Summary: Costco offers exclusive savings and perks to members, including heavy discounts on name-brand items and Kirkland Signature products. Experienced shoppers can find even more deals in-store and online by maximizing their membership benefits.
Full articleSummary: UnitedHealth Group Inc. has reached a tentative deal to settle a class action challenging the Wells Fargo & Co. target date funds in its $15 billion 401(k) plan.
Full articleSummary: Philip Morris International Inc.'s Vectura Fertin Pharma, Inc. plans to sell Vectura Goup plc to Molex Asia Holdings for $198 million. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions.
Full articleSummary: ConocoPhillips to supply Uniper SE with natural gas for the next 10 years, ensuring energy supply security in key northwest European markets.
Full articleSummary: Uniper and ConocoPhillips have agreed on a 10-year natural gas supply deal in north-west Europe. The financial details were not disclosed.
Full articleSummary: Saba Capital Management, L.P. strategically increased its holdings in BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II by acquiring an additional 47,682 shares, reflecting confidence in BMEZ and enhancing its portfolio. The recent acquisition was executed at a price slightly below the current market price, increasing the firm's total shares in BMEZ to 20,586,113. BMEZ operates in the health sciences sector with a focus on equity securities of companies.
Full articleSummary: New VR MMORPG Freeland is now available for free on Meta Quest and PC VR. The game offers a vast online galaxy, open world exploration, dynamic combat, social interaction, dungeons, and PvP combat.
Full articleSummary: The McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) have been revised for the third time in 15 years, incorporating new MRI technology and biomarkers, aimed at improving the specificity of the diagnosis and potentially leading to earlier initiation of treatment.
Full articleSummary: U.S. Bank is launching the U.S. Bank Smartly™ Visa Signature® Card, offering up to 4% cash back based on banking relationship. Specific terms like sign-up bonus and ongoing APR are yet to be disclosed. Customers can join the waiting list for the card.
Full articleSummary: Starbucks has violated federal labor law by subpoenaing union information related to an organizing effort at a Long Island store.
Full articleSummary: A viral video shows an Indian expat in Canada expressing dissatisfaction over Canadian employers overlooking work experience from India, highlighting challenges in job hunt and low income.
Full articleSummary: Tucker Carlson targets Philip Morris International with derogatory remarks about the Zyn brand, while preparing to enter the tobacco industry with a competing nicotine-pouch brand called Alp.
Full articleSummary: Noteworthy options trading volume was observed for IBM, PANW, and LW today, with high volume especially in specific strike call/put options.
Full articleSummary: Michelle Obama surprises Costco shoppers in Livermore by selling her new brand of healthy soft drinks for kids under her company PLEZi Nutrition.
Full articleSummary: Medicare Advantage insurers and distribution partners are expecting a busy Annual Election Period due to multiple Part D benefit changes, as well as concerns about market disruption and enrollee confusion stemming from a new drug manufacturer letter regarding Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs) and the Medicare Payment Prescription Plan (M3P). Pfizer Inc. has informed Part D beneficiaries about the need to enroll in M3P before being reconsidered for PAP through its Pfizer Oncology Together program.
Full articleSummary: NVIDIA launches AI Aerial for AI-RAN technology with telecommunications partnerships for innovation and commercialization.
Full articleSummary: Deutsche Bank analyst Ed Yu believes investors should take advantage of Tesla's stock dip as the company plans to launch a more affordable model in 2025 and has shown improving demand growth.
Full articleSummary: Lenovo's new Yoga laptop with Intel's Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) CPU is reported to deliver almost 24 hours of video playback, outperforming Apple MacBook laptops with M2 and M3 silicon by over five hours. Lunar Lake processors emphasize efficiency, potentially posing a challenge to Apple and Qualcomm's chips.
Full articleSummary: Uniper and ConocoPhillips have agreed on a 10-year natural gas supply deal for up to 10 billion cubic metres of natural gas in north-west Europe. The supply will be through natural gas pipelines, not LNG.
Full articleSummary: Microsoft and BlackRock announced a joint venture, the Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership, with an initial investment of over $30 billion to support the development of AI infrastructure.
Full articleSummary: Microsoft has partnered with 14 development teams to bring a variety of new aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 including A321LR, Boeing 747 Dreamlifter, and more.
Full articleSummary: Target Corp hires Jim Lee from PepsiCo as CFO, with a significant compensation package, coinciding with the holiday season hiring of 100,000 workers. The CFO transition is expected to support Target's growth roadmap.
Full articleSummary: Oak Street Health, a subsidiary of CVS Health Inc, agreed to settle for $60 million in Medicare kickback violations under False Claims Act. The claims involved paying kickbacks to third-party insurance agents to recruit seniors, leading to false Medicare submissions.
Full articleSummary: Oracle Code Assist, an AI-assisted coding tool optimized for Java and other modern programming languages, is now available in beta for external developers. It offers features such as generating code and unit tests, providing coding assistance, and highlighting bugs with suggested fixes. Oracle also plans to release a version for NetSuite SuiteScript.
Full articleSummary: Passkeys are getting easier to use for Chrome users, can now be saved to Google Password Manager for automatic syncing across devices, added PINs for extra security measures.
Full articleSummary: Uniper and ConocoPhillips have agreed on a supply deal for up to 10 billion cubic metres of natural gas over the next 10 years in north-west Europe.
Full articleSummary: AMP Wealth Management NZ has made an initial capital investment of $28 million into BlackRock's Global Renewable Power Fund IV, focusing on solar energy operations in Canada and Germany. AMP plans to invest $150m in New Zealand-based renewable energy infrastructure by the end of the year.
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