The far right is on the rise and much of its messaging is explicitly Islamophobic. In 2024 anti-Muslim hate crimes in England and Wales doubled. Meanwhile, the government has stated that it cannot even agree on a definition of what Islamophobia is. How does all this make British Muslims feel? Miqdaad Versi, Shaista Aziz and the Guardian’s community affairs reporter Aamna Mohdin talk to Nosheen Iqb...
The far right is on the rise and much of its messaging is explicitly Islamophobic. In 2024 anti-Muslim hate crimes in England and Wales doubled. Meanwhile, the government has stated that it cannot even agree on a definition of what Islamophobia is. How does all this make British Muslims feel? Miqdaad Versi, Shaista Aziz and the Guardian’s community affairs reporter Aamna Mohdin talk to Nosheen Iqbal about what’s changed. Shaista says: “Over the last 10 years in particular I have been subjected to increasing levels of physical violence on the streets. Examples include a random man while I was standing at the bus stop using a racial slur against me and then lurching forward to punch me. The impact of all of that is devastating. It made me feel like I didn’t want to engage with the wider world.” Miqdaad says that as his Muslim identity feels increasingly politicised and criticised, it has made him more protective of others in the community. “There’s so many people who are in so many difficult circumstances because of the Muslim identity. And it feels like if you don’t try and stand up for all, you’re diminishing what it means to be Muslim here in this country.” For Aamna, the data tells a worrying story. “The stats are quite harrowing and really staggering. Latest YouGov polling data shows that most British people don’t think Islam is compatible with British values, which is really bizarre to me. The number of Islamophobic assaults has increased by 73% between 2023 to 2024. Genuinely every leader that I talk to within the Muslim community in this country is saying this is an unparalleled time to be Muslim, the danger is here, we desperately need help – and they are being ignored.”
Sumedha Lakmal/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Giverny Capital Asset Management Q4 2025 Letter. The fifth member of the laggards in 2025 was Constellation Software ( CSU ), another business that we have owned since our inception and that had been among our best stocks for most of that time. Constellation declined 22% for the year, even though I believe earnings...
Sumedha Lakmal/iStock via Getty Images The following segment was excerpted from the Giverny Capital Asset Management Q4 2025 Letter. The fifth member of the laggards in 2025 was Constellation Software ( CSU ), another business that we have owned since our inception and that had been among our best stocks for most of that time. Constellation declined 22% for the year, even though I believe earnings will rise by nearly 20% for the full year. [The company reports full year results in early February]. The stock continued its steep decline in the first weeks of 2026. Software businesses are perceived as facing an existential threat from AI models that can write software faster than humans can. AI-written software cannot yet replace existing products, but the market is looking ahead and saying: that day is coming. In response, I'll argue that Constellation is a particular flavor of software company. It owns hundreds of small firms that have created bespoke products that customers use to run their operations. Scores of golf courses around the country run on various permutations of Constellation products, as do public transit systems, truck fleets, food service operations, hospitals and medical offices, and many others. No one product or customer represents a hefty amount of revenue. Each customer tends to have a unique operating system, even when they are in a similar enterprise. The software is not necessarily complex, but it is specific to its user. Most users also depend on Constellation for support, as a golf course or city bus system typically lacks sophisticated tech resources in house. In sum, Constellation strikes me as one of the last places AI entrepreneurs will target. You'd be fighting for small pots of revenue with high customization and support needs. To date, AI software has proven buggy and not good at self-repair, in part because the AI models don't train on mistakes, so they don't know how to respond to them. AI software can also hallucinate and cause err...
(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are trading mostly lower on Wednesday, following the broadly negative cues overnight from Wall Street, as US Treasury yields surged higher amid expectations the Federal Reserve will start hiking interest rate as soon as March. Lingering worries about the surge in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in several countries contribute as well to the bearish m...
