⚽ Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Table | Who should be player of the year ? How do you do? Welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Aston Villa v Liverpool at Villa Park. In recent weeks, these two have looked nailed-on to qualify for next season’s Champions League. That’s still the likeliest outcome, but it’s far from a done deal and there is a credible scen...
⚽ Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Table | Who should be player of the year ? How do you do? Welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Aston Villa v Liverpool at Villa Park. In recent weeks, these two have looked nailed-on to qualify for next season’s Champions League. That’s still the likeliest outcome, but it’s far from a done deal and there is a credible scenario in which one of them misses out. It involves Villa losing next week’s Europa League to Freiburg and in-form Bournemouth (or possibly Brighton) leapfrogging either Villa or Liverpool to finish in the top five. Improbable, sure, but not inconceivable, which means there’s plenty riding on tonight – even more so given the noise and heat surrounding Arne Slot. Continue reading...
Researchers say daily exposure to cold activates brown fat and could help speed up body’s burning of calories Wearing an ice vest or taking daily cold showers could help people lose weight, according to researchers. Despite the growing popularity of cold-water swimming and freezing plunges, to date there is minimal data on the health benefits of cold exposure. But a study of 47 adults with obesity...
Researchers say daily exposure to cold activates brown fat and could help speed up body’s burning of calories Wearing an ice vest or taking daily cold showers could help people lose weight, according to researchers. Despite the growing popularity of cold-water swimming and freezing plunges, to date there is minimal data on the health benefits of cold exposure. But a study of 47 adults with obesity or overweight has found that regular exposure to cold temperatures led to fat loss. Continue reading...
The artificial intelligence rally has already reached historic proportions and is now passing some famous – or rather, infamous – milestones. The SOX semiconductor index has a peak price that's 62% higher than its 200-day moving average – more than double the spread of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the run-up to Black Monday in 1987, as well as the lead-in to Black Tuesday in 1929, according...
The artificial intelligence rally has already reached historic proportions and is now passing some famous – or rather, infamous – milestones. The SOX semiconductor index has a peak price that's 62% higher than its 200-day moving average – more than double the spread of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the run-up to Black Monday in 1987, as well as the lead-in to Black Tuesday in 1929, according to a Thursday note from Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett. The spread is closer to the Nasdaq 's margin of 55% ahead of the dot-com crash in 2000 when the commercial Internet was first taking off and companies with no clear path to profitability got valuations in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It's even in the range of the 73% spread in the French CAC All Tradable index prior to the bursting of the Mississippi Bubble in 1720. In that episode, shares of the troubled French colonial Mississippi Company were permitted to be used as legal tender, leading to a doubling of the French money supply. "Exponential price action, market concentration, collapsing vol, stocks bossing bond yields higher, why melt-up everyone's new base case … Here we go," Hartnett mused on Thursday. AI stocks started going parabolic at the end of March – a highly unusual contour in price charts for securities. Share of chipmakers Micron , Advanced Micro Devices , SK Hynix, Marvell , and Intel , among others, all exhibit this trend. Some economists are very confident that all the investment in AI — which multiple Wall Street banks think will exceed $1 trillion next year — represents a bubble. "Having to amass more than a trillion dollars in cash to support the investment … has led to what everybody talks about as a bubble," economist Ann Pettifor, director of the Policy Research in Macroeconomics organization, told CNBC. The AI buildout versus other historical booms Not all commentators are impressed by the scale of the AI buildout, despite the big capex numbers. The Financial Times' Robin...
Hi everyone. Today we’re talking to one of the most fascinating chief executive officers in the video-game industry about the future of Atari SA, but first... This week’s top gaming news: Nintendo Co. shares plunged after it forecasted hardware and software sales declines A NetEase Inc. veteran has raised $100 million for a new Star Wars game and more Ebay Inc. is really not interested in GameStop...
Hi everyone. Today we’re talking to one of the most fascinating chief executive officers in the video-game industry about the future of Atari SA, but first... This week’s top gaming news: Nintendo Co. shares plunged after it forecasted hardware and software sales declines A NetEase Inc. veteran has raised $100 million for a new Star Wars game and more Ebay Inc. is really not interested in GameStop Corp. Nostalgia Goggles There was once a time when the name Atari was synonymous with video games. It was an unstoppable juggernaut with consoles in every living room. Then came a market crash and decades worth of corporate shenanigans, big losses and wildly misguided branding initiatives like hotels, crypto and casinos. In 2021, the once-venerable brand got a new CEO: Wade Rosen, a huge fan of retro games who wanted to revitalize Atari for a new era. Rosen has made some big moves, purchasing several companies, including Digital Eclipse and Nightdive Studios, both of which specialize in bringing old games to modern audiences. His strategy: make the new iteration of Atari the best company in the world at retro and retro-styled games. Since taking over, he’s had a few wins and more than a few misses. But he describes the failures as a learning experience that was necessary to build a solid foundation for the struggling company, which is now forecasted to have positive earnings before interest and taxes for the first time in years. “I don’t view this as a quick win,” Rosen told me in a recent interview at a conference in Las Vegas. “We obviously care about the value of the company and want it to be successful. But the goal is not to make this into something and sell it. The goal is to revitalize Atari and have it be a company that exists in the world and makes people’s lives better because it exists in the world. Like, my life is better because Nintendo is in the world.” Rosen, 41, might be the most unusual CEO in the video-game industry. In contrast to many of his peers, who...
