Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation said Sunday. (Image credit: Narges Foundation Archive)
Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi has been transferred to a Tehran hospital more than a week after collapsing in prison, her foundation said Sunday. (Image credit: Narges Foundation Archive)
Scientists are discovering more and more associations between poor oral health and everything from heart disease to dementia. But can flossing and brushing properly guarantee a longer life? Isn’t it weird that dentistry and medicine have been kept largely separate? Why should our mouths be treated differently from the rest of our bodies? Going to the dentist often feels like more of a lifestyle an...
Scientists are discovering more and more associations between poor oral health and everything from heart disease to dementia. But can flossing and brushing properly guarantee a longer life? Isn’t it weird that dentistry and medicine have been kept largely separate? Why should our mouths be treated differently from the rest of our bodies? Going to the dentist often feels like more of a lifestyle and cosmetic add-on, especially for adults in the UK. And, even if you can find an NHS dentist, the service is not free at the point of use like medical doctors are. The origin story for this rift is that dentistry began, in the middle ages, as a trade – with tooth extractions handled by “barber surgeons” and dentures crafted by jewellers and blacksmiths. Today, dentistry and medicine still have their own separate training routes, professional bodies and NHS setup. Generally speaking, medical doctors can’t act as dentists, and dentists aren’t medical doctors. But the tide is turning on this conceptual separation, because the links between oral health and systemic healthcare are becoming ever more apparent. Continue reading...
I was isolated and nervous when I decided to roll up my sleeves and start volunteering. But I shouldn’t have been intimidated. It’s brought so much happiness and community into my life I live in a fairly average town in Oxfordshire, and despite having friends and family nearby, I never felt as if I was properly a part of the community. I didn’t feel rooted, or that I knew my neighbours beyond a qu...
I was isolated and nervous when I decided to roll up my sleeves and start volunteering. But I shouldn’t have been intimidated. It’s brought so much happiness and community into my life I live in a fairly average town in Oxfordshire, and despite having friends and family nearby, I never felt as if I was properly a part of the community. I didn’t feel rooted, or that I knew my neighbours beyond a quick hello. I moved here in my late 20s with my partner and spent a lot of time at home. In my 30s, I got a dog, had children and started working from home. As a result, I spent a lot more time in my local area, but I still felt like an outsider. At this point in my life, where I was focused on building a family and setting down my own roots, this lack of connection made me feel isolated – until I started volunteering. Continue reading...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is an ode to Brad Pitt and Aaron Sorkin’s lovably human baseball drama The older I get, the more I want to hear people talk. I want films in which recognisably human characters interact in recognisably human ways. No one need die; nothing great need be at stake. I just want to be treated like an adult. Moneyball tr...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort films is an ode to Brad Pitt and Aaron Sorkin’s lovably human baseball drama The older I get, the more I want to hear people talk. I want films in which recognisably human characters interact in recognisably human ways. No one need die; nothing great need be at stake. I just want to be treated like an adult. Moneyball treats its audience like adults. Though it was released in 2011, it’s a very 1970s film: its theme is analogous to the paranoid thrillers of that decade. In Moneyball , an American institution is in the hands of an elite, and a lone man who doesn’t trust the system is trying to change things. Yes, it’s about baseball rather than the CIA, but I don’t think it’s coincidence that this is the film where Brad Pitt finally looked like the inheritor to Robert Redford . Continue reading...
A report from Canada’s spy agency that identifies Khalistani extremism as a national security threat may accelerate a diplomatic reset with India, even as analysts say allegations of interference by New Delhi continue to cloud the relationship. Delhi has long complained that a small number of Sikh separatist extremists have used Canadian soil to organise, raise funds and support violence connected...
A report from Canada’s spy agency that identifies Khalistani extremism as a national security threat may accelerate a diplomatic reset with India, even as analysts say allegations of interference by New Delhi continue to cloud the relationship. Delhi has long complained that a small number of Sikh separatist extremists have used Canadian soil to organise, raise funds and support violence connected to the push for “Khalistan”, a proposed independent Sikh state in India’s Punjab. The report by the...
The ProShares - Ultra S&P500 (NYSEMKT:SSO) and the ProShares - UltraPro QQQ (NASDAQ:TQQQ) both offer amplified exposure to major benchmarks, but with distinct paths. While SSO targets the established blue chip companies within the S&P 500 at double leverage, TQQQ concentrates on the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 with triple the daily exposure — resulting in vastly different volatility profiles. Beta measu...
The ProShares - Ultra S&P500 (NYSEMKT:SSO) and the ProShares - UltraPro QQQ (NASDAQ:TQQQ) both offer amplified exposure to major benchmarks, but with distinct paths. While SSO targets the established blue chip companies within the S&P 500 at double leverage, TQQQ concentrates on the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 with triple the daily exposure — resulting in vastly different volatility profiles. Beta measures price volatility relative to the S&P 500; beta is calculated from five-year monthly returns. The 1-yr return represents total return over the trailing 12 months. Dividend yield is the trailing-12-month distribution yield. Continue reading
This is the forum for Growth & Total Return discussion on Seeking Alpha. A new chat begins every two weeks, and all previous blogs are listed in chronological succession on the main chat page . We won't be doing any comment cleanup in the new chat, and users will always be able to refer back to previous discussions. More on Today's Markets: Micron Stock: I Called The Supercycle - Here's What Comes...
