At least 80 deaths have been reported in Congo’s new Ebola disease outbreak in the eastern Ituri province, authorities said, as health workers raced to intensify screening and contact tracing to contain the disease on Saturday. Officials first announced the outbreak on Friday, with 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases. In Ituri’s capital, Bunia, locals recounted their fears amid constant burials. “Every day, people are dying … and this has been going on for about a week. In a single day, we bury...

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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) at $235.74 screens attractively under $250. President Trump’s China visit and growing signals that potential Fed Chair candidate Kevin Warsh will take a dovish stance toward AI investment reframe the two biggest overhangs on this stock: export controls and rate policy. Nvidia sits at the center of the AI buildout. Data Center revenue ... Buy Nvidia Under $250 on Trump’s China Visit and Warsh’s Dovish AI Signals

Brookfield Corporation (NYSE: BN) reported its first-quarter results earlier this week . The global investment firm posted strong results across all its operations and continued to execute its strategy. As he does each quarter, Brookfield's CEO Bruce Flatt wrote a letter to shareholders. Here are three things investors need to know from that report. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading

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When considering Oklo and Uranium Energy this year, investors may do well to not fight the tape.

台北一間密室逃脫遊戲店的女員工懷疑扮吊死鬼時窒息，搶救五天後不治。有前員工指，以往亦曾出過意外，向公司反映但遭無視。 涉事的密室逃脫遊戲店位於台北市信義區，受害人家屬周五開記者會交代事情。案發於本月10日，一名29歲女員工飾演吊死鬼時，懷疑操作失誤，被繩索勒緊脖子窒息昏迷，送院搶救五天，家人在記者會後接到噩耗。 受害人家屬表示：「我妹剛剛走了，我們剛開完記者會，趕到醫院之後，看到我妹最後一眼，她走得很安詳。我爸媽基本上沒辦法講話，然後沒辦法睡覺，也沒辦法正常與大家溝通。」 另一名受害人家屬說：「它(業界)一直都是請這些年輕人、20多歲，騙他們甚麼都不懂，沒有給他們正確保障。作為負責人怎麼會不懂這個事情的嚴重性？」 當地媒體報道，有關角色要獨自進入密室長達一分鐘，上吊位置的台階沒有固定，如果員工滑落會被勒著，而且位置更是閉路電視死角位。有多位員工反映過有安全隱患，更有前員工指，自己兩年前差點在同一個崗位出意外，但公司無視。 涉事機構前員工稱：「當時候教我說，不要把繩子套在脖子上，而是套在面具前面，但其實這個事情是，它必須很迅速判斷，因為有時候套上去後，不自覺套在脖子上。」 台北地檢署依過失致死罪，約談古姓公司負責人、黃姓場地負責人。周五晚間，兩人各以新台幣30萬元、10萬元交保，均限制出境。 台北市政府表示，已依違反勞動及建築相關法規，罰業者共新台幣70萬元，即折合逾17萬港元。台北市長蔣萬安表示，已針對全市此類從業者啟動稽查，要求落實安全管理。

EY UK has paid more than £100 million ($133 million) to the administrators of NMC Health Plc to settle claims it was negligent in its audits of the failed firm, according to people familiar with the matter. NMC sued EY for more than £2 billion in the UK courts over the alleged negligence, but the two sides settled the case on confidential terms without admission of liability by EY, according to NMC’s latest administration report filed at UK Companies House. The filing shows settlement of legal claims of £105.5 million, which people familiar with the matter said was the amount of EY’s settlement. An EY spokesperson said the firm was no longer in a dispute with NMC but declined to comment further. A spokesperson for the administrators Alvarez & Marsal confirmed the claim against EY had settled, but said its terms are confidential. NMC collapsed in 2020 after a short seller’s report revealed the scale of the company’s troubles. The UK’s markets watchdog criticized the collapsed Middle Eastern hospital operator in 2023 for misleading investors about its debt position by as much as $4 billion. Lawyers for the formerly FTSE 100-listed firm claimed that EY failed to spot billions in debt at NMC when it audited the company between 2012 and 2018. EY in turn said its auditors had been duped by a sophisticated fraud. The administrators have ongoing legal claims in the UK against NMC’s founder Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty, its former Chief Executive Officer Prasanth Manghat and India’s Bank of Baroda over the collapse of the business. A “consensual stay” on those claims has been agreed pending the outcome of separate litigation taking place in Abu Dhabi, according to the administrators’ report, which is dated May 8. Unsecured creditors of the failed firm are set to get a payout, but the report said it could not be accurately estimated at this stage. Shareholders in the company aren’t expected to receive anything from the administration process. The administrators said that £47.9 m...

