Mason Plumlee with a dunk vs the Chicago Bulls
Mason Plumlee (Charlotte Hornets) with a dunk vs the Chicago Bulls, 02/02/2023
Mason Plumlee (Charlotte Hornets) with a dunk vs the Chicago Bulls, 02/02/2023
That matchup between Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani in the World Baseball Classic may not happen. Japan rallied in the ninth inning to beat Mexico and advance to Tuesday night’s championship game against the United States, but Shota Imanaga will start on the mound for the Samurai Warriors. If Trout is to bat against his Los Angeles Angels teammate, it would only be if Ohtani makes a rare relief appearance.
Asian stocks scraped off lows on Tuesday, with the rescue of Credit Suisse stemming selling in bank shares, though the mood was fragile and the stress in the financial system had traders unsure how Federal Reserve policymakers will respond this week. The Fed begins a two-day meeting later in the day and after a wild few sessions U.S. interest rate futures pricing implies that a peak in rates is either imminent or already reached, with newfound stability concerns to push inflation-fighting aside. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.4%.
Market gyrations are common but the scale of recent moves across asset classes due to a slew of bank takeovers has shocked even the most experienced traders and investors. While UBS shares were hammered in early trading on Monday after its shotgun marriage with troubled Credit Suisse following an intervention by Swiss authorities, the bank's shares pared most of the losses towards the close. The biggest pain seems to have been inflicted on holders of Credit Suisse's risky debt, leading lawyers from Switzerland, the U.S. and Britain to talk to many Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bond holders about possible legal action, a law firm said.
Our climate change minister is still at odds with both his stance at Cop27 talks and nearly 200 other countries
BEIJING (AP) — When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn’t ready for a massive onslaught of cases. Hospitals turned away ambulances, crematoriums burned bodies around the clock, and relatives hauled dead loved ones to warehouses for lack of storage space. Chinese state media claimed the decision to open up was based on “scientific analysis and shrewd calculation,” and “by no means impulsive." But in reality, China’s ruling Communist Party ignored repe
Market gyrations are common but the scale of recent moves across asset classes due to a slew of bank takeovers has shocked even the most experienced traders and investors. While UBS shares were hammered in early trading on Monday after its shotgun marriage with troubled Credit Suisse following an intervention by Swiss authorities, the bank's shares pared most of the losses towards the close. The biggest pain seems to have been inflicted on holders of Credit Suisse's risky debt, leading lawyers from Switzerland, the U.S. and Britain to talk to many Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bond holders about possible legal action, a law firm said.
Masataka Yoshida hit a game-tying home run and Munetaka Murakami drove a walk-off double to send Japan to the World Baseball Classic finals
A poor first quarter proved costly for the Kings, who lost ground in the Western Conference playoff race with Monday’s loss to the Jazz.
The actor, 56, was hospitalized after he was found collapsed outside London’s King’s Cross station.
David Littleproud says retailers should be permitted to sell nicotine e-cigarettes without a prescription to customers 18 and over
The family of one of Stephen Port’s victims said that an inquiry is needed to understand ‘how and why this force is failing people so badly’.
Johnson told to ‘be serious for once’ this week as Sunak allies fear return of Tory ‘psychodrama’
Adept at sculpture, architecture, drawing, film and stage design, the Cleveland-born artist was raised in Miami.
Expected U.S. stopovers in coming weeks by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen are standard practice and China should not use them as a pretext for aggressive action toward the democratically governed island, a senior U.S. administration official said. Tsai plans to transit through New York and Los Angeles as part of a trip to Central America, and sources have told Reuters that U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy intends to meet her during the California leg of her visit. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, has said it is "seriously concerned" about Tsai's travel plans.
The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. - Amazon.com Inc said it would cut 9,000 more corporate jobs across units that include its profitable cloud-computing and advertising businesses, a sign that the company’s cost-cutting is extending into all aspects of its operations as technology giants continue to slash spending. - Coinbase Global, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S., told clients on Monday that it won't support collapsed Signature Bank'S real-time payment network, known as Signet, until further notice.
Newark, New Castle, USA, March 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the deep-dive market assessment study by Growth Plus Reports, the global Immune thrombocytopenia therapeutics market was valued at US$ 2.45 billion in 2021 and is expected to register a revenue CAGR of 5.4% to reach US$ 3.93 billion by 2030. Immune Thrombocytopenia Therapeutics Market Scope Report AttributeDetailsMarket size value in 2021US$ 2.45 billionRevenue forecast in 2030US$ 3.93 billionGrowth RateCAGR of 5.4% from 20
When Ranil Wickremesinghe took over as Sri Lanka's president in July after a popular uprising ousted his predecessor, the South Asian island nation was engulfed in its worst economic meltdown in 75 years. Since then, Wickremesinghe has managed to a keep a lid on mass protests, improve supplies of essentials and on Monday, secured a nearly $3 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that opens the door to restructuring about $58 billion of debt and receive funding from other lenders. Hours-long power cuts and queues for fuel that led to the downfall of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa are gone, thanks partly to a fuel rationing system.
The Jazz defeated the Kings, 128-120. Ochai Agbaji led the way for the Jazz with a career-high 27 points and six 3PM, while Walker Kessler added 10 points, eight rebounds and five blocks in the victory. De'Aaron Fox led all scorers with 37 points (6-9 3pt FG) and seven assists for the Kings, while Domantas Sabonis added 11 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in the losing effort. The Jazz improve to 35-36, while the Kings fall to 43-28.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Three men were found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday in the 2018 killing of star rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot outside a South Florida motorcycle shop while being robbed of $50,000. Michael Boatwright, 28, Dedrick Williams, 26, and Trayvon Newsome, 24, were also convicted of armed robbery by a jury that rendered its verdict less than an hour after beginning its eighth day of deliberations. Their sentencing, which Circuit Judge Michael Usan set for April 6
Trump frets about arrest and tries to hamstring Georgia investigation