(RTTNews) - Indian shares rallied on Friday in a broad market rally even as fresh Israeli strikes on Lebanon cast doubt over the durability of the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
(RTTNews) - Indian shares rallied on Friday in a broad market rally even as fresh Israeli strikes on Lebanon cast doubt over the durability of the fragile U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
An international animal rights group and a veterinary organisation have called for a public boycott of Hong Kong’s major online retailer, HKTVmall, after its parent company revealed a life science project testing the viability of detached animal heads and limbs. The two groups staged an hour-long protest on Friday outside the HKTVmall building in Tseung Kwan O, also demanding that the company disc...
An international animal rights group and a veterinary organisation have called for a public boycott of Hong Kong’s major online retailer, HKTVmall, after its parent company revealed a life science project testing the viability of detached animal heads and limbs. The two groups staged an hour-long protest on Friday outside the HKTVmall building in Tseung Kwan O, also demanding that the company disclose more details of the experiments and cease animal testing. The Hong Kong Technology Venture...
After US Justice Department lawyers disclosed last month that they relied on incorrect information to defend migrant arrests, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered them to preserve all internal communications — often an ominous sign of a future inquiry. This week, lawyers for the migrant aid groups told the judge they plan to seek sanctions against the government and the court's permission to gathe...
After US Justice Department lawyers disclosed last month that they relied on incorrect information to defend migrant arrests, a federal judge in Manhattan ordered them to preserve all internal communications — often an ominous sign of a future inquiry. This week, lawyers for the migrant aid groups told the judge they plan to seek sanctions against the government and the court's permission to gather evidence about what happened. The misstep was among several divulged by the Justice Department in March alone. A government attorney also alerted a Rhode Island court of inaccurate statements made during a hearing about the administration’s demands for state voter records. Another department lawyer apologized to a federal judge in Washington state for missing a key deadline due to “unfamiliarity” with local procedures. Read More: DOJ Blames ICE for ‘Regrettable Error’ in Immigration Suit While many Trump administration legal fights proceed without incident, the recent revelations of inaccuracies and errors stand out amid growing judicial mistrust and fallout from President Donald Trump’s reshaping of the Justice Department to align with his agenda. Mass firings and resignations have left offices understaffed and missing expertise from veteran career lawyers. Some former employees say new policies have discouraged attorneys from challenging the accuracy of information they get from agencies. Judges rely on a principle known as the “presumption of regularity” — trust that the government is sharing accurate information and acting in good faith, said Philip Pro , a retired federal judge appointed by former President Ronald Reagan. If judges no longer have a baseline level of confidence, Pro said, “that damages the fabric of the entire justice system.” Pro said it was “rare” in his decades on the bench to see the Justice Department, which represents the federal government in court, come back with substantive corrections of what they had presented. He is now a member of the Art...
With war raging in the Middle East and private credit fears shaking markets, shares of Wall Street’s biggest banks are off to their worst start to a year since the regional banking crisis. But with the stocks now trading at relatively cheap valuations, strong earnings next week could spark a rally. The KBW Bank Index sank 6% in the first quarter, its weakest quarterly performance since 2023, when ...
With war raging in the Middle East and private credit fears shaking markets, shares of Wall Street’s biggest banks are off to their worst start to a year since the regional banking crisis. But with the stocks now trading at relatively cheap valuations, strong earnings next week could spark a rally. The KBW Bank Index sank 6% in the first quarter, its weakest quarterly performance since 2023, when stocks reeled amid the turmoil in regional banks. The soft start to this year followed a strong performance in 2025, with the gauge soaring 29% to outpace the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes. Although the bank index has rallied recently, climbing 7.9% since the beginning of April, it is still trading for just 12 times forward earnings, a 40% discount to the S&P 500’s multiple of 20. “Banks remain one of the most fundamentally attractive industry groups within the S&P 500 on a valuation basis,” said Michael O’Rourke , chief market strategist at JonesTrading. “The group has spent 2026 correcting and consolidating after a very strong 2025.” Earnings season kicks off Monday with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , followed by JPMorgan Chase & Co. , Citigroup Inc. , Wells Fargo & Co. , Bank of America Corp. and Morgan Stanley later in the week. The six biggest Wall Street banks are expected to post solid first-quarter results after deregulation kicked in and weeks of market volatility lifted trading activity. Read More: Wall Street Poised for Record $18 Billion Equities Trading Haul More broadly, analysts anticipate that financial companies in the S&P 500 will report 16% earnings growth in the first quarter compared with 12.5% for the rest of the equities benchmark, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence. However, the numbers will be far less important than what executives say about the outlook for private credit, interest rates and dealmaking activity, and the impact of the war in Iran on economic growth and inflation. Any discussions about the impact of $100-plus oil will ...
Viral Ad In Sweden Gets It All Wrong... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a jaw-dropping display of reality inversion, Sweden’s state-owned public transport company SL has rolled out a new advert that casts loud, obnoxious white women as the problem on buses while depicting black men as the silent, long-suffering victims politely minding their own business. The short video, now going...
Viral Ad In Sweden Gets It All Wrong... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a jaw-dropping display of reality inversion, Sweden’s state-owned public transport company SL has rolled out a new advert that casts loud, obnoxious white women as the problem on buses while depicting black men as the silent, long-suffering victims politely minding their own business. The short video, now going viral, shows a smiling blonde woman named “Anita” glued to her phone watching TikTok at full blast with no headphones, laughing and disrupting everyone around her. It then cuts to a young black man named “Samir” quietly using his phone with headphones, looking visibly annoyed as he adjusts them and glances her way. On-screen text reads: “Anita älskar Tiktok” (“Anita loves TikTok”) and “Samir också. Med hörlurar” (“Samir too. With headphones”). In Sweden they have released an advert where White Women are loud and annoying on public transport and Black men are the one's being quiet and upset about this The anti-white propaganda is unbelievable pic.twitter.com/3onCm1xk2a — Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 8, 2026 Yeah, because this always happens like this on buses and trains doesn’t it. The official campaign is designed to push “good manners” on public transport. Yet instead of reflecting the well-known cultural differences in public behavior, it flips the script entirely to hammer home the approved narrative: native Swedes (especially white women) are the rude ones, while migrants, or those with migrant backgrounds, are the model citizens. This latest stunt comes just weeks after we covered a near-identical case of woke hypocrisy in the UK. In February, Transport for London’s “Act Like a Friend” campaign produced multiple ads showing harassment on public transport. One featured a black teenage boy verbally harassing a white girl on a bus. The Advertising Standards Authority banned that specific clip after just one complaint, ruling it “perpetuated a negative racial st...