Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation For First Time Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for the first time as president, after declining to attend during his initial term in office due to his view that the majority of the media is unfairly bia...
Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation For First Time Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for the first time as president, after declining to attend during his initial term in office due to his view that the majority of the media is unfairly biased against him. The president also did not attend in 2025, the first year of his second presidential term. “The White House Correspondents Association has asked me, very nicely, to be the Honoree at this year’s Dinner, a long and storied tradition since it began in 1924, under then President Calvin Coolidge,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “In honor of our Nation’s 250th Birthday, and the fact that these ‘Correspondents’ now admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many, it will be my Honor to accept their invitation, and work to make it the GREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER! ” Trump criticized the press and its coverage of him in his acceptance, pointing to it as a reason for his absence from past events. “Because the Press was extraordinarily bad to me, FAKE NEWS ALL, right from the beginning of my First Term, I boycotted the event, and never went as Honoree,” he wrote. “However, I look forward to being with everyone this year. Hopefully, it will be something very special.” The annual dinner, which celebrates the First Amendment, is set to take place on April 25 at the Washington Hilton , outside of which John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Trump was the first president to skip the event since Ronald Reagan in 1981 , who was recovering from the assassination attempt at the time. The event also serves as a fundraiser for journalism scholarships and awards. The WHCA announced last week that mentalist and mind-reader Oz Pearlma...
Getty Images The next week, if not longer, is going to be dominated by headlines around Iran and its potential impacts on the energy markets. And rightly so. Oil had already moved up significantly at the start of the year and has risen higher since the events over the weekend. WTI crude in the $70s could be a slight economic drag but should be manageable. However, if oil moves to $100/barrel and s...
Getty Images The next week, if not longer, is going to be dominated by headlines around Iran and its potential impacts on the energy markets. And rightly so. Oil had already moved up significantly at the start of the year and has risen higher since the events over the weekend. WTI crude in the $70s could be a slight economic drag but should be manageable. However, if oil moves to $100/barrel and stays there, it could tip the U.S. and global economy into a recession. This obviously would be a negative for equity investors. Shiller PE Ratio (Multpl) Even before the outbreak of new hostilities in the Middle East, the market was showing signs of stress. The NASDAQ fell three percent in February, its worst monthly performance since March 2025, just before ' reciprocal tariffs ' were announced early in April of last year. Markets are still trading at extreme levels looking at equities through historical valuation metrics. In today's column, I will highlight five signs the market is likely to either trade flat at best or head lower in the months ahead. Insider Sell/Buy Ratio: In a case of good timing, given the pullback in the markets in February, insider selling swamped insider buying by the biggest ratio in five years in January. The Washington Service Rising Delinquencies: The private credit markets have generated their share of headlines in recent weeks and become a new area of concern for investors given the events at private direct lender Blue Owl Capital ( OWL ). I covered that topic in this article in late February. However, private credit is hardly the only area of the economy showing increasing stress. Commercial real estate is becoming increasingly problematic, especially in the office and multi-family areas. They account for roughly $3.5 trillion of just under $5 trillion of CRE debt outstanding. Trepp - January 2026 Delinquency rates on Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities or CMBS, around office complexes are now over 12% and more than 150 bps above the peak ...
VinFast Auto ( VFS ) announced the completion of its strategic structuring into three automotive brand lines. Under the new brand structure, Lac Hong was said to represent the pinnacle of ultra-luxury, conceived to honor national pride and currently comprising the 900 LX, 900S, and 800S models. The VF line encompasses a comprehensive portfolio of mass-market passenger EVs across segments, from VF ...
