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2025-06-29

Warren Buffett Gives $6 Billion in Berkshire Stock to 5 Foundations

The billionaire said his remaining A shares, which account for 99 percent of his wealth, are worth about $145 billion.

2025-06-29

Venerable Holdings Expands with Landmark Corebridge Financial Deal

WEST CHESTER, PA — Venerable Holdings, Inc. has announced a major transaction with Corebridge Financial, Inc., set to significantly expand its variable annuity reinsurance business and elevate its assets under ...

2025-06-29

Blue Streaks Horse Racing partnership accused of owing money

In November, Blue Streak Racing owner Tim McCoy ceased the partnership he created seven years earlier. Now, some who were involved are saying they are owed money.

2025-06-28

Coca-Cola and Walt Disney have a gift for Star Wars fans

The Mouse House and the Coke company have a new deal that has a special tie to Disney World and Disneyland.

2025-06-28

Air traffic controller shortage could disrupt summer travel, WestJet warns - Global News

Air traffic controller shortage could disrupt summer travel, WestJet warns Global News

2025-06-28

These are the celebs who are attending Jeff Bezos’ Venice wedding - Yahoo

These are the celebs who are attending Jeff Bezos’ Venice wedding YahooLauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos Are Married! See Inside Her Final Wedding Dress Fitting VogueJeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding leaves Venice divided BBCPics: Bill Gates, Girlfriend Paula Hurd At Jeff Bezos-Lauren Sanchez Wedding NDTVAll the glamorous celebrity looks from the Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez wedding Global News

2025-06-28

Netanyahu Used Son's Wedding as Cover for War Preparations Against Iran: Report

According to a report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu utilized his son’s wedding as a smokescreen for war preparations against Iran.What Happened: Netanyahu announced his intention to attend his son’s wedding on June 16, a move that was actually a diversion to conceal Israel’s inaugural attack on Iran on June 13. The Prime Minister’s family was kept in the dark about his plans to call off the wedding.The clandestine operation, codenamed “Red Wedding”, was orchestrated to create the illusion that Israel was pursuing a diplomatic resolution to the conflict with the United ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-28

Walmart is selling a $130 military smartwatch for $28, and shoppers say connecting it to your phone is 'effortless'

"It functions flawlessly for me and is an exceptional value for the price."

2025-06-28

Still searching for clues 45 years after murder

METHUEN — On the morning of Oct. 10, 1980, Sonya Durney, 5, woke to find her father’s bed empty.

2025-06-28

Scott Galloway reveals real Social Security problem — and the fix

The New York University professor and podcaster sends a sharp message.

2025-06-28

Senate Republicans make last-minute SNAP changes in Trump bill ahead of vote

Senate Republicans’ latest version of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes notable tweaks to the party’s proposals to reduce federal spending for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the coming years — after recent pushback from Alaska Republicans. The bill would still require some states to cover a share of the cost of SNAP benefits,...

2025-06-28

Senators prep for a weekend of work to meet Trump's deadline for passing his tax and spending cuts

The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks and spending cuts by his July Fourth deadline

2025-06-28

Itaconic Acid Market Surges to USD 166.67 Million by 2032, Driven by Demand for Biodegradable Polymers and Bio-Based Chemicals | Report by SNS Insider

Rising demand for eco-friendly alternatives and increasing adoption of itaconic acid in bio-based resins, detergents, and medical applications drive market growth. Rising demand for eco-friendly alternatives and increasing adoption of itaconic acid in bio-based resins, detergents, and medical applications drive market growth.

2025-06-28

BAY Miner provides smarter AI cloud mining services for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, and Bitcoin breaks through $105,000

Denver, Colorado, June 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the geopolitical situation evolves, the cryptocurrency market is surging again, with Bitcoin having risen back above $105,000, while Ethereum and Solana have rebounded to key resistance levels. In this environment, investors are seeking stable, smart sources of passive income in the cryptocurrency space. BAY Miner is a global AI cloud mining platform that strives to be the top solution for secure, hardware-free mining.What Is BAY Miner?BAY Miner is a multi-asset cloud mining platform optimized for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the platform intelligently allocates hash power to maximize user profits while minimizing technical complexity.Why Cloud Mining Matters in 2025With the recent Bitcoin halving event and increasing institutional adoption of digital assets, cloud mining has emerged as a top Google-searched solution for retail investors seeking passive income. Unlike traditional setups, cloud mining with BAY ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-28

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Maggie Balmer, Do Banck and McClain Balmer take advantage of the 360 camera at the 18th Annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off, which took place at the Harbour Center in Slidell on June 27,2025 Presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing...

