By Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi WeaverEvery week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results.Two surprising weekends can make a big difference in football, but small samples mean less in baseball. Keep that in mind as you browse our Power Rankings a week and a half into the season.Some of our opinions have changed, but perhaps not as much as each team’s record would suggest. The one-win Atlanta Braves are still far ahead of the middle-of-the-pack Miami Marlins, and the…
Author: usaeverydaylife
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Tuesday that two Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian forces had been taken as prisoners of war.Mr. Zelensky said that the two Chinese citizens had been captured while fighting in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. He added that Kyiv had information that “there are many more such Chinese citizens in the enemy’s units,” without providing evidence. The claims could not be independently verified, and there was no immediate comment from the Chinese or Russian governments.The announcement came at a fraught moment for Ukraine as the Trump administration has seemingly drawn closer to Russia…
With the market’s recent sell-off, UBS sees opportunities to snatch up good stocks on the cheap. The S & P 500 has tumbled nearly 10% over the past five trading days, dragging the benchmark close to bear market territory following President Donald Trump ‘s tariff announcement. In the wake of those moves, UBS sees some stocks that are worth picking up while the market struggles. “To state the obvious, the macro environment is uncertain,” David Lefkowitz, the firm’s chief investment office head of U.S. equities, told clients in a Sunday note. “Nevertheless, the selling in markets has been vicious, and…
First Solar is one of the best positioned companies in the clean technology space in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to Morgan Stanley. First Solar will have some near-term exposure to Trump’s taxes on imports, but the company “is a key beneficiary of tariffs over the long-term” because a significant portion of its solar panel manufacturing capacity is located in the U.S., analyst Andrew Percoco told clients in a Monday note. About 50% of First Solar’s capacity is located in Malaysia, Vietnam and India with the rest in the U.S., Percoco said. The company has about $500…
Emirates President Tim Clark warned that the aviation industry is in “uncharted territory” as U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and trade disputes weigh on global growth and threaten to drive up costs for airlines worldwide.”Right now, we are in troubled times,” Clark told CNBC in an interview recorded March 20 — ahead of Washington’s announcement of its latest global levies. “It’s uncharted because it involves a measure of reset to a level that the global economy probably hasn’t seen since the financial crisis of 2008-2009,” Clark said, pointing to growing pressures on carriers and to the ripple effect across the…
A drone operator loads a Walmart package into Zipline’s P1 fixed-wing drone for delivery to a customer home in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 30, 2023.Bunee TomlinsonZipline, a startup that delivers everything from vaccines to ice cream via electric autonomous drones, expanded its service to the Dallas area on Tuesday through a partnership with Walmart.In Mesquite, Texas, about 15 miles east of Dallas, Walmart customers can sign up to receive orders within 30 minutes, delivered on Zipline’s newest unmanned aerial vehicles, known as P2 Zips.The drones are capable of carrying up to eight pounds worth of cargo within a 10-mile…
Talks between the United States and Iran, which President Trump said on Monday would begin on Saturday in Oman, face considerable problems of substance and well-earned mistrust.But time is short for what is likely to be a complicated negotiation.“We’re at a fork in the road, heading toward a crisis,” said Sanam Vakil, the director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House.While Mr. Trump has recently threatened Iran with “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” he has also made it clear that he prefers a diplomatic deal. That reassurance — made in the…
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Levi Strauss — The jeans maker surged 11% after the company reiterated its full year outlook. However, Levi noted that that it excludes any impact from the White House’s tariffs. The company also posted first-quarter adjusted earnings of 38 cents per share, which was 52% higher versus the year-ago period. Its $1.53 billion revenue also marked a 3% increase compared to last year. Health insurers — Health-care stocks jumped after The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Trump administration will increase payment rates for Medicare insurers to 5.06% next year,…
The S & P 500 is inches away from a decline of 20% from its recent closing high on February 19. This, we are told, would constitute a “bear market.” But who decided that a drop of 20% was a “bear market?” For that matter, who decided a drop of 10% was a “correction?” If you think a committee of sage Wall Street veterans got together to vote on it, you’d be mistaken. The whole idea of labeling a decline of 10% to 20% a “correction” and 20% or more a “bear market” was largely the work of one man. Alan…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday the U.S. holds a substantial advantage over China as the two nations exchange threats in a burgeoning trade war.”I think it was a big mistake, this Chinese escalation, because they’re playing with a pair of twos,” Bessent said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “What do we lose by the Chinese raising tariffs on us? We export one-fifth to them of what they export to us, so that is a losing hand for them.”The comments come a day ahead of the U.S. raising its duties on China and dozens of other nations as…
