spooh/E+ via Getty Images President Trump signed an order Thursday granting a cross-border permit to the Bridger pipeline expansion project that would revive parts of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport Canadian oil to Guernsey, Wyoming . The pipeline, proposed by Canadian pipeline company South Bow ( SOBO ) and U.S. partner Bridger Pipeline, could increase Canada's crude exports to the U.S. by...
spooh/E+ via Getty Images President Trump signed an order Thursday granting a cross-border permit to the Bridger pipeline expansion project that would revive parts of the Keystone XL pipeline to transport Canadian oil to Guernsey, Wyoming . The pipeline, proposed by Canadian pipeline company South Bow ( SOBO ) and U.S. partner Bridger Pipeline, could increase Canada's crude exports to the U.S. by more than 12% if it moves forward. The Bridger pipeline would travel 647 miles through eastern Montana and Wyoming, along the border with North and South Dakota, and is meant to carry 550K bbl/day of Canadian crude into the U.S. The new project would utilize a different route through the U.S. than the previous Keystone XL project, which was canceled by former President Biden in 2021, but will use some of the previously built pipe on the Canadian side, where Keystone XL is already fully permitted. South Bow ( SOBO ) said the project is in early stages and is seeking firm commitments from Canadian oil shippers for 450K bbl/day on the pipeline. Analysts have said Guernsey is not an end market for oil , so additional links would need to be built to transport oil to U.S. refining hubs. State regulatory permits will be required, and potential court challenges remain a risk, but "provided potential shippers are comfortable with the regulatory risk, the economics of the project appear sound, and the pipeline will be able to offer competitive rates to major U.S. market hubs," Plainview Energy Analytics founder Matthew Lewis told Reuters. More on South Bow South Bow: Nice Company, Solid Assets, But Wrong Time To Buy South Bow: As The Dust Settles - Downgrade To Hold South Bow Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
mustafaU/iStock via Getty Images By Bryan Cutsinger As the Fed prepares for a new chair, the FOMC’s disagreement isn't about the timing of rate changes but fundamentally different views about what causes inflation. The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent on Wednesday, a decision markets had fully priced in . Governor Stephen Miran dissented in fa...
mustafaU/iStock via Getty Images By Bryan Cutsinger As the Fed prepares for a new chair, the FOMC’s disagreement isn't about the timing of rate changes but fundamentally different views about what causes inflation. The Federal Reserve held its target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5 to 3.75 percent on Wednesday, a decision markets had fully priced in . Governor Stephen Miran dissented in favor of a cut. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan dissented from the easing bias preserved in the statement. The eight-to-four vote marked the most divided Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision since October 1992 . At the post-meeting press conference , Chair Jerome Powell reported total PCE prices were expected to have risen 3.5 percent over the 12 months ending in March, “boosted by the significant rise in global oil prices” tied to the conflict in the Middle East. Core PCE was expected to rise 3.2 percent, which he attributed to tariffs. The increases were confirmed by today’s PCE data release . To put these figures in context, the median committee member projected PCE inflation of 2.7 percent for 2026 at the March FOMC meeting . The annualized pace so far this year is around 4 percent, well above the median member’s projection and inconsistent with the committee's expected disinflationary path. Powell described an economy “expanding at a solid pace,” a labor market little changed at 4.3 percent unemployment , and inflation that has “moved up and is elevated.” Consumer spending is resilient. Business investment is brisk. Slower job growth, Powell said, reflects lower immigration and labor-force participation, not collapsing demand. In short, this is not an economy that requires further easing. The conflicting dissents reflect deep divisions at the FOMC. Miran’s view, that policy remains too tight, is most consistent with a model in which inflation is largely driven by transitory suppl...
Yara CEO warns of global auction that would leave poorest countries scrambling for supplies they can ill afford The Iran war could have “dramatic consequences”, causing food shortages and price rises in some of Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, the head of the world’s largest fertiliser company has said. Svein Tore Holsether, the chief executive of Yara International, said world le...
Yara CEO warns of global auction that would leave poorest countries scrambling for supplies they can ill afford The Iran war could have “dramatic consequences”, causing food shortages and price rises in some of Africa’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, the head of the world’s largest fertiliser company has said. Svein Tore Holsether, the chief executive of Yara International, said world leaders needed to guard against soaring prices and shortages of fertiliser causing a de facto global auction that would leave the poorest countries, particularly in Africa, scrambling for supplies they could ill afford. Continue reading...