2025-06-28

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Hanna Hunter and Brad Hunter take advantage of the 360 camera at the 18th Annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off, whichtook place at the Harbour Center in Slidell on June 27,2025 Presented by the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board and Lieutenant...

2025-06-28

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Willie Gaspard Jr. of Cypress Bayou Hotel and Casino puts the finishing touches on his dish for the 18th Annual Louisiana Seafood Cook-Off, which took place at the Harbour Center in Slidell on June 27,2025 Presented by the Louisiana Seafood...

2025-06-28

Rite Aid closing its doors in northeast Fresno

Store closing signs covered the windows at the Rite Aid on Cedar and Gettysburg in northeast Fresno on Friday.

2025-06-28

Concerns About “Double-Agent Lobbyists” For And Against Tesla

Yes, things continue to be weird in the orbit of Elon Musk. Apparently, groups of people in cities and states across the US that are very upset about several — or numerous — horrible things Elon Musk and his crew did in politics are now working to advocate for changes ... [continued]The post Concerns About “Double-Agent Lobbyists” For And Against Tesla appeared first on CleanTechnica.

2025-06-28

1900 Scientists Say 'Climate Change Not Caused By CO2' – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked

1900 Scientists Say 'Climate Change Not Caused By CO2' – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked Authored by Mark Keenan via RealityBooks.com,Millions of people worldwide are concerned about climate change and believe there is a climate emergency. For decades we have been told by the United Nations that Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are causing disastrous climate change. In 2018, a UN IPCC report even warned that ‘we have 12 years to save the Earth’, thus sending millions of people worldwide into a frenzy.Thirty-five years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the (World Meteorological Organization) WMO established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to provide scientific advice on the complex topic of climate change. The panel was asked to prepare, based on available scientific information, a report on all aspects relevant to climate change and its impacts and to formulate realistic response strategies. The first assessment report of the IPCC served as the basis for negotiating the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Governments worldwide have signed this convention, thereby, significantly impacting the lives of the people of the world.However, many scientists dispute with the UN-promoted man-made climate change theory, and many people worldwide are confused by the subject, or are unaware of the full facts. Please allow me to provide some information you may not be aware of.1. Very few people actually dig into the data, they simply accept the UN IPPC reports. Yet many highly respectable and distinguished scientists have done exactly that and found that the UN-promoted manmade climate change theory is seriously flawed. Are you aware that almost 2,000 of the world’s leading climate scientists and professionals in over 30 countries have signed a declaration that there is no climate emergency and have refuted the United Nations claims in relation to man-made climate change? See https://clintel.org/world-climate-declaration/2. I have also signed this declaration. How can I make such an assertion? I have experience in the field as a former scientist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, UK Government; and as former staff member at United Nations Environment, where I was responsible for servicing the Pollution Release and Transfer Register Protocol, a Multinational Environmental Agreement, involving the monitoring of pollutants to land, air, and water worldwide. Real pollution exists, but the problem is not CO2. Industrial globalisation has produced many substances that are registered as pollutants, including thousands of new man-made chemical compounds, toxins, nano-particles and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are in violation of the scientific pre-cautionary principle.A book I published also provides ample evidence and testimony from renowned scientists that there is no ‘CO2-induced’ Climate emergency. The book titled ‘Climate CO2 Hoax – How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement’ is available on Amazon herePurchase here3. Next, I will mention the Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) website, a valuable resource founded by Jim O’Brien. I am grateful to the ICSF for their excellent work in highlighting the scientific flaws in the UN climate narrative. The ICSF provides a comprehensive lecture series from renowned international scientists providing much evidence, analysis, and data that contradicts the UN assertions. The lectures are available at: https://www.icsf.ie/lecture-seriesThe ICSF scientific view coincides with those of the Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) foundation that operates in the fields of climate change and climate policy. CLINTEL was founded in 2019 by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. Based on this common conviction, 20 Irish scientists and several ICSF members have co-signed the CLINTEL World Climate Declaration “There is No Climate Emergency” (see https://clintel.org/ireland/).4. The reality is that the climate has always been changing, the climate changes naturally and slowly in its own cycle, and CO2 emissions (and methane from livestock, such as cows) are not dominant factors in climate change. In essence, therefore, the incessant UN, government, and corporate-media-produced