She had used up her vacation days, and without paid sick leave, she worried about paying her rent and electricity bill if she took more time off. She and her baby ended up being fine, but Ms. Hayes, now an airline gate agent in Inkster, Mich., said that having paid leave would have allowed her to prioritize her health over her paycheck. Paid leave, a cornerstone of President Biden’s economic agenda, is one of the many proposals at risk of being scaled back or left out of an expansive social safety net bill that Democrats are trying to push through Congress. Mr. Biden’s initial $3.5 trillion plan called for providing up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents, caretakers for seriously ill family members and people suffering from a serious medical condition.

NLY is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 92, which puts it in the top 37% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $4.62 per share and revenue of $21.27 billion, which would represent changes of +5.96% and +2.08%, respectively, from the prior year. MO currently has a Zacks Rank of #4 (Sell). This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 112, putting it in the top 45% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups.

NOK's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $0.38 per share and revenue of $26.18 billion. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 112, putting it in the top 45% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 39, which puts it in the top 16% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research?

The Industrial Services industry is part of the Industrial Products sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 86, putting it in the top 34% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 179, putting it in the bottom 30% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

SWKS is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 222, which puts it in the bottom 13% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

TJX is holding a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy) right now. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 112, which puts it in the top 45% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX): Free Stock Analysis Report

ULTA is holding a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy) right now. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 85, which puts it in the top 34% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Ulta Beauty Inc. (ULTA): Free Stock Analysis Report

UPS is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 222, putting it in the bottom 13% of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank includes is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%.

Another way Bitcoin mining can be made more sustainable, some argue, is to use “stranded” or wasted energy, for example capturing the power of flare gas at oil patches to mint digital money. How else can Bitcoin help with wasted energy?De Vries: Bitcoin uses a lot of energy, but if it’s a use of energy that would otherwise be going to waste then it’s not really a problem. China recently banned Bitcoin mining because these Bitcoin miners were ultimately responsible for the revival of coal mines.

is considering asking media from Holdings to to let rivals access and display their content in search results, a move that could further eradicate online barriers and shake up the internet advertising arena. The Ministry of Industry and IT is debating rules to make hundreds of millions of articles on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app available via search engines like Baidu’s, people familiar with the matter said. It’s also considering making short videos from ByteDance’s Douyin — TikTok’s Chinese cousin — show up in searches. If implemented, the policy decision would mark a significant advance in Beijing’s campaign to break down barriers among China’s internet giants, especially and Alibaba Group.

Pakistan’s rupee hit a record low on Monday of 173.20 in intra-day trading against the dollar before closing at 172.78, below the previous close of 171.18, after reports of a failure of talks with the Monetary Fund, traders said. The government's finance ministry on Monday dismissed reports by local media over the weekend that talks from October 4 to 15 for the release of a $1 billion loan tranche were inconclusive. No timeframe was set at any stage for the conclusion of the talks,” the finance ministry said. In June, a similar round of talks between the two sides had failed.

Technology Group unveiled its first electric vehicles, a milestone that could boost the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer’s credentials as a serious bidder for Apple’s secretive automotive project. Executives including Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn’s flagship unit Hon Hai Precision Industry, unveiled the vehicles at its Technology Day event in Taipei. Foxconn is among the technology firms targeting EVs as a source of growth beyond low-margin electronics assembly. The Ohio plant deal is a boon for Foxconn, giving it assembly capacity, equipment and talent.

is looking to raise 25 billion kronor ($2.9 billion) in a Stockholm initial public offering in a test for automakers amid the sector’s transition to electric vehicles. The Swedish carmaker, owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is offering shares at 53 kronor to 68 kronor each, according to a statement Monday. The deal values Volvo Cars at as much as $23 billion, 11 years after the Chinese firm bought the business from Ford Motor Co. for $1.8 billion. The is set to be Europe’s largest since January, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg.

