George Clarke’s Building Home 8pm, Channel 4 The celebrity architect returns to meet people taking on huge building projects for powerful personal reasons. He starts in Derbyshire, where married couple Lauren and Lee have inherited an old cottage from Lauren’s beloved grandparents in Matlock Bath. It’s going to need a complete remodel of rooms and a lot of wall demolition – but is her attachment t...
George Clarke’s Building Home 8pm, Channel 4 The celebrity architect returns to meet people taking on huge building projects for powerful personal reasons. He starts in Derbyshire, where married couple Lauren and Lee have inherited an old cottage from Lauren’s beloved grandparents in Matlock Bath. It’s going to need a complete remodel of rooms and a lot of wall demolition – but is her attachment to the home enough to stick with such a mammoth project? Hollie Richardson Spain With Michael Portillo 8pm, Channel 5 Vintage tram rides, almond farming and a fair bit of eating are on Portillo’s itinerary as he hits Mallorca, starting in Palma. He then heads north, near the Tramuntana mountains, where he fuels up on an open sandwich called pamboli and ensaïmada, a Jewish pastry. HR The Apprentice 9pm, BBC One The Sugar babies take on the hazardous if potentially lucrative children’s story and audiobook market, a field where reputations are rocket-boosted – or cancelled. Which outcome will it be for the team that plumps for disgusting toilet humour? And will their rival camp’s story about a zebra earn them their stripes? Ali Catterall Dragons’ Den View image in fullscreen Hungry for business … the Dragons. Photograph: BBC Studios/Simon Pantling 8pm, BBC One Would you use skincare made from waste tomato ketchup and oranges? Former Charlotte Tilbury founding team member and part-time professional psychic medium Danielle is convincing (and glowing) in the day’s first pitch. Plus, hungry for more business, ex-footballer Gary Neville returns as the guest Dragon. HR Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild 9pm, Channel 5 There’s a horribly simple tragedy in the story of Dave, who lives alone on a canal boat near Macclesfield, Cheshire: he moved there after the sudden loss of his wife 10 years ago and his grief is still palpable. Ben gently extracts the story of a man using nature to recover from an awful lot of bad luck. Jack Seale FBI 9pm, Sky Witness Season seven of Dick Wolf’s drama ha...
Did you know that the largest initial public offering in 2025 was a boring medical supply company based in Chicago? But, boring can be beautiful, and Medline ( MDLN ) looks primed and ready to continue delivering on its history of rapid, profitable sales growth. Medline bills itself as "the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care." It boa...
Did you know that the largest initial public offering in 2025 was a boring medical supply company based in Chicago? But, boring can be beautiful, and Medline ( MDLN ) looks primed and ready to continue delivering on its history of rapid, profitable sales growth. Medline bills itself as "the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care." It boasts 335,00 products and 33 manufacturing facilities in more than 100 countries. 95% of customers here in the United States can receive next-day delivery. It therefore isn't much of an exaggeration to consider Medline the Amazon ( AMZN ) of medical and surgical ("medsurg") products. Hospitals, surgery center, and physicians are among the main users of Medline's medical kits, surgical gloves, wound care, and lab supplies. A key competitive advantage is its namesake Medline Brand products, which count as private label and help boost margins. By serving as both the manufacturer and distributor, it gets to keep the margin another reseller might demand to get its products to market. Continue reading
It was while researching the area around the old oil refinery site that he stumbled upon a collection of houses that looked like they would have been expensive, with a "quaint cottage-style feel", but had been left to decay badly.
It was while researching the area around the old oil refinery site that he stumbled upon a collection of houses that looked like they would have been expensive, with a "quaint cottage-style feel", but had been left to decay badly.
What do you do if you fall 40 feet on to hard-packed snow? If you're a Winter Olympian, you pick yourself up and try again. There is a fine line between success and failure in winter sports, where a few millimetres when landing difficult tricks on snow can make the difference between a medal or serious injury. Dealing with the fear of what might happen if things go wrong is just as important for a...
