Good morning . US gas prices top $4 a gallon. Donald Trump may be considering a new way to end the Iran war. And Instagram is testing out a feature that will allow you to view other people’s Stories anonymously. Listen to the day’s top stories . — Marcus Wright Market Snapshot S&P 500 Futures 6,424.75 +0.6% Nasdaq 100 Futures 23,241.50 +0.4% Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index 1,222.46 +0.0% Market data a...
Good morning . US gas prices top $4 a gallon. Donald Trump may be considering a new way to end the Iran war. And Instagram is testing out a feature that will allow you to view other people’s Stories anonymously. Listen to the day’s top stories . — Marcus Wright Market Snapshot S&P 500 Futures 6,424.75 +0.6% Nasdaq 100 Futures 23,241.50 +0.4% Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index 1,222.46 +0.0% Market data as of 06:54 AM ET. Data is subject to provider delays. US gasoline topped $4 a gallon for the first time since mid-2022, in one of the most visible measures of consumer pain resulting from the Middle East conflict. The spike came despite a Wall Street Journal report that Donald Trump may be willing to end the conflict even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Iran shows no sign of backing down—it hit a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker off Dubai in a drone attack. Read all the latest news from the war in our blog. Futures rallied as investors gained some confidence after the report on Trump’s potential willingness to end the war. The dollar is on track for its best month since 2024, with the conflict pushing investors to the world’s primary reserve currency. But the outlook for once high-flying chip stocks remains gloomy. In the words of Citi: “we’re looking at a world of sustained higher yields and sustained higher energy costs and that doesn’t help the AI sector .” Unilever said talks to sell most of its food business to French’s mustard maker McCormick are advanced and a final deal may be announced later today. Over in sneaker-land, Reebok and Champion owner Authentic Brands has expressed interest in buying Nike’s struggling Converse brand . And fitness band maker Whoop is now valued at just over $10 billion , a new milestone on its way to an IPO. Will the Supreme Court End Birthright Citizenship? Read more Some of the country’s wealthiest corporations calculate they owe far less to the IRS as a result of Trump’s overhauled tax code. Big Tech, retailers, drugmakers and te...
The R&B singer’s must-read autobiography candidly describes a life of heady highs and horrific lows Despite a 30 years-plus discography and a slew of undeniable classics (Sittin’ Up in My Room, The Boy Is Mine, modern R&B blueprint What About Us?) and deep cuts feted by the likes of Solange , Kehlani and Normani, there’s a sense that Brandy , the fan-anointed Vocal Bible, is still underrated. Her ...
The R&B singer’s must-read autobiography candidly describes a life of heady highs and horrific lows Despite a 30 years-plus discography and a slew of undeniable classics (Sittin’ Up in My Room, The Boy Is Mine, modern R&B blueprint What About Us?) and deep cuts feted by the likes of Solange , Kehlani and Normani, there’s a sense that Brandy , the fan-anointed Vocal Bible, is still underrated. Her vividly told and occasionally harrowing memoir, Phases , co-written alongside Gerrick Kennedy and out on Tuesday, goes some way to explaining why that might be. As well as detailing her formative years in Mississippi and later California, where she learned her trade singing in church choirs and at youth groups, and later her meteoric rise as a teenage superstar, Phases paints a picture of a young woman whose insecurities were often exposed and abused by others. It also spotlights issues around duty of care in the music industry; in 1999, while nursing an addiction to diet pills, and juggling her role on the hit teen sitcom Moesha with a relentless recording and touring schedule, Brandy suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of just 20. Continue reading...
The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? Susanna Rustin is the author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism Once you stop to think about it, the need for a law to ensure that participants have consented to appear in online pornography is obvious. Egregious past failures have been well documen...
The crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? Susanna Rustin is the author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism Once you stop to think about it, the need for a law to ensure that participants have consented to appear in online pornography is obvious. Egregious past failures have been well documented. They range from the New York Times’s investigation of Pornhub, which concluded that one of the world’s biggest pornography businesses hosted videos featuring underaged and sex-trafficked subjects (Pornhub subsequently removed more than half of its content ) to the horrors uncovered in the trial of Dominique Pelicot. On the online chat site Coco he shared multiple videos of his then wife, Gisèle, being raped while unconscious in a chatroom called “without her knowledge” (Coco was shut down in 2024). Susanna Rustin is a social affairs journalist and the author of Sexed: A History of British Feminism Continue reading...
A wartime leader’s words are critically important. But Trump, contradicting himself and denying reality, is no Churchill During a White House ceremony on 9 April 1963, then president John F Kennedy bestowed honorary citizenship on former prime minister Winston Churchill, remembering how effectively Churchill inspired millions with his words during the second world war. As Kennedy put it , Churchil...
