With screens flashing red everywhere we look, it's been hard to ignore the steep drop in financial markets we've seen in the first half of the year. Here, we'll look at three winning strategies -- and three losing ones -- when it comes to managing a stock market pullback. Past data show that those who weather volatile stock markets generally recover quite well, often ending up with more than they did before the downturn began.
Chicken Kiev, AI-generated press releases and the annoyance of fan selfies while performing — there was a lot on the minds of the Pet Shop Boys as the iconic British duo prepared to release a new album. Bands of any longevity — especially such a long one — are often asked the cliche: “How do you stay relevant?” For them, it's about never trying to be cool. “That’s something a lot of people try and do, to be somehow cool, which is therefore completely uncool, because it’s trying too hard,” Tennant told The Associated Press recently.
Authorities investigating New York's Gilgo Beach killings have launched a sprawling search of a wooded area on Long Island, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Months ago, prosecutors charged a New York architect with murder in the death of four of the 11 women whose remains were found buried along a remote beach highway in 2010 and 2011. Dozens of police canine units and officers started searching Tuesday through woodlands in Manorville, New York, the law enforcement official said.
Hallmark Channel is bringing back the Brenner brothers for the holidays. The channel has greenlit Three Wiser Men and a Boy, a sequel to the 2022 hit Three Wise Men and a Baby that was the most-watched original movie premiere of 2022. Stars Paul Campbell (The Cases of Mystery Lane), Tyler Hynes (Shifting Gears), Andrew Walker (Christmas Island) and Margaret Colin …
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Meta's AI reality check has dented hopes for a Big Tech revival for stocks, with a GDP update showing the US economy grew slower than expected in the first quarter.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level since late November, another setback for home shoppers in what's traditionally the housing market's busiest time of the year. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 7.17% from 7.1% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.43%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also rose this week
SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Kraken will move their games to an over-the-air broadcaster and have a streaming partnership with Amazon’s Prime Video beginning with the 2024-25 season, the team announced Thursday. The Kraken will be the first NHL team to have a streaming deal with Prime Video for all non-nationally televised games and will be available to Amazon Prime members in Washington, Oregon and Alaska. They are also the third individual team to have a streaming partnership with Prime Video, j
Baby Reindeer has burnished its status as a surprise Netflix hit by piling on viewers in its second week on the streaming service. Episode 1 of Richard Gadd’s lightly fictionalized stalker story was watched by 3M viewers over the past seven days, according to official Barb figures supplied by overnights.tv. This was a 64% increase …
Some sections of the UK edition of the book, released on Thursday, have been redacted.
The prime minister warns that El Niño-triggered heavy rains are likely to continue into May.
TORONTO — Rogers Communications and the NHL have reached an exclusive agreement with Amazon's Prime Video to carry Monday regular-season games in Canada for the next two seasons. Rogers and the league said in a joint statement Thursday that Prime Monday Night Hockey will stream all national regular season Monday night NHL games in English for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 NHL seasons. It marks the NHL's first exclusive broadcast deal with a digital-only streaming service in Canada. The package will in
EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has promoted Julia Friley to Vice President of Scripted Development. In her new role, Friley will create and develop commercial film and television projects with a focus on authentic characters rooted in stories of courage. Currently, she’s overseeing the development of several projects, including feature adaptations of the bestselling novels The Last …
The '1000-Lb. Sisters' star is documenting her travels online as she continues hit the road with psychic Haley Michelle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency. New limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel-fired electric plants are the Biden administration's most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the power sector, the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change. The rules are a key part of President Joe Biden's pledge to eliminate car
In the depths of the South China Sea, the new species lives in a chemical-rich environment, researchers say.
Good evening. Alex Salmond’s Alba Party could decide whether Humza Yousaf is forced to resign as First Minister in a vote of no confidence that has been tabled at Holyrood. Elsewhere, New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, ordering a new trial in the landmark #MeToo case.
EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Lemmon (Tár) and Romy Reiner (You People) have been tapped to star in The Philosophy of Dress, a dark satire from Cyrus Duff, who directs from his script written with Jacob Potash. Shooting this month in New York City, pic’s ensemble also includes Eric Roberts (Inherent Vice), Marcia DeBonis (Sometimes I Think About …
The future King turned to the comedian for inspiration when asked to contribute a ‘dad-joke’ to a school radio show.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Fellow U.S. Army reservists who witnessed the mental and physical decline of a colleague who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told a commission investigating the killings Thursday that they tried to intervene before the tragedy. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, his best friend and fellow reservist Sean Hodgson texted their supervisors, telling them to change the passcode to the gate at their Army Reserve train
Government says long-planned ‘deposit return scheme’ will be introduced in October 2027.
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