Tag: Record
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All-cash offers, wealthy buyers push SoCal home prices to a record
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Southern California home prices hit a record in March amid sky-high mortgage interest rates, a combination that’s creating the most unaffordable housing market in a generation. The average for the six-county region reached $869,082 in March, according to Zillow. That’s up 9% from a year earlier and 1% higher than the previous all-time high in…
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Great Lakes ice cover hits record low through mid-March
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The sun beat down as Liz Ricketts peered over a wooden bridge on Rosewood Beach in Highland Park. Below her, a narrow stream carved through the sand, flowing from a grove of barren trees into Lake Michigan. Through the murky water, littered with leaves, she spotted two rainbow trout lingering along the riverbed. They faced…
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Blueberry breaks record as world’s heaviest
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A blueberry grown in Australia has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the heaviest in the world. The golf-ball-sized berry, picked on Nov. 13 at a farm run by Costa Group in Corindi, Australia, came in at 20.4 grams, or 0.72 ounces, and measures more than an inch and a half across, about 10…
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Bitcoin hits new record high above $70,000; vinyl returns to UK inflation basket – business live | Mergers and acquisitions
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Bitcoin at new record high Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of business, economics and financial markets. Bitcoin went through a deep “crypto winter” after hitting its previous heights, but after a remarkable rally it is now hitting new heights above $71,000. The cryptocurrency on Monday morning UK time hit a record of…
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Stock market today: World stocks mixed as Wall Street holds steady near record highs
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HONG KONG — Global markets were mixed on Wednesday after U.S. stocks held near their record levels in a quiet day of trading. France’s CAC 40 edged 0.1% higher in early trading to 7,952.76. Germany’s DAX rose 0.2% to 17,589.14. Britain’s FTSE 100 declined 0.2% to 7,665.96. The futures for the S&P 500 and the…
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Bobi The Dog Stripped Of ‘Oldest’ Guinness World Record
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever. Following a review, GWR said Thursday it “no longer has the evidence it needs to support Bobi’s claim as the record holder.” Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo Portuguese dog, sitting…
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Nvidia stock hits record on earnings, analysts see it hitting $1,000
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Wall Street’s buzzing with talk of the hottest tech stock that just keeps getting hotter: Nvidia. The AI chipmaker beat investors’ sky-high expectations when it reported record fourth-quarter revenues of $22 billion — 270% more than the year before. Are we in an AI bubble? | What’s next for Nvidia? Before Nvidia reported earnings, analysts…
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‘Oppenheimer’ aims for a record haul as stars shine at the British Academy Film Awards
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LONDON — Stars from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond walked the red carpet Sunday for the 77th British Academy Film Awards, where atom-bomb epic âOppenheimerâ could smash a 53-year-old record if it makes good on its field-leading 13 nominations. Christopher Nolan âs biopic of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is up for trophies including…
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Stock market today: Wall Street holds near record levels, with S&P 500 on precipice of 5,000
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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are holding near record levels Thursday as evidence keeps piling up to show the job market remains remarkably solid. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in early trading, a day after coming within a fraction of a point of the 5,000 level for the first time. The Dow Jones Industrial…
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As China’s Markets Stumble, Japan Rises Toward Record
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There’s a shift underway in Asia that’s reverberating through global financial markets. Japan’s stock market, overlooked by investors for decades, is making a furious comeback. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index is edging closer to the record it set on Dec. 29, 1989, which effectively marked the peak of Japan’s economic ascendancy before a collapse that…