climate hysteria in relation to CO2 emissions (and also methane from cows) has no scientific basis. It appears to me the UN narrative is yet another example of fake science being used to drive an ulterior agenda, see also the book Godless Fake Science.In truth I am against ‘real’ pollution, and the reality is that the CO2 component is not a pollutant. Unfortunately, many misinformed environmentalists are driving around in electric cars, the battery production for which has caused vast amounts of ‘real’ pollution via the industrial mining and processing of rare earth metals, and the consequent pollution to land, air and water systems. See also this article. Note that the UN does not focus on the thousands of real pollutants that corporate industrial globalisation creates.5. The conclusions of the Climate Intelligence foundation include the followingThere is no climate emergency. Therefore, there is no cause for panic and alarm.Natural as well as anthropogenic factors cause warming: The geological archive reveals that Earth’s climate has varied as long as the planet has existed, with natural cold and warm phases. The Little Ice Age ended as recently as 1850. Therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming.Warming is far slower than predicted: The world has warmed significantly less than predicted by IPCC on the basis of modeled anthropogenic forcing. The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change.Climate policy relies on inadequate models: Climate models have many shortcomings and are not remotely plausible as global policy tools. They blow up the effect of greenhouse gases such as CO2. In addition, they ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial.CO2 is plant food, the basis of all life on Earth: CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. Photosynthesis is a blessing. More CO2 is beneficial for nature, greening the Earth: additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also good for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide.Global warming has not increased natural disasters: There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent.It also appears to me that various catastrophes attributed to “CO2-induced climate change” are nothing of the sort. I note the following articles:Carbon Is Not the Enemy. End Chemtrails!Problem. Reaction. Solution. Wildfires About More than CO2 Induced Climate Change?They’re burning from the inside out.” Robert Brame on the Unusual Properties of the Pacific Palisades Fires6. In the above book I reference the relevant work and scientific presentations of some of the world’s leading climate scientists. Let us examine some of the work and testimonies of these scientists:“deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that Co2 from human industry was a dangerous plant destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that Co2 the life of plants was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” – Professor Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT.Dr Nils-Axel Mörner was a former Committee Chairman at the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was an expert involved in reviewing the first IPPC documents. He says the UN IPPC is misleading humanity about climate change. He tried to warn that the IPPC were publishing lies and false information that would inevitably be discredited. In an interview, he stated: “This is the most dangerous and frightening part of it. How a lobbyist group, such as the IPPC, has been able to fool the whole world. These organised and deceitful forces are dangerous” and expressed shock “that the UN and governments would parade children around the place at UN Climate summits as propaganda props”. He states:“solar activity is the dominant factor in climate and not Co2... something is basically sick in the blame Co2 hypothesis... It was launched more than 100 years ago and almost immediately excellent physicists demonstrated that the hypothesis did not work.I was the chairman of the only international committee on sea levels changes and as such a person I was elected to be the expert reviewer on the (UN IPPC) sea levels chapter. It was written by 38 persons and not a single one was a sea level specialist... I was shocked by the low quality it was like a student paper... I went through it and showed them that it was wrong and wrong and wrong...The scientific truth is on the side of the sceptics... I have thousands of high ranked scientists all over the world who agree that NO, CO2 is not the driving mechanism and that everything is exaggerated.In the field of physics 80 to 90% of physicists know that the Co2 hypothesis is wrong... Of course, metrologists they believe in this because that is their own profession - they live on it.... I suspect that behind-the-scenes promoters... have an ulterior motive... It’s a wonderful way of controlling taxation controlling people” - Dr Nils-Axel Mörner, a former Committee Chairman at the UN IPPC, and former head of the Paleo Geo-physics and Geo-dynamics department in StockholmAnother climate scientist with impeccable credentials that has broken rank is Dr Mototaka Nakamura. He asserts: “Our models are mickey-mouse mockeries of the real world”. Dr Nakamura received a Doctorate of Science from MIT, and for nearly 25 years specialized in abnormal weather and climate change at prestigious institutions that included MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, JAMSTEC and Duke University. Dr Nakamura explains why the data foundation underpinning global warming science is “untrustworthy” and cannot be relied on and that: “Global mean temperatures before 1980 are based on untrustworthy data”.Professor John R. Christy, Director