This is the forum for Growth & Total Return discussion on Seeking Alpha. A new chat begins every two weeks, and all previous blogs are listed in chronological succession on the main chat page . We won't be doing any comment cleanup in the new chat, and users will always be able to refer back to previous discussions. More on Today's Markets: Micron Stock: I Called The Supercycle - Here's What Comes Next Micron Technology, Inc. ( MU ) shares have gone absolutely vertical over the last month as AI stocks have rebounded sharply on optimism that data center build-outs are chugging along as planned. While MU has certainly already experienced its fair share of gains and then some, I think there's more gas left in the tank. Palantir's Pullback Hides A Massive Transformation In my opinion, the problem is that the market has trouble digesting Palantir's fast scaling given its immense rally for several consecutive years. The momentum may have faded but the company is executing exceptionally well. In such conditions, I still view any drop as a long-term buying opportunity since Palantir has become more about AI-based infrastructure rather than enterprise software. Micron Has The Better Scarcity, Sandisk Has The Hotter Trade The preferred setup is remaining invested through a relative trade: long Micron for stronger AI-memory durability while hedging cycle and valuation risk with a short Sandisk position. Intel: Get Out Before The Hype Ends (Rating Downgrade) INTC trades at nearly twice AMD's and four times NVDA's forward P/E, despite slower growth (than both) and comparable/slower scale and profitability, respectively. AMD: $600 Target Appears Too Low Management now projects server CPU TAM to grow over 35% annually, reaching $120 billion by 2030, while UBS predicts the market to surge to $170 billion. Moderation Guidelines We will only remove comments under the following categories: Personal attacks on another user Stereotyping, prejudiced or racist language about individuals o...
Welcome to the forum for Dividend Growth Investing discussion on Seeking Alpha. A new article is posted every two weeks as a space for sharing of ideas, discussing concepts, and digging deeper on DGI. All previous blogs are listed in chronological succession on the main chat page . As promised and with your valued feedback, we are publishing a new version of the article with some changes to make i...
Welcome to the forum for Dividend Growth Investing discussion on Seeking Alpha. A new article is posted every two weeks as a space for sharing of ideas, discussing concepts, and digging deeper on DGI. All previous blogs are listed in chronological succession on the main chat page . As promised and with your valued feedback, we are publishing a new version of the article with some changes to make it more engaging. The structure of the article will now include a response from one of you in the community regarding your thoughts on DGI. If you’d like to share your DGI thoughts with us in future editions, you can email us at moderation@seekingalpha.com and let us know . We’ll be looking at continuing to do this moving forward. For a reminder, you can find our moderation guidelines for this space in our profile . And please share your thoughts below to continue the discussion and learning on DGI. More on Dividend Growth Investing: $5,000 Monthly Passive Income For Financial Freedom We present a buy-and-hold, easy-to-maintain portfolio formed with only nine funds. The portfolio is income-focused and is diversified in termsof strategies and asset classes, and likely to provide market-matchinggrowth. BDC NAVs Are Down; Don't Panic Sell After assessing almost all major BDC earnings reports, I have to say that a) the system-wide NAV drops are fully logical and, more importantly, b) they should not be viewed as another reason to exit the BDC space. I Am Planting The Seeds For My Retirement Dividend Tree: Yields Up To 10.5% Buyback Signal: BDN's potential 10% market-cap buyback demonstrates management’s confidence in the deep undervaluation of their equity. 3 REITs To Avoid (Mother's Day Edition) My goal today is simple: to highlight 3 REITs that I believe investors should avoid to preserve capital and sleep better at night. After all, there's nothing "SWAN-like" about losing your nest egg. Obvious Dividend Traps: 4 We Exited And 1 We Wouldn't Touch With A 10-Foot Pole In divide...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, whic...
PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? Alan Greenspan, The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society, 1996-12-05 It was very difficult to definitively identify a bubble until after the fact—that is, when its bursting confirmed its existence. Alan Greenspan, Economic Volatility, Jackson Hole, 2002 The S&P 500 ( SPX ) is up 16.75% since bottoming on March 30th. That is despite the Iran War and the closing of the strait of Hormuz that the consensus believes should have been a big negative for stocks. That fact, that stocks are rallying despite something so obviously negative, is cited repeatedly as evidence that the stock market is in a bubble, experiencing irrational exuberance, or just plain nuts. It does seem extreme, but markets often act in ways contrary to the consensus. What is unprecedented is to see a move this big, this fast, in the context of an ongoing bull market. All the other big moves like this in recent times (since 1990) were either bear market rallies or crash recoveries. There was the 18% move up in November/December of 2008, which turned out to be a head fake; the market went on to make further new lows. And there was the 25% move in April/May of 2020 when we were coming out of the COVID hole. This current moonshot, though, came after a correction that didn’t even reach a 10% loss. The S&P has actually been the laggard in this AI frenzy. The Magnificent Seven stocks most closely associated with AI and the NASDAQ Composite as a whole are both up 26% over the same time frame. Even...