Boeing Co. appears to have secured its long-awaited order from China during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the country, but whatever accord was reached remained nebulous on numbers, aircraft type and a sense of timing. Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses the lack of context around the agreement as well as Trump's pronouncement that Beijing might dramatica...
Boeing Co. appears to have secured its long-awaited order from China during US President Donald Trump’s visit to the country, but whatever accord was reached remained nebulous on numbers, aircraft type and a sense of timing. Sid Philip, Bloomberg Chief Correspondent for Global Aviation, discusses the lack of context around the agreement as well as Trump's pronouncement that Beijing might dramatically expand its initial commitment. (Source: Bloomberg)
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(Check out Carter's worthcharting.com for actionable recommendations and live nightly videos.) The 2-year Treasury note yield is likely headed higher. Note the two identical charts below, one with annotations depicting the bottoming out process underway, and one with the 150-day moving average, also depicting a bottoming out reversal formation. The mechanism to play for higher short term yields is...
(Check out Carter's worthcharting.com for actionable recommendations and live nightly videos.) The 2-year Treasury note yield is likely headed higher. Note the two identical charts below, one with annotations depicting the bottoming out process underway, and one with the 150-day moving average, also depicting a bottoming out reversal formation. The mechanism to play for higher short term yields is to sell short SHY. DISCLOSURES: none. All opinions expressed by the CNBC Pro contributors are solely their opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, or its parent company or affiliates, and may have been previously disseminated by them on television, radio, internet or another medium. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT CONSTITUTE FINANCIAL, INVESTMENT, TAX OR LEGAL ADVICE OR A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY ANY SECURITY OR OTHER FINANCIAL ASSET. THE CONTENT IS GENERAL IN NATURE AND DOES NOT REFLECT ANY INDIVIDUAL'S UNIQUE PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES. THE ABOVE CONTENT MIGHT NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUR PARTICULAR CIRCUMSTANCES. BEFORE MAKING ANY FINANCIAL DECISIONS, YOU SHOULD STRONGLY CONSIDER SEEKING ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN FINANCIAL OR INVESTMENT ADVISOR. Click here for the full disclaimer.
The president’s meeting with Xi Jinping was superficially cordial, extending a truce borne of necessity “American strength back on the world stage,” crowed the White House social media post: a curious remark, when the attached video showed the stars and stripes fluttering beneath a long row of Chinese flags, and People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching in unison. This week’s visit to Beijing off...
The president’s meeting with Xi Jinping was superficially cordial, extending a truce borne of necessity “American strength back on the world stage,” crowed the White House social media post: a curious remark, when the attached video showed the stars and stripes fluttering beneath a long row of Chinese flags, and People’s Liberation Army soldiers marching in unison. This week’s visit to Beijing offered the kind of style that Donald Trump enjoys – parading troops, a banquet and a polite if not markedly enthusiastic welcome from a strongman he called “really a friend” – but little apparent substance. The public account of the encounter will be partial: Mr Trump’s former adviser John Bolton has claimed that in previous conversations the US president begged Xi Jinping for help to win re-election and urged him to “go ahead” with internment camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang. But this meeting appears to have been about stabilising the relationship , not shifting it. Continue reading...
Official under watch after personal details leaked online Hearts manager called Celtic decision ‘disgusting’ The Scottish Football Association has vehemently criticised a “hysterical media narrative” and taken a swipe at the Hearts manager, Derek McInnes, while revealing one of its match officials and his family spent Thursday night under police protection after controversial incidents which have ...
Official under watch after personal details leaked online Hearts manager called Celtic decision ‘disgusting’ The Scottish Football Association has vehemently criticised a “hysterical media narrative” and taken a swipe at the Hearts manager, Derek McInnes, while revealing one of its match officials and his family spent Thursday night under police protection after controversial incidents which have dominated the conclusion to the Premiership season. McInnes called the stoppage-time award of a penalty to Celtic in Wednesday’s win at Motherwell “disgusting” , with that, plus the denial of a spot-kick for Hearts during their fixture at the same stadium days earlier, dominating discussion. Hearts visit Celtic on Saturday needing a draw to become the first non-Old Firm title winners in 41 years. Continue reading...
Readers respond to a long read article by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner on surviving the information crisis Katharine Viner’s long read is excellent in its analysis of the challenges posed by unscrupulous leaders and rampant technology, and in its account of the good work being done by the Guardian ( How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feel...
