Nearly a quarter of market traders now hold master’s degree, PhD or medical doctorate, research shows One in five young market traders now holds a master’s degree, PhD or medical doctorate, according to exclusive figures shared with the Guardian, in a sign of how Britain’s markets are attracting an unexpected new generation of highly educated entrepreneurs. Separate data from Kerb, the street food...
Nearly a quarter of market traders now hold master’s degree, PhD or medical doctorate, research shows One in five young market traders now holds a master’s degree, PhD or medical doctorate, according to exclusive figures shared with the Guardian, in a sign of how Britain’s markets are attracting an unexpected new generation of highly educated entrepreneurs. Separate data from Kerb, the street food collective behind some of London’s best-known food markets, points in the same direction. Almost three-quarters of its founders have university degrees, including one in four with postgraduate qualifications. About 95% work in their businesses full-time rather than treating them as weekend side hustles. Continue reading...
You don’t need to be a super athlete to take part in parkrun. Whether it’s pacing yourself or picking the perfect shoes, here’s how to find your feet at the UK’s favourite 5k • The best running shoes for every runner I have a gym membership and walk everywhere, but I’m not what you’d typically picture when you think of a fitness writer. Compared with the Guardian’s running experts , I’m a not-part...
You don’t need to be a super athlete to take part in parkrun. Whether it’s pacing yourself or picking the perfect shoes, here’s how to find your feet at the UK’s favourite 5k • The best running shoes for every runner I have a gym membership and walk everywhere, but I’m not what you’d typically picture when you think of a fitness writer. Compared with the Guardian’s running experts , I’m a not-particularly-enthusiastic amateur. But what I lack in speed, stamina, and gazelle-like grace, I make up for with dogged persistence. Since 2014, I’ve run 355 parkruns in 63 locations . That’s a lot of hours – especially given my finishing times. Continue reading...
Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside of the sector, including artificial intelligence and robotics. The fund, which is set to be announced on Wednesday, is Paradigm’s third venture vehicle to date. The firm’s decision to expand to AI follows an explosion of funding activity for artificial intelligence...
Paradigm, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside of the sector, including artificial intelligence and robotics. The fund, which is set to be announced on Wednesday, is Paradigm’s third venture vehicle to date. The firm’s decision to expand to AI follows an explosion of funding activity for artificial intelligence startups and a slump in crypto-related investments. Founded in 2018, Paradigm had become one of the largest venture firms focused specifically on crypto startups. Paradigm had about $11.9 billion in assets under management at the end of 2025, according to a securities filing, which doesn’t include investments from its latest fund. Its crypto-centric thesis led to bets in hot startups like prediction markets platform Kalshi Inc ., which hit a $22 billion valuation in March. Paradigm doesn’t plan to stop investing in crypto altogether. “Crypto was the first frontier for us, and it continues to be a really exciting one,” managing partner Alana Palmedo said. “But there’s so much else happening right now that’s pretty hard to ignore.” Crypto markets have struggled in recent months, with Bitcoin tumbling nearly 30% this year, as rising interest rates push many firms to sell off riskier assets. At the same time, venture investments in AI accounted for 70% of all startup bets globally in the second quarter of this year, according to Crunchbase. Paradigm has already made several investments out of its new fund, including autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline International Inc., valued at $7.6 billion in January, and space defense startup True Anomaly Inc., which hit a $2.2 billion valuation in April. The venture firm also builds its own technology, occasionally to spin out into new companies. Paradigm released an evaluation tool for AI agents with OpenAI earlier this year. In addition to his role at Paradigm, managing partner Matt Huang also leads the payments blockchain Tempo,...
China’s printed circuit board (PCB) makers are embarking on a factory-building spree to feed demand fuelled by the global artificial intelligence boom, a rush that is expected to push their capital expenditure to a record high. In the first half of the year, more than 20 Chinese PCB companies – including Victory Giant Technology, WUS Printed Circuit, Shennan Circuits and Suzhou Dongshan Precision ...
China’s printed circuit board (PCB) makers are embarking on a factory-building spree to feed demand fuelled by the global artificial intelligence boom, a rush that is expected to push their capital expenditure to a record high. In the first half of the year, more than 20 Chinese PCB companies – including Victory Giant Technology, WUS Printed Circuit, Shennan Circuits and Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing – disclosed aggressive capacity expansion plans. With major players committing...
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A line of Waymo robotaxis drives through North Beach on July 7, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Heather Diehl | Getty Images Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its U.S. expansion and building on its lead over domestic rivals Tesla and Zoox, which is owned by...
