Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH trimmed its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 1.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 922,897 shares of the social networking company's stock after selling 15,209 shares during the period. Meta Platforms makes up abo...
Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH trimmed its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Free Report) by 1.6% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 922,897 shares of the social networking company's stock after selling 15,209 shares during the period. Meta Platforms makes up about 3.7% of Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH's portfolio, making the stock its 4th biggest position. Fort Washington Investment Advisors Inc. OH's holdings in Meta Platforms were worth $677,757,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in META. Bare Financial Services Inc purchased a new stake in Meta Platforms in the second quarter valued at $30,000. Evergreen Private Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Meta Platforms by 237.5% in the 2nd quarter. Evergreen Private Wealth LLC now owns 54 shares of the social networking company's stock valued at $40,000 after buying an additional 38 shares during the period. Briaud Financial Planning Inc purchased a new stake in shares of Meta Platforms in the second quarter worth about $42,000. Knuff & Co LLC acquired a new stake in Meta Platforms during the second quarter worth about $44,000. Finally, WFA Asset Management Corp lifted its holdings in Meta Platforms by 42.6% in the second quarter. WFA Asset Management Corp now owns 67 shares of the social networking company's stock valued at $49,000 after acquiring an additional 20 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 79.91% of the company's stock. Get Meta Platforms alerts: Sign Up Insiders Place Their Bets In other news, insider Jennifer Newstead sold 519 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, December 30th. The shares were sold at an average price of $658.69, for a total transaction of $341,860.11. Following ...
In the end, it was a relief. Not to say that a lot of Australians would exactly have been tuning into the Sydney Ashes Test hoping to hear that England were doing well, but at least seeing a couple of sessions yield a score of 211 for three felt normal. The run rate was trending towards the adventurous, but it was a day within the accepted frame, and that is a template that not many days this seri...
In the end, it was a relief. Not to say that a lot of Australians would exactly have been tuning into the Sydney Ashes Test hoping to hear that England were doing well, but at least seeing a couple of sessions yield a score of 211 for three felt normal. The run rate was trending towards the adventurous, but it was a day within the accepted frame, and that is a template that not many days this series have been able to match. In the context of this current England team, a fast opening stand of 35 from 40 balls was normal. The wickets of both openers in quick succession to follow was normal. When first drop Jacob Bethell nicked off on 10 though, having looked in excellent early touch both defensively and in attack, the score of 57 for three put a little tremor through onlookers. Three wickets in half a dozen overs? Was it about to happen again? Another collapse, another Test match with a brick on the accelerator and the vehicle aimed at a lake? And then, that fate didn’t materialise. There had been enough seam movement for Scott Boland to get the ball moving away from Bethell’s edge, enough for Michael Neser to smack it into Zak Crawley’s pads. Enough swing for Mitchell Starc to curl it away from Ben Duckett’s defensive push. But the ageing ball did a little less, a few edges went into the turf or over the cordon or past the leg stump, and suddenly things settled. Joe Root and Harry Brook came into this series promising to be England’s engine room, only for one or other to dump sugar into the fuel tank. Finally, belatedly, they fired. The cut shot was the choice of the day, the ball too often dished up wide enough to give access to an angle late behind point. While the match is still only a couple of spells into the contest for each of Australia’s main three quicks, the extended partnership already made this look like an attack short of one alternative. Even this early in proceedings, it served to illustrate the most abnormal thing about this match: not just Australia’...
Investors in Flutter Entertainment plc FLUT need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Jan 16, 2026 $115.00 Call had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today. What is Implied Volatility? Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volati...