What do you do if you fall 40 feet on to hard-packed snow? If you're a Winter Olympian, you pick yourself up and try again. There is a fine line between success and failure in winter sports, where a few millimetres when landing difficult tricks on snow can make the difference between a medal or serious injury. Dealing with the fear of what might happen if things go wrong is just as important for an elite Winter OIympic athlete as honing any other skill of their craft. The jeopardy is real as athletes heading to the Milan-Cortina Games push the limits of what is physically possible in their sports while pushing themselves out of their comfort zones. "The biggest challenge of my sport is definitely overcoming the fear," says freestyle skier and Team GB Winter Olympic medal hopeful Zoe Atkin, who is preparing for her second Winter Games. The 23-year-old competes in ski halfpipe, where competitors drop into a 22-foot deep pipe and complete as many tricks as they can while jumping as high out of the halfpipe as possible. They are judged on the amplitude - the height they reach - as well as the difficulty of the tricks and how well they have executed them. Stanford University student Atkin is studying symbolic systems in the United States. It has aided in her quest to emulate older sister Izzy and win an Olympic medal. "Symbolic systems is interdisciplinary. It's a lot to do with computer science as well as cognitive science. It's studying machines that simulate the brain. "Being able to understand fear from a biological process has helped me on the slopes," she says. For Atkin, fear is at its lowest, maybe unexpectedly, on competition day. "That's just nervousness around the result and performing to your best, which is easier to combat," she tells BBC Sport. "I do meditation in the morning, to focus on the now. "The fear comes in training; when you are practising something you are not familiar with, that is when the uncertainty comes in. "When a spectator watches a sport...
In this article VINP BBAR3-AR VWSB-DE VWS-DK MAERSK.B-DK MT-NL DSN-FF DANSKE-DK AAL-GB SHL-DE BMW-DE DG-FR BNP-FR BBVA-ES SHELL-NL SHEL-GB .FTMIB Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Shell gas station on May 03, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks are expected to open flat to lower as traders gear up for more regional earnings reports Thursday. ...
In this article VINP BBAR3-AR VWSB-DE VWS-DK MAERSK.B-DK MT-NL DSN-FF DANSKE-DK AAL-GB SHL-DE BMW-DE DG-FR BNP-FR BBVA-ES SHELL-NL SHEL-GB .FTMIB Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Shell gas station on May 03, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks are expected to open flat to lower as traders gear up for more regional earnings reports Thursday. The U.K.'s FTSE and Germany's DAX are expected to open 0.25% lower, while France's CAC 40 and Italy's FTSE MIB are seen opening flat today, according to data from IG. It's another busy day of earnings reports in Europe with Shell , BBVA , BNP Paribas , Vinci , BMW , Siemens Healthineers , Anglo American , Danske Bank , ArcelorMittal , Moller Maersk and Vestas Wind Systems among the companies reporting. The European Central Bank and Bank of England are both due to publish their latest monetary policy decisions on Thursday. Neither central bank is expected to change its current interest rate position. Global markets have experienced turbulence this week, with Wall Street seeing a second straight day of losses Wednesday following a selloff in software stocks. S&P 500 futures rose overnight after the latest batch of corporate earnings, including Alphabet results . The quarterly results of fellow "Magnificent Seven" member Amazon are due Thursday. Meanwhile, in Asia-Pacific markets overnight, South Korean stocks led declines, tracking Wall Street losses as the tech sell-off gained momentum. Data releases in Europe on Thursday include German factory orders, French industrial production and EU retail sales.
TOPLINE: Worsening of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome was associated with an increased risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with stage 4 disease linked to a 48% higher risk for the retina disorder than stage 0 disease; genetic risk for AMD did not appear to substantially modify the association. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to exami...
TOPLINE: Worsening of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome was associated with an increased risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with stage 4 disease linked to a 48% higher risk for the retina disorder than stage 0 disease; genetic risk for AMD did not appear to substantially modify the association. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to examine the association between cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome and the risk for AMD and whether genetic risk for AMD modified this association. They analyzed data of 319,638 participants (mean age, 56.3 years; 51.7% women) from the UK Biobank who did not have AMD at baseline, recruited across the UK between 2006 and 2010. Participants were classified as having stage 0-4 cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome using adapted American Heart Association criteria based on metabolic risk factors, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular risk, and established cardiovascular disease. Classification into stage 0 required a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 and a waist circumference smaller than 88 cm for women or under 102 cm for men, with no other risk factors. Researchers used a polygenic risk score for AMD to categorize participants as having a low or high genetic predisposition to AMD. Participants were followed up for a median of 12.5 years to identify the diagnosis of AMD from hospital records, data on death registration, and self-reports. TAKEAWAY: During follow-up, 4982 participants (1.56%) developed AMD. Advanced stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome were associated with higher risks for AMD than stage 0, with the adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) of 1.15 (95% CI, 1.02-1.30) for stage 1, 1.25 (95% CI, 1.13-1.38) for stage 2, 1.22 (95% CI, 1.08-1.38) for stage 3, and 1.48 (95% CI, 1.30-1.68) for stage 4. Each one-stage increase corresponded to a 9% increased risk for AMD. A higher polygenic risk score for AMD was associated with a 70% increased risk for AMD. However, re...
