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Oskaloosa News Recap For January 12th, 2021
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Stocks dipped slightly on Monday to begin the new trading week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 165 points, while the Dow fell 89 points and the S&P slipped 25 points.
There is ongoing concern that a market bubble is forming, and valuations are being artificially propped up with low interest rates and economic stimulus money. A striking example is Tesla which presently trades at more than 90-times cash flow.
Bitcoin was trading near $40,000 a unit over this past weekend, but has settled back down to around $33,000 on Monday.
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The man accused of going on a shooting spree in and around Chicago over the weekend has been identified as 32-year-old Justin Nightengale.
iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Jan 12, 2021 11:27am (Christina Ryan/Calgary StarMetro)
Good morning and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Curried Chicken Day and National Hot Tea Day. Looking for a new curry recipe? Allow us to recommend this Coconut Chicken Curry recipe from NYT Cooking. It’s absolutely scrumptious.
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
The Lead
We start this morning in Alberta, where the RCMP is reportedly investigating the death of a Cargill employee who died of COVID-19 while working at the company’s meat-packing plant in High River, Alta.
As the Calgary Herald reports, an RCMP spokesperson confirmed the police have opened a criminal investigation after a complaint was filed by worker Benito Quesada’s 16-year-old daughter on Friday, alleging the company was negligent in protecting its workers. The COVID outbreak at the meat plant last spring was one of the largest in North America, with nearly 1,000 staff testing pos