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An American Eagle advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney on a billboard in Times Square in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmerican Eagle issued bullish holiday guidance and raised its full-year forecast on Tuesday after posting better-than-expected quarterly results. The apparel company is expecting fiscal fourth quarter comparable sales to grow between 8% and 9% – about four times better than the 2.1% analysts had anticipated, according to StreetAccount.American Eagle is now expecting its full year adjusted operating income to be between $303 million and $308 million – up from its previous range…

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 2, 2025 shows a view of the Qinhu National Wetland Park in Jiangyan District of Taizhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province. (Photo by Zhou Shegen/Xinhua)An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 1, 2025 shows the scenery in a mountainous area in Zhushan Town of Xuan’en County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, central China’s Hubei Province. (Photo by Song Wen/Xinhua)An aerial panoramic photo taken on Dec. 1, 2025 shows vessels sailing in waters near Shuping Village of Zigui County, Yichang, central China’s Hubei Province. (Photo by Wang Gang/Xinhua)Tourists pose for a selfie at a…

Trump Media said on Tuesday that it had reached an “amicable settlement” of a legal dispute with the co-founders of the social media company, which operates the Truth Social app.Trump Media did not provide details of that settlement with United Atlantic Ventures, the partnership of Trump Media’s co-founders, Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss.Litinksy and Moss were contestants on President Donald Trump’s television show, “The Apprentice.”UAV sued Trump Media in February 2024 in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing Trump of attempting to “drastically dilute” the value of stock shares the co-founders held in the company.The men initially pitched Trump the idea of…

Despite 10 year delay on implementing Supreme Court’s 2014 orders, govt accused of ‘rushing’ legislation The National Assembly has passed the 27th Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2025 on Wednesday. PHOTO: RADIO PAKISTAN A joint session of Parliament on Tuesday formalised long-delayed protections for non-Muslims in Pakistan. The National Commission for Minority Rights Bill 2025 was passed by the National Assembly and Senate, despite intense debate, ending years of delay in the passage. The legislation establishes a dedicated commission to safeguard minority rights and monitor constitutional guarantees. The bill follows a 2014 Supreme Court directive, which mandated the creation of a commission “to monitor…

Alphabet-owned Google just gained a leg up over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to recent stock market performance. Shares of Alphabet and its chip partner Broadcom are surging this quarter as its new version of Gemini AI was released, while proxies for the private OpenAI — Nvidia and Microsoft — underperform. Google, once considered an AI laggard, stunned the market last month with the release of its Gemini 3 AI model , which surpassed and matched several of the capabilities of ChatGPT and GPT-family models in industry benchmark tests. Google also released its latest custom silicon chip, its 7th generation Tensor Processing…

A version of this article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Alts newsletter, a guide to the fast-growing world of alternative investments, from private equity and private credit to hedge funds and venture capital. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The First Brands Group bankruptcy has cast a spotlight on one of the fastest-growing corners of private credit: asset-backed finance.Private asset-backed finance, or ABF, involves lending against a specific asset, income stream, or loan rather than lending to a company based on its cash flow. According to KKR, the private ABF market has doubled since 2008 to over $6 trillion today…

Okta on Tuesday topped Wall Street’s third-quarter estimates, but CEO Todd McKinnon said upside from its AI agents aren’t “fully baked” into results.Shares of the identity management provider fell more than 3% in after-hours trading on Tuesday.Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: 82 cents adjusted vs. 76 cents expectedRevenue: $742 million vs. $730 million expectedRevenues increased almost 12% from $665 million in the year-ago period. Net income nearly tripled to $43 million from $16 million a year ago. Subscription revenues grew 11% to $724 million, ahead of a $715 million estimate. During the quarter, Okta released…

Foreign Ministry says aid delivery delayed by 60 hours, India denies blocking airspace Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported that its humanitarian assistance mission to Sri Lanka has been delayed for more than 60 hours due to India withholding full flight clearance. A special aircraft carrying Pakistan’s aid to Sri Lanka has been awaiting clearance to enter Indian airspace. The ministry said that the partial clearance granted by India late Sunday, after a 48-hour wait, was operationally impractical, being limited to only a few hours and not valid for the return journey. The Foreign Ministry described the delay as…

OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is down for some users. The company said it is “currently experiencing issues,” including “increased ChatGPT error rates,” according to an update on OpenAI’s status page. “We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery,” the status page said. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Roughly 3,000 people reported issues with the chatbot on Tuesday, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks outages. The outage comes days after OpenAI disclosed a…

Sabrina Carpenter performs during her “Short n’ Sweet” tour at Madison Square Garden on October 26, 2025 in New York, New York. Kevin Mazur | Getty ImagesPop star Sabrina Carpenter on Tuesday blasted the Trump administration for using her hit 2024 song “Juno” as the soundtrack for a TikTok video showing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining people during raids.”This video is evil and disgusting,” Carpenter wrote on X, in response to the White House posting the ICE video on TikTok.”Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda,” she added.The clip posted by the White…