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Gen Z Is Moving Investment Money Into Sports Betting: The Warning Sign Behind America’s New Money Habits
Gen Z Is Moving Investment Money Into Sports Betting: The Warning Sign Behind America’s New Money Habits A new Betterment survey is highlighting a striking shift in how some young U.S. investors think about money: sports betting is increasingly competing with traditional investing for their attention — and, for some, even their investment dollars. The...
Business
SpaceX Just Broke Another Launch Record: Two Falcon 9 Rockets Took Off Minutes Apart
SpaceX Just Broke Another Launch Record: Two Falcon 9 Rockets Took Off Minutes Apart SpaceX has delivered another striking demonstration of its rapid-launch capability, sending two Falcon 9 missions into orbit in the same evening with only about 38 minutes separating the liftoffs. The back-to-back launches involved the USSF-366 mission from California and the Globalstar...
News
CBS News’ Matt Gutman Named in Harassment Lawsuit: What the Former ABC Producer Alleged
CBS News’ Matt Gutman Named in Harassment Lawsuit: What the Former ABC Producer Alleged CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman has been named in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by former ABC News field producer Samira Said, who alleges that inappropriate and sexualized workplace comments contributed to a hostile working environment during her time at ABC...
Global
NATO Jet Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia: Baltic Airspace Tension Rises as Russia Threat Concerns Grow
NATO Jet Shoots Down Drone Over Latvia: Baltic Airspace Tension Rises as Russia Threat Concerns Grow A NATO fighter jet has shot down a drone after it entered Latvian airspace, putting fresh attention on the vulnerability of NATO’s eastern flank and the increasingly difficult problem of identifying and intercepting unmanned aircraft near the Russia-Ukraine war....
Global
Raju Pan Bhandaar Is Turning a Simple Pan Shop Into an Internet Hangout — The New Live Chat Trend Explained
Raju Pan Bhandaar Is Turning a Simple Pan Shop Into an Internet Hangout — The New Live Chat Trend Explained What started as a nostalgic 90s-style pan-shop concept is becoming something much bigger online. Raju Pan Bhandaar is experimenting with a format that feels less like a conventional website and more like a digital roadside...
Economy
Trump Accounts Get a Major Paycheck Boost: Parents Could Invest Pre-Tax Money as Employers Join In
Trump Accounts Get a Major Paycheck Boost: Parents Could Invest Pre-Tax Money as Employers Join In Trump Accounts are moving into a new phase that could make them much more relevant to working families. New Treasury and IRS guidance says employers can contribute to Trump Accounts for employees or their dependents, while certain payroll arrangements...
Business
Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Bet Is Rewriting Wall Street’s Risk Map — Here’s What Investors Need to Watch
Nvidia’s $500 Billion AI Bet Is Rewriting Wall Street’s Risk Map — Here’s What Investors Need to Watch Nvidia is no longer simply selling the chips powering the artificial-intelligence boom. It is helping create a financing system designed to fund the enormous infrastructure required to keep that boom running. That shift is behind one of...
Business
AI Leverage Warning: The Same Big Tech Stocks Are Powering a Growing Market of Leveraged ETFs
AI Leverage Warning: The Same Big Tech Stocks Are Powering a Growing Market of Leveraged ETFs AI stocks have become more than a dominant force in the equity market—they are increasingly sitting underneath leveraged exchange-traded products that can magnify daily gains and losses. That concentration is creating a new source of market sensitivity: when the...
Commodities
U.S.-Iran Deal Could Be Closer Than Trump’s Rhetoric Suggests: Pakistan Says Hormuz Talks Near Breakthrough
U.S.-Iran Deal Could Be Closer Than Trump’s Rhetoric Suggests: Pakistan Says Hormuz Talks Near Breakthrough Pakistan says the United States and Iran may be closer to an agreement than President Donald Trump’s latest hard-line statements suggest, raising fresh hopes that a diplomatic path could eventually reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease pressure on global...