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Apple surpassed Nvidia in market value on Friday to reclaim its spot as the world’s most valuable company.Shares of Nvidia dropped more than 3% and its market value dipped to $4.84 trillion in early morning trading. Apple last traded at a $4.88 trillion market value.The two companies have had very different fortunes in 2026. The iPhone maker has surged 22% this year, outperforming the market as investors reward its AI agenda and capital spending model. Shares also hit fresh highs this week. Meanwhile, the leading AI chipmaker, has gained just 7% and largely sat on sidelines as Wall Street pivots…
The MP for Makerfield cemented his status as the sole leadership candidate after being backed by 379 Labour MPs, as well as all 11 trade unions affiliated to the party, earlier this week.Having run twice before to become Labour leader, his successful bid this time round marks a rapid rise to power following the former Greater Manchester mayor’s by-election win in Makerfield last month.In his first speech as Labour leader at the TUC headquarters in central London, Burnham rejected the “neoliberal” policies of the past 40 years, including when he was in government, and vowed to reindustrialise the country. Promising…
Robert Nicholas | Ojo Images | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.A new estimate for the great wealth transfer has sparked a debate over how many trillions of dollars will pass from baby boomers to their heirs, and how it will be spent and invested.Last week, Visa Business and Economic Insights released a new projection for the great wealth transfer, estimating that $36 trillion in baby boomer wealth will be passed down to…
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These approaches are still the subject of ongoing development, so the report has two recommendations: researchers should be very transparent about the uncertainties in what they’re doing, and they should develop tools to make these analyses useful for disaster preparedness. Knowing that a new weather extreme is possible is far less useful than knowing what aspects of the extreme pose the highest risks. Normal science Beyond the specifics of the report, the biggest takeaway is that this is normal science. Researchers have done a lot of work to explore one scientific question, and other researchers are taking the resulting knowledge…
The BBC’s chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman explains what Andy Burnham intends to do as the new leader of the Labour party. Source link
American hawks are wrong that Europe, including Britain, isn’t trying to raise defence spending as a percentage of output. There’s hardly a region in the world doing more to lower its GDP.I’ve written before about how focusing on ratios leads to muddled thinking. This is especially true when numerators and denominators have nothing to do with each other — guns and growth, say.Even when they are not independent, as is often the case in finance, it is still wise to unpack a ratio to see what is driving it up or down. It may be moving in the right direction…
A Taco Bell logo is displayed outside their restaurant on Feb. 28, 2025 in San Diego, California.Kevin Carter | Getty ImagesFederal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served by Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of the widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Thursday confirmed the source and warned consumers not to eat shredded iceberg lettuce from Yum Brands’ Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.A Food and Drug Administration investigation identified a single supplier of the lettuce. The federal warnings to consumers did not…
By Samuel Indyk and Rae Wee LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) – A prolonged selloff for chipmakers continued to ripple through global stock markets on Friday, triggering losses in Asia and Europe and setting up steep falls in the United States as investors abruptly reassessed the durability of the artificial-intelligence-driven rally. Renewed military strikes in the Middle East were also weighing on risk sentiment, keeping oil prices elevated and reigniting concerns about inflation and growth. In Europe, the fell 0.5%, with major bourses in Paris, Frankfurt and London all trading lower. In the U.S., slumped 1.7% while fell 0.8%. Losses were starker…
The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language model-generated code anywhere near their projects. When it comes to the Linux kernel, though, creator and top-level maintainer Linus Torvalds said he is “willing to absolutely put my foot down” in support of using AI tools to improve the long-standing open source project. Writing in a lengthy post on the Linux kernel mailing list this week, Torvalds said that “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has…