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This is the gist of today’s Morning Briefing. sign up Get the following in your inbox every morning:Tech FOMO is real, and investors are acting accordingly.The “spectacular” gains from seven market-leading large-cap stocks over the past two years have convinced investors to invest in the tech sector to avoid being left behind.Technology stocks dominated the biggest increases in holdings by long-only active mutual funds over the past year, taking nine of the top 10 positions, as this week’s chart shows, Savita Subramanian, head of U.S. equity strategy at Bank of America, wrote in a Friday note to clients.The exception is…
Any affiliate links to products on this page are from partners who pay us a commission (see our advertiser disclosure and partner list for more information), but our opinions are our own. Find out how we rate mortgages and write an unbiased product review. Mortgage rates have been relatively low this week, with 30-year mortgage rates averaging around 6.65%, according to data from Zillow. Rates have remained generally stable after dropping earlier this month, but economic data could cause fluctuations next week.Mortgage rates have become very sensitive to trends in the overall economy lately. Next week, the Bureau of Economic…
File photo: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday slammed former Pakistani minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry’s comments on India’s Lok Sabha elections and said India will not tolerate interference in its internal affairs by the biggest sponsor of terror. Kejriwal, who is also the national president of the Ahmed Ahmed Party (AAP), said the situation in Pakistan is very bad and the country must take care of itself. The Delhi Chief Minister made the statement after Chaudhry quoted his post on X’s vote and wrote, “May peace and harmony defeat the forces of…
Ranchi: It was a nostalgic moment for 33-year-old voter Sweta Swansea as she arrived at a polling booth decorated with the ‘Jharkhand Women’s Hockey’ theme to cast her vote in the Ranchi Assembly constituency.The six-booth polling station at CM School of Excellence in Baliatu was decorated with banners and posters of the state’s leading hockey players, including Olympian and captain of the Indian women’s hockey team Salima Tetteh, Olympians Nikki Pradhan and Sangeeta Kumari.”I liked the theme. It gave me a nostalgic feeling. The theme brought back memories of my childhood when I used to play the sport. Just like…
Image source, Getty ImagesArticle informationauthor, Nadine Yousifrole, BBC NewsMay 24, 2024Updated 9 hours agoThe Pentagon announced that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was undergoing a medical procedure and had temporarily handed over his authority to his Deputy Secretary of Defense.The procedure is elective, non-surgical, and unrelated to a cancer diagnosis.Austin, 70, was diagnosed with prostate cancer late last year.He was criticized for failing to disclose that he had been hospitalized in December and January.Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement Friday night that Austin handed over power during the “successful, elective and minimally invasive” procedure. The defense…
Serenity Strull/BBC/Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/BBC/Getty Images)Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet’s most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the web, or destroy it?If you’ve ever typed “air purifier reviews” into Google, you were probably looking for the kind of content you’ll find on HouseFresh.com. The site was started in 2020 by Gisele Navarro and her husband, based on a decade of experience writing about indoor air quality products. They filled their basement with purifiers, running rigorous science-based tests and writing articles…
Impact entrepreneurship was one of the main focuses at VivaTech in Paris, but measuring environmental impact will be a challenge for green tech, experts say. advertisementToo Good To Go, a waste prevention marketplace that allows 95 million global users to enjoy cheap unsold food, has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution at VivaTech designed to help grocery retailers avoid food waste.”There’s a lot of food and we have a lot of data on it – price, consumption patterns, location, seasonality – and we process that data to make sure the food is in the right place, at the right…
When his criminal trial is over for the day, Donald J. Trump typically returns to the three stories of marble and gold at the top of Trump Tower, the skyscraper he built in the early 1980s and that cemented his public image as an architectural mastermind.It’s a silver lining for Trump, who will be spending significant amounts of time in Manhattan for the first time since moving to Washington in 2017. He sits in a dingy downtown courtroom facing 34 felony charges and spending his days listening to former acquaintances describe him as a corrupt liar who has sullied the…
TikTok can add a new skill to its resume: Disco Time Machine.The social platform is typically home to an endless stream of Gen Z dance videos (mostly short, practiced and perfected choreography), but lately it’s been injecting energy from an unlikely generation: Gen X parents.In the viral videos, parents are asked by their adult children to dance the way they used to to “Small Town Boy,” the 1984 hit by British synth-pop band Bronski Beat. Most of the posts are tagged with “#momdancechallenge,” “#daddancechallenge” or “#80sdancechallenge” and have garnered tens of millions of views.The reaction was perhaps unexpected. Instead of…
“He’s super fast.”Former Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley began his film review of Commanders third-round pick (100) Luke McCaffrey this way.As a guest on “The Kevin Sheehan Show” podcast this week, Cooley mocked those who have characterized McCaffrey as a receiver who can’t make plays downfield. “Why? Because he’s a white receiver?” Cooley asked.Cooley continued, “He tracks the ball incredibly well and can catch the ball. He’s got great ball skills,” referring to McCaffrey’s one-handed, all-hands catches.The former Washington tight end and announcer also likes McCaffrey’s measurements: 4.46 (40 yards), 6-foot-2 height, 198 pounds and a 36-inch vertical jump.…