斯瓦伊布成功操控了7场比赛，帮助犯罪集团赚到数百万英镑， 而他收获了100万英镑。他不再穷困，但已在劫难逃 资料图：莫塞斯·斯瓦伊布（Moses Swaibu）。 5月，《假球》（Fixed：My Secret Life as a Match Fixer）一书面世。封面上粗体黄色的醒目字样，遮蔽了该书主人公莫塞斯·斯瓦伊布（Moses Swaibu）的半张脸。斯瓦伊布是当今英国足球界最触目惊心的踢...
斯瓦伊布成功操控了7场比赛，帮助犯罪集团赚到数百万英镑， 而他收获了100万英镑。他不再穷困，但已在劫难逃 资料图：莫塞斯·斯瓦伊布（Moses Swaibu）。 5月，《假球》（Fixed：My Secret Life as a Match Fixer）一书面世。封面上粗体黄色的醒目字样，遮蔽了该书主人公莫塞斯·斯瓦伊布（Moses Swaibu）的半张脸。斯瓦伊布是当今英国足球界最触目惊心的踢假球者之一。16个月牢狱过后，他幡然悔悟，毅然展现惊悚的假球世界。 2012年，沉浸于伦敦奥运会的英国人发现，他们所珍视的国家运动足球遭受了空前的假球侵袭。来自亚洲的犯罪集团通过控制英格兰足球联赛南方（第六级别联赛）若干球队踢假球，在下沉很深且关注度平平的联赛中兴风作浪，攫取了惊人的收益。斯瓦伊布在《假球》一书中详尽起底了假球运作过程的种种细节。其中，第十章“如何操控（fix）一场足球比赛”最为直白；最后一章的标题一语双关——fixing，寓意“修复”。出狱后的斯瓦伊布投身足球正义行动计划，志在“修复足球运动”。
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Olivia Solon reports on the effort by sports broadcast rights holders to fight online piracy. Tech Across the Globe SoftBank’s deal collapses: The Japanese company ended talks to acquire US data center operator Switch, a potential deal that had been part of founder Masayo...
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Olivia Solon reports on the effort by sports broadcast rights holders to fight online piracy. Tech Across the Globe SoftBank’s deal collapses: The Japanese company ended talks to acquire US data center operator Switch, a potential deal that had been part of founder Masayoshi Son’s bid to play a bigger role in the AI race. Microsoft’s latest chip: The software company is rolling out its second-generation chip for artificial intelligence work, striving to reduce its reliance on Nvidia’s hardware. Apple’s new AirTags: The iPhone maker unveiled a new version of its tracking device with longer range, a louder speaker and improved integration with the company’s other devices. Revalued AI startup Synthesia, which creates realistic-looking video avatars, raised $200 million in a funding round that doubled the company’s valuation to $4 billion from a year ago. Earlier backer GV, Alphabet’s fund, led the round. Streaming wars As more and more live sports move behind expensive paywalls, fans of football, boxing and Formula 1 are increasingly turning to illegal streaming sites and hacked Amazon Fire sticks to gain access to broadcasts of big-ticket events. The leagues and federations that sell broadcasting rights are struggling to convince people that online piracy is bad. Most fans simply don’t see the harm: 58% of people consider illegal streaming socially acceptable, according to recent UK data from Nielsen . The piracy sites are easy to find via social media or search engines and offer neatly bundled affordable packages of sports and movies, removing the friction of juggling multiple subscriptions. In the past, television networks and film studios faced ridicule for likening people who watched pirated content to thieves. If you went to the cinema in the 2000s, it was almost impossible to escape the menacing “You Wouldn’t Steal a Car” antipiracy cam...
“Trust but verify,” a Russian proverb famously used by President Ronald Reagan during nuclear disarmament negotiations with the former Soviet Union, feels like an apt description of global investor sentiment toward U.S. markets. Stocks are poised to test new all-time highs again this week amid a parade of corporate earnings updates likely to consolidate forecasts of double-digit profit growth agai...
“Trust but verify,” a Russian proverb famously used by President Ronald Reagan during nuclear disarmament negotiations with the former Soviet Union, feels like an apt description of global investor sentiment toward U.S. markets. Stocks are poised to test new all-time highs again this week amid a parade of corporate earnings updates likely to consolidate forecasts of double-digit profit growth again this year, and a Federal Reserve interest rate decision that is likely to clear the way for further borrowing cost reductions over the next 12 months.
General Motors ( GM ) declares $0.18/share quarterly dividend , 20% increase from prior dividend of $0.15. Forward yield 0.91% Payable March 19; for shareholders of record March 6; ex-div March 6. The company also announced that its Board has approved a new $6.0 billion share repurchase authorization. See GM Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on General Motors GM's Durability...
