Cotton price action is trading with 20 to 56 points across the front months on Monday morning. Futures faced outside pressure on Friday, with contracts down 41 to 137 points across the board, with July falling 240 points. The US dollar index was up $0.643 at $100.025. Crude oil losses...
Cotton price action is trading with 20 to 56 points across the front months on Monday morning. Futures faced outside pressure on Friday, with contracts down 41 to 137 points across the board, with July falling 240 points. The US dollar index was up $0.643 at $100.025. Crude oil losses...
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sasirin pamai/iStock via Getty Images While the Canadian economy currently sits in a technical recession, TD Deputy Chief Economist Derek Burleton says it may return to growth in the back half of 2026. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Canadian economy has fallen into a technical recession. But will slowing economic growth be enough to get the Bank of Canada off the sidelines with some interest rate action...
sasirin pamai/iStock via Getty Images While the Canadian economy currently sits in a technical recession, TD Deputy Chief Economist Derek Burleton says it may return to growth in the back half of 2026. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Canadian economy has fallen into a technical recession. But will slowing economic growth be enough to get the Bank of Canada off the sidelines with some interest rate action? Joining us now to discuss is Derek Burleton, Deputy Chief Economist with TD Bank Group. Derek, great to have you back on the program. Derek Burleton: Thank you. Good to be here. Greg Bonnell: All right. People are picking up newspapers. They're picking up their phones. They're seeing the headline that Canada is in a technical recession. And then they're hearing that, perhaps, there's some nuance to that. Let's talk about the health of the economy beyond the headline and what's actually happening. Derek Burleton: Yeah. It's weak. We had the GDP data for the first quarter last week, and if you squinted your eyes, you'd see a very small negative in the quarter. That meant two straight quarters of declining activity. We had -1% in the fourth quarter. As soon as I saw that, I said, OK, this was going to lead to a lot of headlines about a so-called two-quarter-in-a-row technical recession. Economists look at it very differently. I think our bar on what is considered a recession or not, a recession is definitely higher. You need more conditions to be met than just two straight quarters, particularly when the declines are very shallow, like the -0.1% annualized, which could be revised away. So I think the way I look at it is the economy, when we went into the early part of this year, the first quarter, we knew it was going to be a tough environment for growth. We had something like 1% growth forecast for this year, which is not a big growth cushion. It wouldn't take a lot to go wrong to tip it closer to stagnation, maybe even a mild recession. And, in fact, we're in that kind of ...
Apple just announced watchOS 27, the next version of its Apple Watch operating system, introducing support for Siri AI, a redesigned "dynamic" app grid, and improvements to health and fitness tracking. The watchOS 27 update will be available "this fall," according to Apple, though support is notably limited - the new OS will only be available for Apple Watch Series 10 models or newer, including th...
Apple just announced watchOS 27, the next version of its Apple Watch operating system, introducing support for Siri AI, a redesigned "dynamic" app grid, and improvements to health and fitness tracking. The watchOS 27 update will be available "this fall," according to Apple, though support is notably limited - the new OS will only be available for Apple Watch Series 10 models or newer, including the Ultra 2 , Ultra 3 , and SE 3 . The biggest update coming to supported Apple Watch models is Siri AI - the next-generation of Apple's virtual assistant, powered by Apple Intelligence. This comes with a new, dedicated Siri app that "brings together al … Read the full story at The Verge.
The Canadian has been tipped as Gianni Infantino’s successor. He defends World Cup ticket prices and explains why the Premier League may soon have a rival Victor Montagliani believes the World Cup will trigger a “cultural revolution” in North America that could result in Major League Soccer rivaling the Premier League at the top of club football. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the pr...
The Canadian has been tipped as Gianni Infantino’s successor. He defends World Cup ticket prices and explains why the Premier League may soon have a rival Victor Montagliani believes the World Cup will trigger a “cultural revolution” in North America that could result in Major League Soccer rivaling the Premier League at the top of club football. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the president of Concacaf, who is also Fifa vice president: Defended the tournament’s controversial pricing strategy on the grounds that a World Cup in North America will be the peak of Fifa’s earning power that funds global football. Claimed Donald Trump will have “no part to play” at the tournament and that Fifa is “more than one guy.” Insisted it is too early to begin discussing expanding the World Cup to 64 teams, something which has been requested by South American confederation Conmebol. Expressed support for increasing the Club World Cup to 48 teams to raise standards and drive revenue growth. Left the door open to running for the Fifa presidency in 2031, after Gianni Infantino completes a final term following his expected reelection next year. Continue reading...
Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL, XETRA:ORC) is approaching its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings with analyst expectations running high, as cloud infrastructure growth looks poised to reaccelerate on the back of AI-driven demand and easing capacity constraints. Jefferies analysts maintained a Buy rating...
Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL, XETRA:ORC) is approaching its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings with analyst expectations running high, as cloud infrastructure growth looks poised to reaccelerate on the back of AI-driven demand and easing capacity constraints. Jefferies analysts maintained a Buy rating...
