Coventry City are back in the Premier League after 25 years. Here's how they achieved promotion under the guidance of Frank Lampard.

美国白宫：白宫方面与人工智能公司 Anthropic 举行了初步沟通会议，会议富有成效且具有建设性。

伊朗緊張局勢稍為緩和，德黑蘭稱考慮到以色列，及黎巴嫩周五起停火十天，決定允許商船通過霍爾木茲海峽。美國總統特朗普就稱，美軍會繼續海上封鎖，但他認為未來一兩天內，有望跟伊朗達成協議，英法兩國就籌組中立代表團，準備護送途經波斯灣的商船。 美國新聞網站Axios在周五，公開總統特朗普的訪問，他預計美國及伊朗代表，將於周末再度會談，雙方可能在一兩天內達成協議。 特朗普宣稱近日親自跟伊朗代表通話，他對談判前景感到樂觀，報道又指，美國考慮解凍伊朗200億美元資金，以換取德黑蘭放棄濃縮鈾庫存。 美國CNN報道指，特朗普最近宣布，以色列及黎巴嫩停火十天，對伊朗帶來正面影響，至於美伊談判的重大分歧，是伊朗一旦暫停提煉濃縮鈾，暫停會維持多久，以及德黑蘭如何交出核材料。特朗普宣稱伊朗，已同意停止濃縮鈾活動，又稱任何結束戰事的和平協議，都不涉金錢交易。而他接受哥倫比亞廣播公司訪問，指美軍不會派出地面部隊，到伊朗移除濃縮鈾，當德黑蘭政府交出濃縮鈾，就會轉運到美國。 霍爾木茲海峽方面，伊朗外長阿拉格齊，周五在網上帖文，稱在以黎雙方臨時停火期間，伊朗對所有商船開放海峽，但要按照伊朗港口和海事組織，早前公布協調航線通行。特朗普在帖文稱，感謝伊朗全面開放海峽，但他強調美方會繼續海上封鎖，直到美伊雙方達成和平協議。他又宣稱伊朗同意不再封鎖海峽，並在美方協助下，已經或正在清除所有水雷。 伊朗外交部表示，考慮到以黎雙方停火，允許非軍用船隻在海峽通行，但必須經由伊朗指定航道，且跟伊斯蘭革命衛隊協調。當局強調，美國針對伊朗海上封鎖，是違反停火協議，若果持續封鎖，德黑蘭將採取反制措施。 聯合國秘書長古特雷斯，歡迎伊朗完全開放海峽，稱是朝著正確方向邁出一步，並希望黎以兩國停火，有助各方建立互信，推進美伊雙方在，巴基斯坦斡旋下的對話。 歐洲多國包括英、法、德及意大利領袖在巴黎商討中東局勢，法國總統馬克龍就稱，正跟英方籌組中立代表團，負責護送波斯灣的商船，並反對有國家限制航行自由，收取通行費，或試圖將海峽私有化的舉動。英國首相施紀賢指，英法兩國將會領導聯合行動，以維護航行自由。

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) rose 1.20% to 7,126.06, the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) gained 1.52% to 24,468.48, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) advanced 1.79% to 49,447.43 as easing Middle East tensions drove fresh highs. Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chevron (NYSE:CVX) sank roughly 3.7% and 2.2%, respectively, as big oil stocks fell on plunging crude prices. Airline and travel stocks, such as American Airlines Group (NASDAQ:AAL) and Royal Caribbean Cruises (NYSE:RCL) , gained. Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) tumbled 9.7% on a downbeat revenue outlook and news that its co-founder would step down. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) climbed on stronger China iPhone demand, and Ally Financial (NYSE:ALLY) soared following positive Q1 earnings. Continue reading

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【有線新聞】有少數族裔機構擴展社區空間。 小彬紀念基金會家庭服務中心擴展位於柯士甸港鐵站內的社區空間，新啟用的「藍門」會支援婦女及青少年服務。勞工及福利局局長孫玉菡主持開幕儀式，他致辭時稱政府關注弱勢社群，包括少數族裔，但單靠政府不能解決所有問題，如有社區夥伴合力會事半功倍。

