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Get Started Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of January 23, 2023. Hastings hits the road. Netflix’s founder Reed Hastings announced last week that he will be stepping down as co-CEO of the streaming business. Hastings’ current counterpart Ted Sarandos will stay on, and chief operating officer Greg Peters

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of May 30, 2022. Cloudy with a chance of making it rain. Broadcom is purchasing cloud-computing business VMware for $61 billion, making it the biggest acquisition by a chipmaker. At that figure, Broadcom will pay a 44% premium on VMware’s closing price on

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of May 23, 2022. Missing the Target. Earnings reports from big retailers including Walmart and Target showed that supply-chain issues are cutting into profits.Target reported that its profits fell 52% in the first quarter of 2022, and the company’s share price decreased 25%

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of May 16, 2022. The debt digest. Household debt in the U.S. totaled a record $15.84 trillion in the first quarter of 2022,, according to a household debt report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Although it was the smallest

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of March 7, 2022. SOTU economics. President Biden’s annual State of the Union speech last week focused on key issues facing the U.S. and the world, including:  The war in Ukraine. Biden emphasized the importance of democracy against autocracy, while also emphasizing that

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of February 28, 2022. War in Ukraine. Markets tumbled late last week as Russia invaded Ukraine, and Western and Asian nations enacted economic sanctions against Russia for its unprovoked attack. The sanctions include blocking technology exports, freezing financial assets, and preventing large state-owned

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of February 21, 2022. Remington’s settlement. Nine families of the people killed during the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School reached a $73 million settlement with Remington Arms Co., manufacturer of the gun used to kill 20 students and six staff members.

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of February 7, 2022. Dirty thirty. The nation’s total debt reached a record $30 trillion in February. Increased federal spending to combat the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic is thought to have contributed to reaching the milestone years earlier than anticipated. The

Welcome to the Weekly Scan. Here’s what we’re following for the week of January 17, 2022. Overruled. The Supreme Court overturned a Biden administration mandate for Covid-19 testing and vaccines for workers at large businesses. The court decided last week that the rule represented an overreach by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the