FREDERICA ABAN/iStock via Getty Images Tickers A: HERAX C: HERCX F: HERFX I: HERIX R3: HERRX R4: HERSX R5: HERTX R6: HERVX Y: HERYX Morningstar® Category Diversified Emerging Mkts Inception Date 5/31/11 Market Overview Emerging Markets equities rose in the first quarter, with Latin America leading the gains, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia. In Latin America, Brazil...
FREDERICA ABAN/iStock via Getty Images Tickers A: HERAX C: HERCX F: HERFX I: HERIX R3: HERRX R4: HERSX R5: HERTX R6: HERVX Y: HERYX Morningstar® Category Diversified Emerging Mkts Inception Date 5/31/11 Market Overview Emerging Markets equities rose in the first quarter, with Latin America leading the gains, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and Asia. In Latin America, Brazil's central bank modestly cut interest rates by 25 bps while lifting its 2026 inflation forecast from 3.40% to 3.90% due to rising energy prices. In EMEA, Saudi Arabia surged as Brent crude eclipsed US$100 per barrel, offsetting a 50% decline in oil exports in March due to Iran's blockade on shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. To alleviate global oil shortages, Saudi Arabia began diverting over four million barrels per day (bpd) of oil to its Yanbu port in the Red Sea but still well below the roughly 20 million bpd that previously flowed through the Strait of Hormuz. South Africa's government signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal with China, seeking new avenues for trade in response to US tariffs. In Asia, China set its 2026 GDP growth target at 4.5% – 5%, the lowest since the early 1990s. Lackluster consumer spending, weak inflation, property market strains, and trade tensions with the US continued to weigh on the economy. Taiwan signed a large trade deal with the US, and the central bank raised its GDP growth forecast for 2026 to 7.28% thanks to booming technology exports. In India, soaring oil prices darkened the economic outlook for the world's third-largest crude oil importer. Performance Summary The Hartford Emerging Markets Equity Fund (I Share)( HERIX ) outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets Index Net during the quarter. Security selection was the primary driver of relative outperformance. Strong selection in information technology, consumer discretionary and financials was modestly offset by selection in energy. Sector allocation, a result of our bot...
Meet the Low-Cost Vanguard ETF With 30% Invested in Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, AMD, and Intel That's on Track to Beat the S&P 500 for the Fourth Consecutive Year The Globe and Mail
Meet the Low-Cost Vanguard ETF With 30% Invested in Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, AMD, and Intel That's on Track to Beat the S&P 500 for the Fourth Consecutive Year The Globe and Mail
Meet the Low-Cost Vanguard ETF With 30% Invested in Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, AMD, and Intel That's on Track to Beat the S&P 500 for the Fourth Consecutive Year Yahoo Finance
Meet the Low-Cost Vanguard ETF With 30% Invested in Nvidia, Broadcom, Micron, AMD, and Intel That's on Track to Beat the S&P 500 for the Fourth Consecutive Year Yahoo Finance
We're expecting Android 17 to begin rolling out later this month, but first, Google has a batch of updates for the wider Android device ecosystem. As usual, some of the new features are limited to specific devices, and others require using Google's apps. But if you don't mind the latter, you can get automated protection from the growing threat of deepfake phone scams. According to Google, "imperso...
We're expecting Android 17 to begin rolling out later this month, but first, Google has a batch of updates for the wider Android device ecosystem. As usual, some of the new features are limited to specific devices, and others require using Google's apps. But if you don't mind the latter, you can get automated protection from the growing threat of deepfake phone scams. According to Google, "impersonation fraud" is one of the most common types of financial scams. The FTC tracked almost $3 billion in losses from such scams during 2024, and the improvements in AI voice cloning tools more recently are making the schemes easier to pull off. The voice models are becoming so capable that it can be difficult to identify a fake caller even when an AI is imitating someone you talk to every day. Google's solution is an expansion of the system it debuted last month for verified financial calls. Now, a similar feature will work with anyone in your contacts. Many of the most effective deepfake scams involve spoofing a contact's number, which makes the call look more legitimate when your phone lights up. Victims of these scams are then greeted by an accurate re-creation of the person's voice spinning a yarn that involves an urgent need for cash. Read full article Comments
Four years to the day after England’s first Test under Brendon McCullum began at Lord’s, England are adopting a fresh approach against the same opposition Four years to the day after England’s first Test under Brendon McCullum began against New Zealand at Lord’s, the start of a summer when players reached new heights and observers reached for new words to describe them, the latest incarnations of ...
Four years to the day after England’s first Test under Brendon McCullum began at Lord’s, England are adopting a fresh approach against the same opposition Four years to the day after England’s first Test under Brendon McCullum began against New Zealand at Lord’s, the start of a summer when players reached new heights and observers reached for new words to describe them, the latest incarnations of the two teams gathered in St John’s Wood as preparations ramped up for the rematch. Once again the series will begin amid talk of England adopting a fresh approach. In 2022 New Zealand batted first in all three games and in all three England chased down testing targets to seal victory. The attacking approach McCullum instigated that summer was embodied most memorably by Jonny Bairstow. In more than a century of Test cricket before that year (not counting the early years of the game, when that kind of data was not gathered) only three English players had scored more than 300 runs in a series at a strike rate above 85. In only four years since another 10 have joined their number, a list topped by Bairstow against the Kiwis in 2022, when he rampaged to 394 runs at a strike rate of 120.12. That figure has been bettered only once, and even then marginally, in cricket history, though the 330 runs at 121.32 banked by Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi against India in 2006 were largely down to his contributions to a pair of high-scoring draws on batting-friendly pitches. Continue reading...
