The collateral damage from the Great Rainout Debacle could extend to the Milwaukee Brewers and San Diego Padres, two teams that hardly deserve to be disadvantaged.If the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves need to play a doubleheader Monday to determine one or two of the final National League postseason berths, it will severely compromise them in the wild-card series, forcing either or both clubs to play eight games in seven days. Rain soaked Truist Park on Wednesday and forced the postponement of the final two games of the Mets-Braves series. (Kevin D. Liles / Atlanta Braves / Getty Images)But…
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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 27, 2024.Shannon Stapleton | ReutersMeeting with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy for the first time in five years, former President Donald Trump complained about his 2019 impeachment and said if re-elected he would work to end the Russia-Ukraine war with a deal “that’s good for both sides.””We’re going to work very much with both parties to try and get this settled and get it worked out,” Trump said, standing next to Zelenskyy while speaking to a small group of reporters…
Less than two months ago, Wall Street was in the thick of a global market sell-off, with fears of a U.S. recession intensifying. Now the S & P 500 is on the doorstep of its fourth positive quarter in a row, the longest such streak since 2021. What a difference a little time makes. The best-performing Club stocks during the topsy-turvy third quarter are all outside the “Magnificent Seven” and AI-winner complexes. A couple names rode the wave of rate-cut optimism. Another was propelled by a home-run CEO switch. All five on the third-quarter leaderboard reflect a healthy broadening of…
The Chicago Sky fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon after just one season, the team announced Friday.The Sky hired Weatherspoon as the franchise’s head coach on Oct. 12, 2023, after spending four seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans as an assistant.“After careful consideration, we have decided it is in the best interest of the organization to part ways with Head Coach Teresa Weatherspoon,” Chicago co-owner and operating chairman, Nadia Rawlinson, said in a statement. “We are deeply appreciative of Coach TSpoon’s contributions to the Chicago Sky, and the energy and passion she brought to the head coaching role. We thank her for…
Massive stimulus from central banks in the U.S., China and elsewhere is driving bubble-like stock returns and could head off a global recession, according to Bank of America. “It’s the bubble dream,” BofA chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in his weekly “Flow Show” breakdown of where investors are putting their money. “Fed slashing, oil crashing, China inflating … and if this China stimulus don’t work then geopolitical risks [are] going to soar.” The observation comes a week after the Federal Reserve slashed benchmark rates by 50 basis points , and the same week China launched a bevy of stimulus…
Business & FinanceGovernment05 September 2024, 6:32 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that the Biden administration told Nippon Steel its $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel would pose a national security risk by harming the American steel industry, adding to evidence the U.S. is poised to block it. Article TagsTopics of Interest: Business & FinanceGovernmentType: Reuters BestSectors: Business & FinanceEconomy & PolicyRegions: AmericasWin Types: ExclusivityStory Types: Exclusive / ScoopMedia Types: TextCustomer Impact: Significant National Story Source link
Despite the S & P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posting recent record highs, the initial public offering market remains stuck in neutral. However, two large deals are likely coming to market soon. First, chip manufacturer Cerebras Systems is expected to announce its IPO imminently. The company specializes in manufacturing semiconductors that are optimized for artificial intelligence. It will likely seek to raise $750 million to $1 billion , making it one of the larger IPOs of the year. Second, aircraft maintenance services provider StandardAero upsized its IPO offering on Friday, which is expected to start trading at the…
The Federal Reserve has only just started cutting interest rates, but brokerage firms are already whittling down what they’re willing to pay for idle cash. The Fed last week dialed back interest rates by a half percentage point, bringing the target fed funds rate to a range of 4.75% to 5%. It didn’t take long for banks to get with the program: Ally Financial , Discover Financial and Marcus by Goldman Sachs are among the institutions that trimmed annual percentage yields (APY) on savings accounts since the Fed lowered rates, according to an analysis by Wells Fargo. “We expect that…
Federal prosecutors on Friday announced criminal charges against three Iranian nationals in connection with a recent hack of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign and other cyberattacks.The three “malicious cyber actors,” who were employed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, engaged in “a wide-ranging hacking campaign” that also targeted current and former government officials, media figures and non-governmental organizations, according to an indictment filed in Washington, D.C., federal court.The U.S. designates the IRGC a foreign terrorist organization.”There are few actors in this world that pose as grave a threat to the national security of the United States as does Iran,”…
Football’s dark arts. You may have read, heard or watched a bit about that subject this week.Wind-up merchants, rule benders, injury fakers, divers, pinchers, medical staff who love running on the pitch, time-wasters… every club has them, but how dark arts-y is your team?We can — and will — use metrics and data to help discover the best/worst offenders, but nefarious behaviour cannot always be quantified: teams should also be subjected to the eye test.Two points.First, this is a (reasonably) light-hearted exercise so, please, no nasty messages.Second, this is not a hall of shame. Far from it; teams who best…