A wartime leader’s words are critically important. But Trump, contradicting himself and denying reality, is no Churchill During a White House ceremony on 9 April 1963, then president John F Kennedy bestowed honorary citizenship on former prime minister Winston Churchill, remembering how effectively Churchill inspired millions with his words during the second world war. As Kennedy put it , Churchill “mobilized the English language and sent it into battle”. The same cannot be said of Kennedy’s successor Donald Trump. Their names may be awkwardly conjoined atop the shuttered Kennedy Center, but the comparison ends there. Kennedy, like Churchill, spoke effectively, with great attention to the facts, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis, when the world’s leaders hung on every phrase and participle spoken by the leader of the free world. Continue reading...
Surrey look well placed to reclaim the title after their runner-up finish last season while all eyes are on promotion for Lancashire Continue reading...
Surrey look well placed to reclaim the title after their runner-up finish last season while all eyes are on promotion for Lancashire Continue reading...
Most broad U.S. equity ETFs just buy the market. Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUS) does something subtler: it buys most of the market, then tilts the portfolio toward stocks that are cheaper relative to their fundamentals and more profitable than their peers. The result resembles an index fund but behaves differently in practice. What AVUS ... AVUS Outpaced VTI by 16 Points Over 5 Years. Is ...
Most broad U.S. equity ETFs just buy the market. Avantis U.S. Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:AVUS) does something subtler: it buys most of the market, then tilts the portfolio toward stocks that are cheaper relative to their fundamentals and more profitable than their peers. The result resembles an index fund but behaves differently in practice. What AVUS ... AVUS Outpaced VTI by 16 Points Over 5 Years. Is It the Better Core Holding?
Getty Images Making Sense of SNDK's March Correction Sandisk Corporation ( SNDK ) is a NAND flash technology manufacturer that was spun off from Western Digital ( WDC ) in February 2025. Since then, the stock has managed to gain almost 1,000% (even after the recent sell-off) in ~13 months. TrendSpider Software, SNDK, notes added Over the past 2 weeks, SNDK has lost over 26% from its ATH as the mar...
Getty Images Making Sense of SNDK's March Correction Sandisk Corporation ( SNDK ) is a NAND flash technology manufacturer that was spun off from Western Digital ( WDC ) in February 2025. Since then, the stock has managed to gain almost 1,000% (even after the recent sell-off) in ~13 months. TrendSpider Software, SNDK, notes added Over the past 2 weeks, SNDK has lost over 26% from its ATH as the market started to adjust its expectations for spot memory chip prices and also reacted to the TurboQuant tech that Google ( GOOG ) Research shared in its paper - it's basically a compression algorithm that claims to reduce memory usage for LLMs by 6x. The latter news was more negative than just chips selling pricing assumptions because we initially saw a slowdown in EPS being priced in for FY2028. Seeking Alpha, SNDK The fear is about TurboQuant's software-level efficiency structurally destroying the strong demand narrative for AI memory chips. However, I think the sell-off was likely a technical thing - the current fundamentals are not worsening because SNDK has secured plenty of multi-year LTAs (long-term agreements) that support both top and bottom lines for the next couple of years. Also, the TurboQuant fears look overblown to me - let me explain why. Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro can maintain high recall accuracy with a context window of up to 10 million tokens - it's not fresh news. But as the number of tokens expands so massively, the key-value (KV) cache required for inference grows exponentially as well, and it's been a major problem for Google and all other LLM providers in general. Initially, SNDK and its peers were expecting a huge uptick in terms of the NAND demand with this specific AI architectural shift - SNDK's management in particular was expecting an incremental 75-100 exabytes of additional NAND demand in 2027 alone: It's early, but in our early analysis of that is if you just look at some penetration rates per device and then you look at how fast you put some as...
Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLC) is down 8.78% year to date, and the two stocks most responsible for that slide are the ones you need to watch most closely over the next 12 months. XLC tracks the communication services sector of the S&P 500, covering digital advertising, streaming, social media, and telecom. The ... XLC Is Down 8.78% Year to Date and the Catalysts That...
Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLC) is down 8.78% year to date, and the two stocks most responsible for that slide are the ones you need to watch most closely over the next 12 months. XLC tracks the communication services sector of the S&P 500, covering digital advertising, streaming, social media, and telecom. The ... XLC Is Down 8.78% Year to Date and the Catalysts That Matter Most Are Still Ahead
As global energy supplies are put under strain by Iranian disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, state-owned Chinese oil giant PetroChina has said its overall operations remain stable because most of its imports do not pass through the strait. However, the company’s investment operations in the Middle East had been “impacted to varying degrees”, as crude oil and natural gas imported ...