(RTTNews) - Asian stock markets are trading mostly lower on Wednesday, following the broadly negative cues overnight from Wall Street, as US Treasury yields surged higher amid expectations the Federal Reserve will start hiking interest rate as soon as March. Lingering worries about the surge in cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in several countries contribute as well to the bearish mood in the market. Support from surging crude oil prices is limiting the downside. Asian Markets closed mixed on Tuesday. The Australian stock market is modestly lower on Wednesday, extending the losses in the previous session, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 falling below the 7,400 level, following the broadly negative cues overnight from Wall Street, with weakness technology and financial stocks, partially offset by strong gains in the energy sector amid rising crude oil prices. The country's Covid-19 infections also remain a concern. New South Wales reported 32,297 new cases and 32 deaths on Tuesday and Victoria also reported 20,769 new cases and 18 deaths. Queensland recorded 19,932 new cases and 11 deaths, ACT reported 1,467 new cases and Tasmania reported 1,185 new cases. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index is losing 55.30 points or 0.75 percent to 7,353.50, after hitting a low of 7,336.30 earlier. The broader All Ordinaries Index is down 58.70 points or 0.76 percent to 7,677.10. Australian stocks ended slightly lower on Tuesday. Among major miners, OZ Minerals is edging down 0.1 percent and Fortescue Metals is losing almost 1 percent, while Mineral Resources is advancing more than 1 percent and Rio Tinto is edging up 0.5 percent. BHP Group is flat. Oil stocks are higher. Woodside Petroleum is gaining more than 1 percent, and Beach energy adding more than 3 percent, while Santos and Origin Energy are advancing more than 2 percent each. In the tech space, WiseTech Global is losing almost 4 percent, Zip is edging down 0.5 percent, Afterpay is declining more than 1 percent, A...
We recently published 10 Stocks Gaining Double Digits Effortlessly. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) was one of the best performers on Wednesday. Intel rallied for a second day on Wednesday, jumping 11.04 percent to close at $48.78 apiece, as investors loaded portfolios amid ongoing buzz that it has clinched a significant 2028 order from Nvidia Corp. An article by the DigiTimes, citing recent supply chai...
We recently published 10 Stocks Gaining Double Digits Effortlessly. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) was one of the best performers on Wednesday. Intel rallied for a second day on Wednesday, jumping 11.04 percent to close at $48.78 apiece, as investors loaded portfolios amid ongoing buzz that it has clinched a significant 2028 order from Nvidia Corp. An article by the DigiTimes, citing recent supply chain reports, said that Nvidia and Apple Inc. are planning to collaborate with Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) on its 2028 Feynman architecture platform. Intel Corp.'s headquarters, the Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara, California. Photo from Intel Corp website “Both companies are targeting ‘low volume, low-tier, non-core’ production runs to align with Trump administration directives while preserving their core TSMC relationships. This dual-foundry approach is designed to minimize mass production risks while satisfying political pressures,” the report said. Neither Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), Nvidia, nor Apple has yet to confirm the report. In other news, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) last week announced that it swung to a net profit of $26 million in full-year 2025, versus a $19.23 billion net loss in 2024. Net revenues, on the other hand, were flat at $53 billion. For the fourth quarter alone, the company widened its net loss by 118 percent to $333 million from $153 million in the same period in 2024, while revenues dipped by 4 percent to $13.67 billion from $14.26 billion year-on-year. Looking ahead, the US-based chipmaker is targeting to book revenues between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion in the first quarter of the year. While we acknowledge the potential of INTC as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an extremely cheap AI stock that is also a major beneficiary of Trump tariffs and onshoring, see our free report on the best short-term AI st...
We recently published 10 Stocks Gaining Double Digits Effortlessly. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) was one of the best performers on Wednesday. Intel rallied for a second day on Wednesday, jumping 11.04 percent to close at $48.78 apiece, as investors loaded portfolios amid ongoing buzz that it has clinched a significant 2028 order from Nvidia Corp. An article by the DigiTimes, citing recent supply chai...
We recently published 10 Stocks Gaining Double Digits Effortlessly. Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) was one of the best performers on Wednesday. Intel rallied for a second day on Wednesday, jumping 11.04 percent to close at $48.78 apiece, as investors loaded portfolios amid ongoing buzz that it has clinched a significant 2028 order from Nvidia Corp. An article by the DigiTimes, citing recent supply chain reports, said that Nvidia and Apple Inc. are planning to collaborate with Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) on its 2028 Feynman architecture platform. Intel Corp.'s headquarters, the Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara, California. Photo from Intel Corp website “Both companies are targeting ‘low volume, low-tier, non-core’ production runs to align with Trump administration directives while preserving their core TSMC relationships. This dual-foundry approach is designed to minimize mass production risks while satisfying political pressures,” the report said. Neither Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), Nvidia, nor Apple has yet to confirm the report. In other news, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) last week announced that it swung to a net profit of $26 million in full-year 2025, versus a $19.23 billion net loss in 2024. Net revenues, on the other hand, were flat at $53 billion. For the fourth quarter alone, the company widened its net loss by 118 percent to $333 million from $153 million in the same period in 2024, while revenues dipped by 4 percent to $13.67 billion from $14.26 billion year-on-year. Looking ahead, the US-based chipmaker is targeting to book revenues between $11.7 billion and $12.7 billion in the first quarter of the year. While we acknowledge the potential of INTC as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an extremely cheap AI stock that is also a major beneficiary of Trump tariffs and onshoring, see our free report on the best short-term AI st...
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