US President Donald Trump credited Chinese assistance after he agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the war on Iran that includes a resumption of shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz. “I hear yes,” Trump told Agence France-Presse when asked whether China had helped to get Iran into negotiations, which are due to start in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday. Iran separately said that it wants China, ...
US President Donald Trump credited Chinese assistance after he agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the war on Iran that includes a resumption of shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz. “I hear yes,” Trump told Agence France-Presse when asked whether China had helped to get Iran into negotiations, which are due to start in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday. Iran separately said that it wants China, its biggest trading partner, to be among guarantors of regional peace. The US and Iran both...
Stock futures edged up Wednesday premarket while oil slumped 16% after the U.S., Iran, and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire for negotiations, with President Trump delaying planned strikes and calling it a "double-sided ceasefire." Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers Levi Strauss ( LEVI ) +10% – Shares jumped after a strong Q1 beat, with consolidated revenu...
Stock futures edged up Wednesday premarket while oil slumped 16% after the U.S., Iran, and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire for negotiations, with President Trump delaying planned strikes and calling it a "double-sided ceasefire." Here are some of Wednesday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock gainers Levi Strauss ( LEVI ) +10% – Shares jumped after a strong Q1 beat, with consolidated revenue up 14% Y/Y and 9% on an organic basis, driven by broad-based growth across regions, including the Americas (+9%), Europe (+24%), and Asia (+13%), while the Beyond Yoga segment stood out with 23% organic growth. Direct-to-consumer sales also remained a key driver, increasing 16% Y/Y. The company guided for full-year revenue growth of 5.5%–6.5% with EPS of $1.42–$1.48 (vs. $1.46 consensus), alongside announcing that Harmit Singh will remain CFGO until a successor is named before transitioning to a special advisor role. Diebold Nixdorf ( DBD ) +5% – Shares advanced after it was announced the company will replace Sealed Air ( SEE ) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective before trading opens on April 10, following Sealed Air’s pending acquisition by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which is expected to close on April 9. Biggest stock losers Tamboran Resources ( TBN ) -23% – Shares plunged after the company priced a public offering of ~2.96M shares at $35.00 each to raise ~$103.5M in gross proceeds, with underwriters granted a 30-day option to purchase an additional ~443K shares. The net proceeds will fund additional drilling in the Pilot Area, resource delineation in the Orion Acreage and Beetaloo Central Development Area, drilling in EP 161, working capital, and other corporate purposes. The offering is set to close on April 9, 2026. Shell ( SHEL ) -5% – Shares slipped despite strong oil trading performance expected to boost Q1 results, with its chemicals and products segment, particularly the trading desk, seen delivering “significantly higher” earnings sequentially alongside solid mark...
By Medha Singh, Echo Wang and Noel Randewich April 8 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking a $1.75 trillion valuation in its forthcoming initial public offering.
By Medha Singh, Echo Wang and Noel Randewich April 8 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s SpaceX is seeking a $1.75 trillion valuation in its forthcoming initial public offering.
The Lib Dems’ Sue Miller has spent most of her life trying to reduce the risk of nuclear war. And it’s not going well. Why are so few people talking about non-proliferation, let alone disarmament? Almost the mildest remark that Sue Miller makes about nuclear weapons is also the scariest: “The last people to take a big interest in any of this were Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett.” Those people se...
The Lib Dems’ Sue Miller has spent most of her life trying to reduce the risk of nuclear war. And it’s not going well. Why are so few people talking about non-proliferation, let alone disarmament? Almost the mildest remark that Sue Miller makes about nuclear weapons is also the scariest: “The last people to take a big interest in any of this were Gordon Brown and Margaret Beckett.” Those people seem such a long way away – Brown, of course, still campaigns valiantly against poverty, and Beckett is a working baroness, but as voices against the global buildup of nuclear arms, theirs are so historical as to be almost nostalgic. Yet the Doomsday Clock , the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ symbolic representation of how near the world is to destroying itself, has never been closer to midnight than it is now: 85 seconds (and this was prior to the current war in Iran). Russia has been making thinly veiled threats of “tactical” use since its invasion of Ukraine, while its drone incursions into Nato nations have “heightened European threat perceptions” (as the bulletin puts it), without those perceptions driving anyone’s thoughts towards nuclear de-escalation, let alone disarmament. Meanwhile, non-nuclear European nations are talking about developing “nuclear latency” – building the ability to develop nuclear capacity at speed. Continue reading...
At last … creative perfumes at half the cost of most niche fragrances, with a wide range of beautifully balanced options The business of modern perfumery can stink. While I accept that the cost of everything is now troubling, large sections of the niche fragrance sector seemingly pluck their prices from the sky. It’s not unusual for a bottle costing £300-odd to launch without any accompanying expl...
At last … creative perfumes at half the cost of most niche fragrances, with a wide range of beautifully balanced options The business of modern perfumery can stink. While I accept that the cost of everything is now troubling, large sections of the niche fragrance sector seemingly pluck their prices from the sky. It’s not unusual for a bottle costing £300-odd to launch without any accompanying explanation as to why . An unknown name, a needlessly quirky bottle, an egregious price tag – all serve to underline the assertion that this is a “niche” fragrance for people who take their scents seriously, who should be too in the know to question its calibre. And so when I see a brand doing things honestly, authentically and with great care, I must give due credit. Essential Parfums is new to John Lewis (and available directly from the brand online ) and its aim is to democratise creative perfumery. What this means in practice is an open brief to perfumers, who include such big hitters as Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo; their total creative freedom; sustainable and mostly natural ingredient sourcing, development and manufacturing processes (using biotech, simple refillable bottles and cardboard packaging containing no glue or plastic); and a fair price – around £86 for a whopping 100ml, which, millilitre for millilitre, is less than half the cost of a pretty average designer fragrance enjoying little of the same treatment, and about a quarter of some of the nonsense I’m pitched regularly. Continue reading...
The brassy actor’s performance in Death of a Salesman is the crown jewel in a life spent on stage. He says it could be his last Broadway role “It’s, like, 10 minutes. I pee, I have a cup of tea, I put the jacket back on and I go out and fight my way to the death.” The way Nathan Lane describes spending the intermission of Death of a Salesman – the nearly three-hour play in which his character flai...
The brassy actor’s performance in Death of a Salesman is the crown jewel in a life spent on stage. He says it could be his last Broadway role “It’s, like, 10 minutes. I pee, I have a cup of tea, I put the jacket back on and I go out and fight my way to the death.” The way Nathan Lane describes spending the intermission of Death of a Salesman – the nearly three-hour play in which his character flails and ultimately fails through an epic depression – reflects the actor’s own spirit: practical, lightly fatalistic, artfully hyperbolic and very, very funny. Today he is in fine form, nestled into a corner table in New York’s classic Upper West Side haunt Cafe Luxembourg. When I ask him if Salesman marks his first time performing at the Winter Garden Theatre, he responds without missing a beat: “Yes, except when I took over in Mame.” Continue reading...
To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data. (Image credit: Angela Weiss)
To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration investigation has cut schools off from new data. (Image credit: Angela Weiss)