The fierce heat sweeping Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with highs of up to 35C still to come on Monday afternoon. A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at London’s Heathrow on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Offfice, beating the previous May record that was set in Camden Square in 1922 and reached again in T...
The fierce heat sweeping Europe over the bank holiday weekend has beaten the UK’s all-time temperature record for May, with highs of up to 35C still to come on Monday afternoon. A temperature of 33.5C was recorded at London’s Heathrow on Monday lunchtime, according to provisional data from the Met Offfice, beating the previous May record that was set in Camden Square in 1922 and reached again in Tunbridge Wells and Regent’s Park in 1944. The heat is set to persist through the week, with a 35C peak expected again on Tuesday. The Met Office has forecast highs of 31C for Wednesday and 30C on Thursday. Overnight temperatures on Sunday broke the UK’s highest minimum temperature for May, with Kenley airfield recording a low of 19.4C. The warm weather across western Europe may be welcomed by many enjoying time off work and school but it is also expected to worsen illness and increase mortality rates. Last week the UK government’s climate advisers warned that British homes would need air conditioning as global heating reaches intolerable levels. Dr Chloe Brimicombe, a climate researcher at the University of Oxford, said: “The record-breaking heat is a reminder of how climate change is impacting our lives in the UK. It highlights the urgency of recent calls for heat adaptation.” People who are old, pregnant or ill are at particularly greater risk when temperatures stray outside a comfortable range. High heat stresses the body and uncomfortably warm nights prevent it from resting. Amber heat health alerts were issued on Friday, indicating a possible risk to life. Heat is known as a “silent killer” because it claims vast numbers of lives that go uncounted in official statistics. Last summer, scientists attributed two in every three heat-related deaths in European cities to climate breakdown. Drawing curtains, opening windows and planting trees for shade can save lives, but the UK’s Climate Change Committee said last week that even these measures were likely to be insufficient ...
朗威股份公告，公司全资子公司LONGWAY US Corp.拟以现金方式购买位于美国伊利诺伊州日内瓦市南考茨路1500号的工业建筑，交易价格不超过1800万美元（折合人民币约1.23亿元，不含税）。本次拟购买资产事项已获公司第四届董事会第十三次会议审议通过，但尚未签署正式协议，最终交易金额受汇率波动及相关税率等因素影响存在不确定性。
朗威股份公告，公司全资子公司LONGWAY US Corp.拟以现金方式购买位于美国伊利诺伊州日内瓦市南考茨路1500号的工业建筑，交易价格不超过1800万美元（折合人民币约1.23亿元，不含税）。本次拟购买资产事项已获公司第四届董事会第十三次会议审议通过，但尚未签署正式协议，最终交易金额受汇率波动及相关税率等因素影响存在不确定性。
Bernstein Sees Unrivaled AI Moat This upward trajectory aligns with a bullish update from Bernstein SocGen Group, which recently dubbed the chipmaker the “most trustworthy AI compounder.” Analyst Mark Li raised Bernstein’s price target on TSM to $430.00 from $351.00, maintaining an Outperform rating based on strong conviction in the company’s AI-driven growth. Technicals Meet Fundamentals Benzinga...
Bernstein Sees Unrivaled AI Moat This upward trajectory aligns with a bullish update from Bernstein SocGen Group, which recently dubbed the chipmaker the “most trustworthy AI compounder.” Analyst Mark Li raised Bernstein’s price target on TSM to $430.00 from $351.00, maintaining an Outperform rating based on strong conviction in the company’s AI-driven growth. Technicals Meet Fundamentals Benzinga Edge Stock Rankings‘ momentum score is a metric that measures relative strength based on price movement patterns over multiple time frames Beyond momentum, TSM boasts a growth score of 92.88 and a near-perfect quality score of 97.56. While its value score sits at a low 25.99, indicating a significant market premium, the rankings show investors are more than willing to pay up for the firm’s operational efficiency. Sustained Market Outperformance TSM shares have been on a historic, undisputed run. The stock is up 35.03% year-to-date and has surged 110.71% over the past year. Despite closing modestly lower at $404.52 on Friday, the stock’s short, medium, and long-term price trends all remain firmly locked in upward directions. Disclaimer: This content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors. Image Credit: Megan Mendoza via Imagn Images
The pitch for the FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF (NYSEARCA:KNG) lands cleanly in retirement conversations. You own 69 Dividend Aristocrats, the manager writes monthly call options against every position, and the fund distributes roughly 8.6%. KNG turns a basket of slow-growing quality compounders into something resembling a bond substitute. The yield, ... KNG’s 8.6 Percent ...