The following companies are expected to report earnings after hours on 06/02/2026. Visit our Earnings Calendar for a full list of expected earnings releases.Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)is reporting for the quarter ending April 30, 2026. The security company's consensus earnin
The following companies are expected to report earnings after hours on 06/02/2026. Visit our Earnings Calendar for a full list of expected earnings releases.Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (PANW)is reporting for the quarter ending April 30, 2026. The security company's consensus earnin
Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than anyone can govern them, each one risks becoming another silo outside your data layer entirely. Microsoft is addressing both problems directly at Build 2026. According to VentureBeat's VB Pulse's Q1 2026 RA...
Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than anyone can govern them, each one risks becoming another silo outside your data layer entirely. Microsoft is addressing both problems directly at Build 2026. According to VentureBeat's VB Pulse's Q1 2026 RAG Infrastructure Market Tracker , hybrid retrieval intent among 100-plus employee organizations tripled from 10.3% in January to 33.3% in March, a signal that enterprises have moved past expanding RAG coverage and are now focused on the architecture underneath it. Shared business context is the part retrieval does not solve. On the context side, Microsoft is expanding Fabric IQ, its existing business data context layer, into a broader unified system called Microsoft IQ, adding three additional context sources covering how the organization works, what it knows and real-time global signals from the web, so any agent can tap all four as a single foundation. On the application side, Rayfin, a new open-source SDK and CLI, deploys agent-built applications directly to Fabric as a governed production backend, routing application data into the same platform rather than spinning up new silos. Amir Netz, CTO of Microsoft Fabric, reached for a film analogy to explain where the data platform fits. The green screen of cascading code in "The Matrix" wasn't atmosphere, it was the layer that built the world Agent Smith operated in. "Our job in the world of data is creating reality for agents based on data," Netz told VentureBeat. Microsoft IQ unifies four context sources into a single agent foundation Microsoft IQ brings together four context sources that until now existed separately, designed so a developer can connect a new agent to all four in a single integration step. Work IQ. Captures how the organization operates day to day, drawing on email, documents, meetings and schedules to give...
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.
Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you can hang up. In a post explaining the update, Google describes impersonation scams as a growing threat, with the FBI repor...
Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you can hang up. In a post explaining the update, Google describes impersonation scams as a growing threat, with the FBI reporting that Americans lost over $893 million to scams using AI in 2025. To carry out the attack, scammers spoof one of your contacts' phone numbers and then use AI-powered tech to make their voice sound like a friend, family member, or authority figu … Read the full story at The Verge.
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps, Micr...
Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft Scout can see and do a lot more. "This is a personal assistant, it's the first real personal assistant we've offered customers," explains Omar Shahine, corporate vice president of Microsoft Scout, in an interview with The Verge . "I think it's … Read the full story at The Verge.
Microsoft Corp. launched new artificial intelligence software designed to function like an always-active executive assistant, the latest evolution of its workplace AI efforts. While AI bots like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot are only visible to the user, the new tool, dubbed Scout, will appear on internal email and calendar systems as if it were just another helpful employee, the software maker s...
Microsoft Corp. launched new artificial intelligence software designed to function like an always-active executive assistant, the latest evolution of its workplace AI efforts. While AI bots like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot are only visible to the user, the new tool, dubbed Scout, will appear on internal email and calendar systems as if it were just another helpful employee, the software maker said on Tuesday. This means Scout will able to handle a wider range of tasks autonomously, Charles Lamanna , who leads product development for much of Microsoft’s business applications teams, said in an interview. For example, the assistant could autonomously ask a meeting organizer to reschedule if there is a timing conflict, he said. Salespeople could ask questions of their boss’s Scout assistant. “It has its own identity and therefore is shareable,” Lamanna said. Microsoft made the announcement in San Francisco on Tuesday at Build, its annual developer conference, where the company is showcasing efforts to deploy AI tools across its software. Microsoft’s stock has lagged behind cloud rivals like Amazon.com Inc. this year owing in part to a slower-than-expected uptake of Copilot and increased competition for AI coding tools. Now the company is working to show customers and Wall Street that its products are state-of-the-art. Anthropic PBC and OpenAI have each promoted AI assistants this year that can take actions by accessing users’ desktops. Scout’s uniqueness partly rests on the fact that it has been integrated with other Microsoft products. Microsoft has spent years trying to package cutting-edge AI technologies in a way that’s palatable to cautious corporations. Scout is built on OpenClaw, a platform that turns the models behind ChatGPT and Claude into always-on agents. OpenClaw went viral earlier this year owing to its ability to handle complex tasks by taking control of a user’s computer but also spurred worries about potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities. (Internal...
Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) and NuScale (NYSE: SMR) are both targeting the next wave of nuclear power demand, but their paths are very different. NuScale has the regulatory head start, while Oklo's ownership model could create decades of recurring power revenue if it can execute. Stock prices used were the market prices of May 22, 2026. The video was published on May 30, 2026. Continue reading
Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) and NuScale (NYSE: SMR) are both targeting the next wave of nuclear power demand, but their paths are very different. NuScale has the regulatory head start, while Oklo's ownership model could create decades of recurring power revenue if it can execute. Stock prices used were the market prices of May 22, 2026. The video was published on May 30, 2026. Continue reading
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.