Investors in Flutter Entertainment plc FLUT need to pay close attention to the stock based on moves in the options market lately. That is because the Jan 16, 2026 $115.00 Call had some of the highest implied volatility of all equity options today. What is Implied Volatility? Implied volatility shows how much movement the market is expecting in the future. Options with high levels of implied volatility suggest that investors in the underlying stocks are expecting a big move in one direction or the other. It could also mean there is an event coming up soon that may cause a big rally or a huge sell off. However, implied volatility is only one piece of the puzzle when putting together an options trading strategy. What do the Analysts Think? Clearly, options traders are pricing in a big move for Flutter Entertainment, but what is the fundamental picture for the company? Currently, Flutter Entertainment is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) in the Gaming Industry that ranks in the Bottom 34% of our Zacks Industry Rank. Over the last 60 days, one analyst has increased his estimate for the current quarter, while two have revised their estimates downward. The net effect has taken our Zacks Consensus Estimate for the current quarter to move from $2.72 per share to $2.06 in the same time period. Given the way analysts feel about Flutter Entertainment now, this huge implied volatility could mean there’s a trade developing. Often times, options traders look for options with high levels of implied volatility to sell premium. This is a strategy many seasoned traders use because it captures decay. At expiration, the hope for these traders is that the underlying stock does not move as much as originally expected. Looking to Trade Options? Check out the simple yet high-powered approach that Zacks Executive VP Kevin Matras has used to close recent double and triple-digit winners. In addition to impressive profit potential, these trades can actually reduce your risk. Click to see the trades now >>...
Key Points Buffett provided great investing advice in his 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. He identified a two-step process to determining whether or not to buy stocks that's easy to understand but hard to execute. Two stocks that appear to pass Buffett's hurdle now are AbbVie and Nucor. 10 stocks we like better than AbbVie › For the first time in six decades, Warren Buffett is no l...
Key Points Buffett provided great investing advice in his 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. He identified a two-step process to determining whether or not to buy stocks that's easy to understand but hard to execute. Two stocks that appear to pass Buffett's hurdle now are AbbVie and Nucor. 10 stocks we like better than AbbVie › For the first time in six decades, Warren Buffett is no longer CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B). But that doesn't mean he is disappearing into the sunset. Buffett remains chairman of Berkshire's board of directors and will continue to be involved in major decisions. More importantly, the investing wisdom Buffett has imparted over the years remains relevant. There's one example of advice the "Oracle of Omaha" gave in the past that I think is especially applicable as the new year begins. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » Two simple steps In his 2013 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett provided what I believe to be some of the best investing advice ever given. He identified a test consisting of two simple steps that he and his longtime business partner, Charlie Munger, used to determine whether to buy a stock. I can't say it any better than Buffett himself, so I'll use his own words. He wrote: When Charlie and I buy stocks– which we think of as small portions of businesses– our analysis is very similar to that which we use in buying entire businesses. We first have to decide whether we can sensibly estimate an earnings range for five years out, or more. If the answer is yes, we will buy the stock (or business) if it sells at a reasonable price in relation to the bottom boundary of our estimate. If, however, we lack the ability to estimate future earnings– which is usually the case– we simply move on to other prospects. The first step in Buffett's test is to determ...
Wicked composer latest to cancel Kennedy Center gig after Trump name change 12 minutes ago Share Save Noor Nanji Culture correspondent Share Save Getty Images The composer of the musical Wicked has said he will not appear at the Kennedy Center after its board voted toinclude US President Donald Trump's name in the name of the venue. Stephen Schwartz said in a statement that appearing at the centre...
Wicked composer latest to cancel Kennedy Center gig after Trump name change 12 minutes ago Share Save Noor Nanji Culture correspondent Share Save Getty Images The composer of the musical Wicked has said he will not appear at the Kennedy Center after its board voted toinclude US President Donald Trump's name in the name of the venue. Stephen Schwartz said in a statement that appearing at the centre "has now become an ideological statement", adding: "As long as that remains the case, I will not appear there." But Richard Grenell, the center's president, wrote on X that the reports of him pulling out of a gala in May were "totally bogus" and that he had never been signed to attend. The Oscar and Grammy-award winning composer is the latest artist to say they will no longer appear at the national cultural institution over the recent changes. Schwartz told the BBC that at the end of 2024 he was asked by the artistic director of the Washington National Opera to participate in the May event with them. He said that he had agreed, but that he had received little communication since last February and assumed it was no longer taking place. The composer explained that, on Thursday, he was contacted by a reporter saying that the gala was announced on the Kennedy Center schedule and asking if he would be participating. He had been listed on the centre's website as appearing in the gala, but this was removed from the website on Friday afternoon, according to CNN. "The Kennedy Center was founded to be an apolitical home for free artistic expression for artists of all nationalities and ideologies," Schwartz, 77, said. "It is no longer apolitical, and appearing there has now become an ideological statement. As long as that remains the case, I will not appear there." But Mr Grennell hit back: "The Stephen Schwartz reports are totally bogus. Shame on the woke high school reporters repeating it. "He was never signed and I've never had a single conversation on him since arriving. "He hims...
