution
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — John Heenan knows the terror of feeling a sting on his foot, then looking down and seeing two bright red puncture wounds about an inch apart and a massive rattlesnake slithering away into tall grass. It was a summer morning in 2017, and the 74-year-old horticulturist was carrying a box of fruit…
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The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance
The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance – Finnoexpert Yi He, a former talk-show host, has sweeping control over the crypto giant’s marketing and investment divisions. She is also founder Changpeng Zhao’s longtime romantic partner.Yi He has assumed the mantle as Binance defender-in-chief, calling critics ‘mediocre and hopeless’ on X. Illustration by Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ;…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom pans talk of banning Donald Trump from presidential race in California
Many leading California Democrats have been clamoring to jettison Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot, but Gov. Gavin Newsom has made it clear he is against the move. “There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy,” Newsom said, “but in California, we defeat candidates…
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Why Kellanova's Pop-Tarts sales are going strong 60 years later
Sixty years after their invention, Pop-Tarts remain beloved by consumers who bought about three billion of them in 2022. “We didn’t realize that this thing was going to go as well as it did,” said 96-year-old Bill Post, who helped develop Pop-Tarts in the early 1960s. “It went beyond any expectations we had.” Post remembers…
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Gainers & Losers: 10 stocks that moved the most on December 22
December 22, 2023 / 04:46 PM IST The Indian equity benchmarks closed in green on December 22, Sensex was up 0.34 percent at 71106.96, and the Nifty was up 0.44 percent at 21349.40. About 2163 shares advanced, 1457 shares declined, and 114 shares remained unchanged. Adani Green Energy Ltd. | CMP Rs. 1533.10 | Adani…