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MJ_Prototype/iStock via Getty Images The datacom market outlook was recently revised upwards by LightCounting, which J.P. Morgan analysts said proves positive for optical component suppliers, including Coherent ( COHR ), Fabrinet ( FN ), and Lumentum ( LITE ). "The datacom growth outlook remains robust, with the total market forecast once again revised upward and now expected to expand at nearly a +35% CAGR through 2028, led primarily by 1.6T and, to a slightly lesser extent, 800G data rates," said J.P. Morgan analysts, led by Samik Chatterjee, in an industry report. The growth percentage translates to the datacom market expanding from $19B in 2025 to $47B by 2028. "From a data rate perspective, growth over the forecast period is being driven by 1.6T, which is expected to expand at ~200% CAGR to $21 bn, followed by 800G, which is projected to grow at nearly +26% CAGR to $21 bn," Chatterjee noted. "Additionally, 3.2T is expected to contribute modestly in 2028E, while 400G and lower data rates are expected to decline over the forecast period." At the same time, the optical attach rate per XPU continues to increase. The blended attach rate is forecast to expand from less than four times in 2025 to four and a half times by 2027. "That said, attach rates can vary by architecture, according to industry experts, with Google's ( GOOG )( GOOGL ) use of optical circuit switches resulting in an attach rate closer to 1.5x per TPU, while Nvidia ( NVDA ) deployments track closer to 6.0x per GPU," Chatterjee said. In addition, the co-packaged optics total addressable market is projected to reach $2B by 2028 and surge to $11B by 2030. "However, the latest guidance from Lumentum is already driving us to forecast their CPO revenues to be ~$2 bn in CY28, implying overall CPO market TAM to be well ahead of the $2 bn level, which is currently being forecasted by the industry analysts for 2028," Chatterjee added. "We believe that estimates from industry analysts are conservative and are ...

Vivek Vishwakarma/iStock via Getty Images Wall Street moves pretty fast, often eschewing ‘slow and steady’ names while going in favor of higher valued growth names. But slow and steady can indeed win the race when you factor in valuation, dividends, and long-term compounding potential. Such I find the case with Alpine Income Property Trust ( PINE ), which I last covered back in December 2025, highlighting its near-perfect occupancy ratio and attractive valuation. PINE has since produced a 15% total return, which is double that of the 7.6% rise in the S&P 500 ( SPY ) over the same timeframe. Despite the impressive return, PINE remains attractively valued at $18.73 with a forward P/FFO below 9x and a +6% dividend yield, as shown below. PINE Stock 1-Yr Trend (Seeking Alpha) In this article, I revisit PINE, including recent business results , and discuss why it remains a great value and income pick, so let’s dig in! Why PINE? Alpine Income Property Trust is a net lease REIT that’s unique in that it’s externally managed by another REIT, CTO Realty Growth ( CTO ). The CTO owns 14% of PINE’s outstanding shares, which helps to ensure an alignment of interest between the CTO and PINE. At present, PINE owns 125 properties that are spread across 31 U.S. states. Like its bigger peers Realty Income ( O ) and Agree Realty ( ADC ), half of PINE’s ABR (annual base rent) stems from investment-grade rated tenants. It also has a comparable weighted average remaining lease term of 9.3 years. As shown below, top tenants include industry leading names like Lowe’s ( LOW ), DICK'S Sporting Goods ( DKS ), Walmart ( WMT ), Best Buy ( BBY ), and Dollar General ( DG ). Investor Presentation PINE continued to see solid growth during Q1 2026, with FFO per share rising by 20% YoY to $0.53. Occupancy remained near perfect at 99.5%. As a smaller REIT, PINE has the advantage in that it doesn’t take as much investment volume to move the needle as it would for a much larger one like NNN REIT ( NNN ). ...