of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, University of Alabama, has provided detailed analysis of climate data. I summarise the main points from his analysis below: “The established global warming theory significantly misrepresents the impact of extra greenhouse gases; the weather that affects people the most is not becoming more extreme or more dangerous; temperatures were higher in the 1930s than today; between 1895 and 2015, 14 of the top 15 years with the highest heat records occurred before 1960; the temperatures we are experiencing now in 2021 were the same as 120 years ago...the number of major tornadoes between 1954 and 1986 averaged 56/year, but between 1987 and 2020 the average was only 34/year; between 1895 and 2015 on average there has been no change in the number of very wet days per month, and no change in the number of very dry days per month, and the 20 driest months were before 1988. Between 1950 and 2019 the percentage of land area experiencing droughts has not increased globally – the trend is flat; the incidence of wildfires in North America between 1600 and 2000 has decreased substantially. Sea levels rose 12.5 cm per decade for 8,000 years and then it levelled off, now it rising only 2.5 cm per decade... worrying about 30 cm rise in sea level in a decade is ridiculous, in a hurricane the east coast of the U.S. gets a 20 foot rise in 6 hours, so a 30 cm rise will be easily handled!”In a lecture titled The imaginary climate crisis – how can we change the message? Available on the Irish Climate Science Forum website, see Endnote [ii]. Richard L Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MIT summarises the battle against the climate hysteria as follows:“in the long history of the earth there has been almost no correlation between climate and co2... the paleoclimate record shows unambiguously that Co2 is not a control knob... the narrative is absurd... it gives governments the power to control the energy sector... for about 33 years, many of us have been battling against the climate hysteria... There were more important leading people who were objecting to it, they were unfortunately older and by now most of them dead...Elites are always searching for ways to advertise their virtue and assert their authority. They believe they are entitled to view science as a source of authority rather than a process, and they try to appropriate science, suitably and incorrectly simplified, as the basis for their movement.”“CO2... it’s not a pollutant... it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis... if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality.” - Prof. Richard Lindzen, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences at MITPatrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, and President of Greenpeace in Canada for seven years, states:“the whole climate crisis is not only fake news its fake science... of course climate change is real it’s been happening since the beginning of time, but it’s not dangerous and it’s not caused by people... climate change is a perfectly natural phenomenon and this modern warming period actually began about 300 years ago when the little ice age began to come to an end. There is nothing to be afraid of and all they are doing is instilling fear. Most of the scientists who are saying it’s a crisis are on perpetual government grants.I was one of the (Greenpeace) founders... by the mid-80s... we were hijacked by the extreme left who basically took Greenpeace from a science-based organisation to an organisation based on sensationalism, misinformation and fear... you don’t have a plan to feed 8 billion people without fossils fuels or get the food into the cities...” – Patrick Moore, co-founder of GreenpeaceProfessor William Happer, Princeton University, Former Director of Science at the US Department of Energy, is also a strong voice against the myth of man-made global warming. He states: “More CO2 benefits the Earth”.7. The UN IPCC cherry picks data, uses flawed modelling and scenarios not remotely related to the real worldThe UN climate crisis predictions are not based on physical evidence, rather they are based on complex computer modelling. One has to decode and analyse the modelling process to ascertain whether or not the models are valid and accurate or whether they have obvious flaws. The vast majority of scientists, economists, politicians and the general public have simply assumed that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models are accurate. Very few people have the time or skills to analyse these models, not to mention actually dispute them. Nonetheless, there were many senior and highly distinguished scientists that did exactly that – they claimed the UN narrative was incorrect and that there was no climate emergency. Their voices have been drowned out by a vast money-driven political and media establishment of the globalised ‘system’. The vitally important work of some of these renowned scientists is referenced in the above book.