美国建筑天花板系统制造商阿姆斯壮世界工业公司（Armstrong World Industries， Inc．，纽约证券交易所代码：AWI）正面临多家股东权益律师事务所的证券欺诈调查。继2月份财报披露项目延迟导致股价单日暴跌约10%后，The Schall Law Firm、Pomerantz LLP及Kirby McInerney LLP等多家律所已先后启动调查，以评估公司及管理层是否发布了虚假...
美国建筑天花板系统制造商阿姆斯壮世界工业公司（Armstrong World Industries， Inc．，纽约证券交易所代码：AWI）正面临多家股东权益律师事务所的证券欺诈调查。继2月份财报披露项目延迟导致股价单日暴跌约10%后，The Schall Law Firm、Pomerantz LLP及Kirby McInerney LLP等多家律所已先后启动调查，以评估公司及管理层是否发布了虚假或误导性陈述。 调查的导火索是阿姆斯壮于2026年2月24日发布的2025年第四季度及全年财报。尽管全年营收创下16亿美元的历史新高，同比增长12%，但公司在财报电话会上披露的不利消息引发了市场剧烈反应。 公司高管在电话会上透露，当季“销量比预期更为疲软”，且“未见到节后正常的反弹”。更令投资者担忧的是，公司的建筑特制品业务出现了明显的项目延期问题。管理层坦言，“有五个相当大的项目”被推迟，这些项目“不仅未能计入本季度，也未能计入本年度”，导致公司在第四季度“确实没有产生运营杠杆”，并对业绩造成了“空穴效应”。 受此影响，阿姆斯壮的股价在2月24日当天暴跌18.53美元，跌幅约10%，收于174.30美元。截至3月下旬，该股自财报发布以来已累计下跌约14%。 除了项目延期和销量疲软，公司还面临成本端的压力。财报显示，当季运营利润率从25.7%收缩至23%，公司管理层将此归因于多项因素，包括与裁员和降本行动相关的更高支出、收购Eventscape的交易成本，以及关税调整带来的影响。尽管建筑特制品业务实现了11%的销售额增长，但该分部的运营利润却从1480万美元下降至930万美元。 面对股价下跌和投资者的质疑，阿姆斯壮管理层曾在3月初举行的 摩根士丹利 会议上试图安抚市场，重申了对2026年全年的业绩指引，预计净销售额在17.45亿至17.85亿美元之间，调整后EBITDA为6亿至6.2亿美元。公司同时还指出，一季度销量趋势正在改善。然而，根据4月底发布的一季报，公司每股收益为1.69美元，低于市场预期的1.82美元。 The Schall Law Firm鼓励在2024年4月18日至2026年2月24日期间购买阿姆斯壮股票并遭受损失的投资者联系律所。截至目前，尚未有正式诉讼文件提交，调查仍在进行中。 责任编辑：张俊 SF065
Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed "Apple Intelligence" update for its Siri voice assistant. The new "Siri AI"—now being promised for OS updates rolling out "this fall"—will come alongside a new Google-powered update to Apple's on-device Foundation Models, as well as tighter integration of all these AI cap...
Today at its pre-filmed Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple was finally prepared to fully introduce the long-delayed "Apple Intelligence" update for its Siri voice assistant. The new "Siri AI"—now being promised for OS updates rolling out "this fall"—will come alongside a new Google-powered update to Apple's on-device Foundation Models, as well as tighter integration of all these AI capabilities across Apple's many operating systems. Unlike other companies that "appear to be racing forward, seemingly pursuing AI for the sake of AI, with little regard for the people... it's meant to serve," Apple's SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said, "we believe that truly helpful AI must be centered around you and your needs." Just a friendly chat with your AI assistant The company highlighted this kind of focus in a series of scripted conversational demos with Siri AI , complete with seemingly unedited, multi-second pauses between each spoken prompt and Siri's response. In these demos, Apple executives showed Siri AI bouncing between different usage modes and app-based tasks as needed in an effort to highlight how Apple Intelligence can now be used "well beyond one-shot tasks" for a "brand new conversational experience" with the virtual assistant. Read full article Comments
For three years, the artificial intelligence (AI) trade was simple: Buy Nvidia , collect the upside, repeat. The graphics processing unit (GPU) was the atom of modern AI; everything else seemed to be organized around it. That story is not over. But something structural is shifting beneath it, creating one of the more compelling investment setups of the next decade. The largest technology companies...
For three years, the artificial intelligence (AI) trade was simple: Buy Nvidia , collect the upside, repeat. The graphics processing unit (GPU) was the atom of modern AI; everything else seemed to be organized around it. That story is not over. But something structural is shifting beneath it, creating one of the more compelling investment setups of the next decade. The largest technology companies on Earth are no longer content to simply buy Nvidia's chips off the shelf. They are designing their own, purpose-built silicon tuned to their specific models, workloads, and cost structures. Continue reading
In trading on Monday, shares of Regions Financial Corp's 4.45% Dep Shares Series E Non-Cumulative Prfd Stock (Symbol: RF.PRE) were yielding above the 7% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.1125), with shares changing hands as low as $15.87 on the day. This
In trading on Monday, shares of Regions Financial Corp's 4.45% Dep Shares Series E Non-Cumulative Prfd Stock (Symbol: RF.PRE) were yielding above the 7% mark based on its quarterly dividend (annualized to $1.1125), with shares changing hands as low as $15.87 on the day. This