Author: Alex Maschino
More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, making it one of the deadliest disasters in a decade.View Entire Post ›
US stocks and the dollar fell sharply on Thursday, giving back some of their huge gains in the previous session, as traders continued to fixate on Donald Trump’s tariffs and their potential hit to global growth.Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 index, which on Wednesday soared 9.5 per cent in its best session since 2008, was down 3.2 per cent in afternoon trading. It has fallen almost 7 per cent this month. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite — which on Wednesday surged more than 12 per cent for its best day since 2001 — was down 3.7 per cent on Thursday. In…
Chrissy Metz counts herself a fan of This Is Us years after playing Kate Pearson, though there are still scenes she cannot bear to rewatch. “I mean, as a fan, obviously when William passed away,” Metz, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, April 9, while promoting her children’s book When I Talk to God, I Talk About Feelings. “And then, now knowing that Ron [Cephas Jones] has transitioned, it’s like, ‘I can’t watch that.’” During the debut season of This Is Us, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) reunited with his biological father (played by Cephas Jones) amid William’s private cancer…
Unai Emery insists his Aston Villa side still have belief despite falling to a 3-1 defeat to PSG in their Champions League quarter-final first leg in Paris on Wednesday.Morgan Rogers had given Villa a surprise lead at a raucous Parc des Princes after 35-minutes, but sublime goals from Desire Doue, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes completed the comeback for the dominant Ligue 1 champions.The result means Emery’s side have a monumental task on their hands in the second leg if they are to have any hope of progressing to the last four of Europe’s elite club competition.Defeat in Paris —…
For days, Donald Trump and his White House team had insisted they were fully committed to their decision to impose sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs on dozens of countries. They even derided a report on Tuesday that said the president was considering a 90-day pause – news that triggered a brief stock market surge.But now that pause on higher tariff rates, with a few notable exceptions, is a reality. The reordering of the global economic order is on hold, and Trump’s promise of a golden age of American manufacturing will have to wait.The White House has said that going big on tariffs…
Golden Matrix group sees $15,596 stock purchase by 10% owner Milovanovic
After admitting she was interested in The Golden Bachelorette runner-up Guy Gansert, Kelly Bensimon claimed his costar Pascal Ibgui recently slid into her DMs. “Pascal, another guy on The Golden Bachelorette, slid into my DMs,” Kelly shared on the Tuesday, April 8, episode of the “Ben & Ashley I Almost Famous” podcast, before admitting to hosts Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti that she didn’t watch the first season of the reality dating series which premiered in September 2024. “It’s actually very entertaining.” The Real Housewives of New York alum explained how Ibgui introduced himself to her by attempting to relay…
The Houston Astros made the postseason for an eighth consecutive season after finishing with a record of 88-73 and winning the American League West.Although the Astros made yet another playoff appearance, their streak of seven straight American League Championship Series appearances ended as they lost to the Detroit Tigers in the wild-card round.The Astros have had an interesting offseason as they traded outfielder Kyle Tucker to the Chicago Cubs and could potentially lose third baseman Alex Bregman as a free agent.While things may look questionable for the current Astros team, they did get some good news as an organization as…
Here is where things stand on Wednesday, 9 April: Fighting The Ministry of Defence in Moscow said its units intercepted and destroyed 23 Ukrainian drones overnight on the border in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions. The ministry also said Russian forces mounted a shock attack and recaptured the village of Guyevo in Kursk, which had been held by Ukrainian troops since August 2024. Moscow said it carried out air and artillery strikes on Ukrainian troops inside Russian territory, pushing Kyiv’s soldiers back towards the border. Ukrainian forces attacked two Russian energy facilities in the past 24 hours despite a mutually…
The typical CEO spends their time attending meetings, strategizing with their board, and, in the case of the boss of semiconductor giant ASML, batting off questions about how to get to where he is. It’s an understandable query. As CEO of the Fortune 500 Europe lithography group, Christophe Fouquet is in charge of one of the most strategically important companies in the world. His €3.5 million ($3.6 million) pay packet last year, and more in accumulated stock options, doesn’t temper the envy either. But speaking to Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai Tangen on his In Good Company podcast, Fouquet…