Dunk, nibble or wolf them down: this classic biscuit is at its best when it’s just sugar, butter and flour, so be wary of those that stray from the rules • The best extra-chocolatey biscuits At its best and simplest, shortbread is made using a classic 1:2:3 ratio – one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour, by weight. Perhaps unsurprisingly, few supermarket shortbreads stick to that golden rule and include other ingredients such as cornflour and raising agents; they’re nothing to worry about – but some cut the butter (and costs) by using rapeseed oil, margarine or worse. Unlike most manufactured products, however, the price of shortbread doesn’t always reflect the level of processing, and some of the cheapest are also the least processed. Look out for “all-butter” on the label, to make sure the shortbread doesn’t include oil and has that classic, buttery taste. And don’t be fooled by fancy packaging. Continue reading...

The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US. “My culture is a very dominant culture,” he said on MSNBC . “It is imposing and it’s causing problems. If you don’t do something about it, you’re going to have taco trucks on every corner.” A decade later, I regret to inform you there is not a taco truck on every corner. But I am here to issue my own ominous warning about the takeover of America: not by immigrant culture but by AI culture. To echo Gutiérrez: it is imposing and it’s causing problems. And if we don’t do something about it, we’re going to have datacenters on every corner. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

What does defending press freedom mean in practice? We asked people across the Guardian to tell us something they have done to protect it this past year. The range of responses will likely surprise you Support independent journalism today It sounds like a fundamental principle. A tenet. But, in reality, press freedom is more of a practical and relentless daily struggle. I’ve been asking colleagues from across the Guardian to tell me about one of the things they have done to protect press freedom this past year – from our international correspondents and investigative reporters to our visual journalists and commercial and technology departments. Continue reading...

Once Upon a Time in Harlem, completed by relatives of William Greaves after his death, showcased at Cannes In 1969, the pioneering documentarian William Greaves wrote of his fury over the racially degrading stereotypes that white film producers threw up on American screens. “It became clear to me that unless we black people began to produce information for screen and television there would always be a distortion of the ‘black image,’” he said. Three years later, Greaves began work on what he considered the most important footage he ever shot: a feature documentary gathering surviving figures of the Harlem Renaissance to reflect on the movement they had built half a century earlier. Continue reading...

With Punta Marina residents loving or loathing the incomers, ‘peacock rangers’ have been appointed to defuse tensions Federico Bruni was sitting on a bench, eating a piadina romagnola (flatbread sandwich) and minding his own business, when a peacock strutted up in the hope of a few crumbs. High-pitched squeals emanated from the direction of a disused military barracks across the road. “That would be the call to love,” Bruni said. “The male peacocks are courting the female ones – we’re in peak mating season.” As another couple of peacocks wandered by, their iridescent trains sweeping the pavement behind them, this could be mistaken for a wildlife park. But the scene is Punta Marina, a seaside town on the Adriatic coast of Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region that has been colonised by the birds, to the delight – or despair – of its approximately 1,000 residents. Continue reading...

Global envoys and experts are doubling down on mediation as a preferred way to resolve regional conflicts amid stalled US-Iran peace talks and China’s appeal for more countries to join its new mediation body. According to Cui Jianchun, commissioner of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong, mediation ensures “to the greatest extent” the autonomy of disputing parties and its “unique charm” is the high respect given to the will of the parties. Cui made the remarks at a summit in Hong...