Readers respond to a long read article by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner on surviving the information crisis Katharine Viner’s long read is excellent in its analysis of the challenges posed by unscrupulous leaders and rampant technology, and in its account of the good work being done by the Guardian ( How to survive the information crisis: ‘We once talked about fake news – now reality itself feels fake’, 6 May ) . But I can’t help thinking that it is preaching to the converted: it is not Guardian readers, but those who might hold very different views, who need to be convinced of the arguments put forward. Reading the article, I was hoping to hear more about efforts being made to reach out to those unlikely to share the values espoused by the Guardian. How can these values be communicated, for example, to Maga followers or, dare I say, readers of the Daily Mail? Here, a leaf can be taken out of the Guardian’s own “ Dining across the divide ” feature. Continue reading...
Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI ( Letters, 10 May ). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on to various othernesses has long been understood – John...
Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to the responses engendered by AI ( Letters, 10 May ). That human consciousness appears to have an innate tendency to project itself on to various othernesses has long been understood – John Ruskin termed it the pathetic fallacy – and that children animate their loved toys is readily observable. But Wordsworth’s attribution of emotion to a mountain or my granddaughter’s lively conversations with Spice, her toy sloth, are, happily, unlikely to be dangerous. The conclusion that a widely harvested body of data on human response is equivalent to consciousness is naive and rather shocking in someone such as Prof Dawkins, who has founded his reputation and criticism of religious beliefs on a stringent rationalism. Salley Vickers London Continue reading...
Maggie Rylance deployed a red spotted handkerchief in memory of her dad, while Terry O’Hara was tempted by the Parthenon The letter ( 8 May ) responding to Zoe Williams’ article about scattering her mum’s ashes brought back fond memories of Dad. He was a farmer and always carried a red spotted handkerchief in his pocket. When he was muck-spreading, he would get out of the tractor cab, hold the han...
Maggie Rylance deployed a red spotted handkerchief in memory of her dad, while Terry O’Hara was tempted by the Parthenon The letter ( 8 May ) responding to Zoe Williams’ article about scattering her mum’s ashes brought back fond memories of Dad. He was a farmer and always carried a red spotted handkerchief in his pocket. When he was muck-spreading, he would get out of the tractor cab, hold the handkerchief up to check which way the wind was blowing, and make sure he drove in a direction that protected the cab from being covered in muck. It was a family joke that we should use the same method when spreading his and Mum’s ashes. We saved a red spotted handkerchief and did exactly that. It worked well and no one got covered in ash. Maggie Rylance Winchester Continue reading...
Denis Hodžić was surprised to see a photograph of his favourite childhood hobby in his favourite paper Your lovely article about Panini football stickers ( Writers on their World Cup Panini collecting days: ‘We all remember the playground twerp’, 9 May ) reminded me of my own sticker albums from the 70s and 80s. My favourite album and World Cup was Spain 1982. I watched the games in Yugoslavia, wh...
Denis Hodžić was surprised to see a photograph of his favourite childhood hobby in his favourite paper Your lovely article about Panini football stickers ( Writers on their World Cup Panini collecting days: ‘We all remember the playground twerp’, 9 May ) reminded me of my own sticker albums from the 70s and 80s. My favourite album and World Cup was Spain 1982. I watched the games in Yugoslavia, where I grew up. We excitedly followed our own team, which in the end failed to live up to its reputation as the “European Brazilians”. The Brazilian Brazilians, meanwhile, had a fabulous team of their own, full of charismatic superstars who looked great on stickers and were the most valuable currency in the playground. Continue reading...
Property portfolio in spotlight as Reform UK leader faces official inquiry over money accepted from billionaire A week ago, Nigel Farage was toasting Reform UK’s successes in the May elections, and bragging about his prospects of becoming prime minister. But there is a saying about a week in politics – and it has been a long seven days for the party leader, who is now facing questions over a £5m g...
Property portfolio in spotlight as Reform UK leader faces official inquiry over money accepted from billionaire A week ago, Nigel Farage was toasting Reform UK’s successes in the May elections, and bragging about his prospects of becoming prime minister. But there is a saying about a week in politics – and it has been a long seven days for the party leader, who is now facing questions over a £5m gift and his extensive property portfolio. Continue reading...
Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick Here is a fervent, but repetitive fan-service documentary, perpetually re-using iconic “bad behaviour” clips, all about the tempestuous king of Manchester United (formerly and briefly the tempestuous king of Leeds United). Eric Cantona was the ...
Cannes film festival: This lively documentary about everyone’s favourite hot-headed footballer/unlikely Ken Loach star will give more than just fans a kick Here is a fervent, but repetitive fan-service documentary, perpetually re-using iconic “bad behaviour” clips, all about the tempestuous king of Manchester United (formerly and briefly the tempestuous king of Leeds United). Eric Cantona was the Frenchman who won the hearts of English football fans in the 90s for his stunning skills, filling the silverware cabinet to bursting having been picked up cheap by Man U having effectively flounced out of French football. He was mentored in those days by that kindly teddy-bear of a man, Sir Alex Ferguson, who is interviewed extensively here, along with David Beckham, Eric’s elderly parents Albert and Éléonore, and of course the gloweringly pugnacious man himself, appearing in what appears to be a deserted church and gnomically quoting Baudelaire. Continue reading...