Many facing economic pressures and frustrations have begun shopping at budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs in lieu of traditional supermarkets, with priorities shifting in pursuit of good deals. (Image credit: Rachel Wisniewski for NPR)
Many facing economic pressures and frustrations have begun shopping at budget grocery stores and warehouse clubs in lieu of traditional supermarkets, with priorities shifting in pursuit of good deals. (Image credit: Rachel Wisniewski for NPR)
Wellness and longevity influencers are pushing a compound called NAD+. There's scientific interest in its potential, but researchers say the marketing claims have gotten ahead of the science.
Wellness and longevity influencers are pushing a compound called NAD+. There's scientific interest in its potential, but researchers say the marketing claims have gotten ahead of the science.
A BrAIve New World For High Yield Authored by Luke Coha via BondVigilantes.com, As the world grapples with how AI will shape and change our lives going forward from the mundane, like automated homes or more clever apps, to more existential threats (opportunities?) leading to job and possibly sector obsolescence and related, broader social implications, it’s definitely well accepted that the demand...
A BrAIve New World For High Yield Authored by Luke Coha via BondVigilantes.com, As the world grapples with how AI will shape and change our lives going forward from the mundane, like automated homes or more clever apps, to more existential threats (opportunities?) leading to job and possibly sector obsolescence and related, broader social implications, it’s definitely well accepted that the demand for AI computing power is enormous and growing. Estimates vary, but they are all astronomical, ranging from $5 trillion to $7 trillion in capital investment needed to fund the global data centre and AI buildout, including adding 122 GW of power capacity between now and 2030 (according to JP Morgan). This scale of investment will require involvement from virtually all sources of funding, including public capital markets, private credit, governments and asset-backed securitisation funding. While not nearly on the same scale as investment grade markets, high yield markets have been playing, and will continue to play, a role in this buildout financing mostly via the funding of data centres. This has important implications for the asset class. In very short order, AI related and data centre issuance has exploded from effectively nothing just over a year ago to nearly $40 billion today, with close to $30 billion issued since the start of the year. This sheer quantum of issuance is huge and effectively amounts to an entirely new subsector created nearly overnight within the high yield market. The vast majority of this issuance is index eligible and currently represents approximately 1.6% of the Global High Yield Bond Index (and 2.6% of the U.S. High Yield Bond Index). What’s more, from estimates we’ve seen, expectations are for total high yield, AI related issuance to reach $100 billion to $120 billion over the next few years. Should this manifest, it would represent close to 4% to 5% of the global index and 6% to 7% of the U.S. index, of similar scale as long existing and well e...
Saudi Arabian crude oil exports to China for loading in June are set to plunge to around 13 million to 14 million barrels, according to traders informed by the producer. That compares with around 20 million barrels for loading in May, which was already well below historical levels, the traders said, asking not to be named as they’re not authorized to speak to media. Prior to the Iran war, the king...
Saudi Arabian crude oil exports to China for loading in June are set to plunge to around 13 million to 14 million barrels, according to traders informed by the producer. That compares with around 20 million barrels for loading in May, which was already well below historical levels, the traders said, asking not to be named as they’re not authorized to speak to media. Prior to the Iran war, the kingdom typically exported around 40 million to 50 million barrels a month to China, the world’s biggest crude importer. Aramco didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The war has mostly closed the Strait of Hormuz, forcing Saudi Arabia to export lower overall volumes, with the kingdom offsetting some of the drop with increased flows via its Yanbu terminal on the Red Sea. The June-loading crude heading to China will all go through Yanbu, the traders said. Read More: The Physical Oil Squeeze Eases for Now as Buyers Back Away The decline from May comes after Aramco’s official selling prices for June were set at levels which traders said were above spot-market levels for other grades in the Middle East including Abu Dhabi’s Murban and Oman crude. Physical-market crude premiums have receded in recent weeks.
Orix press release ( IX ): FY GAAP EPS of ¥399.40. Revenue of ¥3330.83B (+15.9% Y/Y). More on Orix ORIX Corporation 2026 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation ORIX: Earnings And Buybacks Ahead Of Schedule Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Orix Historical earnings data for Orix Financial information for Orix
Orix press release ( IX ): FY GAAP EPS of ¥399.40. Revenue of ¥3330.83B (+15.9% Y/Y). More on Orix ORIX Corporation 2026 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation ORIX: Earnings And Buybacks Ahead Of Schedule Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Orix Historical earnings data for Orix Financial information for Orix