StoneX Group (SNEX) could be a solid choice for shorter-term investors looking to capitalize on the recent price trend in fundamentally sound stocks. It is one of the many stocks that passed through our shorter-term trading strategy-based screen.
StoneX Group (SNEX) could be a solid choice for shorter-term investors looking to capitalize on the recent price trend in fundamentally sound stocks. It is one of the many stocks that passed through our shorter-term trading strategy-based screen.
Irish Baroque Orchestra and Choir/Whelan (Linn) Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers. Every year, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back to Dublin, the city of its 1742 premiere. Their recording of Handel’s oratorio – the first on period instruments by an Irish ensemble – attempts to recre...
Irish Baroque Orchestra and Choir/Whelan (Linn) Conductor Peter Whelan leads a finely judged and agile period-instrument performance with only 13 singers. Every year, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and their conductor Peter Whelan bring Messiah back to Dublin, the city of its 1742 premiere. Their recording of Handel’s oratorio – the first on period instruments by an Irish ensemble – attempts to recreate the version heard at its first performance at the Fishamble Street music hall, a hot-ticket event at which such a crush was anticipated that the ladies in the audience were requested to forgo hoops in their skirts and the gentlemen to leave their swords at home. One of the attractions was the scandal-hit contralto and actor Susannah Cibber , who sang several arias including some more often sung today by other voice types: on the recording, gratifyingly, we get to hear a substantial share for Helen Charlston , her voice firm, slightly metallic and unflaggingly expressive. Also included is a less familiar duet-and-chorus version of How Beautiful Are the Feet, written for two of the countertenors from the Dublin cathedral choirs. Here and elsewhere Alexander Chance is in buoyant voice – he also gets the two arias Handel adapted later for his star castrato in London. Hilary Cronin’s sweet-sounding soprano stands out among the solo voices. Continue reading...
Royal Festival Hall, London This thrilling and idiosyncratic concert moved from Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos to Rachmaninov, Ravel and Schumann Remember the poem by Jenny Joseph , warning that when she is old, “I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn’t go” ? There was a hint of the same gentle anarchy in this remarkable performance by Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich and her Korean s...
Royal Festival Hall, London This thrilling and idiosyncratic concert moved from Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos to Rachmaninov, Ravel and Schumann Remember the poem by Jenny Joseph , warning that when she is old, “I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn’t go” ? There was a hint of the same gentle anarchy in this remarkable performance by Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich and her Korean sometime mentee Dong Hyek Lim . The advertised first half of piano duets including Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor D940 was scrapped in favour of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K448 and Ravel’s two-piano arrangement of La Valse – only for the Schubert Fantasia to reappear in the second half as a monumental, 20-minute encore following Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances in its two-piano original version. Between works, the two pianists meandered around the stage, chatting and occasionally bowing – Argerich leaning on Lim’s arm but driving nonetheless. There were onstage negotiations about whether or not to swap pianos after the first work. There were furious looks shot at page-turners caught on the back foot. Every movement started before the audience had settled. Continue reading...
Practically all of my personal investing is centered around AI companies, or those who will benefit from it. But we can’t ignore macro events. What happens if things get ugly out there? Not mild-recession ugly. Oil-at-$200 a barrel ugly. That scenario carries only a 2.55% implied probability on Polymarket, but that’s not the point. The ... AI Stocks That Will Thrive Even if Oil Hits $200
Practically all of my personal investing is centered around AI companies, or those who will benefit from it. But we can’t ignore macro events. What happens if things get ugly out there? Not mild-recession ugly. Oil-at-$200 a barrel ugly. That scenario carries only a 2.55% implied probability on Polymarket, but that’s not the point. The ... AI Stocks That Will Thrive Even if Oil Hits $200
All week, we've been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company's 50th anniversary . Thanks to everyone who pitched in - we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple's first half century , and you should check it all out. All those votes later, we have some answers. And some thoughts. Verge subscribers, don'...
All week, we've been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company's 50th anniversary . Thanks to everyone who pitched in - we ended up with more than 1.6 million votes! We also have lots of other coverage of Apple's first half century , and you should check it all out. All those votes later, we have some answers. And some thoughts. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here . Not a subscriber? You can sign up here . On this episode of The Vergecast , after some housekeeping ( vote for us in the Webby Awards , and come see Sn … Read the full story at The Verge.
March Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Soar By 178K Most Since 2024, Blowing Away All Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops We titled our nonfarm payroll preview post "a substantial bounce" and boy were we right: with consensus expecting a material rebound from February's negative print (which was revised as usual worse, from -92K to -133K ), what the BLS reported instead was a huge beat to expectations of a 6...
March Jobs Shocker: Payrolls Soar By 178K Most Since 2024, Blowing Away All Estimates; Unemployment Rate Drops We titled our nonfarm payroll preview post "a substantial bounce" and boy were we right: with consensus expecting a material rebound from February's negative print (which was revised as usual worse, from -92K to -133K ), what the BLS reported instead was a huge beat to expectations of a 65K increase, with March jobs reportedly rising by 178K, the biggest increase since December 2024. The number was driven entirely by a surge in private workers which added 186K in March, far above estimates of 78K. Government workers continued to drop, sliding by 8K in March and now negative 8 of the past 9 months, This was not only higher than all estimates but was a 3 sigma beat to the median forecast, something we haven't seen in over a year. In keeping with tradition, the previous month's data was revised sharply negative, from -92K to -133K, despite expectations of an upward revision. Yet for once there was an upward revision in the historical data: the change in total nonfarm payroll employment for January was revised up by 34,000, from +126,000 to +160,000, and the change for February was revised down by 41,000, from -92,000 to -133,000. With these revisions, employment in January and February combined is 7,000 lower than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government A quick look at the Household survey shows that while the establishment survey posted a solid increase of 178K, the Household increase declined again, dropping by 64K, the 3rd month in a row. This means that despite all attempt to revise away the impact of illegal immigration, it still lingers with total number of payrolls (Establishment) running well ahead of employed workers (Household). There was more good news: the unemployment rate actually dropped from 4.4% to 4.3% amid expectations of an unchanged print. This was despite a drop in the...
Sprott Gold Miners ETF (NYSEMKT:SGDM) and SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEMKT:GLD) both offer gold exposure, but SGDM holds gold mining companies while GLD tracks the price of physical gold, leading to significant differences in risk, performance, and trading liquidity. This comparison unpacks how those differences play out in costs, returns, risk, and what actually sits inside each ETF. Continue reading
Sprott Gold Miners ETF (NYSEMKT:SGDM) and SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEMKT:GLD) both offer gold exposure, but SGDM holds gold mining companies while GLD tracks the price of physical gold, leading to significant differences in risk, performance, and trading liquidity. This comparison unpacks how those differences play out in costs, returns, risk, and what actually sits inside each ETF. Continue reading