A mother in China who helped her toddler daughter through rehabilitation to fix a malformed hip has trended on social media, attracting more than a million likes. According to a report by the China News Service, the little girl, nicknamed Tiantian, began the treatment last year at the age of one when she was diagnosed with dysplasia of the hip (DDH). In September, her problem was almost completely...
A mother in China who helped her toddler daughter through rehabilitation to fix a malformed hip has trended on social media, attracting more than a million likes. According to a report by the China News Service, the little girl, nicknamed Tiantian, began the treatment last year at the age of one when she was diagnosed with dysplasia of the hip (DDH). In September, her problem was almost completely cured and her walking posture was quite normal, her mother’s videos on social media showed. Advertisement “After doing exercises day after day, you have become what you yearn for. For a simple and natural walking skill, you have shed countless tears,” Tiantian’s mother wrote on social media. Tiantian’s condition left her unable to walk without swaying from side to side. Photo: Douyin The family lives in Bijie, Guizhou province, southwestern China.
OPEC+ will likely stick with plans to pause production increases during the first quarter, their policy unaffected by escalating risks in Venezuela and elsewhere, delegates said. Key members led by Saudi Arabia and Russia will hold a monthly video conference on Sunday, and review a decision — first made in November — to halt further supply hikes during the first quarter after rapidly reviving prod...
OPEC+ will likely stick with plans to pause production increases during the first quarter, their policy unaffected by escalating risks in Venezuela and elsewhere, delegates said. Key members led by Saudi Arabia and Russia will hold a monthly video conference on Sunday, and review a decision — first made in November — to halt further supply hikes during the first quarter after rapidly reviving production earlier last year. Last week, delegates who asked not to be identified said the move would probably be rubber-stamped at the video conference. On Sunday, they said the decision probably wouldn’t be affected by the shock ousting of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela’s oil infrastructure wasn’t affected after a series of US attacks in Caracas and several states, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday. Key facilities such as Jose port, the Amuay refinery and oil areas in the Orinoco Belt are still operational, said the people, who declined to be named because the matter is confidential.
With 2025 but a distant memory, it’s time to get stuck into a huge year of entertainment. To help with this daunting task, we’ve provided a handy, alphabetised guide to the big releases and trends coming in the next 12 months, from AI’s continued rise to a whole lot of Zendaya Bad news: the intellectual property equivalent of The Terminator is here to obliterate the concept that the mug who actual...
With 2025 but a distant memory, it’s time to get stuck into a huge year of entertainment. To help with this daunting task, we’ve provided a handy, alphabetised guide to the big releases and trends coming in the next 12 months, from AI’s continued rise to a whole lot of Zendaya Bad news: the intellectual property equivalent of The Terminator is here to obliterate the concept that the mug who actually wrote something matters somewhat. Better news: cinemas are fighting back against AI with films anxious about the new tech, including Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (13 February), in which a man apparently from the future (Sam Rockwell) wants to warn people about an incoming AI hellscape, followed by The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (title says it all really), from the film-makers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once, in March. Then, later in the year, Luca Guadagnino unveils Artificial , his biopic of Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI. Catherine Bray Continue reading...
Other firms are taking advantage of Tesla’s sales slump, while technological advances mean that glitches are being left in the rear-view mirror In another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok , a generator of far-right propaganda, swung behind Donald Trump and made what appeared to be a Nazi salute , I already knew h...
