Peacock will exclusively stream an NFL playoff game for the first time next season, in another sign of streaming services’ growing interest in live sports. The NFL and Peacock, the streaming service from Comcast Corp.’s CMCSA, -0.93% NBCUniversal, announced a deal late Monday to stream a wild-card playoff game in…
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The former chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank plans to tell lawmakers Tuesday he did the best he could under the circumstances, and will apologize for the bank’s collapse. “The leadership team and I made the best decisions we could with the facts, forecasts, and outside expert advice available to…
By James Glynn SYDNEY--The Reserve Bank of Australia remains vigilant to the risk of a resurgence in inflation, warning in the minutes of its May 2 policy meeting that further increases to interest rates can't be ruled out and the path to a soft landing for the economy was very…
Shares of Horizon Therapeutics PLC plunged 15% in extended trading Monday after Bloomberg News reported the FTC is expected to file a lawsuit to block Amgen Inc.’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon. The Federal Trade Commission will argue the deal would harm competition for drug development, according to Bloomberg, which…
[]The great pandemic mortgage refinance boom is most definitely over, but the aftershock is still rippling through the housing market. Homeowners are holding up home sales, as their ultra-low prize is too precious to give up. []During the early days of coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021, mortgage rates fell…
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U.S. credit-card debt appears to be stubbornly holding near $1 trillion, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in its quarterly report on household debt and credit Monday. In the fourth quarter, when credit-card debt tends to rise due to holiday shopping, credit-card balances hit a whopping $986 billion,…
The Internal Revenue Service is the country’s tax collector, but a majority of people like the idea of the agency also becoming a tax preparer that does the job for free, according to a new poll released Monday. In Monday’s poll, 76% of voters said they like the prospect of…
My 34-year-old son is getting married this summer. We have an on-and-off relationship, which is especially complicated by the fact that he was dependent on us financially throughout his 20s. We are bitter that he is ungrateful for the support we gave him. He is bitter because he thinks we…