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Investors rushed into the relative safety of bond markets on Monday morning as the stock market fell, causing yields to fall and mortgage rates to fall. The average interest rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 5.99% on Monday, the lowest level since 2022, according to Mortgage News Daily. At this time last year, the interest rate was 6.89%. The drop in yields was due to a combination of factors, including new uncertainty over tariffs, cooling inflation and economic weakness shown in Friday’s lackluster gross domestic product report. Interest rates briefly fell to the 5% range for a…

Oura on Tuesday unveiled its first proprietary AI model that enables its AI chatbot, Oura Advisor, to provide personalized insights into women’s health. The company says the model supports questions across the entire spectrum of reproductive health, from the beginning of the menstrual cycle through menopause. The new model will be rolled out in Oura Labs, the company’s opt-in experimentation feature hub within the Oura app. Oura said the new model is based on established medical standards, research and sources of knowledge reviewed by an in-house team of board-certified clinicians and women’s health experts. It also integrates biosignals and long-term…

Captain Brooke’s century leads England home in pursuit of No. 165, with Pakistan staring at the prospect of an exit.listen to this article | 3 minutesinformationPublished February 24, 2026February 24, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareEngland booked their place in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup with a spirited two-wicket victory in the Super Eights against Pakistan, who were inching closer to being eliminated from the tournament.On Tuesday at the Palekele International Cricket Stadium on the outskirts of Kandy in Sri Lanka, the team achieved a target of 165 runs in 19.1 overs, with captain Harry Brook…

GLP-1 drugs have changed the lives of Americans and people around the world in both expected and unexpected ways.GLP-1 drugs were originally used to help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood sugar levels, but over the past five years they have gained widespread popularity and notoriety as weight loss drugs. These drugs, which include brands such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegobee and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Zepbound, essentially work as appetite suppressants by mimicking gut hormones.Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks estimated in a Feb. 4 interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that approximately 20 million to 25 million patients worldwide…

Meta plans to potentially buy up to $100 billion worth of AMD chips, enough to power about 6 gigawatts of data center power needs, the companies announced Tuesday. As part of the multi-year agreement, AMD will issue performance-based warrants to Meta to acquire up to 160 million shares of AMD common stock (approximately 10% of the company’s stock) at a price of $0.01 per share, structured to vest based on certain milestones. According to the Wall Street Journal, the all-stock grant is contingent on AMD’s stock price, and Meta needs to reach $600 to get the final tranche. AMD stock…

Anthropic’s logo is displayed on stage during the company’s Builders Summit on Monday, February 16, 2026 in Bangalore, India. Photographer: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAnthropic on Monday accused three Chinese AI companies of engaging in a coordinated campaign to extract information from its models, becoming the latest US tech company to level such allegations after OpenAI made similar accusations.According to a statement from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax (the three companies in question), they jointly launched a “distillation attack” campaign in which Claude was bombarded with prompts created specifically to train their own models.Smaller…

Team USA hockey players hold emotional celebration with Johnny Gaudreau’s children after 2026 OlympicsJack Hughes made history at the 2026 Olympics, but he didn’t need teeth to do it. The U.S. hockey player who scored the winning goal against Canada said what went through his head the moment he had his tooth broken during a game on February 22nd. “My first thought was, ‘I’m going to call a penalty,'” Jack said at the U.S. men’s hockey gold medal press conference. “Actually, the first thing I thought was I looked on the ice and saw my teeth.” “I was like, ‘Here…

Alberto Case | Getty ImagesMore details from the Financial Advisor Handbook:Here’s a look at other cases impacting the financial advisor business.More than 12 million student loan borrowers are enrolled in IDR plans, according to higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz.Forgiven federal student loans can now be considered income by the IRS, potentially resulting in a large tax liability. The average loan balance for borrowers enrolled in IDR plans is about $57,000, Kantrowitz said. Kantrowitz estimates that for those in the 22% tax bracket, that exemption would result in a tax liability of more than $12,000. Low-income earners, those in the 12%…

The company announced Tuesday that its generative AI music tool ProducerAI will become part of Google Labs. Powered by The Chain Screening, the ProducerAI platform allows users to generate music by writing natural language requests (such as “Create a lo-fi beat”). It uses Google DeepMind’s Lyria 3 music generation model and can convert text and image input to audio output. Last week, Google announced that its Lyria 3 features would be coming to its flagship Gemini app, but ProducerAI will allow users to communicate with AI models more like “collaboration partners,” in the words of Elias Roman, senior director of…

Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang attends the 56th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026.Dennis Bariboos | ReutersThe year has gotten off to a tough start for technology investors. Seven of the $8 trillion tech companies have posted losses so far.The only exception is Nvidia. As of Monday’s close, the company’s stock is up 2.7% in 2026, while the Nasdaq is down more than 2.5%. microsoft, Amazon and tesla Both were double-digit decreases. Heading into NVIDIA’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, Wall Street has a pretty clear picture of where the company stands. That’s because…