In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT A line of Waymo robotaxis drives through North Beach on July 7, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Heather Diehl | Getty Images Waymo will begin rolling out its driverless vehicles in four new cities in the coming weeks, furthering its U.S. expansion and building on its lead over domestic rivals Tesla and Zoox, which is owned by Amazon . Alphabet 's robotaxi division will soon start offering fully autonomous rides in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, Florida, and Denver, the company said Wednesday. While the launch will initially be for Alphabet employees, the rollout will then extend to the public. Waymo, which first announced the expansion plans last year, currently operates driverless cars in more than 10 cities. While Waymo has a big head start in the market, Tesla and Zoox are both slowly pushing into new cities. Zoox is preparing to launch its robotaxi service to some members of the public in Austin, Texas, and Miami later this year, and Tesla is going beyond Austin into other parts of Texas as well as to Miami. As of May, Waymo's domestic fleet included about 4,000 robotaxis equipped with the company's fifth- and sixth-generation automated driving systems, according to filings with U.S. auto safety regulators. Waymo's latest announcement comes as the company confronts challenges that are arising as more of its cars hit the road. Some of its vehicles have driven into flooded roadways following extreme weather events, and during the Fourth of July celebrations, a number of vehicles in San Francisco were stuck in traffic for so long that their batteries died, while another was seen driving into fireworks. In February, Waymo raised $16 billion from Alphabet and other backers. The company plans to begin service in London, its first international market, later this year, having driven more than 20 million overall autonomous rides, with its sights set on hitting 1 million weekly trips by the end of the...
For decades, Argentina’s economic pendulum has whipsawed investors by swinging from one ideological extreme to another, as each new administration dismantled the framework built by its predecessor. With next year’s election set to offer a referendum on President Javier Milei ’s reformist agenda, some influential business leaders and opposition figures are discussing the possibility that those viol...
For decades, Argentina’s economic pendulum has whipsawed investors by swinging from one ideological extreme to another, as each new administration dismantled the framework built by its predecessor. With next year’s election set to offer a referendum on President Javier Milei ’s reformist agenda, some influential business leaders and opposition figures are discussing the possibility that those violent shifts are coming to an end — regardless of who prevails in the 2027 vote. Several factors may defy Wall Street skepticism, where yields on Argentina’s bonds surpass its peers due to its history of defaults, voodoo economics and manipulated data. For now, polls show growing support for fiscal discipline and other market-oriented policies in a break from the past. Executives and a segment of the dominant Peronist movement are noticing the tide shifting, and are working to build a political consensus around preserving Milei’s core economic reforms beyond his presidency. As a result, “whoever wins in 2027, the broad direction of Argentina’s economy shouldn’t change in a 180-degree turn,” said Marcelo Garcia, Americas director at Horizon Engage. “That’s different from what’s happening in parts of Latin America — and from Argentina’s own history.” Abrupt shifts from free-market reforms to state intervention and back again have inflicted heavy losses on investors. In 2019, the local benchmark S&P Merval stock index plunged 37% in a single day after Peronist Alberto Fernández won the presidential primary. More recently, Argentine stocks listed in New York fell as much as 24% after Milei’s coalition lost Buenos Aires province’s legislative election last September, only to rally as much as 40% after the government’s decisive victory in October’s congressional midterms. “Every election in Argentina appears to be so binary,” BlackRock emerging-markets strategist Pablo Goldberg told Bloomberg last month. “Until the swings of the past are gone and there is a more sustainable path fo...
Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence after signing deals with major European industrial customers. The new model, called Robostral Navigate, lets robots navigate complex environments using a single camera and basic language prompts, Mistral said in a statement Wednesday. It is hardware agnostic...
Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence after signing deals with major European industrial customers. The new model, called Robostral Navigate, lets robots navigate complex environments using a single camera and basic language prompts, Mistral said in a statement Wednesday. It is hardware agnostic, meaning the model can be deployed on any robot fleet, and was trained entirely through simulation, according to the company. In May, Mistral said it was expanding into advanced manufacturing, striking deals with new customers Airbus SE and BMW AG . The Paris-based startup offers AI models and computing infrastructure to corporate clients, and increasingly aims to apply AI to industrial engineering processes including design, simulation and quality control. Read More: AI for Industry Is Europe’s Hope to Salvage Manufacturing Edge Founded in 2023 by researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta Platforms Inc. , Mistral positions itself as Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley’s dominance in AI. The company is an infrastructure provider that works with European governments and companies seeking sovereign solutions, and is building cloud-computing facilities it will manage in France and Sweden. Mistral is in talks to raise around €3 billion ($3.4 billion) at a €20 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reported last month. It was last valued at €11.7 billion in a September funding round.
As you get older, your spending on healthcare often tends to increase. That's why you need to factor in the cost of medical services as you prepare for retirement. Unfortunately, many people make a serious mistake. They assume Medicare will provide comprehensive coverage that pays for everything they need. Sadly, this is far from the reality, and if you don't prepare properly for the financial cos...
As you get older, your spending on healthcare often tends to increase. That's why you need to factor in the cost of medical services as you prepare for retirement. Unfortunately, many people make a serious mistake. They assume Medicare will provide comprehensive coverage that pays for everything they need. Sadly, this is far from the reality, and if you don't prepare properly for the financial costs associated with care, you could have big financial problems as a retiree. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, projects global economic growth of 3.0% this year and 3.4% next year, broadly unchanged from its April projection, the organization said Wednesday. " In effect, we expect a V-shaped recovery: weaker growth this year relative to our pre-war forecast, followed by a rebound next year," IMF Deputy Director of Research Petya Koeva Brooks said. The latest outlook...
