Large technology corporations as well as small-cap companies have been no stranger to the ongoing sell-off in the capital markets. In some ways, it's hard to believe that the days of meme stocks and the subsequent market euphoria were only a year ago. One of the primary contributors to this overzealous investing sentiment was the metaverse.
A fire tore through a small hotel in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre early Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 11, authorities said. The fire broke out in the early hours in the three-story building, which provided affordable housing for single people but which lacked proper licensing and lacked an emergency fire plan, the fire brigade of the Rio Grande do Sul state said on social media. Porto Alegre Mayor Sebastião Melo said on his social media accounts that he was following the investigations into the fire closely.
Several London Underground stations are closed due to workers striking while two Tube lines were halted because of a casualty on the track. Transport for London said four stations were closed on the network at 3.50pm on Friday due to the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association action. The union said the action was likely to cause Tube stations to close at the last minute, including into Saturday morning, but Transport for London said there will not be significant disruption.
U.S. Silica has agreed to go private in an all-cash acquisition by Apollo Global Management that values the industrial minerals company at about $1.85 billion. In a Friday announcement, U.S. Silica said that shareholders would receive $15.50 in cash for each share owned as of the deal's closing. Once the deal closes, U.S. Silica's stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Civil servants at Britain’s official statistics body have refused to be “forced back” into the office for two days a week.
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“Divest from death” read the bubble letters written in chalk on the sidewalk on Tuesday outside of The New School in New York City. The slogan articulates one of the demands of the antiwar protests on campuses which call on colleges or universities to divest their endowments from companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war. Campaigns to pressure universities to divest for political or ethical reasons go back decades, at least to the 1970s when students pressured schools to withdraw from invest
Wacom's latest pen display model is called Movink, and it's the company's first with a OLED screen. It's also Wacom's thinnest and lightest option ever, while still offering 13 inches of work space.
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The U.S. Treasury 10-year term premium, a measure of the compensation investors demand for holding long-term government bonds, has moved back into positive territory this week as yields touched fresh highs on inflation concerns. Term premiums, which can hurt assets such as stocks when they rise, have been suppressed for about a decade amid low interest rates that followed the 2007-2009 global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. They turned positive last year as widening fiscal deficits and higher government bond issuance helped lift long-term Treasury yields, which move inversely to prices.
Marcus Rashford has hit out at the abuse he has suffered this season and said “enough is enough”.
* Brazil's inflation slows to 0.21% in mid-April vs est 0.29% * Brazil's cenbank chief points to US interest rates as major beacon * S&P Global Ratings cuts Peru's rating * Latin American stocks jump 1.5%, FX adds 0.8% By Bansari Mayur Kamdar April 26 (Reuters) - Currencies and stocks in Latin America rose on Friday, setting both indexes on track for weekly gains, tracking upbeat risk sentiment globally as Wall Street rallied on robust earnings reports. The MSCI index for Latin American currencies gained 0.8% and was on track to end the turbulent week 1.4% higher following steep losses earlier in the month when investors walked away from riskier assets due to uncertainties from heightened tensions in the Middle East.
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Following an impressive award season run, the actress widely known as Emma Stone, who recently won her second Oscar, is revealing Emma is just a stage name.
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