《紐約時報》報道，隨著美國總統特朗普結束對中國的訪問回國，他正面臨一個重大抉擇：是否恢復對伊朗的軍事打擊。據其高級幕僚透露，由於與伊朗的和平談判陷入停滯，作戰計劃已經擬定，只待總統下令。 特朗普周五離開北京後，於空軍一號上向記者重申，伊朗的最新和平提議不可接受，指「我看過了，如果第一句就不合我意，我就直接扔掉。」特朗普透露，訪華期間曾與國家主席習近平討論伊朗問題，但強調自己並未要求習近平向伊朗施壓。 兩名中東官員透露，美國和以色列正進行自停火生效以來，最大規模的密集準備，最快可能於下周恢復對伊朗的攻擊行動。 美國官員表示，如果特朗普決定恢復軍事打擊，選項包括對伊朗軍事及基建目標進行更進取的轟炸，或派遣特種作戰部隊深入地下，追剿核材料。今年3月，數百名特種作戰人員已抵達中東部署，正是為總統提供這一選擇。然而，軍方官員承認，地面行動風險極高，可能造成傷亡，且需要數千名支援部隊協同，後者恐與伊朗部隊交戰。 五角大樓正計劃應對「史詩狂怒」行動可能在未來數日內恢復的可能性。國防部長赫格塞斯本周在國會作證時表示：「如有必要，我們有升級計劃。」同時也有撤軍方案，將目前增派至中東的超過五萬名美軍調回常規部署。 目前約有5,000名海軍陸戰隊員及約2,000名陸軍第82空降師傘兵在區內候命。軍方官員表示，這些部隊可用於嘗試奪取伊朗伊斯法罕核設施的核材料，包括保護執行任務的特種部隊。此外，他們也可能被用於攻佔伊朗石油出口樞紐哈格島，但官員指出，要守住該島需要更多地面部隊。 然而，軍方私下承認取勝難度極高。美國情報機構指出，伊朗已重新掌控大部分導彈發射場、發射器及地下設施。伊朗在霍爾木茲海峽沿線維護的33個導彈基地中，已有30個恢復作戰狀態，足以威脅穿越該狹窄水道的美軍戰艦及油輪。

In this article FOX GOOGL WBD NFLX Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dwyane Wade, left, and Jesse Riedel speak onstage during the YouTube Brandcast event at Lincoln Center in New York, May 13, 2026. Mike Coppola | Getty Images Among the live sports and entertainment shows that carried media companies' presentations to advertisers this week, another pitch kept popping up: creator content. The category of videos, which can amass millions of views on Google's YouTube and other social media platforms, is increasingly sharing the stage with traditional Hollywood offerings during the annual presentations known as "upfronts." Creator content is already taking a big share of advertiser dollars. In 2025, advertiser spending on the genre reached $37 billion, according to a recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau . This year, it's expected to reach $44 billion, the report found. "They are this generation's storytellers, tastemakers and stars, producing the most relevant and engaging programming on the planet," said Brian Albert, managing director of YouTube Solutions. "And advertisers have recognized that they don't just have large audiences, they have communities that trust them. It's why they want to partner with them now, more so than ever." The shift to streaming over traditional TV has led sports, especially the NFL , as well as live events to beckon the highest ad rates — especially when media companies are paying hefty premiums for the live rights. With streaming, however, advertisers get more bang for their buck , industry executives have told CNBC. That's true whether it's a simulcast sporting event on streaming platforms or the exclusive rights to video podcasts or children's programs like "Ms. Rachel." Those economics — combined with the need to capture elusive, younger audiences — are spurring demand for ad-supported inventory, and opening the door to more creator-led content on traditional platforms. YouTube claims the biggest share of ...

