MADISON, Wis. — Three hours before the Wisconsin Badgers were set to practice on a Tuesday afternoon in late January, the best coach in the history of women’s college hockey was telling a story about a deer.“I’d like to get in the mindset of a deer,” Mark Johnson said during a coaches meeting inside the team offices at LaBahn Arena.He talked for several minutes, trying to empathize with the deer that had jumped in front of his car — and then ran off — while Johnson was driving home from the rink a few days prior. He couldn’t quite figure…
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American and Russian officials are expected to meet in Moscow on Thursday as President Vladimir V. Putin weighs a 30-day cease-fire proposal from the United States and Ukraine.Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters at about midday Moscow time on Thursday that American officials were en route.“Negotiators are indeed flying in, and contacts are indeed planned,” Mr. Peskov said. “We won’t get ahead of ourselves — we’ll talk about it afterward.”Shortly after Mr. Peskov’s remarks, Russian news agencies reported that a plane frequently used by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy, had landed in Moscow from Qatar. This…
BioNTech’s promising cancer treatments pipeline could lead to strong gains ahead, according to Citi. The bank initiated the biotech stock with a buy rating. Its price target of $145 implies shares can rally 44.5% from Wednesday’s close. Although BioNTech’s revenue has pulled back since Covid-19 vaccine sales peaked at around $19 billion in 2021, analyst Geoff Meacham thinks there’s more growth opportunities for the company. “We are … encouraged by COVID vaccination rates that are projected to stabilize … and, more exciting to us, a packed oncology pipeline with three distinct, differentiated modalities that have several mid/late-stage assets with regularly…
The German parliament building, the Reichstag, which has been the seat of the Bundestag since 1999.Fhm | Moment | Getty ImagesU.S. tariffs could push Europe’s largest economy into a recession, German central bank President Joachim Nagel warned Thursday, as Berlin faces a debate over the potential overhaul of its fiscal policies.”Now we are in a world with tariffs, so we could expect maybe a recession for this year, if the tariffs are really coming,” Nagel, who leads the Bundesbank and serves as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, said during a BBC podcast interview.Global tariffs…
MoonPay co-founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami.MoonPayCrypto payments giant MoonPay is expanding its push into the enterprise market with the acquisition of Iron, an API-first stablecoin infrastructure startup.This marks MoonPay’s second significant acquisition in two months, underscoring its ambition to dominate the rapidly growing stablecoin payments market.”We think everyone is going to have a digital currency wallet, whether it’s inside of a bank account or independently. And we build a backwards compatibility to the existing financial system,” MoonPay Co-Founder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in an exclusive interview.Already, MoonPay makes it…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 13, 2025. Maxim Shemetov | ReutersU.S. negotiators are in Moscow for Ukraine war ceasefire talks on Thursday, but Russia’s willingness to buy into the terms of a temporary truce devised without its input is still in question.Russia is under pressure to sign up to the White House-brokered 30-day ceasefire agreement, which the U.S. says will show whether the Kremlin is serious about ending the war against Ukraine.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said the ball was in Russia’s court…
Widely-followed strategist Ed Yardeni, one of the biggest bulls on Wall Street, lowered his market forecast, saying President Donald Trump’s tariffs raise the risk of stagflation. “It has dawned on Wall Street (and us!) that President Trump’s tariffs aren’t negotiating chips to help the U.S. lower tariffs around the world, promoting free trade,” Yardeni said in a note to clients Thursday. “They’re trade barriers, triggering other countries to respond in kind, and they jeopardize U.S. inflation and economic growth.” Yardeni Research lowered its best-case S & P 500 target for 2025 by almost 9%, to 6,400 from 7,000, and set…
Here are Thursday’s biggest calls on Wall Street: Truist initiates FedEx and UPS as buy The firm initiated the shipping giant’s with a buy and says both are extremely well positioned. “At the same time, we believe that FDX’s and UPS’ growing retail footprint across the country provide them with an edge around handling returns as well as third party logistics services for SMBs [small mid size business]. Citi reiterates Boeing as buy Citi said shares of the company are undervalued at current levels. “We reiterate our Buy rating on Boeing. We believe the market is undervaluing Boeing’s long-term growth…
Intel Appoints Lip-Bu Tan as Chief Executive OfficerCourtesy: IntelIntel shares popped more than 13% after the struggling chipmaker named Lip-Bu Tan its new CEO and Wall Street cheered the turnaround attempt.Tan previously served as CEO of chip software maker and Intel supplier Cadence Design Systems, and will rejoin the board after departing last year. He replaces interim co-CEOs David Zinsner and MJ Holthaus who took the helm of the company after former CEO Pat Gelsinger’s ousting in December.The news brings an end to a tumultuous period for the once iconic American semiconductor company that’s shed billions in market value as…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta’s upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk’s X for its similar service.On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X’s Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps.”As X’s algorithm and program information…
