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sandiskThe company’s stock soared 14% after the company missed Wall Street’s second-quarter earnings estimates as the artificial intelligence boom soared demand for its chips. The flash storage memory company reported earnings per share of $6.20 excluding items, beating the $3.62 per share expected by analysts surveyed by FactSet. Revenue was $3.03 billion, exceeding expectations of $2.69 billion. The stock had soared more than 20% premarket. SanDisk’s third-quarter outlook also exceeded analysts’ expectations. SanDisk had expected sales of $4.4 billion to $4.8 billion for the quarter. That blew out the $2.93 billion that FactSet had expected. The company expects third-quarter adjusted…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that Iran is ready to engage in “fair and impartial” nuclear negotiations with the United States, but will not be forced to do so, amid rising tensions between the two countries. “We will not accept dictation or imposition under any circumstances,” Araghçi said at a press conference during a visit to Istanbul with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. “Nevertheless, Iran stands ready to participate in a meaningful, logical and fair diplomatic process.” It is unclear when and what form potential talks will take place. Araghchi said no talks with the United States…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
American skier Lindsey Vonn suffered three accidents in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, which ultimately led to the race being cancelled.Published January 30, 2026January 30, 2026Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareLindsey Vonn crashed on the final downhill run before the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, sending her limping to hospital with weight on her left knee, raising questions about the 41-year-old’s successful return to skiing.Vonn, who was expected to be one of the Olympic stars, but whose status is currently uncertain, lost control on landing from a jump during a World Cup race held in difficult conditions with poor visibility on Friday, becoming…
City workers in the La Defense commercial district on Thursday, October 9, 2025 in Paris, France. Nathan Lane | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — European stock markets rose on Friday as international relations and corporate earnings remained in focus. Pan-European by 12:30 p.m. London (7:30 a.m. ET) Stocks 600 The index rose 0.75%, with most sectors and major stock exchanges in positive territory. It’s been a busy week for corporate earnings in Europe, with Friday set to be a rather quiet day on the earnings front until another tumultuous corporate report is released next week. Stock price of German sportswear…
Real Madrid were the team that qualified for the play-offs after a tough draw with Benfica in the UEFA Champions League.Real Madrid will have to face former manager Jose Mourinho again after drawing with Benfica in the UEFA Champions League play-off round, while reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain will face domestic rivals Monaco.In a dramatic finale to this year’s league campaign, Mourinho’s Benfica beat the Spanish giants 4-2 thanks to a last-minute header from the Portuguese club’s keeper Anatoly Trubin to book their place in the knockout stages.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listReal’s defeat cost them automatic qualification…
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer shake hands before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, January 29, 2026.Karl Cote | AFP | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Countries that shunned China over trade tensions with the United States are now sending their leaders to Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and are keen to strike business deals.At least five national leaders, including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, visited Mr. Xi in January alone. Uruguay President Yamandu Orsi is scheduled to visit next week, becoming…
Important pointsMicrosoft stock fell 10% on Thursday, its biggest single-day decline since 2020. The company’s stock was up 0.5% in premarket Friday. Thursday’s share price drop wiped $357 billion off the software giant’s market capitalization. Analysts attributed the move to slightly slower-than-expected growth in the company’s cloud computing business.Microsoft’s stock price fell 10% after the earnings report on Thursday, marking its biggest single-day decline since 2020, before failing to recover in pre-market trading on Friday. As of 6:44 a.m. ET, the stock is trading 0.55% higher than Thursday’s closing price. This is despite the company’s second-quarter profit beating analysts’ revenue…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Great Escapes is a series about how sometimes travel doesn’t go as planned — and what happens next. Peering out the Greyhound bus window, Diann Droste saw the snow coming down fast and thick. “I remember I was looking out the window and thinking, ‘I don’t know that this is good,’” Diann tells CNN Travel today. “I started to see cars in the ditches, and then I saw semis in the ditches. But I’m 16. And I don’t know what happens in a situation like that, so I just read my book.” It was January 1973. Diann was…
TOKYO, JAPAN – JANUARY 27: Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (center), Japan Ishin no Kai representative Hirofumi Yoshimura (left), and Japan Ishin no Kai co-chairman Fumitake Fujita (right) raise their hands during a campaign rally in the Akihabara area of Tokyo on January 27, 2026. The full-scale election campaign for the House of Representatives general election, which will be counted on February 8th, has begun today. (Photo provided by Tomohiro Osumi/Getty Images)Tomohiro Osumi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs Japan goes to the polls on February 8, voters are considering familiar concerns such as the cost of living, wages and…