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• Dow Jones Newswires: Qantas blames glitchy system for selling tickets for canceled flights

  29-10-2023 23:58
  SYDNEY — Australian carrier Qantas Airways QAN, +0.63%said that it sold tickets for flights that it knew had been canceled because of internal systems’ shortcomings rather than for financial gain. Qantas, which faces legal action over the issue following allegations by Australia’s consumer watchdog, on Monday said that its systems had been unable to cope with the volume of changes it made to flight schedules amid shortages of aircraft and staff in the first half of 2022.It said
  
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• What’s Worth Streaming: Here’s what’s new on Hulu in November 2023 — and what’s leaving

  29-10-2023 23:45
  Hulu has a loaded lineup in November 2023, with a pair of highly anticipated FX dramas, an epic Baz Luhrmann miniseries and a slew of Christmas movies. FX’s “A Murder at the End of the World” (Nov. 14) was pushed back from an August release date due to the Hollywood strikes, but it should fit better in a colder season anyway. From Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, producers of Netflix’s sci-fi cult favorite “The OA,” the limited series is an Agatha Ch
  
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• What’s Worth Streaming: What’s new on Amazon’s Prime Video and Freevee in November 2023

  29-10-2023 21:27
  Amazon’s Prime Video has more hyper-violent superheroes coming in November 2023, along with a pair of new reality shows and a ton of movies. After a layoff of more than two years, the very-adult animated series “Invincible” (Nov. 3) returns for its second season. Based on the graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, the series picks up with Mark (Steven Yeun) still reeling from the revelations about his superhero father (J.K. Simmons) at the end of Season
  
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• Mark Hulbert: How to play the coming January bounce-back for 2023’s stock-market losers

  29-10-2023 20:21
  Don’t be too quick to sell the stocks that have performed the worst so far this year, since they are likely to be among the U.S. market’s best performers in January. That’s because those loser stocks will be subjected to two different sources of artificial selling pressure in coming weeks, neither of which has anything to do with fundamentals or earnings potential. That pressure comes to an end on Dec. 31, which is why these stocks are likely to bounce back in a big way in Jan
  
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• The Fed: Fed likely won’t raise rates this week, and will hope that they’re done

  29-10-2023 19:55
  The Federal Reserve will likely hold interest rates steady at its meeting this week, extending the pause that began after the last rate hike in July.The central bankers are giving off signals that they’d like to remain on the sidelines for some time, but will continue to keep alive the possibility of a hike in December, said Josh Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc.“They’re not going to do anything. I think that they’re hoping they are done, but I don’t think t
  
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• Earnings Watch: Big Tech earnings have been strong, but Apple is about to answer the thousand-dollar question

  29-10-2023 14:31
  While the stock market reactions may not prove it, Big Tech is four-for-four so far this earnings reporting season.Alphabet Inc. GOOG, -0.03% GOOGL, -0.09%,Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +6.83%,Meta Platforms Inc. META, +2.91%and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.59%all beat earnings and revenue expectations for the latest quarter, showing, among other things that the advertising market was healthy in the latest quarter and that software spending is holding up.But one more major test looms in the week ahead. Appl
  
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• The Moneyist: My mother is guarantor on my brother’s mortgage — using her home as collateral. What happens if she dies?

  29-10-2023 01:43
  Dear Quentin,My mother and stepfather just cosigned for a mortgage for my brother. My mom said their house is being used as collateral. If my brother can’t pay his mortgage, our mother will have to pay it for him, or the bank will take her house, right? Also, what happens if my mother and stepfather both pass away and my brother’s house is not paid off? What happens if one of them needs assisted care and the house needs to be sold for that? They are both in their mid 70s. The Ot
  
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