One of the biggest fears retirees face is running out of money. In today's economic environment, that concern is more than valid. Inflation remains stubbornly elevated. Gas prices are sky-high, and it seems like everything from groceries to utilities suddenly costs more. Throw in the fact that your retirement savings might need to last for 20 to 30 years or longer, and it's easy to see why so many...
One of the biggest fears retirees face is running out of money. In today's economic environment, that concern is more than valid. Inflation remains stubbornly elevated. Gas prices are sky-high, and it seems like everything from groceries to utilities suddenly costs more. Throw in the fact that your retirement savings might need to last for 20 to 30 years or longer, and it's easy to see why so many older Americans worry about depleting their nest eggs. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Jeremy Doku said last month that he needed to add more goals to his game to be considered one of the best wingers in the world, so is he part of that conversation now?
Jeremy Doku said last month that he needed to add more goals to his game to be considered one of the best wingers in the world, so is he part of that conversation now?
Manager copies crossed hammers on West Ham badge Brentford’s Andrews says Schade wrongly denied penalty Pep Guardiola playfully urged West Ham to take points off Arsenal in the title race when the leaders play them on Sunday, saying: “Come on you Irons,” at the end of his press conference after Manchester City beat Brentford. City’s 3-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium closed the gap to Mikel Arteta’...
Manager copies crossed hammers on West Ham badge Brentford’s Andrews says Schade wrongly denied penalty Pep Guardiola playfully urged West Ham to take points off Arsenal in the title race when the leaders play them on Sunday, saying: “Come on you Irons,” at the end of his press conference after Manchester City beat Brentford. City’s 3-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium closed the gap to Mikel Arteta’s team to two points but Arsenal cannot be caught if they win their last three matches, starting at the London Stadium. Conscious of this, Guardiola crossed his arms to mimic the hammers on the West Ham badge and smiled as he said: “Come on you Irons.” Continue reading...
Key PointsSCHB provides exposure to over 2,400 companies across the entire domestic stock market, whereas VTV focuses exclusively on large-cap value stocks.
Key PointsSCHB provides exposure to over 2,400 companies across the entire domestic stock market, whereas VTV focuses exclusively on large-cap value stocks.
Hantavirus: Stop The Spread Is Back Via the Brownstone Institute , Hollywood loves a good sequel and so does politics and pharmaceutical development. Since Covid, there have been several attempted disease scares – Mpox, Swine flu, Bird flu, Chikungunya, Measles – but nothing has really caught the attention of audiences like the new Hantavirus frenzy. Today’s evidence comes from DRUDGE REPORT : glo...
Hantavirus: Stop The Spread Is Back Via the Brownstone Institute , Hollywood loves a good sequel and so does politics and pharmaceutical development. Since Covid, there have been several attempted disease scares – Mpox, Swine flu, Bird flu, Chikungunya, Measles – but nothing has really caught the attention of audiences like the new Hantavirus frenzy. Today’s evidence comes from DRUDGE REPORT : global effort to stop the spread. Is “flatten the curve” next? Let’s remember how this began last year, with of course, a hantavirus death in the family of one of America’s most beloved Hollywood actors . It was Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife, who died February 12, 2025, from apparent hantavirus infection from rodents in the home. Terrifying image. At that point, no regular person had ever heard of such a disease. There is a reason. It’s rare and human-to-human spread is nearly unknown. Strange that it would hit the wife of the appropriately named Gene Hackman (get it?), leading man of the prescient 1998 movie Enemy of the State . Next up we have a reprise of the Plague Ship motif. Like the Diamond Princess, it is a cruise ship, the MV Hondius operated by Oceanwide Expeditions with 147 passengers, departing from Argentina and now anchored off Cape Verde, West Africa. It was headed to the Canary Islands when three people died, two with lab-confirmed hantavirus. No port would allow the ship to dock. With the assistance of rescue boats, the dead have been carefully removed by workers in hazmats and masks. A flight attendant who came in contact with a dead body is now hospitalized and in rough condition, suggesting that even coming close to a person with hantavirus is risky stuff. No one can figure out how this is even possible. So mysterious, so unusual, so terrifying, just like the movie Contagion . This fits with the theory of Drs. Fauci and Morens that we need not worry about lab-created pathogens when animal-to-human spillover is becoming more common. This is why, they wr...
Another superb week for stocks is in the books. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq rallied on Friday to close out the week at a record high as Wall Street celebrated another solid batch of earnings and a strong-but-not-too-strong jobs report, while holding out hope for an end to the hostilities in the Mideast. As with each week since late February, the Iran war remained a major focus for investors. But a di...
Another superb week for stocks is in the books. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq rallied on Friday to close out the week at a record high as Wall Street celebrated another solid batch of earnings and a strong-but-not-too-strong jobs report, while holding out hope for an end to the hostilities in the Mideast. As with each week since late February, the Iran war remained a major focus for investors. But a dizzying number of headlines made it impossible to tell where the conflict was really headed next. Media reports on Wednesday said the U.S. and Iran were nearing a 14-point memorandum of understanding to end the war. A day later, both sides reported exchanging fire in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global choke point for oil transport. On Friday morning, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, "We should know something today" from Iran on the latest peace proposal. There was no word as of Saturday afternoon. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has already said Iran will be a topic at next week's Beijing summit between President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping . For the week, the S & P 500 jumped 2.3%, while the Nasdaq gained 4.5%. Both indexes are up for six weeks in a row — their longest winning streaks since 2024. It certainly helped that oil prices and bond yields dropped, which has been a bullish combination for stocks as of late. It's unclear if the stock market will be able to continue its run into next week. Until then, here are three things that drove last week's trading action. What's next for the Fed? Friday's mixed economic reports did not stop the market's run. The April jobs report was strong, but consumer sentiment remained extremely low. They did complicate matters for the Federal Reserve's next interest rate decision, though, with Jerome Powell's term as central bank chairman ending on May 15 and Trump's pick to take over, Kevin Warsh, zeroing in on Senate confirmation. The Labor Department said Friday that nonfarm payrolls rose by 115,000 last month , far sur...
