World number two Nelly Korda has called the lack of a mixed gender indoor virtual league "an unbelievable miss" following the launch of a women's competition backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. The WTGL will be held in the same Florida venue as the men's TGL, which is currently midway through its second season. Some of the world's best female golfers will compete in a season of team matchplay ...
World number two Nelly Korda has called the lack of a mixed gender indoor virtual league "an unbelievable miss" following the launch of a women's competition backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. The WTGL will be held in the same Florida venue as the men's TGL, which is currently midway through its second season. Some of the world's best female golfers will compete in a season of team matchplay in the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, but Korda suggested not combining the men and women's events was a missed opportunity. "I have mixed feelings on it, and I'm surprised no other girls have spoken out about it," she said. "It's a huge and unbelievable miss that we're not playing alongside the men. "There's no greater way to grow the game, and it would have been revolutionary. It would have been the first time, I think, that men and women are on the same playing field, playing for the same exact amount of money. "But I also think it's great that we are getting this opportunity, so that's my mixed feelings." The indoor golf set-up features teams of players hitting shots at a five-storey-high simulator screen before moving to a short-game area with bunkers and a green that can rotate 360 degrees, creating hole-to-hole variations. Asked about the prospect of a mixed-gender event, Mike McCarley, a former TV executive who founded the TGL alongside McIlroy and Woods said the idea had been discussed. "I think that is something that's interesting to us and is interesting to the LPGA and is interesting to a lot of the players we're talking to," said McCarley. "Right now, we're really focused on building (the TGL) out and providing, frankly, a nice stage and really nice platform to showcase the players and their personalities." Korda, 27, is yet to commit to entering the event, saying she is "still weighing out the time commitment" required to play in the tournament. World number one Jeeno Thitikul and British golfers Charley Hull and Lottie Woad are among the players confirmed...
The new year has started with new Trump tariff threats, this time on EU imports. Here are 3 European companies that would be largely immune to such tariffs.
The new year has started with new Trump tariff threats, this time on EU imports. Here are 3 European companies that would be largely immune to such tariffs.
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already pushing global power grids to the brink. Wall Street is p...
Artificial intelligence is the greatest investment opportunity of our lifetime. The time to invest in groundbreaking AI is now, and this stock is a steal! AI is eating the world—and the machines behind it are ravenous. Each ChatGPT query, each model update, each robotic breakthrough consumes massive amounts of energy. In fact, AI is already pushing global power grids to the brink. Wall Street is pouring hundreds of billions into artificial intelligence—training smarter chatbots, automating industries, and building the digital future. But there’s one urgent question few are asking: Where will all of that energy come from? AI is the most electricity-hungry technology ever invented. Each data center powering large language models like ChatGPT consumes as much energy as a small city. And it’s about to get worse. Even Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, issued a stark warning: “The future of AI depends on an energy breakthrough.” Elon Musk was even more blunt: “AI will run out of electricity by next year.” As the world chases faster, smarter machines, a hidden crisis is emerging behind the scenes. Power grids are strained. Electricity prices are rising. Utilities are scrambling to expand capacity. And that’s where the real opportunity lies… One little-known company—almost entirely overlooked by most AI investors—could be the ultimate backdoor play. It’s not a chipmaker. It’s not a cloud platform. But it might be the most important AI stock in the US owns critical energy infrastructure assets positioned to feed the coming AI energy spike. As demand from AI data centers explodes, this company is gearing up to profit from the most valuable commodity in the digital age: electricity. The “Toll Booth” Operator of the AI Energy Boom It owns critical nuclear energy infrastructure assets , positioning it at the heart of America’s next-generation power strategy. , positioning it at the heart of America’s next-generation power strategy. It’s one of the only global companies capable ...
Morning, I’m Louise Moon from Bloomberg UK’s breaking news team, bringing you up to speed on today’s top business stories. Keir Starmer will touch down in Beijing later today for what’s threatening to be a four-day balancing act . Putting aside the drama over his own future for a moment, the Prime Minister is confident he can pull off what few leaders have so far been able to: broaden trade ties w...
