The US stock market finished session higher on Thursday, 01 April 2021, on optimism about a stimulus-fueled economic recovery after President Joe Biden $2.3 trillion infrastructure pitch. Positive sentiment was also generated in reaction to a report from the Institute for Supply Management showing the pace of growth in U. S. manufacturing activity accelerated by much more than anticipated in the month of March.
At the close of trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index advanced 171.66 points or 0.52% to 33,153 and the S&P 500 added 46.98 points or 1.18% to 4,020.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index added 233.23 points or to 1.76% 13,480.
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google s parent company were among the winners, along with smaller companies, which stand to benefit from a quickly growing economy. Health care, household goods stocks and utilities were the only laggards
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The high court has set dates at the end of the year to hear controversial preacher Zakir Naik’s defamation case against Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 2, 2021.
THE High Court in Kuala Lumpur today set December 20-22, 2021, and March 14-17, 2022, to hear two defamation suits filed by Zakir Naik against Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P. Ramasamy.
The suits, filed separately in October and December 2019, on the allegation that Ramasamy made defamatory statements involving the independent preacher, besides linking Zakir to the Tamil Tigers.
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Health Official in Papua New Guinea Explains How Facebook Spreads Misinformation
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Papua New Guinea’s health minister, Jelta Wong, spoke with an Australian think tank over videochat on Thursday about challenges PNG faces in combatting the covid-19 pandemic. PNG is seeing a resurgence of the disease along with a growing wave of misinformation being spread online about vaccines, and the talk is an interesting look at how Facebook has harmed public health in a relatively small country of just 9 million people.