“The computer models are making systematic dramatic errors... they are all parametrised... fudged... the models really don’t work” – Patrick J. Michaels, Director, Cato Institute Center for the Study of ScienceDr Roger Pielke Jr, University of Colorado, has conducted a detailed scientific review and analysis of the UN IPCC AR6 report, see Endnote [iii]. He describes that in relation to climate modelling, the IPCC detached the models from socio-economic plausibility. In creating the models, instead of first completing integrative assessment models (IAMs), the IPCC skipped this essential step and jumped straight to radiative forcing scenarios and thus these scenarios are not based on competed IAMs. This led much of climate modelling down the wrong track. I quote points from Dr Pielke’s analysis as follows:“The four IPCC scenarios came from a large family of models so instead of splitting modelling from socio-economic assumptions the models already had the assumptions faked and baked in to them, because they had to have those assumptions to produce the required radiative forcing (to produce a desired climate ‘crisis scenario’ outcome).In another fateful decision the 4 representative concentration pathways (RCPs) came from 4 different IAMs, which was a huge mistake. These models are completely unrelated to each other, but the impression has been given that they are of a common set, only differing in their radiative forcing, this was a huge mistake. Furthermore, no-one has responsibility for determining whether these scenarios are plausible. The climate community decided which scenario to prioritise and they chose the two most implausible scenarios! There are thousands of climate assumptions, but only 8 to 12 of them are available currently for climate research. The IPCC report even states that “no likelihood is attached to the scenarios in this report”. The likelihood is considered low they admit - This is an incredible admission by the IPCC.These extreme unlikely scenarios dominate the literature and the IPCC report; therefore, the IPCC report is biased. Bottom line is that there is massive confusion. The IPCCs’ Richard Moss warned that RCP 8.5 was not to be used as a reference for the other RCPs, but 5,800 scientific papers worldwide misuse it like that... The whole process is seriously flawed... Nothing close to the real world is represented by the IPCC scenarios. Climate science has a huge problem! The IPCC currently uses RCP 8.5 as the ‘business as usual’ scenario, but RCP 8.5 is wild fantasy land and not remotely related to current reality at all... climate science has a scientific integrity crisis.” - Dr Roger Pielke Jr, University of Colorado8. Financialization of the entire world economy is now based on a life-killing ‘net-zero’ greenhouse gas emissions strategy.The UN Agenda 2030 plan and the Paris Agreement goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 7% per annum until 2030 is in effect a plan that would seemingly disable the current fossil-fuel-based mechanisms of the industrial economy for the food, energy and goods that enable human life and survival. Yet the narrative is quite hypocritical as the production of green energy infrastructure, and mining of rare earth metals for batteries for electric vehicles, is, and will most likely continue to be, very fossil-fuel intensive. Globalisation resulted in much of humanity becoming largely dependent on the trans-national industrial economy rather than on traditional more self-sufficient local/regional economies. Therefore, one has to ask where is this all going to lead if the plug is truly pulled on fossil fuels? Almost all of us are seemingly locked into, and have become dependent upon, the current economic paradigm of globalisation. A system rigged by debt-money created from nothing; created and controlled by private mega-banks and behind the scenes money-masters; and which can induce boom, bust, bailout scenarios that detrimentally effect the populace.It should be noted that for decades, these same political, government, and corporate powers have rampantly promoted corporate economic globalization and fossil fuel dependency. Whilst, at the same time actively hindering the funding, creation, or government support of, more self-sufficient local communities/regions, and local co-operatives. Most of the world population thus became reliant on the globalized fossil-fuel driven system. I explore this topic in the books Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers and Transcending the Climate Change Deception Toward Real SustainabilityPurchase hereZero carbon emissions, in essence, means pulling the plug on current systems of industrial agriculture, transport, goods production, electricity production, etc. This could have terrible consequences, particularly in locations and countries, that are currently unable to produce much food. In Ireland, the deluded greens in government had planned to close the coal-fired power station Moneypoint, in the name of reducing CO2 emissions. However, as the price of electricity increased and the dawn of so-called ‘green energy’ began to evaporate like the Irish morning mist, the government scrapped this plan in 2022, instead deciding to convert the station to an oil-burning facility. The Irish Times newspaper reported:“With growing concerns over security of the energy supply in the State, the Government is not in a position to decommission Moneypoint as a fuel-burning station in the near future. It was confirmed by the Irish Government in 2022 that Moneypoint will convert to oil generation from 2023.” The so-called ‘green economy’ (for it is not environmentally friendly in reality) and UN Agenda 2030 are resulting in increased energy poverty and decreased energy independence for the masses, while also developing trillions of dollars for the behind-the-scenes mega-banks. “Stop burning coal and wood logs that causes climate change don’t ya know” my deluded neighbour informed me last year, having threw out her wood burning stove and installed solar panels. Then a typical winter storm in Ireland last month left many thousands of people without electricity or heating for almost a week, shivering and wishing for a wood burning stove, while their solar panels produced little electricity in winter.9. Central bankers are entirely funding / controlling the advancement of the worldwide climate change ‘project’The decision to drastically reduce CO2, one of the most essential compounds to sustain all life, is no co-incidence. It should be noted