Business news 2023

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Because of COVID, Avian flu, supply chain issues, worker shortages, droughts, inflation and rising costs of feed and fuel, the price of beef, pork, and chicken has risen dramatically in the past three years and Americans are buying less. Shares of Tyson Foods closed today at 61.08, a drop of 2.95 (4.61%). Earnings have fallen 70% in the past year.

Tyson Foods falls after earnings tumble as inflation-weary customers are buying less meat

https://markets.businessinsider.com/...uy-meat-2023-2

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Everyone in a specific theater is watching the same movie on the same screen – but at AMC theaters, moviegoers will soon be paying different prices depending on where they sit, just as they do now at ballparks, sports arenas and playhouses.

AMC Theaters is changing its ticket-pricing

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/busin...ces/index.html

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Worldwide, sales of Dell computers were down 37% in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared with the fourth quarter of 2021. Sales of HP, Apple and Lenovo computers also declined – but not as much as Dell.

Dell to lay off more than 6,500 employees

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/tech/...ffs/index.html

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Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California, and now has 231,000,000 subscribers worldwide. Shares of Netflix closed today at 366.83, a gain of 3.88 (1.07%).

Netflix confirms it will start charging users to share an account with others outside their home

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/con...sers-rcna69790

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Gasoline prices here in California reached a record high of $6.43 in June 2022. We helped the oil companies achieve those "outrageous" profits.

ExxonMobil, Shell lead Big Oil's $221 billion profit binge that Biden has slammed as 'outrageous'
Oil majors posted record profits for 2022, benefiting from the energy-market turmoil triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/...rageous-2023-2

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Americans have been complaining about the high cost of gasoline, housing, healthcare, eggs and meat – and then gambled away a record amount at casinos in 2022. Go figure!

U.S. casinos top $60 billion in revenue in 2022, their best year ever

https://www.aol.com/finance/us-casin...205516380.html

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As if we needed any more reasons to not trust self-driving cars.......

Tesla recalling more than 360,000 cars over potential crash risk
The cars are equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta software.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesl...ry?id=97261475

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Our population is just under 340,000,000. This $16,900,000,000,000 debt works out to $49,705 for every man, woman and child in the United States!

Household debt hit record $16.9 trillion last quarter, as consumers loaded up their credit cards

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/econo...fourth-quarter

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Is Mike Wilson's prediction realistic – or overly pessimistic? I'm going with "overly pessimistic."

US stocks are in the 'death zone' and S&P could crash 26% within months, Morgan Stanley's top strategist says

https://markets.businessinsider.com/...-wilson-2023-2

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Among the many television series filmed at Radford Studio Center are Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Seinfeld, Leave It To Beaver, Gilligan's Island, My Three Sons, American Gladiators, Designing Women, Will & Grace, Lou Grant, Hill Street Blues, The Rifleman, The Big Valley, The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

$1-billion revamp to bring new offices and soundstages to Radford Studio Center

https://la.urbanize.city/post/1-bill...-studio-center