Author: admin
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Oracle — The software giant fell more than 5%, leading a reversal in tech stocks, after The Information reported its margins on its cloud business are weaker than analysts currently estimate and that it is losing money on some of its Nvidia chip deals. Figma — The design software vendor jumped about 7%, adding to its 7% gain in the prior session . On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced Figma’s integration into ChatGPT, which will allow ChatGPT users to have Figma run tasks from within their conversations. Dell Technologies —…
Inter Miami CF are in advanced talks with defender Sergio Reguilón for a possible contract ahead of the 2026 MLS season, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.The left back would come in to replace Jordi Alba, who announced his retirement from football at the end of the year after two years with Inter Miami. Though Alba initially signed a contract extension with Inter Miami through the 2027 season, he decided to rescind the deal and retire instead.Reguilón would join the team in January during the winter transfer window.Sergio Reguilón played on loan for Manchester United from Tottenham. Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty ImagesEditor’s…
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A prosecutor told a jury Tuesday that three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of “sheer, unimaginable brutality.”Mathew Galliher, Nicholas Kieffer and David Kingsley are charged with murder and first-degree manslaughter in the death of Robert Brooks, whose beating by guards at the Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9 was captured in part on body-camera footage. The trio were among 10 corrections officers indicted in February on murder charges or for lesser crimes. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick told…
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’ s 92-year-old President Paul Biya held his first campaign rally Tuesday in the country’s restive Far North region, as the world’s oldest head of state seeks to extend his 43-year rule in the Oct. 12 presidential election.Addressing a crowd of supporters at a stadium in the town of Maroua, Biya promised to step up security in the region plagued by extremist attacks, curb youth unemployment and improve road infrastructure and social amenities if he is elected for an eighth term. “I am well aware of the problems that concern you, I know the unfulfilled expectations…
Oracle stock slipped 3% on Tuesday after a report from The Information that raised questions about the company’s plans to buy billions of Nvidia chips to rent as a cloud provider to clients like OpenAI.Oracle had 14% gross margins on $900 million in sales in its Nvidia cloud business in the three months ending in August, according to the report, which cited internal documents. That’s significantly lower than Oracle’s overall gross margin of around 70%.The report said that Oracle’s recent transformation into one of the most important cloud and artificial intelligence companies may run into profitability challenges because of how…
The Palestinian movement Hamas has said on Tuesday that Israel has failed to achieve any of its objectives in its genocidal war on Gaza and that it was becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage due to the abuses it was carrying out in the besieged enclave. Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum said in a televised speech that despite laying waste to much of the enclave, Israel had failed in its attempts to expel Palestinians to other countries and that Israel’s repeated attacks across the wider Middle East had exposed itself as a threat to the region. “[The ongoing genocide] has…
Many job seekers can attest that now is a challenging time to be looking for a new role.Hiring is down in many industries, and mass layoffs in some sectors mean more workers are competing for the already-limited open positions.But some roles are still hot right now. A report published Wednesday by Monster identified the top 10 job titles posted by employers on the jobs platform in the third quarter. The list indicates some of the hottest sectors right now are health care, logistics, customer service and sales. Here’s the list:Registered nursePhysical therapistTruck driverSales representativeRadiology technician/technologistSpeech language pathologistDelivery driverRespiratory therapistOccupational therapistCustomer…
UN Commissioner Navi Pillay has criticised US President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan for its exclusion of Palestinians from transitional governance, and said a ceasefire proposal does not alter the UN’s finding that Israel is responsible for genocide. Last week, Trump unveiled the controversial “peace” plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which gives general precedence to Israel’s framing of the situation in Gaza and Israel’s stated security concerns. The plan, which has been widely criticised as “colonial thinking”, proposes that Trump will serve alongside former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on a transitional committee that will oversee the strip. In a…
September, a key month for shipping ahead of the holiday season, is usually a boom one inside the freight business and supply chain, with products moving from warehouses to stores or consumers.Not this year.The latest Logistics Managers’ Index, which tracks inventory levels, warehouse costs, transportation capacity, and pricing, shows the lowest reading it has ever recorded for transportation utilization in the month of September.The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers, a professor in the supply chain management department at Arizona State University and one of the authors of the…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday aimed at combating antisemitism in schools.The California Legislative Jewish Caucus said the law will help respond to alarming harassment against Jewish students. But critics, including educators and pro-Palestinian advocates, said it could inadvertently obstruct instruction on complex issues in the classroom. “California is taking action to confront hate in all its forms. At a time when antisemitism and bigotry are rising nationwide and globally, these laws make clear: our schools must be places of learning, not hate,” Newsom said in a statement.The law creates an Office of Civil…