Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Aero Center Wilmington on September 21, 2024 in Wilmington, North Carolina.Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday to boost Secret Service protection for presidential candidates, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature.The strong show of bipartisan support came days after the House passed the measure, known as the the Enhanced Presidential Security Act, without any opposition in a 405-0 vote.The bill would give former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris the same level of protection provided to Biden.The congressional…
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We are about a quarter of the way through the college football season, and there has been no shortage of drama. Three of the 12 teams projected to make the College Football Playoff by my model in the preseason are no longer in the field, and three teams that were on the bubble have also fallen by the wayside. All of that in just four weeks.When I wrote a stock report after Week 2, the teams that were trending up were Miami, Tennessee and USC. As it stands, Miami is the projected No. 3 seed as the team to beat…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to build out cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia, betting on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to spur growth.Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTech giant Microsoft will invest $1.3 billion over the next three years to build up its infrastructure in Mexico for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the company announced on Tuesday.”We’re doubling down on bringing more capacity to Mexico,” Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said at an event in Mexico City.The investment will go toward improving connectivity and boosting the adoption of AI technology…
Here are the stocks making notable moves in extended trading on Tuesday: KB Home — The homebuilder fell 6% after fiscal third-quarter earnings missed expectations. KB Home reported $2.04 in earnings per share, slightly below the $2.06 per share expected by analysts, according to LSEG. The company’s housing gross margin declined year over year. Rithm Capital — Shares of the asset manager fell 2% after Rithm announced a plan to sell 30 million shares. Rithm said it would use the proceeds from the equity sale for general corporate purposes. Progress Software — The tech stock rose more than 5% after…
The sun sets beyond crude oil storage tanks at the Juaymah tank farm at Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGlobal benchmark Brent crude falling below $70 a barrel in early September — its lowest in 33 months — is terrific news for consumers, who will consequently see lower prices at the pump. It’s also the stuff of nightmares for OPEC+, for whom oil revenues are critical.The oil producer alliance led by Saudi Arabia earlier this month decided to delay oil production hikes…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailMorgan Brennan sits down with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for an exclusive interview. Secretary Raimondo discusses efforts to address national security risks posed by Chinese-made vehicles and software, the department’s implementation of the CHIPS Act to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing, and the importance of maintaining U.S. leadership in the field of artificial intelligence. Source link
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Johnny Mercer Theatre in Savannah, Georgia, on Sept. 24, 2024.Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump unveiled several new manufacturing proposals at a rally in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday, part of an effort to sharpen his economic platform as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares a new policy rollout of her own.The Republican presidential nominee said if he were elected, he would reward U.S.-based manufacturers with expanded research and development tax credits, which would allow businesses to “write off 100% of the cost…
By now, much of the rage has passed. The takes have gone cold, the vitriol has been spewed, and all the jokes have been told about the dopey owner being born on third base and thinking he’s hit a triple. The Oakland Athletics will soon pass into history, which means the time has come to move on from the sadness of the funeral and turn instead to a much-deserved celebration of life.In that spirit, this should be said: To the Oakland A’s, thank you.For 57 summers, Oakland has had its own team. By extension, so did every kid like me,…
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research LLC, right, arrives at court in New York on Sept. 24, 2024.Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCaroline Ellison, the star witness in the prosecution of her former boyfriend, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, was sentenced Tuesday in New York federal court to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion for her role in the massive fraud and conspiracy that doomed the cryptocurrency exchange once valued at $32 billion.The prison term was significantly stiffer than the recommendation by the federal Probation Department that Judge Lewis Kaplan sentence Ellison to three years of…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks onstage with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff during Salesforce’s Dreamforce in San Francisco on Sept. 17, 2024.Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is done selling the chipmaker’s stock for the time being, cashing in more than $700 million under a prearranged plan.The 61-year-old executive in mid-March adopted a trading plan for the sale of up to six million Nvidia shares by the end of the first quarter of 2025. Huang has hit that threshold months ahead of schedule after a flurry of transactions between June 13 and Sept. 12, according…
