Month: December 2021

Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images More than $87 billion in unemployment benefits funded by the federal government was likely siphoned from the system during the Covid-19 pandemic, much of it due to fraud, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report. Congress authorized many new programs in the pandemic’s early
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In this article SIG Signage for Kay Jewelers, a subsidiary of Signet Jewelers Ltd., is displayed on the exterior of a store in New York. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Signet Jewelers rose in premarket trading Thursday after the parent company of Kay Jewelers, Zales and Jared reported fiscal third-quarter earnings ahead
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The “knee-jerk” reaction from countries imposing border restrictions due to the new omicron Covid variant show that governments haven’t learned much about how to manage Covid-19 effectively, according to CAPA – Centre for Aviation. Multiple countries including the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Singapore last week moved to restrict travel from southern Africa after the
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Emergency Medical Technician Ethan Hall gives Mark Turney, 66, a kidney transplant patient, his Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 booster shot at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on August 24, 2021. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images Six different Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective when used as booster doses, a U.K. study has found. The peer-reviewed
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday that trying to get into the mindset of the stock market “can be hard to fathom,” especially with Wall Street’s recent volatility on the developments surrounding the new omicron Covid variant. “Sentiment’s a fickle beast,” he added. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared 617 points or 1.8% despite two more
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