As global energy supplies are put under strain by Iranian disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, state-owned Chinese oil giant PetroChina has said its overall operations remain stable because most of its imports do not pass through the strait. However, the company’s investment operations in the Middle East had been “impacted to varying degrees”, as crude oil and natural gas imported through the strait accounted for about 10 per cent of its total operating volume, PetroChina...
China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen began operations of the country’s first 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster, built with advanced chips made by Huawei Technologies, in the latest sign of how the country is deepening its push for home-grown computing capabilities. Featuring a computing capacity of 11,000 petaflops, the new cluster, activated last week, is the country’s first 10,000-card int...
China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen began operations of the country’s first 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster, built with advanced chips made by Huawei Technologies, in the latest sign of how the country is deepening its push for home-grown computing capabilities. Featuring a computing capacity of 11,000 petaflops, the new cluster, activated last week, is the country’s first 10,000-card intelligent computing cluster built with Huawei’s Ascend 910C AI chips, according to Shenzhen Special...
The push to protect children from social media’s harms is gaining momentum globally and beginning to reach Big Tech’s home turf in the US. A groundbreaking Los Angeles jury verdict last week found Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. ’s Google negligent in the design and operation of their popular platforms — saying they harmed a young user with products created to be addictive. Now, several stat...
The push to protect children from social media’s harms is gaining momentum globally and beginning to reach Big Tech’s home turf in the US. A groundbreaking Los Angeles jury verdict last week found Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. ’s Google negligent in the design and operation of their popular platforms — saying they harmed a young user with products created to be addictive. Now, several states including California are getting serious about potential regulation to limit young people on social media, following a trend that’s accelerated in recent months around the world. Read More: Global Social Media Bans Gain Steam With India, Indonesia Australia kicked off the global push, forcing the companies along with TikTok Inc. , Snap Inc. and Elon Musk ’s X to boot Australian users under 16 off their platforms in December. The movement has since gained traction with Indonesia, parts of India, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Canada and others discussing bans. Austria said on Friday it aims to pass legislation to curb social media use this year, Denmark has already agreed to similar restrictions, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said the sites’ mental health damage to children is “ unambiguous .” The result is a patchwork of proposals that range from outright bans for younger teenagers, like in Australia’s regime, to requiring parental approval or oversight, like in Brazil and Portugal. Different countries have different ideas about which technology companies should be covered and regulators are grappling with a spectrum of ways that teenagers can connect and share content online. Such varied approaches across so many jurisdictions will make tech companies’ compliance more complex. “Parents around the world are really understanding the nefarious impact that social media is having on their kids’ mental health and their physical safety,” said Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of the Seattle-based Social Media Victims Law Center, which repr...
In this article DAL AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The passenger cabin on a Delta Boeing 737-900ER is shown while landing in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mike Blake | Reuters Delta Air Lines has tapped Amazon Leo to provide fast internet service on hundreds of jets starting in 2028, the latest salvo in airlines' in-flight Wi-Fi and streaming wars. Amazon Leo, which stands for low Ea...
In this article DAL AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The passenger cabin on a Delta Boeing 737-900ER is shown while landing in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mike Blake | Reuters Delta Air Lines has tapped Amazon Leo to provide fast internet service on hundreds of jets starting in 2028, the latest salvo in airlines' in-flight Wi-Fi and streaming wars. Amazon Leo, which stands for low Earth orbit, is offering satellite Wi-Fi, which Delta says will initially be available on 500 of its aircraft. Delta will start with domestic-focused, narrow-body planes from Boeing and Airbus . The airline also uses Hughes and Viasat for in-flight Wi-Fi. "People want faster speeds, they want more bandwidth, they want to share all their video and photos from their trip. Expectations are just rising every day," Delta Chief Marketing and Product Officer Ranjan Goswami said in an interview. Airlines have been turning to faster in-flight Wi-Fi and making the service free for loyalty program members as they seek to win over passengers and in some cases monetize a captive audience of millions with personalized ads and potential shopping. Goswami said there will "clearly be commerce opportunities" as Delta refreshes its in-flight technology to update movie selections and other entertainment faster and to offer bigger libraries. He said Delta has about 165,000 seat-back screens in its fleet. Goswami said the initial batch of aircraft to offer the faster service will include Delta's newly ordered Boeing 737 Max 10 planes as well as some older 737s and Airbus A321s, used mostly for domestic routes. Chris Weber, Amazon Leo's vice president, said the higher speeds come from its satellites, which are in orbit closer to Earth than some others. "I think of the high-speed, reliable connectivity of the planes as foundation, and Delta will build some very unique experiences on top of that," Weber said. He said Amazon Leo is focused on building out its satellite constellations and has about 200...
