President Joe Biden is closing in on Donald Trump’s early polling advantage, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released Saturday. While Trump sustained a four-point lead over Biden in February, the two candidates are now nearly neck-and-neck, with Trump polling at 47 percent among likely voters and Biden at 46 percent. The poll […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor told a court on Tuesday that Uber began illegally operating its ridesharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors. Taxi Apps, an Australian startup that developed taxi-hailing app GoCatch, lodged a 196-page statement of claim in the Victoria state Supreme […]
(Bloomberg) — Health insurance stocks fell sharply Monday in late trading after US regulators didn’t boost payments for private Medicare plans like the industry had come to expect. Most Read from Bloomberg The decision by the administration of President Joe Biden to hold firm on proposed Medicare Advantage rates for 2025 shows a break with […]
UnitedHealth (UNH) and Humana (HUM) tumbled late Monday while other health insurers such as CVS Health (CVS) and Cigna (CI) ended mixed after the Biden Administration announced that final Medicare Advantage rates in 2025 won’t change from initial plans in January. X The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced late Monday that private Medicare […]
Player-of-the-match Jack Conan was one of five second-half try scorers for Leinster in a dominant 47-14 United Rugby Championship win over the Vodacom Bulls at the RDS. This top of the table clash was of Test match quality at times, with Leo Cullen’s men now nine points clear at the summit. Johan Goosen impressed with […]
The demographic crisis. It’s on the minds of many of the business world’s heavy hitters as the realization sets in that the developed world is not having enough children. Last summer, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk called declining birth rates “the biggest danger civilization faces by far” in a post on X.com, arguing that […]
Hospitals and insurance giants are clashing over wildly popular Medicare Advantage plans as both sides try to protect their profits. Many seniors enrolled in these plans are caught in the crosshairs. More hospitals and healthcare providers are terminating agreements with insurers that provide these private-sector alternatives to Medicare, citing too many denials, delays, and refusals […]
World champion Luke Humphries was at his clinical best to seal a hat-trick of Premier League wins on Thursday. The world number one saw off Peter Wright and Nathan Aspinall before impressively defeating Michael Smith 6-2 in the final in Dublin. It gave Humphries control at the top of the table, following victories in Brighton […]
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign expanded its fundraising advantage in February, with plans to unload a barrage of ads against former President Donald Trump. The Democratic president’s campaign account officially reported taking in $21 million in February, according to its report filed with the Federal Election Commission late Wednesday, ending the month with $71 million […]
(Bloomberg) — Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged top Biden health officials to take a harder line on private Medicare Advantage health plans, arguing that insurance companies annually overcharge the government by tens of billions of dollars. Most Read from Bloomberg The lawmakers asked the administration to ensure “funds that are incorrectly going to” […]
Nvidia’s stock appears to be more attractive than it was a year ago — before it tripled in price — based on the the decline of its forward price-to-earnings ratio. – MarketWatch illustration/iStockphoto You are probably aware that Nvidia Corp. shares have soared over the past year. But you might not know that as this […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump trounced Nikki Haley on Saturday in the South Carolina primary, a victory that emphatically punctuated the depth and breadth of his support among Republican primary voters as he vanquished his lone remaining major opponent in her home state. Trump did not even have to mount a vigorous campaign, making […]