They enter as raw prospects with little or no experience in American football. Some have excelled previously in other sports, some have no experience whatsoever as professional athletes. But they all have one thing in common: the dream of making it in the NFL.Ten weeks of intense training in Bradenton, Florida, for this year’s batch of 13 young hopefuls came to a conclusion on Wednesday as the Class of 2025 from the NFL’s International Player Pathway (IPP) took part in the University of South Florida’s pro day workouts in neighbouring Tampa.The IPP prospects were put through their paces in front…
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A collapsed building at a construction site is seen in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake. Lillian Suwanrumpha | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Stock Exchange of Thailand suspended all trading activities for the afternoon session on Friday after a strong earthquake struck neighbouring Myanmar, the tremors of which were felt in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok.”Following the earthquake incident, the Stock Exchange of Thailand hereby announces the immediate suspension of all trading activities,” the bourse operator said on its website.”The closure affects all markets, including SET, the Market for Alternative Investment (MAI), and the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX), for today’s afternoon…
With the current quarter drawing winding down, there are some stocks that investors should keep an eye on heading into the next period. The new year’s first quarter was a tumultuous one, with stocks facing significant volatility due to concerns around the state of the economy and uncertainty regarding President Donald Trump’s tariff policies. That briefly sent the S & P 500 into correction territory, and the index lost more than $5 trillion in value in a matter of weeks. In the wake of the market’s monthlong rout, the S & P 500’s quarter-to-date losses sit at more than 4%.…
Hillary Clinton speaks on the first night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Monday, August 19, 2024. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesHillary Clinton on Friday excoriated President Donald Trump and his administration for their handling of the embarrassing leak of U.S. military attack plans to a journalist who was accidentally added to a Signal app text thread with other top officials this month.”It’s not the hypocrisy that bothers me; it’s the stupidity,” Clinton wrote in a New York Times opinion piece.”We’re all shocked — shocked! — that President Trump and…
Michael Intrator, Founder & CEO of CoreWeave, Inc., Nvidia-backed cloud services provider, gestures during the company’s IPO at the Nasdaq Market, in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersArtificial intelligence cloud provider CoreWeave is set to make its Nasdaq debut on Friday. The company priced shares at $40 in its initial public offering on Thursday, raising $1.5 billion.As a supplier to OpenAI, CoreWeave is among the beneficiaries of the rise of generative AI software such as the San Francisco AI startup’s ChatGPT assistant, which launched in late 2022. Microsoft provided cloud services to OpenAI but quickly called…
Josh Giddey capped a wild game-ending sequence with a half-court shot at the buzzer to give the Chicago Bulls a 119-117 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday night.The craziness began with the Bulls trailing 115-110. Patrick Williams hit a 3-pointer with 9.8 seconds left to narrow the deficit to two. A sloppy inbound pass from LeBron James was then stolen by Giddey. He got the ball to Coby White, whose 3 gave Chicago a one-point lead with 6.1 seconds left.Following a timeout, Austin Reaves hit a driving layup to put the Lakers back on top by one with…
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday, sending shock waves across Southeast Asia and leaving a trail of death and destruction.The military junta in Myanmar said that 144 people had died and 732 had been injured. The death toll there is expected to rise, with many injured arriving at hospitals in the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay.The earthquake collapsed a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok, killing at least seven people and leaving dozens missing. It also shook buildings in China and rattled bridges and homes as far away as Vietnam.Myanmar is in the throes of a civil war that has…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Rocket Lab — Stock in the aerospace manufacturer gained 3% after the U.S. Space Force listed the company as one of the firms entered in its pool of launch providers. Braze — Stock in the cloud software company added 6% after beating analyst estimates in the fourth quarter on the top and bottom line. Braze reported adjusted earnings of 12 cents per share, while analysts surveyed by FactSet were looking for 5 cents. Revenue of $160.4 million also beat the $155.7 million forecast from analysts. Lululemon — Shares of the athleticwear…
Software stocks could be a good hedge for investors looking for some stability against an increasingly volatile macroeconomic backdrop and unstable market, according to HSBC. Mounting uncertainty around President Donald Trump’s tariff rollouts and fears of a weaker economy have rattled markets for the past five weeks, sending all three major averages down for the year. Many companies with more operations overseas and higher imported inputs have cut the financial guidance they give Wall Street, further shaking investors’ confidence in the profit outlook. While London-based HSBC sees the macroeconomy taking a hit, the bank doesn’t expect a U.S. recession. “HSBC…
CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said Friday that the company’s IPO pricing, which came in below expectations, has to be placed in the larger context of the macroenvironment.”There’s a lot of headwinds in the macro,” Intrator said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “And we definitely had to scale or rightsize the transaction for where the buying interest was.”The company, which provides access to Nvidia graphics processing units for artificial intelligence training and workloads, priced its IPO at $40 a share, below the initial $47 to $55 per share filing. The stock will begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “CRWV.”The lower price provided…
