Calvin Johnson receives Hall of Fame ring during Lions halftime ceremony at Ford Field
Calvin Johnson received his Pro Football Hall of Fame ring during a ceremony at halftime of Sunday's Ravens-Lions game at Ford Field.
Calvin Johnson received his Pro Football Hall of Fame ring during a ceremony at halftime of Sunday's Ravens-Lions game at Ford Field.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan weighs in on the fight against inflation and another solid quarter of consumer spending.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler would be the first to lament he doesn't spend enough time celebrating his achievements, which are piling up at an alarming pace. Scheffler technically can say they closed down the bar. “Took a few photos, had a drink and then went home and went to bed,” Scheffler said Wednesday at the RBC Heritage on idyllic Hilton Head Island, a tournament known as the perfect place for a big post-Masters exhale.
Stocks were mixed ahead of Fed data Wednesday. ASML sold off after earnings. Nvidia remained in a base.
A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has upgraded a probe opened in February of 2022 to an engineering analysis after it received 1,294 complaints about the problem, mainly from consumers and through the company. An engineering analysis is the last step before the agency can seek a recall, although the vehicles are not being recalled at this time.
Today is National Canadian Film Day. To celebrate, North Bay’s local horror film festival, Bay of Blood, is presenting a screening of David Cronenberg’s classic, The Brood. Cindy Hinds, who played Candice Carveth in the film, will be on site to open the show and meet with fans. Tonight’s screening also celebrates the film’s 45th anniversary. “It doesn’t seem real,” Hinds said of such a milestone. “I can remember it like it was yesterday,” even though at the time she was working with Cronenberg,
In its second round of layoffs in 2024, EV maker Rivian (RIVN) plans to cut another 1% of its workforce. Market Domination Co-Hosts Julie Hyman and Josh Lipton discuss the significance of this on Rivian's position in the electric vehicle market. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust said it is investigating an incident.
U.S. stocks fell in choppy trading on Wednesday as investors assessed the Federal Reserve's interest rate stance and a batch of soft earnings early in the financial reporting season. Travelers tumbled 7.41% and was among the biggest drags on the S&P 500 and largest on the Dow Industrials after the insurance giant missed Wall Street expectations for first-quarter profit. After a rally in the last two months of 2023 that extended into the first quarter, equities have struggled with the S&P 500 registering its fourth straight session of declines.
Michael Chandler thinks there's a strong chance Conor McGregor's final act in MMA will come at UFC 303.
Thousands of Taylor Swift fans hoping to attend the superstar's summer shows have been scammed. Fraudsters claiming to offer tickets to the star's UK concerts have cost punters more than $1.24 million (£1 million), bank chiefs estimate. As reported by the Daily Mail, bosses at Lloyds Bank have revealed that more than 600 of their own customers have been left angry, disappointed and out of pocket. And they claim that once other lenders are taken into account, the true number is likely to run to more than 3,000.
Arm Holdings is looking to bring the same energy-efficient computing to data centers that it did for mobile devices.
Quarter-final perfectly poised at 3-3
Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators genetically identical to one of the last such animals found in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday. Efforts to breed the first clone, a female named Elizabeth Ann born in 2021, have failed, but the recent births of two more cloned females, named Noreen and Antonia, in combination with a captive breeding program launched in the 1980s, is boosting hopes of diversifying the endangered species. Energetic and curious, black-footed ferrets are a nocturnal type of weasel with dark eye markings resembling a robber's mask.
Will Bill Barber Rink show court lines this summer? The Callander Pickleball club is growing strong and are looking for some more court space. Dave Cross, representing the club, requested that council consider allowing the club to paint court lines on the Bill Barber Rink’s concrete pad. “We have a great problem in Callander and area,” Cross said, “we have too many people that want to play pickleball, and not enough courts to play on.” Currently, local pickleballers convene at the Callander Comm
Watch as Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he delivered campaign remarks to steelworkers on Wednesday, 17 April. The US president met staff at the United Steelworkers Headquarters, where he called for higher tariffs on Chinese metals in the “Steel City.” Mr Biden’s proposed tariffs are part of a package of policies aimed at pleasing the swing state, but risk angering Beijing.
Canada's main stock index ended higher on Wednesday as mining stocks rallied and investors looked ahead to quarterly earnings reports, but gains for the index were held in check after the federal budget proposed raising a tax on investment profits. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index ended up 13.18 points, or 0.1%, at 21,656.05, after five straight days of declines. "There is some dip buying going on at the margins," said Elvis Picardo, a portfolio manager at Luft Financial, iA Private Wealth.
Essentially, all modes of severe weather are possible on Wednesday afternoon and evening. The highest threat is from destructive wind gusts over 60 mph.
Despite opposition, his bill advanced in the Legislature Wednesday.
A stock market correlation index hit a near four-month high on Wednesday, signaling that investors expect stock market gyrations to tick up in coming days. With the S&P 500 slipping 0.58% on Wednesday, down nearly 5% from the record high touched in late March, the Cboe 1-Month Implied Correlation Index rose as high as 21.79, its highest since late December. The Cboe index, which measures the market's expectations of correlation between S&P 500 index components, was languishing below 10 as recently as the start of April, lows rarely touched in the index's near two-decade history, according to LSEG data.
On Sunday, the rare devil comet will reach its closest point to the sun, creating an illuminating sky show. Here is how skygazers can watch it.