watch now VIDEO 3:07 03:07 Why Spirit Airline jets are headed to the deserts of Arizona Airlines When Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on May 2, work for pilot Steve Giordano was just beginning. Giordano, managing partner of the Nomadic Aviation Group, told CNBC he organized a massive repossession of more than 20 Spirit planes that lessors wanted returned . In just over a week, he said he and his team ferried 23 Spirit planes from airports around the country to the Arizona desert. Just hours earlier , those bright yellow Airbus jets had been flying Spirit customers. Giordano, who runs Nomadic with co-founder Bob Allen, was starting to hear in the late morning on May 1 that his team would be at work soon. "We finally got the trigger pulled to start moving crews at 6 p.m." on May 1, he said. Spirit shut down at 3 a.m. ET the next morning. So Nomadic and hired pilots — some of whom were previously flying for Spirit — began ferrying the aircraft out West with no customers on board to special airports outside of Phoenix and Tuscon, Arizona, where they'll be stored for now. Retired or otherwise unused aircraft are often parked out in the desert because the climate reduces the risk of corrosion or other damage. Airlines parked thousands of them there when travel collapsed in the Covid pandemic. Repossessing aircraft A retired Spirit Airlines Airbus plane in Coolidge, Arizona, in February 2023. Leslie Josephs/CNBC Nomadic organizes everything from getting fuel for the planes it's flying to ensuring the aircraft have necessary inspections and crews for the flights. Unlike with an airline that has a large staff of dispatchers, mechanics and pilots, "when you're out on a mission like this, there's a lot more responsibility as far as getting the mission accomplished," Giordano told CNBC. "To be honest, the easy part of this is the flying part of it." Nomadic is a specialist in aviation. The company typically transports aircraft to new customers around the world. Rarely, th...

Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know, but even more things you need to think about. I’m David Westin , and this week Ray Dalio took us through US-China relations as the presidents met in Beijing, and we took score of the penthouse tax war between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Ken Griffin. If you’re not yet a subscriber, sign up here for this newsletter. Dalio: “Entering a tribute system” President Donald Trump took a trip to Beijing this week, just as Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio has done many times over the past several decades. Having paid another visit just shortly before the summit, Dalio says that from the Chinese perspective, “they think the United States is declining and that they are sort of winning that relative war.” That perception of relative strength is based in large part on the economics: “China is making a ton of money through their export earnings and the amount of financial assets that they’ve accumulated and are accumulating is huge.” One important issue overhanging talks between the two countries is the US war in Iran, which caused Trump to delay his meetings with President Xi Jinping. Dalio says the war is affecting not only the US and China, but the way the rest of the world perceives the relative strengths of the two countries. Mamdani “Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the week trying to make his budget numbers work. He started out with a $12.6 billion budget gap for this fiscal year and next, something former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop (who now runs the Partnership for New City) recognizes as “a real problem.” Fulop said that “the problem is that you have a spending problem and less of a revenue problem.” But one of the candidates who ran for mayor against Mamdani, Wall Street veteran Whitney Tilson, says “making real budget cuts” will affect “the unions that were among his biggest supporters,” which puts the mayor “between a rock...

In this article CBRS BABA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andrew Feldman, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cerebras Systems Inc., center left, during the company's initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Thursday, May 14, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cerebras Systems ' raucous IPO this week gave investors a taste of what's to come in artificial intelligence. But it also served as a reminder of how hard it is for non-AI companies to capture Wall Street's attention. Shares of the AI chipmaker popped almost 70% in their market debut on Thursday, lifting the company's market cap to about $95 billion. Only two tech companies have ever closed their first day of trading in the U.S. with valuations of $100 billion or more: Alibaba and Facebook . Cerebras also holds the distinction of largest IPO of the year and the biggest offering for a U.S. tech company since Uber hit the market in 2019. While the excitement around Cerebras would seem to bode well for a tech IPO market that's been largely dormant for the past four-plus years, the problem for just about every company in the pipeline is that they're not named SpaceX, OpenAI or Anthropic. Those three companies — each valued near or above $1 trillion — are in some stage of IPO prep, with SpaceX expected to file its public prospectus as soon as next week and the other two eyeing debuts later this year. Their offerings will dwarf anything that's come before them and serve to further illustrate how small all the other multibillion-dollar pre-IPO companies are by comparison. "It's very hard to care about anything other than the $3 trillion potential IPOs that, in theory, are going to happen in the next year," Sam Lessin, a partner at Slow Ventures, told CNBC's "The Exchange" on Thursday. watch now VIDEO 4:13 04:13 SpaceX may become first true AI infrastructure megacap liquidity event: Plexo's Toney Closing Bell The market has been a challenge for emerging t...

jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Co-authored by Kody's Dividends How do you invest in the market? Perhaps you use one of the investment channels through a major bank like Bank of America ( BAC ), Chase ( JPM ), or Citibank ( C ), or perhaps you jump on a popular trading app like Robinhood ( HOOD ) or SoFi ( SOFI ) or use one of the more historically established brokerages like Fidelity or Schwab ( SCHW ). Regardless of how you access the market, you do it through an avenue provided to you by a company that finds a way to profit from your individual activity, whether that's holding on to your cash and providing you interest as a bank does at a discounted rate versus Treasury rates, whether that's benefiting from your trading activity as you move in and out of different holdings, or whether you pay for additional add-on services to the brokerage. Ironically, many investors fail to consider that perhaps they want to be the shareholders of the brokerage company they're using instead of simply being a client. Moving from just being a client to being a partial owner can be an extremely rewarding transition, but doing so requires you to carefully evaluate every aspect of the company you want to buy into. Buying companies just because you have a relationship with them without doing fundamental research on them can lead to disaster. This is why we provide regular access to the framework that we use to evaluate every single company to members of Dividend Kings . They're able to look into any company utilizing this framework and evaluate it effectively and quickly. Today, though, we will not be providing the framework we use but simply the evaluation of a specific company. Let's dive in. A Well-Oiled $12 Trillion Machine Charles Schwab Spring Business Update Presentation As of March 31, 2026, Charles Schwab ( SCHW ) had $11.8 trillion of total client assets across almost 40 million brokerage accounts and nearly $1.5 trillion in proprietary mutual funds and ETFs. ...

AscentXmedia/iStock via Getty Images The impacts from the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to accumulate across the global economy. This global chokepoint has now been largely unpassable for over two and a half months now. In addition, there is no concrete way forward yet to restore normalized traffic to this key transit point. The latest U.S. conflict in the Middle East has triggered a huge surge in energy and commodity prices. These impacts showed up in full force this week, in hotter than expected April CPI and PPI readings. These have boosted the probabilities of Stagflation and taken the possibility of any future Fed Funds reductions off the table for now. If inflation pressure continues to increase, the next move by central banks might well be an interest rate hike. Shiller PE Ratio (Multpl) Despite this, the markets continue to trade at extreme valuation levels and near all-time highs. The market and the economy are now being primarily driven by huge increases in tech spending connected to the massive AI buildout happening throughout the U.S. This activity accounted for roughly 70% of GDP growth in Q1. Zero Hedge There are mounting signs the markets are forming a top, and the next significant move in equities will be down. In today's column, I highlight five things that appear to be signaling a top in equity levels. #1 - Market Concentration LSEG, Topdown Charts This is one of the most obvious signs the market is beginning to top. Technology and tech related stocks now account for 57% of overall market capitalization. This is an unprecedented level and significantly above the peak of around 50% during the tail end of the Internet Boom. The top 10 stocks by market capitalization now account for just over 40% of the value in U.S. equities. Bloomberg, BofA, Global Financial Data - May 2026 #2 - Massive IPOs On Horizon Seasoned investors remember the huge surge of IPOs that debuted late in the Internet Boom. Over 400 companies went public in 199...