that it is the world’s central bankers that are behind this decision and are entirely funding and controlling the advancement of the worldwide project of ‘combatting man-made climate-change’.This project involves an attempt to de-carbonise the activities of the entire world population. In December 2015, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), which represents $118 trillion of assets globally. In essence this means that the financialization of the entire world economy is based on meeting nonsensical aims such as “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions”. The TCFD includes key people from the world’s mega-banks and asset management companies, including JP Morgan Chase; BlackRock; Barclays Bank; HSBC; China’s ICBC bank; Tata Steel, ENI oil, Dow Chemical, and more.The fact that the world’s largest banks and asset management corporations, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, the UN, the World Bank, the Bank of England and other central banks of the BIS, have all linked to push a vague, mathematically nonsensical ‘green’ economy, is no coincidence. There is another agenda at play that has nothing to do with environmentalism. When the world largest banks, corporations, and institutions, all align to push a climate change agenda that has zero evidence, one can see there is another major agenda going on behind the scenes. This agenda tries to convince the common people of the world to make huge sacrifices under the emotive guise of “saving our planet.”. While all the time the corporations and banks make vast profits, and political institutions implement worldwide technocratic control systems under the banner of combatting, and adapting to, so-called man-made climate change.“The links between the world’s largest financial groups, central banks and global corporations to the current push for a radical climate strategy to abandon the fossil fuel economy in favor of a vague, unexplained Green economy, it seems, is less about genuine concern to make our planet a clean and healthy environment to live. Rather it is an agenda, intimately tied to the UN Agenda 2030 for “sustainable” economy, and to developing literally trillions of dollars in new wealth for the global banks and financial giants who constitute the real powers that be... “ - F. William Engdahl, strategic risk consultant and lecturerBack in 2010, the head of Working Group 3 of the UN IPCC, Dr Otmar Edenhofer, told an interviewer, “...one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”To better perceive what is ‘behind the curtain’ of the climate hoax and the UN/WEF agenda it also helps to examine what has happened in the decades beforehand. It is important to perceive the implications of the worldwide fractional-reserve debt-money banking scam and the subtle system of debt-slavery that has existed for decades. If you look at the World Bank website you will see that virtually every nation on Earth is in vast debt. In debt to who you may ask? The answer is to privately owned mega-banks. See also the book Demonic Economics and the Tricks of the Bankers.Purchase hereFor many decades the so-called banking and corporate elites have had full control of the source of money creation and its allocation, via the debt-money system, and have therefore, by default, been able to fund, and increasingly control and manipulate the entire world spectrum of industry, media, government, education, ideological supremacy and war to their own design, agenda and benefit. Mayer Amschel Rothschild (banker) is widely reported to have said: “Give me control of a nation’s money supply and I care not who makes its laws.”10. Central bankers hijacked the real environmental movement in 1992 creating the fake climate change agendaPsychopaths can utilise any ideology and, change it from within to something that may eventually be entirely different to its original purpose. Meanwhile, the original followers and advocates continue to pursue what they believe is the original ideology, but gradually become mere pawns in the agenda of a self-serving elite. Unfortunately, over the past decades, this is exactly what has happened in the environmental movement.Whistleblower George Hunt served as an official host at a key environmental meeting in Denver, Colorado in 1987, and states that David Rockefeller; Baron Edmund De Rothschild; US Secretary of State Baker; Maurice Strong, a UN official and an employee of the Rockefeller and Rothschild trusts; EPA administrator William Ruccleshaus; UN Secretary General in Geneva MacNeill, along with World Bank and IMF officials were at this meeting. Hunt was surprised to see all these rich elite bankers at the meeting and questioned what they were doing there at an environmental congress.In a video recording available here Hunt later provided important evidence from the documents of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 June 1992. This conference was the well-known UN ’92 Earth Summit and was run by UNCED. According to Hunt, via the Earth summit, the UN was setting a net, an agenda, to place the power over the Earth and its peoples into their own hands. The world private banking cartel are the same ultra-rich banking families that had been instrumental in the setting up of the World Bank, the UN, and other international institutions, after WW2. Their political cohorts included Stalin (the leader of a brutal communist regime in the USSR that committed genocide of millions of people), UK Prime minister Churchill, and US President Roosevelt. Hunt refers to these banking families and their financial and international institutional networks as:“The same world order that tricked third world countries to borrow funds and rack up enormous debts... and purposely creating war and debt to bring societies into their control. The world order crowd are not a nice group of people...”