Without Christine Marie, Samuel Bateman might never have been jailed for his crimes among the Mormon community of Short Creek. What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet? When Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, packed up their lives in Las Vegas in 2016 to start from scratch in Short Creek, a remote desert town in the Arizona Strip, the odds of fitt...
Without Christine Marie, Samuel Bateman might never have been jailed for his crimes among the Mormon community of Short Creek. What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet? When Christine Marie and her husband, Tolga Katas, packed up their lives in Las Vegas in 2016 to start from scratch in Short Creek, a remote desert town in the Arizona Strip, the odds of fitting in and finding community were surely against them. This was the headquarters of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the secretive polygamist sect, known for its patriarchal control, where women and girls wore prairie dresses and “married” wherever they were placed by their leader. Marie, with her blond ponytail, pink cowboy hat, pink boots and pink glasses, was a former beauty queen, ventriloquist and escape artist, now finishing her psychology doctorate. Tolga, once a rock singer, was a videographer, a city dweller who had never been on a hike. This is the starting point of the Netflix documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet – and unsurprisingly, the couple’s arrival is met with deep suspicion. What follows, though, is gripping TV, recorded as it happened, but paced like a thriller. Having gained the community’s trust, the couple discover a polygamous, predatory paedophile among them, and a situation of horrifying sexual abuse. Working with the FBI as double agents, they infiltrate this tightly knit cult and ultimately gather enough evidence to secure arrests and convictions. Continue reading...
Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain The car is perhaps the closest thing Germany has to a national symbol. For this reason, the success of the auto industry and the happiness of motorists has long been a barometer for the standing of the Federal Republic. Since the beginning of the war on Iran, German news has been...
Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain The car is perhaps the closest thing Germany has to a national symbol. For this reason, the success of the auto industry and the happiness of motorists has long been a barometer for the standing of the Federal Republic. Since the beginning of the war on Iran, German news has been filled with stories about drivers. Journalists have filed breathless dispatches from petrol stations all over the country, reporting scenes of anger and frustration at the hike in fuel prices. Tania Roettger is a journalist based in Berlin Continue reading...
The day I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, I knew my life would end with euthanasia I chose to die at 44 because ALS ( motor neurone disease ) left me paralysed. I still loved my life, even to the last day. It all started in December 2023, when I lost strength in my right arm, and my pinky finger was going in all directions. I went to see my GP and did physiotherapy because they thought i...
The day I was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, I knew my life would end with euthanasia I chose to die at 44 because ALS ( motor neurone disease ) left me paralysed. I still loved my life, even to the last day. It all started in December 2023, when I lost strength in my right arm, and my pinky finger was going in all directions. I went to see my GP and did physiotherapy because they thought it was a nerve blockage. Continue reading...
Glamour? Money? Hope? They’re so last season. With fashion magazines on their knees, where does that leave The Devil Wears Prada 2 – and its famously relatable heroine? Runway magazine is collapsing. Miranda is eating in the cafeteria and flying economy. Andy is the new features editor. Emily is dating a billionaire. Somebody dies. Amelia Dimoldenberg makes a cameo. But the one unexpected detail i...
Glamour? Money? Hope? They’re so last season. With fashion magazines on their knees, where does that leave The Devil Wears Prada 2 – and its famously relatable heroine? Runway magazine is collapsing. Miranda is eating in the cafeteria and flying economy. Andy is the new features editor. Emily is dating a billionaire. Somebody dies. Amelia Dimoldenberg makes a cameo. But the one unexpected detail in The Devil Wears Prada 2 that I can’t stop thinking about is this: Andy worries that she’ll never be in a position to unfreeze her eggs. “Left New York for 15 years, not married – never found the right person, and my kids are at a doctor’s office on 85th,” she breezily reports to Emily when they reunite after 20 years. “They’re eggs,” she clarifies, adding that she is excited to have children. And in that moment, I couldn’t help but wonder: was the woman who once had the job “a million girls would kill for” always this relatable? Continue reading...
Exclusive: Letter sent to government about case of Inuit woman whose baby was removed after now-banned test The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests “may amount to ethnic discrimination”. Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter, Zammi, was taken away fro...
Exclusive: Letter sent to government about case of Inuit woman whose baby was removed after now-banned test The United Nations has warned Denmark that the treatment of a Greenlandic mother whose newborn child was removed by Danish authorities as a result of controversial parenting competency tests “may amount to ethnic discrimination”. Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter, Zammi, was taken away from her when she was two hours old and placed in foster care in November 2024 after Kronvold was subjected to so-called FKU (parental competence) psychometric tests. At the time, she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilised enough”. Continue reading...
