We’re facing a hectic finish to 2025. The Federal Reserve is set to cut rates here in two weeks, we just entered Q3 earnings season, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are pounding their chests ahead of the possible October meeting, all the while the historic growth stock rally powers ahead. I think despite the global macro overhangs this AI-led bull market is still in the early stages. But those possible huge returns won’t come without risk and volatility along the way, so it makes sense to put on some downside protection through October to give us some peace of mind. With…
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D’Angelo performs on stage at O2 Academy Birmingham on February 17, 2015 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Ollie Millington | Redferns | Getty ImagesR&B and soul singer D’Angelo died on Tuesday, leaving behind a “legacy of extraordinarily moving music” following a “prolonged and courageous battle with cancer,” his family said.The influential music star, born Michael D’Angelo Archer, was 51.”The shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life,” according to a family statement. “After a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael D’Angelo Archer, known to his fans around the…
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House, following his annual physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 10, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersPresident Donald Trump has vowed to target only “Democrat Agencies” for permanent staffing cuts amid the government shutdown — but the administration’s layoffs so far have affected programs and services that cut across party lines.The White House on Friday issued thousands of reduction-in-force notices, known as RIFs.Around 4,200 federal employees from at least eight departments and agencies were affected.The department sustaining the largest cuts was the Treasury Department, where…
OpenAI’s EMEA startups head Laura Modiano spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday, 8 October.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday announced a council of eight experts who will advise the company and provide insight into how artificial intelligence could affect users’ mental health, emotions and motivation. The group, which is called the Expert Council on Well-Being and AI, will initially guide OpenAI’s work on its chatbot ChatGPT and its short-form video app Sora, the company said. Through check-ins and recurring meetings, OpenAI said the council will help it define what healthy AI interactions look like.OpenAI has been expanding its…
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday suggested the central bank is nearing a point where it will stop reducing the size of its bond holdings, but gave no long-run indication of where interest rates are heading.Speaking to the National Association for Business Economics’ conference in Philadelphia, Powell provided a dissertation on where the Fed stands with “quantitative tightening,” or the effort to reduce the…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Nova Minerals — The miner soared 83%, on pace for its best day ever, after it said the Australian ambassador to the U.S. approached the company regarding its Estelle Gold and Critical Minerals Project in Alaska. “This briefing is in preparation for the upcoming meeting between Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and U.S. President Donald Trump,” scheduled for next week, Nova Materials said in a statement. Ericsson — Shares of the Swedish telecom giant rallied nearly 20% after its quarterly earnings beat expectations. The company also downplayed the impact U.S. tariffs…
China’s sweeping restrictions on rare earth exports threaten the U.S. defense industry, providing President Xi Jinping with powerful leverage over President Donald Trump in upcoming trade talks.Beijing will not allow the export of rare earth materials for use by foreign militaries, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced on Oct. 9. These are the first restrictions imposed by China that specifically target the defense sector, according to Gracelin Baskaran, a critical minerals expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.”What this essentially means is that it will deny licenses to foreign militaries and companies that are producing military use end goods,”…
Multiple major U.S. airports are refusing to air a video showing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats in Congress for the ongoing federal government shutdown.The Transportation Security Administration sent requests to airports to air the video on screens near security lines.Noem in the video says, “It is TSA’s top priority to make sure that you have the most pleasant and efficient airport experience as possible while we keep you safe,” according to MSNBC.”However, Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted, and most of our TSA employees are…
An airplane takes off the control tower at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Oct. 8, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. air traffic controllers have received partial paychecks, their union said Tuesday, and they could miss their next paychecks altogether if the government shutdown lasts another two weeks.”The job is stressful enough as it is. Now you’re adding this factor of, ‘Hey, when am I going to get this next paycheck?'” said Raymond Dahlstrom, an air traffic controller. Dahlstrom and some of his colleagues handed out leaflets outside of LaGuardia Airport in New York on Tuesday…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce is ramping up partnerships with leaders in generative artificial intelligence as investors continue to fear that the software company faces business risks due to the rapid growth of AI.Just ahead of its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce said Tuesday it will enable the use of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic inside its Agentforce 360 software. A day earlier, Salesforce expanded Agentforce beyond text chats to also handle voice calls.”The way people…