原油和欧洲天然气价格重挫，有关霍尔木兹海峡重开的消息提振市场对美伊冲突有望结束的乐观情绪。 布伦特下跌9.1%，收于每桶约90美元，抹去伊朗战争爆发以来的大部分涨幅。 WTI跌至每桶接近84美元。 欧洲基准天然气价格一度下跌10%，收于每兆瓦时约39欧元。 在伊朗表示将在以色列与黎巴嫩真主党达成的10天停火期间开放霍尔木兹海峡后，能源价格大幅下跌。 伊朗外长阿拉格齐周五在X上表示，该水道现对商业航运“完全开放”。 “市场目前在定价战争结束以及海峡关闭已经结束，“Global Risk Management首席分析师Arne Lohmann Rasmussen表示。“不过我们注意到，目前仅对沿伊朗海岸线航行的船只开放，因此可能还不是完全开放”。 周五的动向提振了乐观情绪，市场认为这场已持续七周的冲突或许接近尾声。这场冲突曾引发近年来最严重的全球能源供应中断。 与此同时，根据Kpler旗下Bridgeton Research的数据，在原油市场，趋势跟随型的大宗商品交易顾问（CTA）已大幅平仓多头头寸，周五布伦特原油多头仓位降至27%，而在本交易日开始时还高达82%。 美国总统特朗普称，伊朗已同意无限期暂停其核计划，并表示达成持久协议的谈判“可能”在本周末举行。 5月WTI下跌11.5%，结算价报每桶83.85美元。 6月布伦特下跌9.1%，结算价报每桶90.38美元。 责任编辑：何云

Spain and Brazil signed a flurry of agreements at Pedro Sanchez and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s first bilateral summit, as the Spanish leader seeks to build an alliance to counter US President Donald Trump. “The relationship between Spain and Brazil goes far beyond the strictly bilateral,” Sanchez told reporters after signing 15 deals covering areas including critical minerals, telecommunications and artificial intelligence. “Peace and the values that sustain it are being attacked by a...

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Coventry City are finally back in the big time for the first time in a generation. After 25 years away, a period during which the club changed stadiums, hit financial rock bottom and plummeted to the depths of League Two as recently as 2017-18, manager Frank Lampard has led them to the promised land, with this 1-1 draw sealing a famous promotion. The Sky Blues struggled to find a way past Blackburn for much of this tense evening and went behind to Ryoya Morishita’s strike, before Bobby Thomas blew the lid off the away end at Ewood Park with a header that will go down in Coventry folklore. The Premier League is calling once again. Continue reading...

Key PointsEli Lilly has been a growth beast, coming off an impressive year in which its revenue rose by 45%.

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Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of billionaire David Abrams’ best stock picks. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is also a Wall Street favorite. The stock carries a consensus Strong Buy rating, and its $377.90 average price target reflects a nearly 20% upside potential. AI is shaping up to be a huge economic opportunity. According to a UN […]

特朗普：协议签署后，封锁会结束。(新浪财经)

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JamesBrey/iStock via Getty Images While there are plenty of high-yielding stocks out there, there are very few that can be counted on through thick and thin to continue paying at their current level. Therefore, it can be a difficult environment for retirees who want to significantly juice their retirement income without going far out on the risk spectrum. In this article, I'm going to detail two exceptions to this rule: one which is an equity that yields 8.2% on the next 12-month basis and is expected to continue growing its distribution at an inflation-beating pace for the foreseeable future, and the other one is a broadly diversified ETF that pays out monthly dividends and yields about 8% on an annualized basis. An Actively Managed Bond ETF Worth Owning The first opportunity to discuss is an actively managed bond fund called the Infrastructure Capital Bond ETF ( BNDS ). BNDS implements an actively managed high-conviction bond strategy while giving investors a simple, liquid ETF that they can use to access it easily. Rather than tracking a cap-weighted index of heavily covered issuers like many of its peers, such as the SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF ( JNK ) and the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF ( HYG ), BNDS instead scours the fixed income space for mispriced credits, with a particular focus on real asset-intensive sectors like energy pipelines, mortgage rates, and real estate businesses. For example, they purchased Plains All American Pipeline ( PAA )( PAGP ) bonds at an 8.5% yield, which was an incredible bargain for them. Given that PAA has a solid balance sheet, strong tangible asset collateral, and long-duration fee-based contracts, that yield was highly sustainable, and the bond investment had to have a very low risk of loss over the long term. BNDS looks for other opportunities like this that it can successfully arbitrage, and then regularly recycles capital to help boost its income per share over time while also delivering total return ...