The actor commands the stage in Tom Morris’s striking production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, while Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt unite for The Last Five Years When David Harewood was offered the lead in Othello in a new West End production, he found he still knew his lines from almost 30 years earlier, when he became the first black actor to play the role at the National Theatre. Harewood brings profo...
The actor commands the stage in Tom Morris’s striking production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, while Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt unite for The Last Five Years When David Harewood was offered the lead in Othello in a new West End production, he found he still knew his lines from almost 30 years earlier, when he became the first black actor to play the role at the National Theatre. Harewood brings profound depth to the part, alongside Toby Jones as Iago and Caitlin FitzGerald as Desdemona, in Tom Morris’s striking staging, now on Marquee TV . Harewood’s documentary on blackface, with observations on Othello, is on iPlayer . Continue reading...
Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapers When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent years th...
Students taking part in university’s annual ritual say images of them in swimwear are being published without consent in national newspapers When the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent years this quirky ritual has become a target for agency and freelance photographers looking to cash in on images of students in bikinis, including some who camp out overnight on the East Sands dunes near the Fife coastal path. “It ruined my night,” said Anna, one of the students whose photo appeared in a spread published by the Scotsman. “Now when I think about that May Dip, I think about that image, and that’s it.” Continue reading...
Matt King, a 34-year-old graphic designer living in New York, has long grappled with his identity as the son of a Canadian-Chinese mother and white father. Despite being born in the US and raised in Los Angeles, he is aware that mainstream US society does not always see him as a bona fide US citizen. “You’ll always get ... a sprinkling of this ‘you’re not truly American’,” the 34-year-old resident...
Matt King, a 34-year-old graphic designer living in New York, has long grappled with his identity as the son of a Canadian-Chinese mother and white father. Despite being born in the US and raised in Los Angeles, he is aware that mainstream US society does not always see him as a bona fide US citizen. “You’ll always get ... a sprinkling of this ‘you’re not truly American’,” the 34-year-old resident of Brooklyn, New York, said, prompting him to claim his own definition. “To me, being an American...
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kyoshino/E+ via Getty Images 9:45 AM PMI Manufacturing Final Based on monthly questionnaire surveys of selected companies, the Purchasing Managers' Manufacturing Index ( PMI ) offers an advance indication of month-to-month activity in the private sector economy by tracking changes in variables such as production, new orders, stock levels, employment, and prices across manufacturing industries. 10:...
kyoshino/E+ via Getty Images 9:45 AM PMI Manufacturing Final Based on monthly questionnaire surveys of selected companies, the Purchasing Managers' Manufacturing Index ( PMI ) offers an advance indication of month-to-month activity in the private sector economy by tracking changes in variables such as production, new orders, stock levels, employment, and prices across manufacturing industries. 10:00 AM ISM Manufacturing Index The manufacturing composite index from the Institute for Supply Management is a diffusion index calculated from five of the eleven subcomponents of a monthly survey of purchasing managers at roughly 300 manufacturing firms nationwide. Another month of moderate growth is the call for ISM manufacturing, with the index expected to be up at 53.0 in April from 52.7 in March. 1:00 PM Baker Hughes Rig Count The Baker Hughes North American rig count tracks weekly changes in the number of active operating oil & gas rigs. More on U.S. Markets Inflation Alarms Starting To Ring In The Bond Market Wall Street Lunch Fed Special: Powell Doesn't Go Gently Into That Good Night Middle East Turmoil Fuels Inflation Fears, Testing Fed's Patience Treasury yields pare gains after GDP miss US30Y tops 5% for the first time in 9 months after the Fed's latest rate decision
It's often during the most challenging times when you can see who the winners really are, in any space. In retail, that means tough economies, and specifically inflation. Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) are both demonstrating resilience in this tricky climate. Which one is the better buy right now? Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
It's often during the most challenging times when you can see who the winners really are, in any space. In retail, that means tough economies, and specifically inflation. Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) are both demonstrating resilience in this tricky climate. Which one is the better buy right now? Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
TORONTO, April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Argo Corporation (TSXV: ARGH), (OTCQX: ARGHF) (" Argo " or the " Company "), a leader in next-generation transit solutions, announced its audited financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
TORONTO, April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Argo Corporation (TSXV: ARGH), (OTCQX: ARGHF) (" Argo " or the " Company "), a leader in next-generation transit solutions, announced its audited financial results for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025. All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's plan to cut about 10% of its workforce is tied to increased AI investment, while leaving the door open to additional layoffs.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's plan to cut about 10% of its workforce is tied to increased AI investment, while leaving the door open to additional layoffs.