VinFast Auto ( VFS ) announced the completion of its strategic structuring into three automotive brand lines. Under the new brand structure, Lac Hong was said to represent the pinnacle of ultra-luxury, conceived to honor national pride and currently comprising the 900 LX, 900S, and 800S models. The VF line encompasses a comprehensive portfolio of mass-market passenger EVs across segments, from VF 3 to VF 9, including the seven-seat VF MPV 7. Meanwhile, the Green brand is purpose-developed for commercial and service mobility solutions, featuring models such as Limo Green, Herio Green, Nerio Green, and Minio Green. The Vietnamese electric vehicle maker also officially unveiled two new ultra-luxury models, the Lac Hong 800S and 900S. The additions expand the Lac Hong ultra-luxury collection, complementing the flagship 900 LX introduced in 2025. Both models share a cohesive, brand-specific design language that was highlighted as being enriched with symbolic detailing and premium materials. The models also integrate advanced intelligent technologies and comprehensive safety systems, complemented by ultra-luxury amenities such as zero-gravity executive seating, automatic power-assisted doors, and premium entertainment systems from globally renowned brands. In terms of performance, both models are equipped with an all-new, fully active suspension system engineered to deliver exceptional ride comfort and dynamic stability. The Lac Hong 800S and 900S are scheduled for commercial launch in 2027. More on VinFast Auto VinFast Auto: Delivery Surge Meets Cash Flow Headwinds VinFast Auto is expected to see an international sales boost in 2026 VinFast Auto achieves its 2025 deliveries growth target Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on VinFast Auto Historical earnings data for VinFast Auto
Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.) The deal hasn’t yet been publicly announced, but a source familiar with the publication says Engadget staff was told a few weeks ago and has already met with the new o...
Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner. Yahoo sold the publication to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later this March. (Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.) The deal hasn’t yet been publicly announced, but a source familiar with the publication says Engadget staff was told a few weeks ago and has already met with the new owners. “This move reflects Yahoo’s focus on our core brands, while aligning Engadget with an owner whose primary focus is operating and growing editorial media brands,“ says Sona Iliffe-Moon, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, in a statement to The Verge. “This also includes a broader Yahoo partnership with Static Media that will support audience and revenue growth across its portfolio of brands, including Engadget.” Static Media didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The focus on core brands is an ongoing theme for Yahoo, which also sold TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent last year. It operates popular services like Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, and Yahoo Finance, and appears to be otherwise happy managing publisher partnerships rather than running newsrooms. Yahoo laid off much of Engadget’s leadership in 2024, and this time I’m told that some of the Engadget team is staying at Yahoo to work on Yahoo’s homegrown vertical, Yahoo Tech. Yahoo Tech is primarily focused on commerce and buying advice, and the remaining employees — who I’m told were not given a choice which publication to work for — will likely do the same. Meanwhile, it’s yet another corporate change for Engadget, which most recently became part of Yahoo in 2021 after Verizon sold the Verizon Media Group to Apollo Global Management (which renamed the whole thing Yahoo). Static Media, for its part, has been accumulating legacy internet publishing brands for years. It also owns SlashGear and BGR in tech, along with publications like Chowhound, Jalopnik, and SlashFilm. Internally, multiple sou...
As part of today's MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic building blocks from the basic chip and just scale them up—more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and more memory bandwidth. But the M5 chips are a surprisingly large departure from past generations, both in terms of the CPU ar...
As part of today's MacBook Pro update, Apple has also unveiled the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the newest members of the M5 chip family. Normally, the Pro and Max chips take the same basic building blocks from the basic chip and just scale them up—more CPU cores, more GPU cores, and more memory bandwidth. But the M5 chips are a surprisingly large departure from past generations, both in terms of the CPU architectures they use and in how they're packaged together. We won't know the impact these changes have had on performance until we have hardware in hand to test, but here are all the technical details we've been able to glean about the new updates and how the M5 chip family stacks up against the past few generations of Apple Silicon chips. Read full article Comments
Given the market's recent volatility, many investors are likely looking for stock ideas -- and some may even be aiming to bolster their portfolios with more dividend income amid heightened market uncertainty. One stock that has been hammered over the last year and looks like an attractive opportunity to consider today is Intuit (INTU +3.42%). The financial technology software specialist, which ope...