The pitch for the FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF (NYSEARCA:KNG) lands cleanly in retirement conversations. You own 69 Dividend Aristocrats, the manager writes monthly call options against every position, and the fund distributes roughly 8.6%. KNG turns a basket of slow-growing quality compounders into something resembling a bond substitute. The yield, ... KNG’s 8.6 Percent Yield Comes From Selling Calls on Dividend Aristocrats, And It Has Lagged NOBL Since 2018
Getty Images By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management Overview In recent years, media and analyst coverage of the US equity market has focused on the remarkable performance of a handful of mega-cap stocks. But could companies at the other end of the size spectrum be poised to make a comeback? Specialist stock market indexes will play a vital role in helping us answer this question. In ...
Getty Images By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management Overview In recent years, media and analyst coverage of the US equity market has focused on the remarkable performance of a handful of mega-cap stocks. But could companies at the other end of the size spectrum be poised to make a comeback? Specialist stock market indexes will play a vital role in helping us answer this question. In this paper we profile the original, dedicated benchmark for US small caps - the Russell 2000® Index. Since its launch in 1984, the Russell 2000 has provided a consistent and comprehensive record of the US equity market’s small company segment. In the following sections, we review the long-term investment case for small companies and cite empirical evidence for a return premium from this category of stock. We examine more recent trends in relative large-cap/small-cap performance, using the well-known Russell 1000 and 2000 indexes to represent these two categories of US stocks. We show how the Russell 2000 fits seamlessly into the broader Russell US index family and how it takes an objective, transparent, and predictable approach to classifying small companies. The Russell 2000 has long been the default measure of small-cap performance for US equity market analysts and commentators. Read on to obtain a full picture of how it is designed, built, supervised and maintained. Large caps generate headlines… In recent years, the ‘Magnificent Seven’ of US tech stocks - Alphabet ( GOOG ), Amazon ( AMZN ), Apple ( AAPL ), Meta Platforms ( META ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Nvidia ( NVDA ) and Tesla ( TSLA ) - have dominated the financial news headlines. These companies’ shares have performed so well that, at the end of March 2026, the Magnificent Seven made up nearly 30% by weight of the capitalization-weighted Russell 1000 index (which includes around 1000 stocks). However, periods of market dominance by select US large-cap stocks are not new. Between 1969 and 1972 another group of large com...
Police in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the bodies of loved ones who had died at an Ebola treatment centre in Mongwalu, two local journalists told the BBC.
Police in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo fired shots in the air after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the bodies of loved ones who had died at an Ebola treatment centre in Mongwalu, two local journalists told the BBC.
Inside the cluttered, silent flat at Wang Fuk Court, time seems to stand still. On the bathroom door, a calendar remains frozen on the page of November 2025 – the month a deadly fire broke out at the Tai Po estate in Hong Kong. On what was believed to be their final visit to the undamaged flat, resident Joe* and his wife Annie* took photos of every room. Each room reeked of a mixture of sweat and ...