Netflix’s hit show Squid Game is driving the company’s shares to outperform its streaming rivals as well as other technology peers in the month since the release of the TV series. The streaming pioneer’s shares have risen 7.1 per cent since the launch of the show, outshining other big technology stocks and its streaming rivals. The NYFANG+ Index, which includes the likes of Apple, Google-owner Alphabet and Tesla., rose 0.6 per cent during that period, while rival Walt Disney, which owns the Disney+ streaming service, saw its stock decline 3.8 per cent. shares are just 1.7 per cent away from an all-time closing high, and analysts expect the show to boost quarterly earnings due Tuesday.

Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was forever stained when he went before the UN and made faulty claims to justify the US war in Iraq, has died of Covid-19 complications. In announcing his death on social media, Powell's family said he had been fully vaccinated. As President George W Bush's first secretary of state, Powell led a State Department that was dubious of the military and intelligence communities’ conviction that Saddam Hussein possessed or was developing weapons of mass destruction. Powell died at age 84 from Covid-19 complications despite being fully vaccinated, his family announced on Monday.

The strength of the U.S. dollar and its role as the world’s reserve currency means that the United States can cut off countries, groups or individuals from much of the global financial system at its discretion. That has intensified efforts to find new ways to evade America’s sanctions, including by using digital currencies that do not flow through the traditional banking system. This year, the Biden administration is on a pace to impose 900 sanctions, which would tie for the third-highest total on record. Last month, the Biden administration cracked down on the growing problem of ransomware attacks, expanding its use of sanctions to cut off digital payment systems that have allowed such criminal activity to flourish and threaten national security.

Robert Haas, a financier who in his 50s used his wealth to go in a markedly different direction, becoming a published aerial photographer, and then in his 60s began collecting vintage and custom-made motorcycles and creating a Texas museum to display them, died on Sept. 28 in a hospital in Dallas. He was 74. The cause was a respiratory illness, said Stacey Mayfield, his companion and the director of the Haas Moto Museum & Sculpture Gallery in Dallas. Mr. Haas, who was known as Bobby, made his fortune in the 1980s.

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is planning to allow Americans to receive a different Covid-19 vaccine as a booster than the one they initially received, a move that could reduce the appeal of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and provide flexibility to doctors and other vaccinators. The study found that recipients of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose shot who received a Moderna booster saw their antibody levels rise 76-fold in 15 days, compared with only a fourfold increase after an extra dose of Johnson & Johnson. is expected to authorize boosters of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines by Wednesday evening; it could allow the mix-and-match approach by then. The agency last month authorized booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for at least six months after the second dose.

And while we were looking for 27% earnings growth on revenue growth of 14%, the first few reports average an earnings growth of 32.6% on 17.6% higher revenue. The Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stock with both Value and Growth Scores of A is expected to grow 6,357.1% in the current quarter to end the year with 598.4% growth is also trading at cheap valuations. The Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) stock is a member of the Retail - Consumer Electronics industry (Top 6%). The company’s Growth Score of A is supported by the 177.1% expected earnings growth in the current quarter and 124.3% expected growth for 2021.

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More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way -- but when it's your turn, you'll get an extra dose of the original vaccine, not one updated to better match the extra-contagious delta variant. The simple answer: The FDA last month OK'd extra doses of Pfizer's original recipe after studies showed it still works well enough against delta -- and those doses could be rolled out right away. Studies show an extra dose of the original formulas revs up virus-fighting antibodies that fend off infection, including antibodies that target delta. Now the companies have studies underway of fully vaccinated people who agreed to test a booster dose tweaked to match delta.

(Reuters) - American Express Co will allow to work from anywhere they want for up to four weeks a year, Chief Executive Officer Stephen Squeri said in a memo to staff on Monday. Adopting a more relaxed stance on work-from-home than most of the big U.S. banks, AmEx has divided staffers into hybrid, onsite and fully virtual categories. Most of the hybrid model staffers must work from office two days a week, it said, while onsite workers will come in for four to five days. in the fully virtual category can continue to work from home.

What is the metaverse?Some people also use the word metaverse to describe gaming worlds, in which users have a character that can walk around and interact with other players. Many science fiction books and films are set in fully-fledged metaverses — alternative digital worlds which are indistinguishable from the real physical world. The idea of the metaverse is that it will create online spaces in which people’s interactions can be more multi-dimensional, where users are able to immerse themselves in digital content rather than simply viewing it.