General Motors ( GM ) declares $0.18/share quarterly dividend , 20% increase from prior dividend of $0.15. Forward yield 0.91% Payable March 19; for shareholders of record March 6; ex-div March 6. The company also announced that its Board has approved a new $6.0 billion share repurchase authorization. See GM Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on General Motors GM's Durability Discount: The Margin Proof The Market Needs (Rating Upgrade) General Motors: The Re-Rating Without Margin Recovery Is Here General Motors Trumps Ford Amid EV Headwinds And Recurring SaaS Monetization General Motors Non-GAAP EPS of $2.51 beats by $0.25, revenue of $45.29B misses by $750M Ford, GM in talks with First Brands over financing to avoid supply disruption - report
First, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance. The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass ...
First, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance. The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days. The target was Canada, part of a classified 1930 strategy – War Plan Red – for a hypothetical war with Great Britain where the US would seek to deny it any foothold in North America. But the invasion plans, once dismissed as a fumbling historical quirk, have taken on fresh relevance as the US pivots its foreign policy to an increasingly aggressive view of its “pre-eminence” in the western hemisphere and turns its sights on both foes and allies. In early January, the fusion of economic nationalism and belligerent foreign policy championed by Donald Trump was on full display when his government ordered the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and the US president announced on social media the US would seize control of the South American country’s oil. Days after, both Trump and prominent officials spoke openly of using military force to invade and capture Greenland for its strategic position and its immense mineral wealth. In late January, the Globe and Mail reported that Canada’s military had modelled a hypothetical invasion of Canada, suggesting guerrilla tactics, similar to those used to repel both Russian and US forces in Afghanistan, would supplant conventional war. With declarations from US officials that regional dominance is their main geostrategic objective, threats from Trump that he intends to annex Canada have rattled the country. Last year, Trump said the centuries-old border between the two nations was no more than a...
Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strength I’m a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song a...
Folk duo Pound & Stevens have transformed, and added to, Holst’s The Planets Suite and tour the new work this week with Britten Sinfonia. Will Pound explains why playing by ear is his greatest strength I’m a harmonica and accordion player and one half of folk-classical duo Stevens & Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist I am rooted in a folk tradition that is oral, aural and communal. Music and song are passed down by ear, either through recordings or – more fun – traditional music sessions. Here, players and singers get together to share, swap and play tunes, drawing from a repertoire that is always evolving. While collections of tunes are certainly notated, their scores act as a skeleton – providing the basic architecture of pitch and rhythm but rarely offering explicit guidance on how the music should be played. Delia Stevens and I are about to head out on tour, performing with the Britten Sinfonia and Robert Macfarlane in a new work called The Silent Planet, a recomposition of Holst’s Planets suite. It’s the culmination of 18 months of rehearsals and revisions, and the score for this 60-minute work, orchestrated by Ian Gardiner, totals 165 pages and includes Earth, an entirely new composition. Continue reading...
Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster. In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty pe...
Lucas Chiappe had known for a long time that the fire was coming. For decades, the environmentalist had warned that replacing native trees in the Andes mountain range with highly flammable foreign pine was a recipe for disaster. In early January, flames raced down the Pirque hill and edged closer to his home in the Patagonian town of Epuyén, Argentina, where he had lived since the 1970s. Thirty people with six motor pumps fought for hours, hoses stretched for kilometres, but “there was no way”. “We had to throw all our equipment into the stream and get the hell out of there,” he says as he recalls fleeing as the inferno engulfed his house. “The dragon chased us until we crossed the river, and we had to speed between two fire columns along a trail barely a kilometre wide.” View image in fullscreen Experts say the replacement of native tree species with a highly flammable foreign pine monoculture has contributed to the spread of wildfires. Photograph: Maxi Jonas/AP Since 5 January, more than 36,000 hectares (90,000 acres) of native forests, grasslands, villages and tourist resorts in Patagonia have been ravaged by wildfires, mainly in the southern Argentine province of Chubut, according to the Federal Emergency Agency (AFE). Greenpeace says the affected area exceeds 40,000 hectares. You’ll see some bougie guy, all muddy, carrying a motor pump in a spectacular 4x4 truck Lucas Chiappe Wildfires are also hitting Chile, with at least 18 people killed this month. Environmental groups and workers blame extreme weather, which scientists link to the climate crisis and cuts to national fire-prevention budgets. “There was a confluence of many climatic factors,” says Andrés Nápoli, director of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (Farn). “This year has not had enough snowfall; there are low humidity levels and a high accumulation of combustible elements in the forest” – a reference to monoculture pine plantations, which act as “powder kegs”. Recent rainfall and the f...
“This is likely not an AI story as we saw in 2025,” says Cameron Dawson, CIO at Newedge Wealth, as she examines expectations for AI baked into corporate earnings estimates for 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)
“This is likely not an AI story as we saw in 2025,” says Cameron Dawson, CIO at Newedge Wealth, as she examines expectations for AI baked into corporate earnings estimates for 2026. (Source: Bloomberg)
(RTTNews) - Atlas Copco AB (ATLCY, ATCO-A.ST, ATCO-B.ST, ATLKY), a Swedish industrial company, on Tuesday reported a year-on-year decline in fourth-quarter net income and proposed a total dividend for the 2025 fiscal year. For the fourth quarter, profit attributable to owners of the parent declined to SEK 6.62 billion from SEK 7.80 billion in the prior year. Earnings per share were SEK 1.36 versus...