Delta Air Lines Inc. will use Amazon.com Inc. ’s satellites to deliver in-flight Wi-Fi service, a big win for the e-commerce giant’s space business as it vies with Elon Musk’s Starlink for aviation customers. Delta agreed to install the Amazon Leo internet service on 500 aircraft starting in 2028, enabling faster and more reliable internet to support streaming video and messaging, according to a T...
Delta Air Lines Inc. will use Amazon.com Inc. ’s satellites to deliver in-flight Wi-Fi service, a big win for the e-commerce giant’s space business as it vies with Elon Musk’s Starlink for aviation customers. Delta agreed to install the Amazon Leo internet service on 500 aircraft starting in 2028, enabling faster and more reliable internet to support streaming video and messaging, according to a Tuesday announcement from the airline. The partnership deepens competition among carriers hoping to offer faster, free onboard connectivity. SpaceX ’s Starlink network, which has more than 9,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, has made rapid inroads into the aviation market. British Airways , Air France and Emirates are among the airlines that have agreed to use Starlink. United Airlines Holdings Inc. expects to equip more than 500 mainline aircraft with Starlink Wi-Fi by the end of this year, bringing the total across its fleet to more than 800 planes. Southwest Airlines Co. said it plans to install Starlink on more than 300 jets by the end of 2026. The popularity of Starlink reflects in part SpaceX’s big head start over Amazon, which has a few hundred satellites in orbit for a planned network of more than 3,200. Amazon Leo is expected to begin commercial service in 2026 . Before the Delta announcement, Amazon’s only aviation customer for in-flight Wi-Fi was JetBlue Airways . The faster network “will enable things like the entire plane to be streaming 4K videos, and scenarios where you have people coming from vacation and they wanna upload high-resolution photos, videos, et cetera,” Amazon Leo Vice President Chris Weber said in an interview. Delta currently relies on satellite operators Viasat Inc. and EchoStar Corp. ’s Hughes Network Systems to provide connectivity across its fleet. The airline said it will continue working with multiple providers to equip different aircraft with the appropriate technology. The move is part of a broader race among US carriers to offer faste...
Softr , the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix , Google , and Stripe , today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has produced a market full of impressive demos but very little production-ready business software. The company's new AI Co-Builder lets...
Softr , the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix , Google , and Stripe , today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has produced a market full of impressive demos but very little production-ready business software. The company's new AI Co-Builder lets non-technical users describe in plain language the software they need, and the platform generates a fully integrated system — database, user interface, permissions, and business logic included — connected and ready for real-world deployment immediately. The move marks a fundamental evolution for a company that spent five years building a no-code business before layering AI on top of what it describes as a proven infrastructure of constrained, pre-built building blocks. "Most AI app-builders stop at the shiny demo stage," Softr Co-Founder and CEO Mariam Hakobyan told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "A lot of the time, people generate calculators, landing pages, and websites — and there are a huge number of use cases for those. But there is no actual business application builder, which has completely different needs." The announcement arrives at a moment when the AI app-building market finds itself at an inflection point. A wave of so-called " vibe coding " platforms — tools like Lovable , Bolt , and Replit that generate application code from natural language prompts — have captured developer mindshare and venture capital over the past 18 months. But Hakobyan argues those tools fundamentally misserve the audience Softr is chasing: the estimated billions of non-technical business users inside companies who need custom operational software but lack the skills to maintain AI-generated code when it inevitably breaks. Why AI-generated app prototypes keep failing when real business data is involved The core tension Softr is trying to resolve is one that ...
SHANGHAI, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chagee Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: CHA) (“Chagee” or the “Company”), a leading premium tea drinks brand serving healthy and delicious freshly-made tea drinks, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
SHANGHAI, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chagee Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: CHA) (“Chagee” or the “Company”), a leading premium tea drinks brand serving healthy and delicious freshly-made tea drinks, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- YXT.com Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: YXT) (“YXT.com” or the “Company”), a provider of AI-enabled enterprise productivity solutions, today announced its unaudited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2025.
SUZHOU, China, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- YXT.com Group Holding Limited (NASDAQ: YXT) (“YXT.com” or the “Company”), a provider of AI-enabled enterprise productivity solutions, today announced its unaudited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2025.
NORWALK, Conn., March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FactSet (“FactSet” or the “Company”) (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, today announced results for its second quarter fiscal 2026 ended February 28, 2026.
NORWALK, Conn., March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FactSet (“FactSet” or the “Company”) (NYSE:FDS) (NASDAQ:FDS), a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, today announced results for its second quarter fiscal 2026 ended February 28, 2026.
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc. (“Next Hydrogen”) (TSXV:NXH), a leading Canadian designer and manufacturer of hydrogen electrolyzers, reports its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Next Hydrogen Solutions Inc. (“Next Hydrogen”) (TSXV:NXH), a leading Canadian designer and manufacturer of hydrogen electrolyzers, reports its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.