Global stocks rise, London hits new record Hong Kong led another rally across Asian markets Friday thanks to a surge in tech giants, while the yen extended gains against the dollar on revived hopes for US interest rate cuts. 05/2/2024 - 11:59 pm | View Link
Morning Bid: Markets loving the Fed, yen loving the BOJ The dovish waves from Fed Chair Jerome Powell's press conference on Wednesday continue to wash over world markets, putting Asian stocks on the cusp of a second straight weekly gain and highs not seen ... 05/2/2024 - 9:47 am | View Link
FTSE 100 Live 2 May: Index closes at another record, US stocks up ahead of Apple results Forecast-beating results by Shell and Standard Chartered today boosted their shares during another robust session for the FTSE 100 index. Shell’s quarterly earnings topped $7 billion while the ... 05/2/2024 - 1:19 am | View Link
StanChart profit beats forecasts as fee income boost offsets credit losses LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Standard Chartered PLC beat forecasts on Thursday with a 5.5% rise in first-quarter pretax profit, as a surge in income from its trading and wealth businesses more than ... 05/1/2024 - 9:45 pm | View Link
HSBC’s architect of overhaul, CEO Quinn, announces surprise exit HONG KONG: Global bank HSBC announced Tuesday the shock departure of chief executive Noel Quinn, who will retire after overhauling the group in an “intense” five-year tenure weathering a Covid fallout ... 04/29/2024 - 11:02 pm | View Link
Kimberly Zapata, the former Milwaukee elections official who committed election fraud in the 2022 elections by falsely filing for three military absentee ballots found out her fate this week.
Zapata had been facing up to five years in prison, instead was sentenced to one year of probation, a $3,000 fine and 120 hours of community service.
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U. K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election.
Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — On a Monday morning last month, tech executives, engineers and sales representatives from Amazon, Google, TikTok and other companies endured a three-hour traffic jam as their cars crawled toward a mammoth conference at an event space in the desert, 50 miles outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The lure: billions of dollars in Saudi money as the kingdom seeks to build a tech industry to complement its oil dominance.
To bypass the congestion, frustrated eventgoers drove onto the highway shoulder, kicking up plumes of desert sand as they sped past those following traffic rules.
For more than 50 years, the National Sports Center for the Disabled has been a world leader in adaptive snow sports at Winter Park, helping people with disabilities become active outdoors, offering competitive programs and producing paralympic athletes. Now it’s poised to expand its programs in the Front Range with a spacious new facility at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds.
The NSCD Adaptive Program Center opened Wednesday with a field day for 100 special needs students from Aurora Public Schools.
A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month.
Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.