Other firms are taking advantage of Tesla’s sales slump, while technological advances mean that glitches are being left in the rear-view mirror In another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok , a generator of far-right propaganda, swung behind Donald Trump and made what appeared to be a Nazi salute , I already knew he was a wrong ’un. The year was 2019, and I was test-driving a Tesla; while I was ambling off the forecourt, the PR told me jauntily that the windscreen was made of a material that would protect the driver from biohazards. I hit the brakes. “You what ? What kind of biohazard? Like, a war?” She misconstrued me, thinking I intended to go and find some toxic waste site to see if it worked, and said: “I’m not sure it’s operational in the press fleet.” That wasn’t my question: rather, what kind of a world was Tesla preparing for? One so unstable that an average (though affluent) private citizen would do well to prepare for a chemical weapons attack? What model of consumption was this, that the rich used their wealth to prepare for the mayhem their resource-capture would unleash, while the less-rich prepared slightly less well? Was Musk trying to bring to market the apocalypse planning that elites had already embarked on? Because if he was, then it was possible that he was not a great guy. And that turned out to be correct. Continue reading...
Thousands of surveillance reports compiled by undercover police officers who spied on political campaigners were routinely passed to MI5, documents obtained by the spycops inquiry have revealed. Police sent undercover officers on long-term deployments to infiltrate mainly leftwing protest groups and gather enormous quantities of information about their political and personal activities. It can now...
Thousands of surveillance reports compiled by undercover police officers who spied on political campaigners were routinely passed to MI5, documents obtained by the spycops inquiry have revealed. Police sent undercover officers on long-term deployments to infiltrate mainly leftwing protest groups and gather enormous quantities of information about their political and personal activities. It can now be revealed that most of those clandestine reports were sent to MI5, helping the Security Service to build up large files on peaceful protesters who were engaged in democratic protests for an array of causes. Many of the reports were handed over at the height of cold war paranoia when MI5 and the police spies collaborated to monitor a large number of leftwing campaigners. MI5 still retains these surveillance reports in its files today. The scale of the long collaboration between covert police officers and MI5 from the late 1960s until the 1990s has been illuminated by the spycops inquiry, which has published a trove of internal MI5 records, as well as copies of the surveillance reports. Officers have been criticised for spying on thousands of political organisations such as campaigns against racism and nuclear weapons, the Socialist Workers party, justice campaigns and trade unions. Their reports logged personal information about protesters, including their marriages, sexuality, holiday plans and bank accounts, as well as their plans for political action such as demonstrations. View image in fullscreen Scotland Yard’s undercover unit, known as the Special Demonstration Squad, worked closely with MI5. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA The reports recorded the political beliefs of children as young as 13, along with photographs of them. They also recorded the births of campaigners’ children and noted details about the lives of politically active parents, such as the fact they had a child with Down’s syndrome. Their surveillance reports were sent to MI5 at time when the Security Se...
It is a darkly dystopian vision of Britain’s future, in which tens of thousands die in a bitter civil war in just a few years time. Yet such forecasts are no longer limited to niche corners of the internet or the X feed of Elon Musk, condemned by Downing Street for claiming that war in Britain was inevitable after the post-Southport rioting. What remains a rallying cry for the extreme right can no...
It is a darkly dystopian vision of Britain’s future, in which tens of thousands die in a bitter civil war in just a few years time. Yet such forecasts are no longer limited to niche corners of the internet or the X feed of Elon Musk, condemned by Downing Street for claiming that war in Britain was inevitable after the post-Southport rioting. What remains a rallying cry for the extreme right can now be found across a far broader cross-section of public discussion, appearing everywhere from the opinion pages of the Daily Telegraph to neighbourhood Facebook groups and the speeches of MPs such as Nigel Farage. Less prominent, but increasingly influential, has been the role of some in academia quietly arguing that civil war is coming to a “culturally fractured” Britain amid economic stagnation and a collapse of trust in politics. “I think you will see something like Belfast during the Troubles, or Baghdad circa 2008 and 2010, in largely urban areas where people are essentially fortifying their neighbourhood for protection,” said David Betz, a professor of war in the modern world at Kings College London, in one of a plethora of interviews over recent months to right-leaning podcasts where he has found an eager and sympathetic audience. A former government adviser on counter-insurgency, he envisages a messy asymmetrical conflict breaking down along urban and rural, but ultimately ethnic lines. Three “sides” will emerge, he claims: a Muslim population barricaded into urban enclaves, a white British one that regards government as illegitimate and “captured” by elites, and the increasingly beleaguered vestiges of the state. Betz, a softly spoken Canadian, speculates that as many as 23,000 deaths a year can be expected. He admits to feeling uneasy about suddenly becoming a public figure, and struggling to keep up with what he describes as the “torrent of interest” from the public, thinktanks and journalists at home and abroad. “What was once whispered on the margins is now inc...
