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This is the gist of today’s Morning Briefing. sign up Get the following in your inbox every morning:Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has repeatedly said for months (which honestly feel like years) that more “data” is needed.On Capitol Hill this week, he eyed a cooling labor market and agreed with the risks of waiting too long to cut interest rates. Wall Street took his comments as another optimistic sign that a rate cut was on the way. And now, with the encouraging inflation data on Thursday, clearly gleefully delivered at a birthday party, does the Fed finally have what it…
Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon recently introduced a motion to rename Pershing Square after Bridget “Biddy” Mason, who was freed from slavery in Los Angeles in the 1850s. His efforts to reinvent the long-suffering public space under renovation may be well-intentioned, but they are disturbing.For one thing, Biddy Mason Memorial Park, which opened in 1989, already honors her at her home at the intersection of Third and Spring Streets, a few blocks northeast of Pershing Square. Why didn’t de León honor more of the city’s pioneering African-Americans, without taking into account other respectable black Los Angeles settlers who…
1. President Joe Biden remained defiant towards his critics at a NATO press conference yesterday, saying it would be a bad look for the president-elect to present Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as Russia’s President Putin. 2. In a remarkable medical breakthrough, the Mayo Clinic this week announced the world’s first comprehensive Laryngeal transplant Treatment for patients with active cancer. Four months after surgery, 59-year-old Marty Kedian regained the ability to speak, swallow and breathe independently. 3. Air taxis in Wichita? The reality is closer than you think. Air taxi startup Joby Aviation completed a 523-mile test flight using hydrogen fuel.…
Image source, Getty ImagesArticle informationauthor, Jennifer McKiernanrole, Political reporterJuly 12, 2024Updated 1 hour agoThe justice minister is due to announce plans later to tackle overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales, following concerns that prisons could run out of space within weeks.Shabana Mahmood said urgent measures were needed to “bring the justice system back from the brink of total collapse.”The plans also include releasing some prisoners early, the BBC confirmed on Thursday.Prisoners serving “standard determinate” sentences are scheduled to be released after serving 40% of their sentences instead of 50%.In March, then-Attorney General Alex Chalk announced plans to release some…
Shelley Darby (right) and her daughter, Myra Darby, inside Be. Coffee Tea Wine on Thursday, July 11, 2024. Photo by Kerry Fox/Atlanta Voice Entrepreneurship: a universal word with countless recognitions. For Shelley Darby, being a successful entrepreneur means leaving an impactful legacy, being financially stable, and taking risks for the benefit of the entire community. Darby is the proud founder of Be. Coffee Tea Wine at the Atlanta University Center (AUC) and later opened a Kumon franchise, a math and reading learning center in South Fulton. While attending Spelman College, Darby majored in Biology with a pre-med track but later…
FY2024 Budget: The date for the presentation of the Union Budget 2024 has been fixed as July 23, 2024. This means that there are just six sessions left until the budget is announced and hence, intraday traders are expected to remain particularly cautious over the next week.According to stock market experts, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present a growth-oriented budget, which will see focus on infrastructure, banking, automobile and consumer durables sectors. With corporate earnings for Q1FY25 also underway, experts advised intraday traders to maintain a stock-specific approach with special focus on the above-mentioned sectors.Stock market tips…
FY2024 Budget: The date for the presentation of the Union Budget 2024 has been fixed as July 23, 2024. This means that there are just six sessions left until the budget is announced and hence, intraday traders are expected to remain particularly cautious over the next week. According to stock market experts, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is expected to present a growth-oriented budget, which will see focus on infrastructure, banking, automobile and consumer durables sectors. With corporate earnings for Q1FY25 also underway, experts advised intraday traders to maintain a stock-specific approach with special focus on the above-mentioned sectors. Stock…
In 2022, women will start more than 150,000 new companies in the UK, more than double the number in 2018. Despite this progress, female entrepreneurs are still largely invisible.I’ve been fortunate to achieve several milestones as a female entrepreneur. In 2015, I developed, built and launched Magic Candy Factory, the world’s first FDA and FSA compliant 3D food printer. More recently, in 2020, I raised a seed round for Rem3dy Health, which set a UK record for a female founder. Now, our personalised 3D printed nutritional supplement brand, Nourished, is sold worldwide and was recently awarded a King’s Award for…
Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC reduced its holdings in ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (NYSE:ASX – free report) by 26.2% during the first quarter, according to its latest filing with the SEC. The institutional investor sold 5,314 shares during the period to hold 14,977 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock. Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC’s holdings in ASE Technology were worth $165,000 at the end of the latest reporting period. Other institutional investors and hedge funds also modified their holdings of the stock. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. increased its holdings of ASE Technology shares by 35.1% in the fourth quarter.…
It is important to strengthen and consolidate the process of innovation and the emergence of new innovative companies. No city in the Dominican Republic has been ranked in the top 20 in Latin America in the 2024 Global Startup Ecosystem Index, a ranking that classifies countries with the right conditions for founding this type of technology company, and has never been ranked in the top 50 worldwide. The Dominican Republic is not among the top 10 countries with the best indicators in the region. The ranking assigns each ecosystem a score that is the sum of three subscores measuring quantity,…