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As tensions between the U.S. and Iran intensify, investors are wondering whether buying on the cusp of war will work. The old Wall Street adage, “Buy the cannon, sell the bugle,” suggests that traders may rush to buy stocks in response to war headlines, hoping for a rebound. But Deutsche Bank said the question this week is whether oil and gas prices could rise high enough to hurt growth and derail a trade recovery. “We have previously written that geopolitical events do not typically provoke a sustained market reaction,” Henry Allen, a London-based strategist at Deutsche Bank, said in a…
This proposal was an absolute ace. Tennis No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka is officially off the market for good after her boyfriend Georgios Franglis popped the question with a romantic and rose-filled proposal. The Brazilian entrepreneur got down on one knee for the Belarusian tennis star in front of a pool whose surface was covered with white rose petals. Overflowing bouquets of pink, green, and white flowers were placed around the pool, along with numerous white candles sparkling in the night sky. Alina captioned their joint Instagram post: “You and me forever. 3.3.26.” The 27-year-old, who wore black flip-flops, light-wash jeans,…
Leslie Edelman has run Tiny Doll House, a miniature figure shop in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood, for 35 years. Eighteen months ago, he says, new customers started coming into the store on a regular basis.In addition to Edelman’s regular customers (parents, grandparents, collectors), groups of 20-somethings now flock to the store on Saturday afternoons. They giggle among themselves, text furiously, and buy little Labbu keychains, Pez dispensers, and imitation Eames chairs. “I’ve seen you on TikTok,” some people say to Edelman.”There’s so much to photograph,” says Edelman, 75, a lifelong New Yorker.Business owners like Edelman say they’re noticing…
John Davey hoped that the hospitality procurement company he founded and still runs, Buyer’s Edge Platform, would benefit from the AI wave. Looking around, the CEO wasn’t happy with his options. The answer was CollectivIQ, a Boston-based company founded on the Buyers Edge Platform. The company provides users with more accurate answers to their AI queries by simultaneously displaying responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and up to 10 other models. When new AI tools started hitting the market a few years ago, Davey told TechCrunch he was excited about the possibilities and encouraged his employees to…
People look at Xiaomi’s humanoid robot “CyberOne” at the 2023 World Robot Conference held at the Beijing E-Tron International Exhibition and Convention Center in Beijing, China, on August 18, 2023.Video Visual China Group | Getty Imagesxiaomi The company’s president told CNBC that the company has introduced humanoid robots on a trial basis at its electric vehicle production plant in an effort to improve factory productivity.The two humanoid robots can complete 90% of the work in three hours, Lu Weibing told CNBC in an interview at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. It is said that tasks such…
The war with Iran continues to cause aviation disruption in the Middle East and elsewhere, with some of the world’s busiest airports struggling to cope with the fallout of airspace closures, with a limited number of flights currently departing from the region. The United States is advising its citizens to leave the area immediately. The Trump administration said it was working to secure military aircraft and charter flights to help thousands of Americans trapped in the Middle East. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Tuesday that more than 1,500 Americans have asked the State Department for assistance leaving the…
U.S. natural gas exporters are poised to benefit from significant disruptions to global supplies due to the escalation of war in the Middle East. Qatar halted production of liquefied natural gas on Monday after Iran attacked two major facilities in retaliation for a massive airstrike by the United States and Israel that killed the Islamic Republic’s head of state Ayatollah Khamenei. The closure leaves a huge gap. Qatar is the world’s second-largest LNG exporter after the United States, accounting for about 20% of global supply, according to energy consulting firm Kpler. “Global LNG supplies are shrinking rapidly,” said Alex Manton,…
Elon Musk watches as President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025.Brendan Smialowski AFP | Getty ImagesSince acquiring Twitter for about $44 billion in late 2022, Elon Musk has changed the company’s name to X, integrated the social media platform with artificial intelligence startup xAI, and then merged that company with defense contractor SpaceX. Musk’s next big step may be to take SpaceX public, perhaps in a record IPO. But before that, he needs to look back on his past. Musk is scheduled to…
He is a rejected monkey and the internet’s adopted baby animal. However, while you can’t take the punch home, you can curl up with your buddies if you have it in stock. Punch, a 7-month-old monkey at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo, is making headlines after forming a heartbreaking relationship with a stuffed orangutan given to him as a mother by the caretakers who raised him by hand. “Punch” baby monkey and mom stuffed animal Abandoned at birth at Japan’s Ichikawa Zoo, the six-month-old monkey has found solace in a stuffed orangutan that has won thousands of hearts online. “Punch” baby…
Clay Gravesand and AD Smith: BreakupMr. Clay expressed hesitation about marriage because of his own thoughts about his father’s infidelity, but Mr. AD reassured him that they would do well as a couple and that everything seemed to be going well between them. However, when faced with the challenge of saying yes for good in front of the altar, Clay said he would not do so, telling AD that it is not a “responsibility” to get married when you are not ready. Shock. “I’m going to work for you,” he told AD, “and we’re going to get through this together.…