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Brutal Year for Stock Picking Spurs Trillion-Dollar Fund Exodus Bloomberg.com
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Silver and Gold Prices Rally; Stocks Hold Near Records The Wall Street JournalGold is set for its best year since Jimmy Carter was president CNNWhy gold went through the roof this year—and why its price may have been raised permanently FortuneGold and Silver Smash Records Again as Rally Gathers Momentum Yahoo FinanceGold hits record high on safe-haven demand, Fed rate-cut bets Reuters
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Winter Storm Warning in effect ahead of widespread snow across NYC, Tri-State area on Friday night into Saturday morning ABC7 New YorkNew York, New Jersey declare states of emergency as powerful snowstorm hits | Live updates ABC7 New YorkHow New York Is Preparing for Its First Major Snowstorm in Years The New York Times
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For the S&P 500, Dec. 26 has historically been the most reliably positive day of the year.
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Silver rises 9% to hit fresh record high ReutersSilver's Runaway Rally Sweeps Up Amateur Investors The Wall Street JournalGold is set for its best year since Jimmy Carter was president CNNPrice Of Silver Hits All-Time High ForbesGold and Silver Smash Records Again as Rally Gathers Momentum Yahoo Finance
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Dangerous snowstorm headed toward NYC, New Jersey, upstate New York: Latest forecast ABC NewsNew York City could see its most snow in a few years from a post-Christmas storm slicing through the Northeast CNNWinter storm live updates for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut with heavy snow forecast across region CBS NewsHow New York Is Preparing for Its First Major Snowstorm in Years The New York Times
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The seasonal rally typically runs through the first two trading days of the new year.
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All too often, organizations invest in large technology systems but don't see widespread employee adoption, in part because these tools don't reflect how employees actually work. At the same time, workers are clamoring for tools that will help them do their jobs better.
More than half (58%) of respondents to a 2022 Domo survey of employees in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand said their need for technology has increased in the past five years, but their organizations' tech tools aren't meeting those needs. Some 60% of the 3,000 respondents, a mix of desk-based and deskless workers, said they could be more productive and do better work with better technology tools. And 62% said better access to useful tech would make them happier at work.
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EARLIER this month Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business. Senior figures from the world's most famous universities—Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge among them—enjoyed or endured a two-hour opening ceremony followed by a packed programme of mandatory cultural events interspersed with speeches lauding "Xi Jinping thought". The party was thrown to celebrate Peking University's 120th birthday—and, less explicitly, China's success in a race that started 20 years ago.
In May 1998 Jiang Zemin, China's president at the time, announced Project 985, named for the year and the month. Its purpose was to create world-class universities. Nian Cai Liu, a professor of polymeric materials science and engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, got swept up in this initiative. "I asked myself many questions, including: what is the definition of and criteria for a world-class university? What are the positions...Continue reading
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