Main-event ring-walks scheduled for 11pm BST Wardley v Dubois is bout of uncertainty | Mail Alex Wow! We’ve had a stunning stoppage victory already in Manchester – and it isn’t the main event. Fulham’s Zak Chelli, a supply teacher by trade, has produced a sensational upset to defeat the Cuban former world champion David Morrell. That is a result few saw coming. Morrell was winning the light-heavyw...
Main-event ring-walks scheduled for 11pm BST Wardley v Dubois is bout of uncertainty | Mail Alex Wow! We’ve had a stunning stoppage victory already in Manchester – and it isn’t the main event. Fulham’s Zak Chelli, a supply teacher by trade, has produced a sensational upset to defeat the Cuban former world champion David Morrell. That is a result few saw coming. Morrell was winning the light-heavyweight contest after eight rounds but Chelli rocked him with a huge right hand in round nine. Chelli was all over him but Morrell saw it through to the bell – only to have the underdog leap into action at the start of the final round and bludgeon the favourite to defeat in the corner. Remarkable. Continue reading...
Industrials Shine As Ametek, Cintas, Eaton Trade At New HighsAMETEK (NYSE:AME) said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Instrumentation group of businesses from Indicor, LLC, in a $5 billion cash transaction that management described as a highly strategic ad
Industrials Shine As Ametek, Cintas, Eaton Trade At New HighsAMETEK (NYSE:AME) said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Instrumentation group of businesses from Indicor, LLC, in a $5 billion cash transaction that management described as a highly strategic ad
Substituting the petrochemicals that underpin everyday life is challenging, but there are ways to produce what we need without fossil fuels I tried to live for 24 hours without using oil-based products. It was ridiculously impossible The standoff in the strait of Hormuz has shown just how dependent the world’s economy is on fossil fuels. From petrochemicals to plastics and fertiliser, they all beg...
Substituting the petrochemicals that underpin everyday life is challenging, but there are ways to produce what we need without fossil fuels I tried to live for 24 hours without using oil-based products. It was ridiculously impossible The standoff in the strait of Hormuz has shown just how dependent the world’s economy is on fossil fuels. From petrochemicals to plastics and fertiliser, they all begin life as oil or gas – but are there alternatives? Can we loosen the grip that fossil fuels have on our lives? While solutions to wean the transport system off imported oil are well understood – albeit not fully implemented – substituting the plethora of petrochemicals that underpin everyday life is a much more challenging task . Continue reading...
It took 10 years for Naseby to achieve its DarkSky International certification. Now, a night out in the tiny Otago town is like ‘a tour through the history of the universe’ As the last strip of pink on the horizon fades to indigo on the Maniototo Plain in Otago, every word I speak arrives in a puff of condensation. Six hundred metres above sea level, in winter the temperature here can drop to -15C...
It took 10 years for Naseby to achieve its DarkSky International certification. Now, a night out in the tiny Otago town is like ‘a tour through the history of the universe’ As the last strip of pink on the horizon fades to indigo on the Maniototo Plain in Otago, every word I speak arrives in a puff of condensation. Six hundred metres above sea level, in winter the temperature here can drop to -15C. Spring isn’t much warmer. But the chill is worth it. Standing in the dark in what feels like the middle of nowhere, I’ve come to a paddock not far from the historic mining town of Naseby to stargaze. Even in a country where there’s about 20km of space per person, the Maniototo Plain is sparsely populated. During the 1860s gold rush about 20,000 fortune seekers descended on Otago, but when they eventually moved on, towns like Naseby were left to a sleepy future. Now home to just 140 people, it’s not even a place you drive through. “We’re not on the way to anywhere,” says local Jill Wolff. “You’ve got to choose to go to Naseby.” Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
After embarking on a trial of CAR T-cell therapy, actor Sam Neill announced he is cancer-free. Researchers are enthusiastic the therapies could be a major weapon in the battle against cancer “Game-changer.” That’s how Prof Misty Jenkins, an immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, describes CAR T-cell therapy, an emerging but still costly cancer treatment that super...
After embarking on a trial of CAR T-cell therapy, actor Sam Neill announced he is cancer-free. Researchers are enthusiastic the therapies could be a major weapon in the battle against cancer “Game-changer.” That’s how Prof Misty Jenkins, an immunologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, describes CAR T-cell therapy, an emerging but still costly cancer treatment that supercharges the body’s immune system to fight disease. Late last month, Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill put the treatment in the spotlight , revealing his stage three cancer was in remission after undergoing CAR T-cell therapy as part of a clinical trial in Sydney. He stopped short of describing his remission as a miracle – the success, he said, was “science at its best”. Continue reading...