Inside the cluttered, silent flat at Wang Fuk Court, time seems to stand still. On the bathroom door, a calendar remains frozen on the page of November 2025 – the month a deadly fire broke out at the Tai Po estate in Hong Kong. On what was believed to be their final visit to the undamaged flat, resident Joe* and his wife Annie* took photos of every room. Each room reeked of a mixture of sweat and mould. Ants crawled across dusty kitchen walls. A foul stench wafted out the moment the freezer was cracked open. Outside the window, vacant charred towers stood eerily under the sun amid the debris. Advertisement Before making his final trip down the stairs with the last of his belongings, Joe pressed the lift button in the lobby of the floor a few times, although it no longer worked. “There will never be another chance of pressing this button again,” he said, in a T-shirt soaked with sweat, casting one last glance at his home for more than 40 years. Advertisement “Farewell, Wang Fuk Court.”
GitHub Copilot 创始工程师 Neel Sundaresan 正在构建 IBM Bob——一款智能编码工具，目前已有 8 万名 IBM 开发者在使用。 Neel Sundaresan 回避了三个问题，其中一个是 “IBM Bob 为什么取名叫 Bob”。 这种回避本身就耐人寻味。Sundaresan 现任 IBM 软件部自动化与 AI 总经理，也是微软 GitHub Copilot 创...
GitHub Copilot 创始工程师 Neel Sundaresan 正在构建 IBM Bob——一款智能编码工具，目前已有 8 万名 IBM 开发者在使用。 Neel Sundaresan 回避了三个问题，其中一个是 “IBM Bob 为什么取名叫 Bob”。 这种回避本身就耐人寻味。Sundaresan 现任 IBM 软件部自动化与 AI 总经理，也是微软 GitHub Copilot 创始工程师，早年还曾担任 IBM 研究员，并不是一个擅长做产品营销的人。他是研究员出身，后来成为产品构建者，再后来成为高管，贯穿这三个角色的始终都是同一个执念：究竟是什么在阻碍软件开发者提高效率，又该如何消除这些障碍？ 他从 2000 年就开始研究这个问题，远早于 Transformer 架构和大语言模型的问世，也远早于 AI 与开发者工具被主流技术圈关联在一起。从那时候起，到已在 IBM 内部为 8 万用户提供服务的 IBM Bob 正式发布，这条探索之路远比发布会新闻稿所呈现的要漫长得多。 在无人关注的时候开始 Sundaresan 为提升开发者效率所搭建的第一个系统和如今我们熟知的 AI 编码工具截然不同。那是一个 API 调用推荐系统。 “开发者有 30% 的代码都是 API 调用，”他在接受《The New Stack》深度访谈时表示。“当你在一个类名后面按下点号，就会弹出一长串可供调用的函数，你得从中挑选一个。这本身就是一个效率损耗点。” 目标并不是生成代码，而是在恰当的时机给出正确的函数调用，本质上是开发者代码自动补全场景的搜索排序问题。 当时的模型不是 Transformer，甚至从现在的定义来看，也不是深度学习模型。但他表示，开发者们很喜欢这个工具。这个早期的启示——在开发流程里某个细微的环节降低使用阻力就能收获超乎预期的用户满意度——直到如今，仍在影响着 Sundaresan 对这类问题的思考逻辑。 “编码是一项分析性工作，和网购不一样，”他说。“如果系统给出了错误的推荐，或是给出会干扰我思路的推荐，那就有问题了。” 他认为，用户体验和底层 AI 的实现逻辑是两个相互独立、互不干扰的问题。即便模型性能再好，如果表层产品体验设计出现偏差，整体产品体验也会大打折扣。 他见证了模型领域的演进：长短期记忆网络（LSTM）、早期的编码器解码器架构、谷歌的 Trans...
Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Entertainment It ain't over 'til it's over - Yogi Berra Introduction Yogi Berra quotes might be the artifact I enjoy the most of American culture (and trust me, for a Brit, I'm more enthralled with American culture than most) . As I type this, S&P 500 futures ( SPY ) ( SPX ) are trading up 0.9%, well on their way to opening at an all time high tomorrow if the trend is m...
Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images Entertainment It ain't over 'til it's over - Yogi Berra Introduction Yogi Berra quotes might be the artifact I enjoy the most of American culture (and trust me, for a Brit, I'm more enthralled with American culture than most) . As I type this, S&P 500 futures ( SPY ) ( SPX ) are trading up 0.9%, well on their way to opening at an all time high tomorrow if the trend is maintained. Oil is down 6%, as the market is anticipating the announcement of some form of deal between the US and Iran, while the stock market remains closed for Memorial Day. In 1973, everyone had written off the Mets' chances of making it to the World Series, when Yogi Berra muttered the words "it ain't over 'til it's over". Today, it seems, everyone is eager to write off the US-Iran conflict, as hopes of a deal are buoying markets to ever higher levels. On Saturday, Trump went on Truth Social to announce to the world that some agreement has been "largely negotiated, subject to finalization" with Iran. Iran also said that both countries had entered a final stage of a "memorandum of understanding". A US senior official said the deal was 95% done, with signing still a few days from now. Then, as we have now come to expect, Trump dialed everything back on Sunday, saying that he had told his negotiators that there was no need to rush to a deal and that the blockade would remain "in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed" . He further added that "both sides must take their time". The market seemed to pick up on Saturday's news, and fade Sundays. Iranian lawmaker Ibrahim Rezaei, spokesperson of Iran's commission on national security and foreign policy said : Do not believe the bluff of the failed president; time is against the Americans. If they want an agreement, they should negotiate; if they want $6 gas, they should stand firm and bluff until the grass grows under their feet. Iran does not bow to force or threats Their Foreign Ministry spo...
The commercial space sector has crossed into recurring commercial revenue at scale. SpaceX’s Starlink unit is now throwing off subscription cash flow at a scale that supports an IPO pipeline being shepherded by Bank of America as lead underwriter. Pure-play satellite operators are booking recurring service revenue rather than one-off launch fees. Even prime defense ... The Commercial Space Economy...
The commercial space sector has crossed into recurring commercial revenue at scale. SpaceX’s Starlink unit is now throwing off subscription cash flow at a scale that supports an IPO pipeline being shepherded by Bank of America as lead underwriter. Pure-play satellite operators are booking recurring service revenue rather than one-off launch fees. Even prime defense ... The Commercial Space Economy Just Crossed a Real Revenue Threshold and After Following This Industry for Years These Are the 3 E
Van Cleef Asset Management Inc acquired a new stake in Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC - Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor acquired 5,600 shares of the chip maker's stock, valued at approximately $207,000. Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stake...
Van Cleef Asset Management Inc acquired a new stake in Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC - Free Report) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor acquired 5,600 shares of the chip maker's stock, valued at approximately $207,000. Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also added to or reduced their stakes in INTC. Sivia Capital Partners LLC lifted its stake in Intel by 271.8% in the 2nd quarter. Sivia Capital Partners LLC now owns 34,201 shares of the chip maker's stock valued at $766,000 after purchasing an additional 25,001 shares during the last quarter. United Bank bought a new position in Intel in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $205,000. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL lifted its stake in Intel by 12.3% in the 2nd quarter. Gamco Investors INC. ET AL now owns 13,737 shares of the chip maker's stock valued at $308,000 after purchasing an additional 1,508 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Intel by 29.6% in the 2nd quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 158,277 shares of the chip maker's stock valued at $3,545,000 after purchasing an additional 36,116 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Sei Investments Co. lifted its stake in Intel by 9.9% in the 2nd quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 828,352 shares of the chip maker's stock valued at $18,556,000 after purchasing an additional 74,838 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 64.53% of the company's stock. Get Intel alerts: Sign Up Insider Buying and Selling at Intel In other news, EVP Boise April Miller sold 40,256 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, May 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $99.53, for a total transaction of $4,006,679.68. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president directly owned 105,077 shares in the company, valued at $10,458,313.81. This represents a 27.70% decrease in their ownership of...