China’s hit its slowest pace of growth in a year in the third quarter, hurt by power shortages and wobbles in the property sector, highlighting the challenge facing policymakers as they seek to prop up a faltering recovery while reining in the real estate sector. Gross domestic product expanded 4.9 per cent from a year ago, missing forecasts, as attempts by Beijing to curb lending to the property sector exacerbated the fallout from electricity shortages which sent factory output back to levels last seen in early 2020, when heavy Covid-19 curbs were in place. Home sales by value tumbled 16.9 per cent in September from a year earlier, following a 19.7 per cent drop in August, according to Bloomberg calculations based on National Bureau of Statistics’ data. Real estate investment slid for the first time since the onset of Covid shut swathes of the at the start of last year, down 3.5 per cent from a year earlier, calculations show.

Under the practice, called payment for order flow, brokerage firms sell the right to execute retail investors’ trades to bigger trading houses, which make tiny profits on the difference between the buying and selling prices. This system has enabled Robinhood and other brokers to offer free stock trading, but critics say this is problematic: Retail brokers have an incentive to encourage more trading by individual investors, even though it may not be in their best interest. The S.E.C.’s report echoed that concern: “These payments can create a conflict of interest for the retail broker-dealer,” the report said. The practice was challenged in a proposed class-action lawsuit by retail investors against Robinhood, and some critics have suggested that the time had come to ban it.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Southern Missouri Bancorp would post earnings of $1.06 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.53, delivering a surprise of +44.34%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that TriCo would post earnings of $0.93 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.95, delivering a surprise of +2.15%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Simulations Plus would post earnings of $0.17 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.18, delivering a surprise of +5.88%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Unifi would post earnings of $0.22 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.37, delivering a surprise of +68.18%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Washington Trust would post earnings of $1.13 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1, delivering a surprise of -11.50%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that TriNet would post earnings of $0.82 per share when it actually produced earnings of $1.56, delivering a surprise of +90.24%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For Universal Health Services, the Most Accurate Estimate is lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate, suggesting that analysts have recently become bearish on the company's earnings prospects. For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Universal Health Services would post earnings of $2.75 per share when it actually produced earnings of $3.76, delivering a surprise of +36.73%.

The Zacks Earnings ESP compares the Most Accurate Estimate to the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter; the Most Accurate Estimate is a more recent version of the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate. Thus, a positive or negative Earnings ESP reading theoretically indicates the likely deviation of the actual earnings from the consensus estimate. Our research shows that it is difficult to predict an earnings beat with any degree of confidence for stocks with negative Earnings ESP readings and/or Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) or 5 (Strong Sell). For the last reported quarter, it was expected that Waterstone would post earnings of $0.62 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.74, delivering a surprise of +19.35%.

But for most investors, all eyes will be on Netflix NFLX, the best performing FAANG stock from 2010 to 2020, and Tesla TSLA, one of the best performing stocks of 2020 and a fan favorite for those who believe in the genius of CEO Elon Musk and the future of electric vehicles. Even before the latest wave of legalization, Zacks Investment Research has recommended pot stocks that have shot up as high as +285.9%. Netflix, Inc. (NFLX): Free Stock Analysis ReportTesla, Inc. (TSLA): Free Stock Analysis Report

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“He has a company in which they produce water for very large companies at incredible levels and provide services at a very industrial level, so he was always trying to push me there,” explains David. The experience of the young entrepreneur is purely in the technological and innovation part, so he began to look for a way to relate that to the industrial production of water, and in this way Watify was born, an alkaline water brand that is distributed on demand. David Amezcua began his career in large companies where he developed in the technological area, while he was in them he observed that they “invested a lot” for a growth of one or two percent per year."That was like the break I had to make to start getting used to it now to a rhythm that was totally different, that of startups , in which you grow all the time super aggressive and once that was taken away, I was it opened my brain, I removed many obstacles that I had, many blocks and now all I think about is how to grow so exponentially, how do I grow 20, 30, or 40% to be able to reach goals that people sometimes take as impossible, but when you exercise your mind to make it possible it is relatively easy, ”explains David.