– George Hunt, Whistleblower speaking about the UN Earth summit of 1992As a consequence of the UN Earth Summit, it appears the genuine environment movement that actually cared about real pollution to land, air and water, was politically hi-jacked by powerful political and financial interests with a different agenda. Maurice Strong, a UN official and an employee of the Rockefeller and Rothschild trusts, had convened the first UNCED congress in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972. Then, 20 years later he was the convenor and secretary general of UNCED. Hunt also provided video evidence from the Fourth UNCED World Congress meeting in 1987 of an international investment banker, stating that:“I suggest therefore that this be sold not through a democratic process that would take too long and require far too much funds to educate the cannon-fodder, unfortunately, which populates the Earth. We have to take almost an elitist program...”Thus, the decrees leading to the 1992 UN Earth summit were dictated without debate or opportunity for dissent and would supersede national laws. According to Hunt, the decrees were dictated into existence by the banker Edmund de Rothschild, who got these major decrees into the ’92 UN resolutions without debate or challenge. Hunt asserts that he was denied the opportunity to openly challenge Rothschild’s remarks by the meeting Chairman; and that the Rothschild bank of Geneva is the nucleus of the World Conservation bank and the wealthy elite are integrated into the bank via the Rothschilds private offering of shares.11. Despite the deceptive and fake environmental facade, it has adopted, the vast institutional entity of the UN has fully endorsed environmentally destructive industrial globalisation for the past 70 years.The UN climate change, sustainable development and green economy policies over the past 30 years are little more than worldwide marketing tricks that have tragically brainwashed two generations of young people who do not understand what the UN actually is, and who is it is really designed to serve.This current globalised system involves the promotion of beliefs and fake science that claim to be unchallengeable truths, but are, in fact, ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted, and distorted to prove the ‘governing idea’, and thus promote its worldwide dissemination. They start with the conclusion they want and then wrench and manipulate what scant evidence they can to fit that conclusion. Man-made climate change due to anthropogenic carbon emission is a major example of this.Institutions, including the UN, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the World Health Organisation (WHO), are privately-motivated unelected unaccountable organisations controlled by the source of debt-money creation, i.e., the world private-banking cartel; and are just clever marketing tools and political mechanisms for implementing and maintaining a corrupt worldwide system, under the clever guise of ‘fixing the problems of the world’. These powerful special interests have been promoting certain ‘ideologies’ for decades to advance their corporate and political aims. The word “sustainable” was hijacked decades ago, and it is now deceptively used to advance the agendas of globalist mega-corporate interests who couldn’t care less about the environment. The aim is to catapult humanity into the arms of UN Agenda 2030 and the WEF ‘reset’ plan, which are clever marketing plans entirely designed by the so-called elite mega-corporate interests of the WEF Davos group.12. Furthermore, the current green energy/renewable technologies being promoted by the UN and WEF, are not a viable solution for the world’s energy supply. Although these technologies have some limited viability in certain locations and scenarios, the fact remains that the Energy Returned on Energy Invested is much too low - in essence the entire process is mathematically flawed. This is evidenced by the work of scientists, including Professor David MacKay (1967 - 2016), former Regius Professor of Engineering at Cambridge University, and former Chief Scientific Advisor at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.SummaryIn summary, CO2 reduction is the main focus of the UN-promoted climate-change-hysteria that has been rampant among the world’s population. However, the proclaimed climate crisis exists in computer models only. The cult of ‘manmade climate change’ is a media and UN politically-promoted ‘ideology’, that is used for a wider political and corporate agenda. Manmade climate change is not based in fact, and has hijacked real environmental concerns.Due to incessant UN, government, and corporate-promoted climate change propaganda, many people are, thus, in a media-induced state of confusion, and, thus, blindly assume their pre-determined role in society under this ‘dictatorship of words’ without even being aware of it. The unpalatable reality is that people’s access to energy and resources is being intentionally reduced via bogus climate change policies, inflation, ongoing geo-political theatre and intentionally instigated war.We cannot understand how to create a truly resilient society unless we correctly perceive the current society we live in and how it came to exist. Unless we recognize the untruths of the current paradigm, even if it is not ‘politically correct’ to do so, then we will not be able to make the correct adjustments to our communities and local/regional networks, or create a truly resilient thriving society. In this spirit of truth, new networks are emerging worldwide. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/27/2025 - 22:35

