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President Donald Trump’s overall — and economic — approval ratings plunged in the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey in what appears to be direct fallout from widespread dissatisfaction with the war with Iran, high gasoline prices and negative views of the economy.The survey of 1,000 people nationwide found that 40% approve of the president’s job performance, a 5-point drop from last quarter, and 58% disapprove, a 6-point increase. His net approval fell 10 points to -18, the lowest ever measured over the president’s two terms. The survey, which has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%, marked the sharpest drop…
Tesla’s $25 billion spending plan tests investor faith in unproven AI bets Source link
Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development framework to run Linux or macOS apps. The software maker said Tuesday evening that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, affects versions 10.0.0 through 10.0.6 of the Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection NuGet, a package that’s part of the framework. The critical flaw stems from a faulty verification of cryptographic signatures. It can be exploited to allow unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication payloads during the HMAC validation process, which is used to verify the integrity and…
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters next to a Doordash delivery worker outside the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, DC, April 13, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty ImagesOver the span of four days earlier this month, President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account about his proposed triumphal arch, ballroom construction, the Iran war, a UFC fight at the White House and Bruce Springsteen’s alleged plastic surgery.He also posted (and later deleted) an AI-generated photo of himself as Jesus, on the heels of a screed aimed at Pope Leo XIV, who Trump said…
LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault warned Thursday of “world catastrophe” if the conflict in the Middle East is not resolved.His comments came after the Iran war weighed on demand in the first three months of the year, halving the luxury giant’s sales growth.”The world is now in a pretty serious crisis in the Middle East,” the longtime CEO told shareholders at the company’s Annual General Meeting in Paris. “Either it’ll be a world catastrophe with very serious and very negative economic impact – in which case, who can say how 2026 will unfold – or it will be resolved more rapidly in…
An American Airlines flight lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., Nov. 7, 2025.Nathan Howard | ReutersAmerican Airlines on Thursday cut its 2026 earnings forecast, becoming the latest airline to lower its outlook after a surge in fuel costs added billions to its expenses this year.American said it could post an adjusted per-share loss of 40 cents up to earnings of $1.10 a share, lower than the earnings of $1.70 to $2.70 it forecast in January, though Wall Street analysts have been lowering their forecasts for the industry since the U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran this year.Here…
P&G’s under-pressure gross margin in focus as Iran war lifts costs Source link
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday offered investors a mental framework to make buying high-flying stocks easier to stomach. “In a hot market … you needed to have the discipline to pay up for great stocks to avoid missing out,'” the “Mad Money” host said. Cramer described a lesson from earlier in his career, when a trader he worked with would “divide stocks by 10” to reframe their prices and make it easier to commit to high-momentum names. Using Bloom Energy as an example, he noted that a $230 stock can be thought of as $23, making it psychologically easier to…
The three-year agreement will see at least 50 riot-trained police officers drafted in to tackle violence and “hostile crowds”. Source link
Anthropic is ramping up a push to secure European data center deals to power its AI models, as it looks to hire a role for negotiating compute capacity in the region.U.S. hyperscalers’ AI infrastructure expenditure is set to top $600 billion in 2026. Anthropic is looking to capitalize on the boom and has announced a slew of data center deals in the U.S. in recent weeks.While it’s yet to unveil any in Europe, that could be about to change. Anthropic is now recruiting for a principal to “drive the commercial sourcing and transaction execution process” for its European data center…