Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to scale immersive virtual reality therapy across VA medical centers. The collaboration focuses on clinical grade VR tools aimed at supporting veterans' healthcare outcomes in a federal setting. This marks an expansion of Meta's VR footprint beyond consumer use into a regulated, enterprise level healthcare en...
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) has partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to scale immersive virtual reality therapy across VA medical centers. The collaboration focuses on clinical grade VR tools aimed at supporting veterans' healthcare outcomes in a federal setting. This marks an expansion of Meta's VR footprint beyond consumer use into a regulated, enterprise level healthcare environment. For investors watching NasdaqGS:META, this move sits alongside the company’s...
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was last seen trading near $373, while the average analyst price target sits at $587.31. That gap exceeds 57%, a dislocation that demands explanation. The stock has shed 22.8% year-to-date, falling from $484.35 at the start of the year. When a company of this scale trades this far below where 57 analysts ... After Microsoft’s Q1 Slide, Are the Bulls Still On Board?
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) was last seen trading near $373, while the average analyst price target sits at $587.31. That gap exceeds 57%, a dislocation that demands explanation. The stock has shed 22.8% year-to-date, falling from $484.35 at the start of the year. When a company of this scale trades this far below where 57 analysts ... After Microsoft’s Q1 Slide, Are the Bulls Still On Board?
Nastco/iStock via Getty Images The March jobs report delivered a strong headline rebound to close out Q1 2026, but the underlying details paint a more nuanced picture of the labor market’s trajectory. While payroll growth and the decline in the unemployment rate suggest resilience, shifts within labor force participation, employment flows, and wage dynamics point to a labor market that is stabiliz...
Nastco/iStock via Getty Images The March jobs report delivered a strong headline rebound to close out Q1 2026, but the underlying details paint a more nuanced picture of the labor market’s trajectory. While payroll growth and the decline in the unemployment rate suggest resilience, shifts within labor force participation, employment flows, and wage dynamics point to a labor market that is stabilizing rather than reaccelerating. As a result, the report reinforces a broader theme that has been building throughout the quarter: solid top-line data alongside a gradual cooling in underlying momentum. Establishment Data BLS The U.S. labor market bounced back from a weak February to end Q1 2026 on a relatively strong note. Nonfarm payroll employment is reported to have increased by 178,000 in March, reversing all of the decline in the previous month and more. Job growth in March was the strongest since December 2024, which makes it the strongest month so far in President Trump’s second term. The rebound also means that Q1 2026 looks more solid than it did a month ago, with an average of 68,000 jobs added, much improved from the 3-month average of 3,000 in the December to February period. BLS As is typical of months in the Trump administration, private sector job growth was the main (and in this case, the only) contributor to headline employment growth. Here are a few of the key details: Private nonfarm payroll employment increased 186,000, ahead of analyst expectations of a 55,000 increase and beating the 62,000 estimated by ADP on Wednesday. Like the trend in the headline number, this caused a significant upswing in momentum to end Q1, with the 3-month average jumping from 15,000 in February to 79,000 in March. The goods sector added 43,000 jobs in March, with all industries in the green. Construction added 26,000, and manufacturing added 15,000 (most since November 2024), both signs that U.S. economic health was heading in a more positive direction at the end of Q1. The s...
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This new ‘world order’, where rogue nations can pick and choose their next acquisitions, gives the green light to other bad actors, writes David Tayler . Plus letters from Peter Gregory , Rev Graham Murphy and John Gittings In our crazy, unregulated world, we watch the unedifying spectacle of two rogue nations, each awash with nuclear weapons, going to war to stop a third rogue nation from acquiri...
This new ‘world order’, where rogue nations can pick and choose their next acquisitions, gives the green light to other bad actors, writes David Tayler . Plus letters from Peter Gregory , Rev Graham Murphy and John Gittings In our crazy, unregulated world, we watch the unedifying spectacle of two rogue nations, each awash with nuclear weapons, going to war to stop a third rogue nation from acquiring similar weaponry ( Editorial, 30 March ). The resulting conflict is bringing chaos, death and destruction to the Middle East, and instability and unknowable consequences to the rest of us. If this is the new “world order”, where rogue nations are free to pick and choose their next acquisitions, it surely gives the green light to those with more legitimate claims – China with Taiwan, Spain with Gibraltar, Argentina with the Falklands. So, what can be done to halt this descent into madness? Continue reading...
One reader shares their experience of fighting to receive the money they were owed, while Roy Grimwood offers insight into the disastrous effects of a flawed economic model As witness to the cash-grabbing nature of these businesses ( The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs, 28 March ), I would like to draw your attention to a specific prac...
One reader shares their experience of fighting to receive the money they were owed, while Roy Grimwood offers insight into the disastrous effects of a flawed economic model As witness to the cash-grabbing nature of these businesses ( The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs, 28 March ), I would like to draw your attention to a specific practice: that of trying to deny grieving families the balance of fees owed to them when a resident dies in the home with full weeks already paid for. I had already heard of this from someone else, so I was on the alert when the same thing happened to us. We were told that it was not their “policy to refund” when, policy or not, a careful reading of the contract showed that the money was owed. We appealed, and were successful. Continue reading...