A Malaysian mother of two broke down in tears as she begged for leniency from the sharia High Court in Melaka for attempting to have sex with another woman’s husband last year. According to Sinar Harian, the accused, Siti Iqbar Mazlan, 35, during the proceedings before Judge Abu Bakar Daud on Thursday said that she regretted her actions and also apologised to the man’s wife, Puteri Norfatimah Isha...
A Malaysian mother of two broke down in tears as she begged for leniency from the sharia High Court in Melaka for attempting to have sex with another woman’s husband last year. According to Sinar Harian, the accused, Siti Iqbar Mazlan, 35, during the proceedings before Judge Abu Bakar Daud on Thursday said that she regretted her actions and also apologised to the man’s wife, Puteri Norfatimah Ishak, 25. According to the charges, Siti Iqbar and Hairul Mokhsin Zaini, 24, were found to have...
Despite recent stock underperformance, Microsoft remains one of the best-positioned companies to capitalize on the booming AI and cloud computing markets.
Despite recent stock underperformance, Microsoft remains one of the best-positioned companies to capitalize on the booming AI and cloud computing markets.
MediaTek Inc. shares are poised for their best quarter on record, as investors bet a shift into artificial intelligence chips can help it shed the overhang of its struggling older-tech business. Optimism is growing that the Taiwanese company’s deal to design application-specific integrated circuits with Alphabet Inc.’s Google points to a new growth engine. That’s driven its stock up 174% since the...
MediaTek Inc. shares are poised for their best quarter on record, as investors bet a shift into artificial intelligence chips can help it shed the overhang of its struggling older-tech business. Optimism is growing that the Taiwanese company’s deal to design application-specific integrated circuits with Alphabet Inc.’s Google points to a new growth engine. That’s driven its stock up 174% since the end of March, making it one of Asia’s top perfomers and adding more than $130 billion in market value. The reappraisal highlights how ASICs are winning more attention as AI focuses on everyday tasks, offering major tech firms lower costs and greater customization. MediaTek’s deal with Google is spurring expectations it can win more business and steal away share from Broadcom Inc. , the top player in this niche. “MediaTek has shown much progress in its data-center ASIC business, leading to a change in perception from investors,” said Kevin Net , head of Asian equities at Financière de l’Echiquier. “Up until early this year, it was still mostly seen as a smartphone play.” Handset chips still account for around half of MediaTek’s sales, meaning it’s vulnerable to sluggishness in the smartphone market, as indicated in its latest forecast. Bulls are looking beyond this as the company strives to grow its AI operations. Its inroad is through ASICs. These chips are cheaper than the graphics processing units made by Nvidia Corp. that are used for AI training. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang himself spotlighted ASICs last week, predicting designer Marvell Technology Inc. will reach a $1 trillion valuation on booming business. The market has ramped up bets on success for MediaTek, whose shares are outpacing those of Broadcom as well as Taiwanese AI ASIC rivals Alchip Technologies Ltd. and Global Unichip Corp. in the past few months. MediaTek is on a hiring spree to boost its AI business, which it expects to generate revenue of about $2 billion this year and more in 2027. ...
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
The man accused of setting the massive Palisades Fire in Los Angeles repeatedly asked ChatGPT to create images of a city engulfed in flames and floods, and cursed at OpenAI ’s chatbot when it told him the scenery he envisioned was too violent, jurors at his trial were told Thursday. Months before Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly set the Jan. 1, 2025, brush fire that authorities say later morphed in...
The man accused of setting the massive Palisades Fire in Los Angeles repeatedly asked ChatGPT to create images of a city engulfed in flames and floods, and cursed at OpenAI ’s chatbot when it told him the scenery he envisioned was too violent, jurors at his trial were told Thursday. Months before Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly set the Jan. 1, 2025, brush fire that authorities say later morphed into the blaze that destroyed one of the city’s richest neighborhoods, he repeatedly instructed the chatbot to create images of wealth inequality featuring mass devastation, according to a federal agent who helped retrieve data from his two phones. Jurors saw a transcript of Rinderknecht’s exchange with ChatGPT showing that the chatbot initially rejected his requests, telling him the violent scenes were against the company’s policy. Prosecutors argue that Rinderknecht was upset that he was alone on New Year’s Eve and was motivated by his anger at social and financial inequality to set a fire in a state park atop the Pacific Palisades with a barbeque lighter. Read More: Man Accused of $37 Billion LA Fire Is Innocent, His Lawyer Says Rinderknecht’s lawyer contends he’s innocent, and has been made a “scapegoat” for the failure of firefighters to prevent the quickly contained Jan. 1 Lachman Fire from rekindling six days later into the massive Palisades Fire after hurricane-force winds stoked underground embers. In one prompt, Rinderknecht, then 29, asked ChatGPT for a depiction of a tsunami of water as well as “a bunch of trees burning and the first part of the population is running away and some of them are looking back and screaming and suffering and drowning.” ChatGPT responded: “The specific request still includes elements that are not compliant with our content policy, such as the depiction of widespread suffering.” “That’s the reality,” Rinderknecht replied, according to the transcript. Jurors also saw the defendant berate and curse at the chatbot after it refused to comply...
Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Q1 2026 Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Limited Term California Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) outperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal California Investment Grade 4-7 Years Bond Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco ( IVZ ) Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative manage...
Donny DBM/iStock via Getty Images Q1 2026 Key takeaways 1 Fund performance Invesco Limited Term California Municipal Fund Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) outperformed its style-specific index, the S&P Municipal California Investment Grade 4-7 Years Bond Index. 2 Seeking attractive opportunities through collaborative management Invesco ( IVZ ) Municipal Bond team uses a collaborative management approach. Relying on our size and experience, we seek to identify the best opportunities to achieve potentially better outcomes for shareholders. 3 Analysis focused on creditworthiness Our team uses a bottom-up fundamental credit process focused on creditworthiness of individual issuers with an overlay of macroeconomic factors to capitalize on market inefficiencies. Our process has been time tested over full market cycles. Manager perspective and outlook • The first quarter saw mixed results in the municipal bond market, with investment grade, high yield and taxable municipals delivering returns of -0.18%, 0.71% and 0.43%, respectively. ¹ In March, increased supply and geopolitical tensions offset much of the strong performance in the first two months of the quarter. ¹ • New municipal issuance reached $135 billion, 11% higher than the first quarter of 2025. Issuance was likely driven by significant US infrastructure needs, higher supply costs and reduced federal spending. ¹ • Municipal mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) had strong net inflows over the quarter, totaling approximately $26 billion. ² • The US Federal Reserve (Fed) kept the federal funds rate steady during the quarter, reiterating its commitment to balancing maximum employment and a 2% inflation target. ³ • We believe state and local government budgets remain on solid footing. While there has been a slowdown in credit rating upgrades, they still exceeded downgrades in the first quarter, highlighting in our view strong underlying fundamentals. ¹ • Our research team is leveraging its deep credit e...
FeelPic/iStock via Getty Images Listen here or on the go via Apple Podcasts and Spotify For small cap investors, it's taken a lot of Courage and Conviction to see through recent drawdowns (0:35) BuzzFeed update (10:40) Arq update (19:15) Why Cineverse is Courage and Conviction Investing 's favorite stock right now (22:00) Leslie's an example of pure alpha (31:50) Position sizing (41:00) Transcript...
FeelPic/iStock via Getty Images Listen here or on the go via Apple Podcasts and Spotify For small cap investors, it's taken a lot of Courage and Conviction to see through recent drawdowns (0:35) BuzzFeed update (10:40) Arq update (19:15) Why Cineverse is Courage and Conviction Investing 's favorite stock right now (22:00) Leslie's an example of pure alpha (31:50) Position sizing (41:00) Transcript Rena Sherbill: Courage and Conviction Investing , our favorite person to talk small caps and the market with, welcome back to the show. Courage and Conviction Investing: Hey Rena, it's great to be back. It's been a while. I think it was last September , and thanks for reaching out. I'm thrilled to be back. Rena Sherbill: It's great to have you back. And like last time, we have had fervent fan requests for you to come back. Some of them have made some very nice returns on some of the stocks that you have highlighted in the past. We just had David Keller on who said he knew you on yesterday's episode, and he was talking about how small caps have done extraordinarily well this year. Where do you think is a good place to start us off from last episode when you were sharing some of the ways of withstanding some of the drawdowns in the small cap world? A different story today, I think. But where is a good place to start? Courage and Conviction Investing: When we talked last time, I simply said that if you were downstream of the 550 billion capex cycle for the hyperscalers, that was the easiest place to be. And that there had already been a big leg up, and that that's not at all what I do. But it turned out that if you simply took that advice and just at the highest level and said, okay, the hyperscalers are spending 550 billion, that's accelerating, they're using all their free cash flow, plus they're taking on debt and the tens of billions, because there's this arms race as to who's gonna get there faster, who's gonna have the leg up. That would have worked exceptionally well i...
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after the Nasdaq rebounded, up 1.8%, as Trump's Iran peace deal announcement released the rate pressure that weighed on the sector all week.
General Electric (NYSE:GE) appointed Judson Althoff, Microsoft’s Chief Commercial Officer, to its Board of Directors. GE Aerospace participated in the critical design review for the STARLAUNCH 1 sub orbital space vehicle. Both developments relate to GE’s focus on digital capabilities and expanded roles in space related aerospace programs. For investors watching NYSE:GE, these moves touch two impor...
General Electric (NYSE:GE) appointed Judson Althoff, Microsoft’s Chief Commercial Officer, to its Board of Directors. GE Aerospace participated in the critical design review for the STARLAUNCH 1 sub orbital space vehicle. Both developments relate to GE’s focus on digital capabilities and expanded roles in space related aerospace programs. For investors watching NYSE:GE, these moves touch two important themes: digital transformation and aerospace expansion. The addition of a senior Microsoft...