Morning, I’m Louise Moon from Bloomberg UK’s breaking news team, bringing you up to speed on today’s top business stories. Keir Starmer will touch down in Beijing later today for what’s threatening to be a four-day balancing act . Putting aside the drama over his own future for a moment, the Prime Minister is confident he can pull off what few leaders have so far been able to: broaden trade ties with China without annoying Donald Trump. In tow is a delegation heavy on banking executives, from HSBC , Barclays and Standard Chartered , as well as those from the likes of AstraZeneca , Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren . Pulling out the big names. Just days ago, Trump threatened Canadian products with 100% tariffs after its Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing. And while Starmer has built more cordial ties with the White House, that still didn’t shield him from last week’s flare up over the Chagos Islands. The overarching goal, therefore, is to maintain the current stretch of calm with both Beijing and Washington, while also boosting his domestic trade goals. Over to you Keir. What’s your take? Ping me on X , LinkedIn or drop me an email at lmoon13@bloomberg.net. Oh, and do subscribe to Bloomberg.com for unlimited access to trusted business journalism on the UK, and beyond. What We’re Watching Landlord British Land is buying Life Science REIT in a deal valuing the smaller landlord, which rents out a portfolio of offices and lab spaces, at about £150 million. It adds to a wave of consolidation in the real estate investment trust sector, as investors seek greater liquidity and lower costs. Pub operator Marston’s is confident for the year ahead, noting the 2026 FIFA World Cup as a key event, after having had a “strong” festive period and start to the year. Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management is heading to the Supreme Court for a two-day hearing, culminating a long-running fight with the HMRC. The outcome of the billionaire’s case, over a £200 million tax bill, wi...
A strong update might finally get the stock moving. Amazon (AMZN +2.63%) stock trailed the S&P 500 last year despite robust growth. This could be an excellent opportunity for investors, but only if Amazon stock is likely to recover. Let's see what might happen when it reports fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Feb. 5, and whether or not it make sense to buy the stock now. Progress in AI The ...
A strong update might finally get the stock moving. Amazon (AMZN +2.63%) stock trailed the S&P 500 last year despite robust growth. This could be an excellent opportunity for investors, but only if Amazon stock is likely to recover. Let's see what might happen when it reports fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Feb. 5, and whether or not it make sense to buy the stock now. Progress in AI The main thing that's going to be on investors' minds when hearing about the fourth quarter is artificial intelligence (AI). This is where the company's greatest opportunities lie right now, but the market hasn't been enthusiastic about its platform lately. Management continues to say that it has more features than the competition and that it's launching them more rapidly. It also has a backlog of $200 billion for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where clients can engage with AI development. Amazon has a multilayered platform that runs across three tiers: custom large-language models (LLM), the Bedrock program, and many plug-in tools for smaller companies. CEO Andy Jassy is always talking about what he sees as a massive opportunity, since 85% to 90% of information technology (IT) spend is still on the premises, but it's slowly shifting to the cloud. Investors will want to hear about new advances in the AI platform and healthy growth in AWS sales. The company recently unveiled a new line of AI agents that can handle many more actions without needing help from users, as well as new chips and new tools for its LLMs. The results, though, may not show up in the fourth-quarter report. Expand NASDAQ : AMZN Amazon Today's Change ( 2.63 %) $ 6.26 Current Price $ 244.68 Key Data Points Market Cap $2.6T Day's Range $ 238.08 - $ 244.88 52wk Range $ 161.38 - $ 258.60 Volume 38M Avg Vol 45M Gross Margin 50.05 % Keeping the lead in e-commerce Amazon still has a huge lead and plenty of opportunity in e-commerce. According to Jassy, a similar shift to the cloud is still taking place in e-commerce, wi...
A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history? ‘Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake,” said Alfred Hitchcock. Who knew that anyone would take the knife to one of his most beloved silent films, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), and turn it into a vertical m...
A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history? ‘Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake,” said Alfred Hitchcock. Who knew that anyone would take the knife to one of his most beloved silent films, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), and turn it into a vertical microdrama? The Tattle TV app has announced that it will be streaming serial killer drama The Lodger on its phone-friendly vertical platform, telling Deadline that it is “one of the first known instances of a classic feature film being fully reframed for vertical, mobile-first consumption”. So will it set a trend? And if so, how can we stop it? I’m only joking, of course. There will always be those who see archive cinema as just so much more content to be re-appropriated in new formats. And there will always be old-guard purists – who, me? – who wince at the thought. Still, Tattle TV, you have my attention, so let’s talk about it. We won’t be getting this mini-Hitch in the UK, or the EU for that matter, due to rights, but lucky US viewers will be able to watch the film that Hitchcock considered “the first time I exercised my style” in a format that largely disregards that style. The Lodger will be presented with its squarish 4:3 image either extended or cut down to fill a vertical phone screen. So there will often be parts of the image missing, which is a problem. The opening shot of The Lodger is a chilling closeup of a woman screaming, her head tilted so that her entire face fills the frame, lit from behind to emphasise her blond hair. Hitchcock told Truffaut that in The Lodger, he presented “ideas in purely visual terms”. This closeup represents the terror spreading across London as a ripper targets young, golden-haired women. Is the idea intact, even if the image isn’t? Hitchcock, a well-known stickler for carefully composed frames, may well disagree. I would. Continue r...