DNY59/iStock via Getty Images Purpose I look at the high frequency weekly indicators because while they can be very noisy, they provide a good nowcast of the economy, and will telegraph the maintenance or change in the economy well before monthly or quarterly data is available. They are also an excellent way to "mark your beliefs to market." In general, I go in order of long leading indicators, then short leading indicators, then coincident indicators. A Note on Methodology Data is presented in a "just the facts, ma'am" format with a minimum of commentary so that bias is minimized. Where relevant, I include 12-month highs and lows in the data in parentheses to the right. All data taken from St. Louis FRED unless otherwise linked. A few items (e.g., Financial Conditions indexes, regional Fed indexes, stock prices, the yield curve) have their own metrics based on long-term studies of their behavior. Where data is seasonally adjusted, generally it is scored positively if it is within the top 1/3 of that range, negative in the bottom 1/3, and neutral in between. Where it is not seasonally adjusted, and there are seasonal issues, waiting for the YoY change to change sign will lag the turning point. Thus I make use of a convention: data is scored neutral if it is less than 1/2 as positive/negative as at its 12-month extreme. With long leading indicators, which by definition turn at least 12 months before a turning point in the economy as a whole, there is an additional rule: data is automatically negative if, during an expansion, it has not made a new peak in the past year, with the sole exception that it is scored neutral if it is moving in the right direction and is close to making a new high. For all series where a graph is available, I have provided a link to where the relevant graph can be found. Recap of Monthly Reports April data included an increase in industrial production. Nominally retail sales rose as well, although in real terms they declined. Existing home s...

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Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most expensive tech purchases you’ll make, and it’s something you’ll use and live with nearly every day for years to come. So there’s a lot riding on this pricey expense. I’ve tested all kinds of laptops, from cheap Windows computers and Chromebooks to bread-and-butter MacBooks and over-the-top gaming machines. These are the ones I recommend the most and why I think they might be a good fit for you. Though the MacBook Air is still the easy recommendation for most people, that doesn’t make it the go-to answer for everyone . What if you need more power for video or photo editing, or for crunching large datasets? What if you prefer to run Windows? What if you play lots of games and want to take them with you? Or what if you want something that’s super repairable, or something that’s unusual? We’ve got some recommendations, including a Chromebook or two, a laptop with two screens, the 16-inch MacBook Pro , and the Microsoft Surface Laptop with a Snapdragon X Elite chip. The best answer for most people Apple MacBook Air 15 (2026, M5) Score: 9 Pros Cons A little more speed never hurts Starts with more storage that’s twice as fast Still one of the best laptops around Great battery life and speakers Starting price is $100 more than M4 generation (though you get more storage for it) The MacBook Neo now exists and costs less than half Where to Buy: $1299 $1149 at Amazon $1299 at Apple $1299 at Best Buy CPU: M5 (10-core) / GPU: M5 (8- or 10-core) / RAM: 16GB, 24GB, 32GB / Storage: 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB / Display: 13.6-inch or 15.3-inch Liquid Retina display, 2560 x 1664 or 2880 x 1864 , 60Hz, no touch option / Dimensions: 11.97 x 8.46 x 0.44 inches (13-inch) or 13.40 x 9.35 x 0.45 inches (15-inch) / Weight: 2.7 pounds (13-inch) or 3.3 pounds (15-inch) Just get the latest MacBook Air . It’s been a little same-y for a few years, but it’s still the best for a reason. Every part of it is go...

Playing Mixtape is like playing a video game version of a high school movie. Kids banter about the meaning of life and the theme songs that would play when they walk in a room. They're worried about looking cool at a big party. They're obsessed with finding booze. But under all of those tropes is a meaningful story about nostalgia, friendship, and teenage angst - and it's all backed by a great soundtrack packed with classic hits. Mixtape takes place over the course of a summer day. You play as Stacey Rockford, a music obsessive and recent high school graduate. Rockford is leaving her sleepy California suburb for New York City the next morn … Read the full story at The Verge.