The head of a leading British far-right group spoke at a summit of European extreme nationalist groups convened in Russia by an influential oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin, it can be revealed. The revelation has led to renewed concern among MPs over the Kremlin’s links to extremist groups and its attempts to disrupt democracy and sow societal divisions in the UK. The event in St Petersburg was a...
The head of a leading British far-right group spoke at a summit of European extreme nationalist groups convened in Russia by an influential oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin, it can be revealed. The revelation has led to renewed concern among MPs over the Kremlin’s links to extremist groups and its attempts to disrupt democracy and sow societal divisions in the UK. The event in St Petersburg was addressed by Mark Collett, a longstanding far-right activist and founder of Patriotic Alternative, which attempted to exploit the summer of unrest outside asylum hotels in Britain. A range of groups from across Europe, including some far-right ideologues from France and other countries, also attended the inaugural gathering of the Forum of the International Anti-Globalist League. Pride of place was given to Alexander Dugin, an ultranationalist Russian who has been described as “Putin’s brain” and whose views helped shaped ideas behind the invasion of Ukraine. Calvin Bailey, a Labour MP and member of the Commons defence committee who has been vocal about Russia’s hybrid war in western Europe, said the links between Patriotic Alternative and Russia were the latest example of the Kremlin’s attempts to use political subversion against Britain and other countries. “Russia considers itself at war with us. It absolutely wants to see systematic paralysis here and is eager to find ways of undermining the fabric of our nation,” he said. “That dovetails with what the far right wants and what it believes. It’s even more than just groups and individuals on the far right being used as proxies. They are literally a vehicle for attacking the ideas that underpin our democracy.” Russian “influence operations” in Britain have been ratcheted up in recent years, in addition to espionage operations ranging from arson to spy rings. However, there have also been worries about more subtle attempts to sow societal divisions. The Guardian revealed earlier this year how a network of Telegram channels w...
It was the fever dream of the revolution, a dark fantasy spun so many times – each version wilder than the last – until it almost became a joke: the Yankees are coming. Hugo Chávez, who ruled Venezuela from 1999 to 2013, conjured the scenario again and again, warning that the US president and his henchmen in the CIA and Pentagon were mobilising forces to strike. Spies, saboteurs, assassins, specia...
It was the fever dream of the revolution, a dark fantasy spun so many times – each version wilder than the last – until it almost became a joke: the Yankees are coming. Hugo Chávez, who ruled Venezuela from 1999 to 2013, conjured the scenario again and again, warning that the US president and his henchmen in the CIA and Pentagon were mobilising forces to strike. Spies, saboteurs, assassins, special forces, mercenaries, missiles, poison, submarines, fighter planes – the empire would stop at nothing to smite Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution and overthrow its leader. View image in fullscreen Caracas on Saturday morning. Photograph: Jose Abreu/@Jabreu89/X/AFP/Getty Images “Would it be so strange that they’ve invented the technology to spread cancer and we won’t know about it for 50 years?” Chávez said in 2011, when he was being treated for cancer. He evoked US submarines prowling off Caribbean beaches and airborne troops attacking Caracas. View image in fullscreen Hugo Chávez in 2011. Photograph: Eraldo Peres/AP It was, in large part, theatre. A confection of claims to justify authoritarian rule, burnish anti-imperialism credentials and delegitimise opponents. Over time, even some supporters rolled their eyes at tales of the Yankee bogeyman. Yet now, 13 years after an ailing Chávez passed power to his protege, Nicolás Maduro, the fever dream is real. On Saturday US forces bombed Caracas and seized Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores – the “empire” of Chávez’s rhetoric made manifest. No UN mandate, no congressional approval, just raw military power. View image in fullscreen President Nicolás Maduro alongside the first lady, Cilia Flores, during his closing election campaign rally in Caracas in July 2024. Photograph: Fernando Vergara/AP Amid the shock and uncertainty about what happens next there is a surreal twist. For years Chavismo – the ideology bequeathed by the late president – exaggerated the US threat in order to cry wolf. When the wolf showed up he turned out to b...