Given the market's recent volatility, many investors are likely looking for stock ideas -- and some may even be aiming to bolster their portfolios with more dividend income amid heightened market uncertainty. One stock that has been hammered over the last year and looks like an attractive opportunity to consider today is Intuit (INTU +3.42%). The financial technology software specialist, which operates TurboTax, CreditKarma, QuickBooks, and more, has seen its stock sell off by nearly 50% from its 52-week high. This beating comes even as it grows both revenue and dividend at robust double-digit rates. Further, the extent of this steep drop in Intuit's stock price is particularly surprising given the company's entrenched market position and long history of delivering value for shareholders. Here's why I think this massive sell-off is overdone. AI-fueled growth Intuit's fundamental business has great momentum right now. Revenue rose 17% year over year to $4.7 billion in the company's fiscal second quarter -- comfortably outpacing management's forecast for 14% to 15% year-over-year growth for the period. "We delivered a very strong second quarter of fiscal 2026, reflecting our continued business momentum across the big bets and our disciplined approach to managing the business," said chief financial officer Sandeep Aujla in the company's fiscal second-quarter earnings release. More importantly, Aujla was upbeat about the company's ongoing potential, noting that it has "high confidence" in delivering double-digit top-line growth this year. Specifically, the company reiterated its full-year guidance of 12% to 13% year-over-year revenue growth and 13% to 15% year-over-year earnings-per-share growth. Helping fuel its growth, the company is seeing strong adoption of its newer artificial intelligence (AI) platform. Intuit recently expanded Intuit Assist (the company's generative AI experience), introducing a virtual team of AI agents that can help automate complex tasks for s...
A man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023. He admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility and was s...
A man who killed three people during a 2023 knife attack in Nottingham had attempted to hand himself into MI5 for arrest two years earlier, an inquiry has heard. Valdo Calocane, 34, fatally stabbed Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber, both 19, and Ian Coates, 65, during a stabbing spree in the city on 13 June 2023. He admitted to manslaughter on the basis of diminished responsibility and was sentenced to indefinite detention at a high-security hospital. The inquiry, which is being held in London, heard on Tuesday that, in May 2021, Calocane had attempted to hand himself in to MI5 at their headquarters at Thames House in central London. PC Graham Foster, who confronted Calocane outside after he had rung the building’s intercom, told the inquiry Calocane had informed a member of security that he wanted to be arrested and speak to the police. When asked why he did not question Calocane on why he wanted to be arrested, Foster told the inquiry he had aimed to “build a rapport” as he thought that was the best way to see if he was “offering any other information”. He described Calocane as “calm, compliant and coherent”. Supt Lorraine Busby-McVey of the Metropolitan police told the inquiry that Calocane was “looked at” by the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre (FATC), a unit that examines threats from fixated individuals, but he did not meet their threshold to be assessed further. Busby-McVey said that an intelligence report from the FTAC regarding Calocane’s visit to Thames House was passed to Nottinghamshire police the next day, 1 June, but that the force did not then carry out their own assessment. Busby-McVey said that was something she “would have quite liked” to have happened. She also said that the report, though sent to the force, was not available to all the officers in it. A new system to improve the quality of information shared between police forces had since been put in place, she said. The inquiry also heard from Calocane’s former flatmate, named only as Seb...
UK borrowing costs jumped for a second day on Tuesday as the potentially damaging effects of the Iran conflict spooked investors concerned that growth will stall across the major industrial economies. Investors fear inflation will rise, driven by rising oil and gas prices, hitting businesses and households just as they are recovering from a long period of elevated inflation. Analysts said higher e...
