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Investing.com – Netherlands stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher. At the close in Amsterdam, the rose 1.70%. The best performers of the session on the were Magnum Ice Cream Nv (AS:), which rose 11.45% or 1.28 points to trade at 12.44 at the close. Meanwhile, ING Groep NV (AS:) added 3.66% or 0.88 points to end at 24.76 and CVC Capital Partners PLC (AS:) was up 3.52% or 0.44 points to 12.95 in late trade. The worst performers of the session were Universal Music Group NV (AS:), which…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook holds up a new iPhone 17 Pro during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, Sept. 9, 2025.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesApple reports fiscal second-quarter earnings on Thursday, its first time facing Wall Street since the announcement last week that Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO after 15 years on the job. Here’s what investors are expecting, according to LSEG consensus estimates.EPS: $1.95Revenue: $109.7 billion Wall Street is also looking at these key areas: iPhone revenue: $56.7 billion expected, according to StreetAccount Mac revenue: $8.16 billion expected, according to StreetAccountiPad revenue: $6.71…

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Courtroom sketches of Cole Tomas Allen.Courtesy: Dana VerkouterenCole Tomas Allen on Thursday waived his right to challenge his detention in jail — for now — on charges of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last Saturday night.Allen’s waiver was a reversal of the defense team’s intention to challenge his detention, which was announced in a court filing on Wednesday night.”He’s conceding detention at this time,” Allen’s lawyer, Tezira Abe, told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, during a hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. Abe told Upadhyaya that she and…

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The headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland, Nov. 4, 2009.Jason Reed | ReutersThe ⁠Food and Drug ⁠Administration on Thursday proposed ​excluding the active ingredients in Novo Nordisk ‌and Eli Lilly’s blockbuster obesity and diabetes medications from the ⁠list ⁠of drugs that outsourcing facilities can use for ​compounding in bulk. If that proposal is finalized, the exclusion would likely limit the mass compounding — or the making of custom, often cheaper alternatives — of those medicines ​unless they appear on the FDA’s ⁠drug shortage ⁠list. The agency said it will consider public comments, which can…

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Kalshi, Polymarket’s major rival, has heavily promoted its own efforts, including a partnership with market surveillance company Solidus Labs, as it seeks to distance itself from Polymarket and emphasize its credentials as the largest regulated platform in the US. Kalshi bans what it calls “violent markets, including war and kidnapping”—although it does allow markets on the closure of the Strait of Hormuz—saying that markets should “not incentivize harm,” while it also requires proof of identity. In contrast, Polymarket does not require most users of its international site to provide proof of identity and allows payment using anonymous cryptocurrency channels. Growing…

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Two years after our first report on the topic, we return to cyber security. The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence is changing the landscape, raising the threat level. AI has not only enabled more attacks, it has provided tools to devise new ways to attack. Such incursions can be more severe. As the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 from the World Economic Forum says: AI means there are additional vectors for more potent attacks. A prime example of the effect of AI on cyber security is Anthropic’s decision in April not to publicly release its Claude Mythos large language model which, in…

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023.Nathan Howard | Getty ImagesAlphabet’s stock surged more than 5% on Thursday, while Meta shares plunged 10%, as investors digested first-quarter earnings results, which included plans to up the ante on artificial intelligence spending.It is pacing to be Meta’s worst day since October 2025 and Alphabet’s best day since November 2025.The diverging stock moves show that Wall Street isn’t guaranteed to applaud every tech company’s AI spending spree. “The market was less united on what…

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Investing.com — The “Sell in May and go away” adage is back in season, but Deutsche Bank says investors should not put much stock in it. In the fourth edition of its Myth Buster series on the phenomenon, analyst Maximilian Uleer examined multiple versions of the strategy across indices, including the S&P 500, STOXX 600, and , testing different entry and exit points.  Selling at the end of May and reinvesting at the end of September consistently delivered the strongest results in simulations. On the surface, the strategy shows appeal. Applied to the since 1987, it produced 9.0% annualized returns versus…

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