(RTTNews) - Atlas Copco AB (ATLCY, ATCO-A.ST, ATCO-B.ST, ATLKY), a Swedish industrial company, on Tuesday reported a year-on-year decline in fourth-quarter net income and proposed a total dividend for the 2025 fiscal year. For the fourth quarter, profit attributable to owners of the parent declined to SEK 6.62 billion from SEK 7.80 billion in the prior year. Earnings per share were SEK 1.36 versus SEK 1.60 last year. On average, three analysts had expected the company to report SEK 1.51 per share. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items. Operating profit decreased to SEK 8.47 billion from SEK 10.02 billion in the prior year. Revenue declined 7 percent to SEK 42.78 billion from SEK 46 billion in the previous year. Further, the board has proposed a total dividend of SEK 5 per share for the 2025 fiscal year, comprising an ordinary dividend of SEK 3 per share and an additional distribution of SEK 2 per share, corresponding to a total capital distribution of SEK 24.35 billion. The dividend is proposed to be paid in two equal installments of SEK 2.50 each, with record dates of April 30 and October 20. Atlas Copco is currently trading 0.87% lesser at SEK 188.50 on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) just picked up another meaningful government win, with Amazon Web Services securing a $581.3 million contract tied to the U.S. Air Force's Cloud One program. The firm-fixed-price award covers cloud services that support Cloud One, the Air Force's enterprise cloud environment used across multiple internal customers. According ...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) just picked up another meaningful government win, with Amazon Web Services securing a $581.3 million contract tied to the U.S. Air Force's Cloud One program. The firm-fixed-price award covers cloud services that support Cloud One, the Air Force's enterprise cloud environment used across multiple internal customers. According to the contract notice, the work will be carried out at AWS-designated facilities across the contiguous U.S. and is scheduled to run through Dec. 7, 2028. That headline number does not mean the revenue hits all at once. Only about $3.5 million in fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance funding is being obligated at the time of the award, pointing to a long-duration contract that ramps gradually as workloads expand. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center in Massachusetts is handling the contracting. For AWS, deals like this matter less for near-term upside and more for durability. Defense cloud contracts tend to be sticky, long-lived, and difficult to displace once embedded, giving AWS steady exposure over several budget cycles. Investors will be watching how contracts like Cloud One translate into AWS's reported segment growth as federal cloud spending continues to scale.
With its stock down 14% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard JD.com (NASDAQ:JD). However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, which in this case looks quite promising. In this article, we decided to focus on JD.com's ROE. Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ mo...
With its stock down 14% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard JD.com (NASDAQ:JD). However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, which in this case looks quite promising. In this article, we decided to focus on JD.com's ROE. Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. Simply put, it is used to assess the profitability of a company in relation to its equity capital. We've found 21 US stocks that are forecast to pay a dividend yield of over 6% next year. See the full list for free. How Is ROE Calculated? The formula for return on equity is: Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity So, based on the above formula, the ROE for JD.com is: 12% = CN¥35b ÷ CN¥304b (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025). The 'return' is the yearly profit. So, this means that for every $1 of its shareholder's investments, the company generates a profit of $0.12. See our latest analysis for JD.com What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth? So far, we've learned that ROE is a measure of a company's profitability. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company’s earnings growth potential. Assuming all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features. A Side By Side comparison of JD.com's Earnings Growth And 12% ROE To start with, JD.com's ROE looks acceptable. Even when compared to the industry average of 12% the company's ROE looks quite decent. Consequently, this likely laid the ground for the decent growth of 8.4% seen over the past five years by JD.com. As a next step, we compared JD.com's net income growth with the industry and were disappointed to ...
Mainland China could become one of the first markets in the world to approve a drug fully designed by artificial intelligence, as advances in AI and human genetics combine to create a “seismic shift” in drug development, according to executives of pharmaceutical giants. “We will see in 2026 that we move from AI-assisted discovery to fully AI-designed compounds, perhaps entering the pipeline,” said...
Mainland China could become one of the first markets in the world to approve a drug fully designed by artificial intelligence, as advances in AI and human genetics combine to create a “seismic shift” in drug development, according to executives of pharmaceutical giants. “We will see in 2026 that we move from AI-assisted discovery to fully AI-designed compounds, perhaps entering the pipeline,” said Marc Horn, president of Merck China, at the Asian Financial Forum on Tuesday in Hong Kong. “We already see some very exciting examples in China.” His comments came as China’s biopharmaceutical sector has evolved from a manufacturer of generics to a global innovation powerhouse over the past decade. Chinese drug makers signed a record US$135.7 billion in out-licensing deals last year, more than double 2024’s total of US$51.9 billion. Advertisement “At the moment, around 30 per cent of new drug pipelines are coming out of China,” Horn said. “China has huge patient data sets, and the government just announced the ‘AI Plus’ programme for the next couple of years, which should give a pretty good push to this field.” “We might see a truly AI-designed compound approved in China next year,” he added. Advertisement