Warissara* survived the crash. It was the next four hours that killed her. The 21-year-old had been riding home from her restaurant job on the night of February 20 last year, caught in heavy rain on a slick Bangkok road, when she came off her motorbike. Emergency responders who arrived at the scene found only a few visible scratches – and detected the smell of alcohol. She had no identification on...
Warissara* survived the crash. It was the next four hours that killed her. The 21-year-old had been riding home from her restaurant job on the night of February 20 last year, caught in heavy rain on a slick Bangkok road, when she came off her motorbike. Emergency responders who arrived at the scene found only a few visible scratches – and detected the smell of alcohol. She had no identification on her. The call was made: send her to the police station, not the hospital. Advertisement She arrived at Phahonyothin station at around 3am and was left lying on the floor without medical care. Officers told her to rest while they checked her vehicle registration and tried to reach her family. Police later said nothing about her condition suggested she was in immediate danger. Ninety minutes later, she had a seizure. A medical team was called. By 6am, Warissara was dead. Advertisement The autopsy laid bare what the rain-soaked roadside had hidden: fractured ribs, a ruptured lung, a ruptured liver.
After three straight years of huge gains, the Nasdaq-100 index has gotten stuck in 2026. Concerns about how artificial intelligence (AI) could negatively disrupt the global economy and about valuation levels have turned the index from a leader to a laggard. It's traded in a fairly tight range this year, so it hasn't necessarily experienced a pullback, but it's not adding to returns the way it once...
After three straight years of huge gains, the Nasdaq-100 index has gotten stuck in 2026. Concerns about how artificial intelligence (AI) could negatively disrupt the global economy and about valuation levels have turned the index from a leader to a laggard. It's traded in a fairly tight range this year, so it hasn't necessarily experienced a pullback, but it's not adding to returns the way it once did. Things have been a bit better recently, though. From Feb. 27 -- the last market day before the Israel-U.S. war against Iran started -- through market close March 9, the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ +1.34%), which tracks the Nasdaq-100, is beating the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO +0.87%). We shouldn't draw any major conclusions from just a few trading days. But after 2026's relative struggles for tech stocks, it's worth asking if the Nasdaq-100 rally has run out of steam or if there's still room left to run. Let's break down the major catalysts for the tech sector right now. Tech still expected to lead in earnings growth Investments into AI paid off for the "Magnificent Seven" companies in 2025. Both earnings and revenues accelerated even as questions arose about whether all of that spending is ultimately going to be worth it. But 2025 isn't expected to be the end of it. The tech sector is expected to deliver the biggest earnings and revenue growth of all of the 11 S&P 500 sectors in 2026, according to some estimates. In 2027, the earnings growth rate is expected to slow to "only" 20%, but the sector is again forecast to have the highest revenue growth rate. Over the long term, earnings growth is perhaps the biggest driver of stock performance, while anything can happen in the shorter term. But as long as the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into AI development don't turn into a complete waste, the earnings story for tech is still attractive. AI is still the big longer-term theme An awful lot has happened since ChatGPT first launched back in late 2022. But it's import...