Hong Kong public school teachers withdrew HK$8.4 billion (US$1.1 billion) from two retirement fund schemes in 2024–25, down 3.4 per cent from the year before, marking the third consecutive annual decline amid subsiding emigration. Resignation remained the main reason for withdrawals, rather than retirement, as a growing proportion of young teachers left the profession, accounting for 32 to 35 per ...
Hong Kong public school teachers withdrew HK$8.4 billion (US$1.1 billion) from two retirement fund schemes in 2024–25, down 3.4 per cent from the year before, marking the third consecutive annual decline amid subsiding emigration. Resignation remained the main reason for withdrawals, rather than retirement, as a growing proportion of young teachers left the profession, accounting for 32 to 35 per cent of all cases in the two funds, the highest level since 2021. The Education Bureau on Wednesday released its annual report on the Subsidised Schools Provident Fund and the Grants Schools Provident Fund for the previous school year, reflecting the latest trends in resignations and retirements among teachers. Advertisement Teachers and principals in public schools are required to join one of the two provident fund schemes for educators. There are 22 grant schools in Hong Kong, generally regarded as elite institutions. Advertisement Teachers took out HK$8.4 billion from the funds in the previous academic year, down from HK$8.7 billion in 2023–24 and a peak of HK$10.7 billion in 2021–22. A total of 2,581 teachers withdrew from the fund last year, each taking out an average of about HK$3.38 million, according to calculations by the South China Morning Post.
ArcelorMittal SA , Europe’s top steelmaker, said earnings will benefit from stronger protectionist measures across the region. In October, the European Union proposed doubling tariffs to 50% on all steel imports above a reduced quota. That will be a boon for ArcelorMittal, when the new import regime comes into force in July. The EU’s carbon levy on imports — the so-called Carbon Border Adjustment ...
ArcelorMittal SA , Europe’s top steelmaker, said earnings will benefit from stronger protectionist measures across the region. In October, the European Union proposed doubling tariffs to 50% on all steel imports above a reduced quota. That will be a boon for ArcelorMittal, when the new import regime comes into force in July. The EU’s carbon levy on imports — the so-called Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — also applies to emissions-intensive goods such as steel, and was recently extended to certain downstream sectors to avoid incentivizing manufacturing overseas. CBAM and the new tariff regime “will enable European producers to recover to sustainable utilization levels, and generate healthy returns on capital,” Chief Executive Officer Aditya Mittal said in a statement on Thursday. ArcelorMittal is “very well positioned to benefit” from this change in the regulatory environment, he said. When India, the US and Latin American economies raised protectionist barriers to combat a wave of Chinese exports, there were fears that the European market would be flooded with cheap steel. The levy hikes have soothed those concerns, while Beijing is also slowly moving to target overcapacity in its 1-billion-ton a year steel sector. ArcelorMittal expects apparent steel demand outside China — a barometer of the global economy — to grow by 2% in 2026. Read more: EU Boosts Steel Protections With 50% Levy to Aid Industry ArcelorMittal is a clear beneficiary of Europe’s trade defense measures, which are “effectively the main driver for steel upside” in 2026, analysts at Citigroup Inc. said. They should boost both the firm’s capacity utilization and pricing power, they added. The company’s fourth-quarter earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization were $1.59 billion, slightly above analyst estimates.
Malaysia’s stock exchange will focus on larger initial public offerings this year as it looks to boost the pool and diversity of actively traded shares, the bourse chief said. A priority for the bourse “is to build market vibrancy through various means, and one of that is by bringing larger IPOs to market,” Fad’l Mohamed , chief executive officer of Bursa Malaysia Bhd, said in an interview with Bl...
