Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. (Photo credit: AFP) For a lot of kids growing up in Asian households, there’s one sentence that’s almost impossible to escape: “You can do better.” Marks, sports, career choices, even something as small as cleaning your room, there’s always one more suggestion, one more correction, one more way to do it…
Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface what they called a “politically motivated prosecution” of their client. The case against David “Davey” Hearn was “motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,” his attorneys…
I’m in my mid-20s. I had been posting about the protests from the beginning, but 20 July was the first time I attended one. After the baton charge that day and the internet shutdown around the protest site, I went home and started sharing first-person accounts on Instagram. I also helped organise food, aid and…
Nepal’s mountain guides spend each spring leading international clients up Nepal’s highest mountains as guides or porters. When the monsoon comes around from June to September, some of them head towards Pakistan’s far north, home to some of the world’s highest peaks, including five eight-thousanders. International visitors to this rugged region are relatively few, but…
Mary, another former content writer whose name we’ve changed, says her employer encouraged the use of AI as a productivity tool. Instead of making her job easier, she says it created additional responsibilities. “We had to edit more, fact-check more because the data AI produced was inaccurate,” she says. “Technically it was more work for…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday the biggest obstacle to technology stocks has finally been removed. “Ever since we found out that Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund, Situational Awareness, blew up last week, we’ve seen tech stocks flying all over the place, unleashed, unbound and roaring higher, catapulted by the lack of sellers of any size,” the…
After leaving his corporate job in Bengaluru, a man embarked on the journey of starting a water purification business. Surprisingly, his home-based venture has flourished, allowing him to earn a significantly higher annual income. By delivering drinking water to homes and local shops each day, he has achieved remarkable profits monthly, demonstrating that success can…
Maryland’s Democratic-controlled Legislature voted Tuesday to place a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would pave the way for them to eliminate the state’s lone Republican-held congressional district before the 2028 election. The move came after months of Democratic divisions over whether they should redraw their state’s congressional map in response to GOP redistricting…
If you are somewhere in Italy with a natural body of water, or any water feature, plan your activities around it, Armenise says. “Instead of walking, get a boat,” she says. “Sometimes you will see things you cannot access via land.” Instead of hiking a coastline, you can see it from the sea, she explains,…