{"id":91829,"date":"2022-07-27T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mega-millions-surges-to-over-1-billion"},"modified":"2022-07-27T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:43:44","slug":"mega-millions-surges-to-over-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mega-millions-surges-to-over-1-billion","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions surges to over $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(KRON) &#8212; In today&#8217;s installment of Winners &amp; Losers, financial expert Rob Black discusses the rise in stocks, a fall in home sales and the surge in Mega Millions. Winner:&nbsp; Stocks rise as investors await key Fed decision Equities climbed, boosted by strong gains from Google-parent Alphabet and Microsoft as traders awaited the Federal Reserve&#8217;s latest interest rate decision, scheduled for later in the day. Alphabet shares rose 5% after strong revenue from Google&#8217;s search business. Microsoft posted earnings and revenue below analyst estimates but reported a 40% jump in revenue growth for Azure and cloud services. Shares popped 5%. Meta&#8217;s earnings will come today and may see fallout due to TikTok. McDonald&#8217;s has raised the price of a cheeseburger in the UK for the first time in 14 years.&nbsp; The cost of a cheeseburger has increased from 99 pence ($1.19) to &#163;1.19, marking a 20% price increase. Other items on McDonald&#8217;s U.K. food menu have increased in price by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(KRON) &#8212; In today&#8217;s installment of Winners &amp; Losers, financial expert Rob Black discusses the rise in stocks, a fall in home sales and the surge in Mega Millions. Winner:&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[7,5,76,6,122,218],"class_list":["post-91829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-news","tag-gambling","tag-hobbies","tag-housing","tag-lifestyle","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}