Malaysia’s stock exchange will focus on larger initial public offerings this year as it looks to boost the pool and diversity of actively traded shares, the bourse chief said. A priority for the bourse “is to build market vibrancy through various means, and one of that is by bringing larger IPOs to market,” Fad’l Mohamed , chief executive officer of Bursa Malaysia Bhd, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Avril Hong . “We are seeing a strong pipeline of bigger IPOs” on the back of steady foreign inflows and strong economic growth, he said in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday. He expects some large listings to come through in the technology space this year and beyond, with “very strong” interest by foreign firms to list in Kuala Lumpur. While the number of new listings remained robust, hitting 60 last year, most of the share sales involved companies with market capitalization of less than 1 billion ringgit ($254 million). Malaysia has also seen the delisting of larger firms in recent years, including that of airport operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. and plantation company FGV Holdings Bhd. Malaysia’s strong domestic liquidity and institutional investor base will help anchor fundraising activities, giving local markets an advantage in attracting larger firms, Fad’l said. Strong foreign interest in the market will also bolster the country’s appeal. Malaysia was a big beneficiary of foreign diversification into Southeast Asia last year amid interest in the country’s data centers and advanced manufacturing, he said. Global funds bought a net $259 million of local shares on a net basis in January after three months of outflows. Foreign shareholding by market capitalization improved to 19.2% last month from 19% in December, CIMB Securities said in a note this week. Bursa Malaysia will also continue to build on its derivative products to bring more high net-worth retail investors to the space. The bourse introduced futures product on the FTSE FBM KLCI Index last month, wh...
Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Microsoft has introduced its in house Maia 200 AI chip as part of a wider push into custom AI infrastructure. The company is committing record high capital spending to data centers and AI hardware to support its cloud and AI services. Microsoft is expanding AI partnerships across sect...
Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St's investing ideas for FREE. Microsoft has introduced its in house Maia 200 AI chip as part of a wider push into custom AI infrastructure. The company is committing record high capital spending to data centers and AI hardware to support its cloud and AI services. Microsoft is expanding AI partnerships across sectors such as utilities, robotics, education, and industrial cybersecurity, including new cloud agreements like its deal with Perplexity. Investors are weighing these heavy investments against concerns about Azure growth trends, reliance on partners such as OpenAI, and the timing of returns from new AI services. For NasdaqGS:MSFT, the AI build out is arriving during a period of share price volatility. The stock closed at $414.19 and is down 4.5% over the past week and 13.4% over the past 30 days, with a 12.4% decline year to date. Over 3 years and 5 years, however, the stock shows cumulative gains of 60.9% and 76.6%, which gives investors a longer term context for the recent pullback. Looking ahead, the key question for investors is how quickly the Maia 200 rollout, expanded cloud usage, and new AI partnerships can translate into durable revenue streams relative to Microsoft’s elevated capital spending. The company’s broad AI ecosystem and high profile alliances create multiple paths for monetization, but the recent share price reaction highlights that the market is watching execution, customer adoption, and cash flow closely. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Microsoft by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Microsoft. NasdaqGS:MSFT 1-Year Stock Price Chart Why Microsoft could be great value Quick Assessment ✅ Price vs Analyst Target : At US$414.19, the share price is about 31% below the US$602.66 analyst consensus target. ⚖️ Simply Wall St Valuation : Shares are described as trading ...
(RTTNews) - Ecopro BM (247540.KQ) reported fourth quarter profit from continuing operation before income tax of 28.99 billion Korean won compared to a loss of 539 million won, prior year. Net income was 10.79 billion won compared to a loss of 10.96 billion won. Operating income was 41.01 billion won compared to a loss of 3.46 billion won, last year. Fourth quarter sales were 499.19 billion won com...
