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Summary List Placement Best Buy posted booming sales Tuesday, including online orders almost tripling, as demand for home electronics and entertainment products continues to soar during the pandemic. The electronics retailer reported $11.85 billion in total revenue for the quarter to October 31 — 21.4% up on the same time last year, which the company […]

Summary List Placement  Both mortgage rates and refinance rates have mostly decreased since last Tuesday, and since this time last month. Rates are at all-time lows, and you’ll probably get a better deal with a fixed-rate mortgage than an adjustable-rate mortgage. Darrin English, Senior Community Development Loan Officer at Quontic Bank, told Business Insider that adjustable-rate […]

Summary List Placement The UK-based commission-free trading app has launched a waitlist for its Self Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) product, which will cost £9.99 ($12.75) a month for basic users, or £7 ($8.93) a month for Plus members, per AltFi. Users can start investing with £2 ($2.55) and will also get a free company share ranging from £40 […]

Summary List Placement The dumbest of coups is almost over, no thanks to Republicans.  When Emily Murphy released a statement that the General Services Administration would begin the formal transfer-of-power process with President-elect Joe Biden, it put an official end to Trump’s factual evidence-free challenge to his election defeat.  That challenge, led by a melting […]

Summary List Placement Joe Biden wants to make history by appointing women to senior administration posts long dominated by men. His most high-profile move was naming Kamala Harris as his running mate. But his team is planning to make more historic announcements for other jobs, according to Democrats close to the transition.  On Monday, he […]

Summary List Placement The ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases, or a successful and timely vaccine distribution that will save the day? A long-awaited shift into value stocks, or a continued triumphant march for growth? A roaring comeback of consumer confidence, or a more cautious and drawn-out recovery? Inflation or no inflation? It can be difficult […]

Summary List Placement For years, fast-food and other restaurant chains have been battling against a federal minimum wage hike. Now, in 2020, some are giving up the fight.  In an interview last week, Waffle House CEO Walt Ehmer told Business Insider that there appears to be a new presidential administration in place, with President-elect Joe […]

Summary List Placement Marketing analytics company AppsFlyer just received a vote of confidence in the form of a small investment from Salesforce’s venture capital arm. The investment was an extension to the company’s $210 million Series D round led by General Atlantic that closed in January.  AppsFlyer declines to disclose how much additional funding Salesforce […]

Summary List Placement Microsoft’s job vacancies and internships may be different during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the path to landing a job there looks much the same, according to current and former employees. Business Insider spoke to a newbie at the tech giant and former employees in Europe about what a candidate needs to get […]

Summary List Placement More than 125 economists from major institutions across the world are urging Congress to send a second round of $1,200 stimulus checks to American families and businesses hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis. By early June, the federal government had sent out nearly 160 million stimulus checks as part of the $2.2 […]

Summary List Placement The letter to authorize President-elect Joe Biden’s transition arrived late Monday — but is an unusual document which strained to avoid acknowledging his victory. GSA Administrator Emily Murphy wrote to Biden on Monday, 16 tumultuous days after major networks widely called the election for him. (Insider and Decision Desk HQ called the […]

Summary List Placement Not since the hotted-up Mazdaspeed 3 — last on the market in 2013 — has there been a turbocharged Mazda 3. But don’t call the new 2021 Mazda 3 2.5 Turbo a Mazdaspeed 3, because it’s not.  The 2013 Mazdaspeed 3 was a hot hatch done proper. It produced a claimed 263 […]

Summary List Placement Fox News’ Laura Ingraham accepted President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory in her strongest terms yet, telling viewers on Monday night that President Donald Trump’s legal challenges to the election result were likely to fail, and that Biden would in all likelihood become the next president. “As unpleasant and disappointing as these past […]