UK borrowing costs jumped for a second day on Tuesday as the potentially damaging effects of the Iran conflict spooked investors concerned that growth will stall across the major industrial economies. Investors fear inflation will rise, driven by rising oil and gas prices, hitting businesses and households just as they are recovering from a long period of elevated inflation. Analysts said higher energy costs were likely to lead to price rises, forcing central banks to delay expected cuts in interest rates until later this year. Brent crude passed $83 a barrel on Tuesday, up from about $60 in December. The government had hoped that last month’s decline in inflation to 3% and a faster fall in Whitehall’s annual spending deficit would further push down the interest on UK debt. However, the better-than-expected borrowing figures trumpeted by Rachel Reeves in her spring forecast speech on Tuesday failed to generate a positive bounce amid growing anxiety over the Middle East crisis. Since the conflict broke out at the weekend, market bets for Bank of England policymakers to cut interest rates when they next meet on 19 March have fallen from 80% to just 30%. Government borrowing costs have been on the rise. Yields on two-year gilts – effectively the interest rate – jumped as much as 16 basis points to 3.8% on Tuesday, although they later eased back to settle at nearer 10 points up. David Aikman, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said: “The UK’s improved borrowing position announced in today’s spring statement has been overshadowed by the Middle East crisis. “If the crisis persists, higher energy prices will feed through to inflation, increasing borrowing costs further, putting serious pressure on the [budget] outlook. Kathleen Brooks, a research director at the currency trader XTB, said: “There is no denying that the spring statement was unfortunately timed. UK bond yields are soaring on Tuesday, and this time it is not Rachel Reeves’s fau...
Thrive Capital, the investment firm founded by Josh Kushner, and venture capital heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz are co-leading a new funding round for defense technology startup Anduril Industries that could significantly increase the company’s valuation. Anduril is aiming to secure roughly $4 billion in fresh capital, with Thrive and Andreessen jointly anchoring the round, Bloomberg News reporte...
Thrive Capital, the investment firm founded by Josh Kushner, and venture capital heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz are co-leading a new funding round for defense technology startup Anduril Industries that could significantly increase the company’s valuation. Anduril is aiming to secure roughly $4 billion in fresh capital, with Thrive and Andreessen jointly anchoring the round, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the discussions. The deal would reportedly value the Costa Mesa, California-based company at approximately $60 billion, nearly doubling its prior valuation. Bloomberg reported last month that Anduril had explored raising as much as $8 billion from investors, signaling strong appetite for defense-focused technology companies amid rising global security spending. Founded in 2017 by Oculus headset creator Palmer Luckey and a team of technologists, Anduril Industries was established to modernize defense procurement by applying commercial advances in AI and autonomous systems to military challenges. The company develops AI-driven platforms such as its Lattice software, along with drones and sensor networks. Anduril seeks to differentiate itself from traditional contractors by self-funding product development to rapidly deliver deployable defense technologies to U.S. and allied government customers. More news and analysis Hudbay Minerals Inc. (HBM:CA) Arizona Sonoran Copper Company Inc. - M&A Call - Slideshow Metropolitan Bank Holding Corp. (MCB) Analyst/Investor Day - Slideshow AutoZone, Inc. (AZO) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Vail Resorts offering discounts to Gen Z skiers AutoZone targets 350–360 new stores for 2026 while navigating LIFO impacts and accelerated SG&A investments
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30. In trad...
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30. In trading on Tuesday, shares of Mobileye Global Inc (Symbol: MBLY) entered into oversold territory, hitting an RSI reading of 29.3, after changing hands as low as $8 per share. By comparison, the current RSI reading of the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is 39.5. A bullish investor could look at MBLY's 29.3 RSI reading today as a sign that the recent heavy selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and begin to look for entry point opportunities on the buy side. The chart below shows the one year performance of MBLY shares: Looking at the chart above, MBLY's low point in its 52 week range is $8 per share, with $20.18 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $8.20. Find out what 9 other oversold stocks you need to know about » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30. In trad...
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30. In trading on Wednesday, shares of Option Care Health Inc (Symbol: OPCH) entered into oversold territory, hitting an RSI reading of 24.5, after changing hands as low as $23.425 per share. By comparison, the current RSI reading of the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) is 61.6. A bullish investor could look at OPCH's 24.5 RSI reading today as a sign that the recent heavy selling is in the process of exhausting itself, and begin to look for entry point opportunities on the buy side. The chart below shows the one year performance of OPCH shares: Looking at the chart above, OPCH's low point in its 52 week range is $23.425 per share, with $34.625 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $24.89. Find out what 9 other oversold stocks you need to know about » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.