(RTTNews) - Ecopro BM (247540.KQ) reported fourth quarter profit from continuing operation before income tax of 28.99 billion Korean won compared to a loss of 539 million won, prior year. Net income was 10.79 billion won compared to a loss of 10.96 billion won. Operating income was 41.01 billion won compared to a loss of 3.46 billion won, last year. Fourth quarter sales were 499.19 billion won compared to 464.92 billion won, an increase of 7.4%. Shares of Ecopro BM are currently trading at 2,11,500 won, down 4.94%. For more earnings news, earnings calendar, and earnings for stocks, visit rttnews.com. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
The swish of feet on clay and sand has a soothing, rhythmic feel, as wrestlers at a sumo stable in Tokyo propel themselves across the ring, their bodies low, eyes fixed on an imaginary foe. But by the time their morning training ends an hour later, all but one of the rikishi are bathed in sweat, gulping lungfuls of air, their strength waning with every shove. Just one wrestler has spent all but th...
The swish of feet on clay and sand has a soothing, rhythmic feel, as wrestlers at a sumo stable in Tokyo propel themselves across the ring, their bodies low, eyes fixed on an imaginary foe. But by the time their morning training ends an hour later, all but one of the rikishi are bathed in sweat, gulping lungfuls of air, their strength waning with every shove. Just one wrestler has spent all but the final minutes of the session at the side of the dohyo ring, guiding his stablemates with words delivered with economy and purpose. After the group bow to a miniature Shinto shrine on the back wall, they gather around their mentor in a communal expression of gratitude. Four years ago, he went by the name Danylo Yavhusishyn, a teenage refugee from the war in Ukraine who arrived in Japan unable to speak a word of the language, and uncertain of how his separation from his family would work out. View image in fullscreen Aonishiki’s sumo name means ‘blue brocade’ in honour of the Ukrainian flag. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters Then this month, Yavhusishyn – now known by his fighting name Aonishiki – won his second tournament in a row, and is on course to become the first European to become a yokozuna grand champion – the pinnacle of the ancient Japanese sport. “It’s not good to be too fixated on [promotion] … But I wake up every day wanting to get stronger, to climb another rank higher,” he told international media, including the Guardian, after a morning training session at the Ajigawa stable in the capital’s eastern suburbs this week. “Wanting to become stronger and to attain a higher rank is my motivation. The simple fact is that you can’t progress without a struggle.” Aonishiki, whose sumo name means “blue brocade” in honour of the Ukrainian flag, reached the sport’s second-highest rank of ozeki in record time last year, having made his professional debut only in July 2023. His feat is all the more remarkable given his weight – at 140kg (309lb) he is not particularly hea...
Kirpal Kooner/iStock via Getty Images Shares of Mid-America Apartment Communities ( MAA ) have performed poorly over the past year, with a total return of -9%, meaningfully underperforming the REIT index ( VNQ ) as well as the broader equity market, which have delivered 3 and 17% total returns, respectively. Lingering sunbelt apartment supply and fears of soft results in 2026 have led investors to...
Kirpal Kooner/iStock via Getty Images Shares of Mid-America Apartment Communities ( MAA ) have performed poorly over the past year, with a total return of -9%, meaningfully underperforming the REIT index ( VNQ ) as well as the broader equity market, which have delivered 3 and 17% total returns, respectively. Lingering sunbelt apartment supply and fears of soft results in 2026 have led investors to cast aside shares of Mid-America (and apartment REITs in general). While it is true that results in 2024 and 2025 have been weak as MAA battled a generational increase in Sunbelt apartment supply, new apartment starts have declined dramatically over the past few years. While the first half of 2026 may continue to suffer from the hangover of record deliveries, it is a certainty that apartment deliveries will be down significantly in 2026 and beyond. This paints an improved picture for occupancy and rents heading into 2H26 and likely until 2030. Despite the favorable medium-term outlook described above, MAA shares trade inexpensively relative to their own history and recent private market transactions. Moreover, the company has a very strong balance sheet with net debt-to-EBITDA of just 4.2x (and a loan-to-value of just 20%) and is well positioned to be opportunistic and deploy capital in a value accretive manner, be it share repurchases, acquisitions of recently built properties, or development. Recent Results MAA 3Q25 Results (MAA 3Q25 Quarterly Supplemental) As shown above, MAA saw a slight decline in NOI (net operating income) in the third quarter and nine-month period. While occupancy held firm above 95%, new lease rates remained under pressure due to a wave of new supply hitting the market (discussed below). To fill up new supply, developers have had to use incentives (introductory free rent periods), which has pressured market rents in high-supply areas. Developers have been aggressive in using incentives to boost occupancy, as the cost of development financing is typ...