Stock futures are lower for the third consecutive day as investors brace for the Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting this week.
Here are 4 tickers trending on Yahoo Finance in premarket trading:
Ford Motor Company (F): Shares of the carmaker are lower after Ford cautioned that supply chain bottlenecks would clip its third-quarter bottom line. The automaker is projecting adjusted operating results for the third quarter would fall between $1.4 billion and $1.7 billion. Ford said it expects to have between 40,000 and 45,000 vehicles in inventory at the end of the third quarter “lacking certain parts presently in short…
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September 5, 2022 · 7:00 PM
You men are gaining weight, too!
From the Journal of Obesity:
…. 10-year weight gain is substantially greater in US women compared to men. On average (±SE), women gained 5.4 ± 0.3 kg and 9.2 ± 0.4 percent of their initial weight over the previous 10 years, whereas men gained 2.6 ± 0.2 kg and 3.8 ± 0.3 percent of their initial weight. in general, compared to US men, women gained about twice as much weight (kg) and 2.4 times more weight expressed as a percent of initial weight, over the previous 10 years.…
Let me be very clear. I do not like beets. I’ve spent over fifty years disliking beets.
I’ve tried them boiled (gag-inducing), roasted (almost tolerable, but no), raw (the additional chewing required just prolongs the misery), and picked (where’s the bathroom?).
To me, beets taste like garden dirt laced with a little bit of sugar. Interestingly, there is validity to that perception. Beets contain a naturally-occurring compound called geosmin, and geosmin gives beets their dirt-like . . . er. . . earthy flavour.
Some people like this earthy flavor.
I’m not one of them.
Just as interesting – at least…
Proper diet undoubtedly promotes healthier aging and longevity. But what’s the right diet? A meta-analysis of diet studies proposes an answer. or more accurately, answers, based on diet-related biomarkers linked to disease and aging. Half of the studies were done in Europe, the rest from North America and Asia. The February, 2023, article was published in Nutrients. You can read the entire article online.
“….the main goal of this systematic review was to perceive the quantity and quality of different diets or aspects in nutrition, how they could modulate biomarkers and prevent aging-related diseases, in order to enlighten new intervention…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki, Germany’s Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, Joachim Nagel, President of Germany’s federal reserve Bundesbank, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen,
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NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central banks from the Group of Seven rich nations agreed the global financial system is resilient but the need for vigilance remains, Japan’s finance minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Saturday.
The officials issued a joint statement vowing to address regulatory gaps in the banking system discovered during recent problems at US and Swiss banks, and said they…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong’s finance chief said on Thursday he does not see a sharp risk to the city’s real estate market nor a need to adjust property control measures, as the financial hub braces for more interest rate hikes.
Finance Secretary Paul Chan was speaking after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised its base rate charged through the overnight discount window by 75 basis points to 3.5%, its highest since October 2008, following the same move by the US Federal Reserve.
Chan said that while home prices in Hong Kong have dropped close to over 6% in the…
Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.Scott Mlyn/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
The Fed is making the same exact mistake it made a year ago, and possibly the biggest mistake in its history.
That’s according to Jeremy Siegel, who criticized the Fed’s inability to recognize that inflation is easing.
“It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, way too tight!” Siegel said.
Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel has a big issue with the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes in its bid to tame inflation, and worries that the central bank is making…
Apple could have a few other problems on its hands in 2023 besides an uncertain manufacturing situation in China, according to one Apple bull on the Street.
“I think there are two main issues laying ahead of Apple for 2023,” Oppenheimer analyst Martin Yang said on Yahoo Finance Live. “Number one is we have seen two years of very strong iPhone upgrades. That may weaken into 2023 because of two factors. One is the majority of the installed base is most likely upgraded. And then continuing macroeconomic pressure will cause certain groups of consumers to delay their upgrade. Secondly, there…