Transplanted from YouTube, this nostalgic, low-budget revival offers some welcome musical performances – but the chat is superficial The biggest chatshow news of 2026 so far has been Claudia Winkleman’s foray into celebrity chinwagging, not least because there was something slightly hubristic about the beloved Traitors host taking on the genre. Not because of any shortcomings on Winkleman’s part, but because chatshows seem almost impossible to get right (especially for female hosts; the UK TV landscape is littered with single-series attempts by Nigella, Davina and Lily Allen). As the country was watching Winkleman, however, another veteran broadcaster was debuting their own new(ish) chatshow to far less fanfare – and far less pressure. In February, Chris Evans began putting out episodes of TFI: Unplugged on YouTube. Produced by Virgin Radio – where Evans has hosted the breakfast show for the past seven years – this was a lo-fi endeavour that saw the presenter joined by a handful of guests in a poky studio lined by dressed-down staff members professionally obliged to laugh and whoop. Still, the guests were good (Danny Dyer, Chris Hemsworth, Bono, Noah Wyle) and the show quickly built a decent audience – so much so that Channel 4 considered it worth their while to acquire a run of six episodes that have just begun airing at 11pm on Fridays. Will this revival of the 1990s juggernaut turn out to be the real chatshow story of the year? Continue reading...

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No SAVE Act? Congress Still Holds The Trump Card Authored by Scott Yenor via American Greatness, The failure of the United States Senate to pass the SAVE America Act is as regrettable as it is predictable. Noncitizen voting is already a federal crime in America. SAVE would have required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. States would have to purge noncitizens from voting rolls, too. Perhaps reliance on hostile state officials to implement the law would have rendered the SAVE America Act ineffective. We will never know. The cause of election integrity is not dead. Congress has the constitutional power to ensure election integrity. The American election system divides power between the states and the federal government. States determine the “time, place, and manner” of elections and, within constitutional limits, determine who can vote. Some states allow mail-in ballots. Others, like Oregon, send every voter a ballot. Other states allow mail-in ballots under special circumstances. Some states allow ballots to arrive well after Election Day. Some states require no identification for voters. Some wink at noncitizens voting. Others have rigorous identification requirements. Some countenance practices that sow the appearance of cheating into the counting of votes. Other states have clean elections that bring election results right away on election night. But Congress has a plenary power to judge whether a state’s election results are consistent with the basic demands of representative government. According to Article 1, Section 5 of the United States Constitution, “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members.” Congress can ferret out fraudulent votes of all sorts—not just voting by noncitizens. Congress can then declare elections invalid and order a new election when it judges elections to be fraudulent. Both the Senate and the House have pre-established procedures for investigati...

BalkansCat/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Introduction Since my initial piece on Cintas Corporation ( CTAS ) back in September 2024, shares of Cintas have fallen 11% while the S&P 500 has gone on to move up 27%. At the time, I recommended that new investors wait for a more attractive entry point as the valuation on Cintas looked pricey. That said, I think Cintas is a name worth revisiting as shares have lagged and the valuation multiple has compressed since the company is a high quality business with reoccurring revenues and steady margin expansion. This article will be an update to my original investment thesis where I’ll unpack what’s changed, share my expectations for Cintas in 2026, and discuss how I’m thinking about the valuation at these levels. A look back at the recent quarter Cintas’ core business looks healthy. In many ways, Q3’26 was pretty uneventful as the company put up consistent numbers that were largely in line with what the market had expected. On revenues, Cintas achieved a record for the quarter at $2.84 billion , which was up 8.9% compared to last year and 8.2% organically after adjusting for acquisitions. As illustrated in the chart below, each route-based business contributed meaningfully, with First Aid and Safety Services posting 14.6% organic growth, Fire Protection Services at 10.0%, Uniform Rental and Facility Services at 7.3%, and Uniform Direct Sales at 3.1%. With strong performance across all of its segments, Cintas has been able to gain new customers, grow with existing customers, and maintaining pricing that’s been consistent with their historical 2-3% range. So in an environment where investors are potentially worried by AI disruption, conflict in the Middle East, among other concerns, Cintas is one of those steady names that has diversified exposure to resilient verticals in health care, hospitality, education, and government. Company Filings Down the income statement, Cintas’ profitability has continued to improve with gross ma...