The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, projects global economic growth of 3.0% this year and 3.4% next year, broadly unchanged from its April projection, the organization said Wednesday. " In effect, we expect a V-shaped recovery: weaker growth this year relative to our pre-war forecast, followed by a rebound next year," IMF Deputy Director of Research Petya Koeva Brooks said. The latest outlook revised the 2026 growth rate up by 0.1 percentage point and increased the 2027 projection by 2 pp. The outlook for the U.S. is little changed, with 2.3% growth in 2026 unchanged and the 2027 outlook revised up 0.1 pp to 2.2%. The forecast, though, assumes that the Strait of Hormuz begins reopening in mid-July, with conditions normalizing to the pre-war state by March 2027. Risks to that assumption are increasing as tensions in the Middle East ramped up this week. The organization revised its global headline inflation projection higher to 4.7% (up 0.3 pp from April) this year as the disinflation trend since early 2024 stalled. Its projection for 2027 inflation increased 0.2 pp to 3.9%. Its core inflation forecast remains largely unchanged. The IMF sees two dynamics pulling in opposite directions — effects of the energy shock triggered by the war in the Middle East and the technology-driven investment boom. Overall, the world economy has withstood the energy shock better than feared, as second-round effects appear to be limited. Inventory drawdowns and actions to reduce energy demand helped to mitigate spiking oil prices. In the breakdown, the IMF lowered its growth outlook for the Euro area to 0.9% in 2026, down 0.2 pp, and left its projection for 1.2% growth in 2027 unchanged. China's growth outlook for 2026 was adjusted up 0.2 pp to 4.6%, and for 2027 up 0.1 pp to 4.1%. With the headline inflation outlook revised higher, the IMF recommends that central banks stay focused on price stability. "The appropriate response will vary by country depending on how commodity prices, ...
SPCX stock falls to post-IPO lows as tech selloff pressure meets valuation concerns, but Starlink, Starship and AI ambitions keep its long-term story alive.
SPCX stock falls to post-IPO lows as tech selloff pressure meets valuation concerns, but Starlink, Starship and AI ambitions keep its long-term story alive.
President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would "probably" launch another round of strikes against Iran on Wednesday as tensions between the two nations escalate toward the prospect of full-scale war, according to a media report. Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump made clear the administration intends to maintain military pressure on Tehran. "We hit them very hard l...
President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would "probably" launch another round of strikes against Iran on Wednesday as tensions between the two nations escalate toward the prospect of full-scale war, according to a media report. Speaking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, Trump made clear the administration intends to maintain military pressure on Tehran. "We hit them very hard last night," Trump said, Bloomberg reported. "Probably hit them hard again tonight. I'll give a little warning," he added. "But we'll see how it all works out. No, I'm not happy with them." His comments came shortly after the U.S. launched strikes on Iran and revoked a waiver that had allowed Tehran to sell its oil on global markets. Washington said the measures were in response to attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz that it blamed on the Islamic Republic. Iran has repeatedly asserted it will not allow ships to pass through the strategic waterway without its permission. Earlier on Wednesday, T rump declared his tentative ceasefire with Iran over, saying "a s far as I’m concerned, it’s just a waste of time.” More on United States Oil Fund LP ETF, United States Brent Oil Fund LP ETF, etc. Time-To-Stress In Oil Inventories Still In Weeks, If Hormuz Closes Again U.S. April Oil Production: Another Record High Commodities: Oil Bounces On Persian Gulf Re-Escalation Falling oil prices aren't bringing rate cuts any closer, Apollo says Ceasefire collapse swings oil market from surplus fears to near-term panic: Saxo Bank
Hotel did not allow two Muslim women to wear the full-body bathing suit, which has become bugbear of European far right An Austrian court has found an Alpine hotel’s ban on burkinis discriminatory, a politically explosive ruling in a country where the far right is on the rise. The full-body bathing suit worn by some Muslim women has become a bugbear of the European far right, which has campaigned ...
Hotel did not allow two Muslim women to wear the full-body bathing suit, which has become bugbear of European far right An Austrian court has found an Alpine hotel’s ban on burkinis discriminatory, a politically explosive ruling in a country where the far right is on the rise. The full-body bathing suit worn by some Muslim women has become a bugbear of the European far right, which has campaigned to restrict Muslim dress in public spaces. Continue reading...
The past six months have been a windfall for Remitly’s shareholders. The company’s stock price has jumped 79.3%, setting a new 52-week high of $24.44 per share. This was partly due to its solid quarterly results, and the run-up might have investors contemplating their next move.
The past six months have been a windfall for Remitly’s shareholders. The company’s stock price has jumped 79.3%, setting a new 52-week high of $24.44 per share. This was partly due to its solid quarterly results, and the run-up might have investors contemplating their next move.