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp & Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Alex Rampell discuss how Rillet helps firms optimize their finances and accounting using AI. They talk with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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霍尔木兹海峡重开的消息有助于缓解供应担忧，原油重挫，伦铝走低。受美元和美债收益率走低影响，金价上涨。 原油：油气价格大跌 受霍尔木兹海峡开放和止战希望影响。 原油和欧洲天然气价格重挫，有关霍尔木兹海峡重开的消息提振市场对美伊冲突有望结束的乐观情绪。 布伦特下跌9.1%，收于每桶约90美元，抹去伊朗战争爆发以来的大部分涨幅。 WTI跌至每桶接近84美元。 欧洲基准天然气价格一度下跌10%，收于每兆瓦时约39欧元。 在伊朗表示将在以色列与黎巴嫩真主党达成的10天停火期间开放霍尔木兹海峡后，能源价格大幅下跌。 伊朗外长阿拉格齐周五在X上表示，该水道现对商业航运“完全开放”。 “市场目前在定价战争结束以及海峡关闭已经结束，“Global Risk Management首席分析师Arne Lohmann Rasmussen表示。“不过我们注意到，目前仅对沿伊朗海岸线航行的船只开放，因此可能还不是完全开放”。 周五的动向提振了乐观情绪，市场认为这场已持续七周的冲突或许接近尾声。这场冲突曾引发近年来最严重的全球能源供应中断。 与此同时，根据Kpler旗下Bridgeton Research的数据，在原油市场，趋势跟随型的大宗商品交易顾问（CTA）已大幅平仓多头头寸，周五布伦特原油多头仓位降至27%，而在本交易日开始时还高达82%。 美国总统特朗普称，伊朗已同意无限期暂停其核计划，并表示达成持久协议的谈判“可能”在本周末举行。 5月WTI下跌11.5%，结算价报每桶83.85美元。 6月布伦特下跌9.1%，结算价报每桶90.38美元。 基本金属 铝价下跌，此前伊朗表示霍尔木兹海峡已对货运开放，此举将有助于主要生产国巴林、沙特和阿联酋的出口。 伦铝周五下跌2.2%，收于每吨3，564.50美元，为4月14日以来最低水平。 尽管如此，伦铝当周仍上涨1.9%，实现连续第四周上涨。 这种广泛用于汽车和易拉罐等的轻金属先前因中东地区出口受阻而价格大涨。 截至收盘： LME期铜上涨0.6%，报13347美元/吨； LME期铝下跌2.2%，报3564.5美元/吨； LME期镍下跌0.7%，报18117美元/吨； LME期锌上涨0.6%，报3446美元/吨； LME期锡上涨1.2%，报50695美元/吨； LME期铅上涨0.5%，报1962美元/吨。 贵金属 在伊朗宣布有关霍尔木兹海峡开放的消息后...

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) closed Friday at $400.62, up 3.01%. The stock moved higher during Friday’s session as reports linked renewed EV enthusiasm to high oil prices and company-specific AI and robotaxi developments. Shareholders are relieved to see an eight-week losing streak end, and are now watching for the next quarterly update on April 22. Trading volume reached 88.9 million shares, coming in about 41% above its three-month average of 62.9 million shares. Tesla IPO'd in 2010 and has grown 25,096% since going public. The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) added 1.20% to finish Friday at 7,126 — its first close over 7,100. The Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) rose 1.52% to close at 24,468. Among automobiles names, General Motors (NYSE:GM) closed at $81.30 (+4.16%) and Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) finished at $12.88 (+3.50%), reinforcing strength across major auto makers. Rising oil prices tied to the war in Iran have improved the relative of appeal of electric vehicles (EVs). Yet Tesla shares have been on an eight-week losing streak before investors boosted shares again today leading into the company’s earnings report next week. Continue reading

【有線新聞】下周一開始宏福苑居民可分批回家執拾物品，團體派發上樓物資，有居民表明即使單位已被燒光，仍會堅持上樓。 有團體在大埔開放服務點派發物資，一些宏福苑的居民帶同手拉車、背包排隊等候，「毛巾、頭燈、退熱貼，都有用的，因為樓梯漆黑一片，退熱貼作預防，毛巾都可以抹汗。」 大火事隔接近五個月終於有機會回家，有居民心情仍未平伏。錢女士：「我媳婦結婚嫁妝全部在家，紙幣都沒有，燒到傢具都沒有，回去看看屋、道別，住了40多年。心情好忐忑，因為左右鄰居都有人離世，不知道。」居民:「我都不打算搬東西走，最主要和家說再見（哽咽）。大家都是心心念念想回家，燒光都要回去，如何都是自己家來的，不說了（哽咽）。」 回家前除了情緒上要整理，沒有升降機，體力上亦要做好準備。陳女士：「上多些樓梯，都練習中。」鄧女士：「上樓才吃力，自己解決，一日上樓梯兩次。」 宏福苑7座樓宇居民下周一起至5月4日，可分批上樓執拾物品，每單位4人、每次3小時，第一批會先開放宏新閣。