2025-06-28

What happened on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s big wedding day - CNN

What happened on Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s big wedding day CNNLauren Sanchez chose classic Dolce and Gabbana wedding gown to marry Jeff Bezos in Italy: It took over 900 hours to make Hindustan TimesLauren Sánchez shares first look at wedding with Jeff Bezos, reveals her new name Fox NewsLauren Sánchez’s Latest Wedding Look? A Dior Suit and Hermès Headscarf That Says “Brides” VogueAll the stars spotted at Bezos’ wedding News.com.au

2025-06-28

S&P 500 squeaks out record high even as new trade tensions emerge with Canada - The Washington Post

S&P 500 squeaks out record high even as new trade tensions emerge with Canada The Washington PostAmerica’s incredible stock market rebound is complete as S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record highs CNNS&P 500 Hits a Record High, Surging Through Trump Turmoil The New York TimesS&P 500 hits an all-time high — rebounding to its level when Trump's second term began NBC NewsStocks Are Defying the Naysayers. They Can Keep Going. Bloomberg.com

2025-06-28

Have you bought a home in the past year?

Survey: the Southern California News Group wants to hear how new real estate rules are affecting you.

2025-06-28

Gen Alpha are spending big — here's 2 tips to raise money savvy kids in a world of instant gratification

In the age of instant gratification where Gen Alpha has easy access to instant delivery services like Amazon Prime and Uber Eats, some parents are wondering how to teach the young money-saving skills.Born between 2010 and 2024, Gen Alpha are not like other generations. They grew up with smartphones in their hands and the ability to make purchases at the click of a button.In fact, their spending prowess is huge. Gen Alpha spent £92 million ( $126.2 million) between 2023 and 2024, according to research from financial technology company GoHenry, which provides debit cards for kids in the U.K., U.S., France, and Spain. GoHenry published its Youth Economy Report in September 2024, which provided data from 311,832 GoHenry kids.Much of this money is going to online services, with GoHenry kids spending over £3 million on food delivery services, up 113% from the year before. Additionally, almost half like to make purchases on social media platforms like TikTok Shop, Facebook Marketplace and Instagram.Their economic footprint is expected to reach $5.46 trillion by 2029, according to research firm McCrindle.“Convenience and speed have become the norm,” Louise Hill, GoHenry founder, told CNBC Make It in an interview. “One of the things we need to remember when we’re thinking about Gen Alpha in particular, is that they are totally used to everything being available at the flick of a switch, at the click of a button, and this drives different behaviors with money.”Hill explained that despite the influx of financial education resources online, there has also been a surge in money products and apps that are easy to use, such as credit cards, buy-now-pay-later options, and contactless payments. This makes it more complex for parents to navigate teaching money skills to kids.She emphasized the importance of kids understanding “that money has to be earned before it can be spent,” and then spending it with thought and consideration.Make money ‘tangible’Hill said it’s crucial for children to see the “tangible aspects of money” like physical cash, to understand its value. Giving “regular pocket money” is one solution, from giving 50 pence a week to £5 pounds.“If you give a child 50 pence and pick a day of the week that works for you as a family for pocket money, that might be Saturday, then you can literally give them 50 pence every Saturday. It is incredible how quickly they will start to realize ‘Oh, look, it’s every Saturday. If I save up four Saturdays, I’ve got two pounds. And now I can buy X, Y, Z, if I save up 10 Saturdays.”Handling physical cash allows kids to know how much their favorite items cost.“You can give a child some coins, and then they can have the concept of how many of those coins get exchanged for a bag of sweets, versus a bigger toy,” the GoHenry founder said.For teenagers, Hill proposed the method of “pizza budgeting,” which allows children to visually understand how much money goes into running a household and paying bills.“The pizza is your pot of money, or your wages, or your pocket money and then taking the child through, ‘Would you like to guess how big a slice of pizza we need to cut out if this is the household wages? How big a slice we need to cut out of that to pay the rent or to pay the mortgage?”As the pizza gets smaller and smaller, it creates an understanding of how much money is left over for leisure spending.Include kids in money conversationsKids are like sponges and tend to absorb attitudes around money from their parents, so Hill believes it’s good to keep them in the loop about household finances.She offered the example of the cost of living crisis in the U.K. after the Covid-19 pandemic, which was cited widely in the media. GoHenry started hearing from customers that their kids were concerned about the cost-of-living crisis.“Kids do soak up everything in that sort of situation where perhaps as a family, you’re stressed about money,” she said.Parents can talk about money struggles without raising the exact issue, such as if they’re unable to pay the rent.For example, Hill said that if you can no longer afford to have a takeaway every Friday night, then get children involved in making a “fakeaway,” which means making a takeaway at home.“What about getting the kids involved in making a pizza and choosing their toppings? Maybe even going to the supermarket with you and picking up those toppings instead of paying the money for a takeaway and then showing them how much money is being saved,” Hill added.This can help children feel more in control of their money spending habits, and learn to tighten their belts when they need to as they get older.

2025-06-28

INVESTOR NOTICE: Tempus AI, Inc. Investors with Substantial Losses Have Opportunity to Lead Class Action Lawsuit - TEM

SAN DIEGO, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The law firm of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP announces that purchasers of Tempus AI, Inc. (NASDAQ:TEM) common stock between August 6, 2024 and May 27, 2025, inclusive (the "Class Period"), have until August 12, 2025 to seek appointment as lead plaintiff of the Tempus AI class action lawsuit. Captioned Shouse v. Tempus AI, Inc., No. 25-cv-06534 (N.D. Ill.), the Tempus AI class action lawsuit charges Tempus AI as well as certain of Tempus AI's top executives with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. If you suffered substantial losses and wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Tempus AI class action lawsuit, please provide your information here:Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-28

WBBM-Channel 2 weekend news anchor Suzanne Le Mignot and her husband buy Gold Coast condo for $928,500

Le Mignot bought the 1,429-square-foot condo, which is in a renovated building and has lake views, with her husband.

2025-06-28

S&P Global Ratings affirms Ecopetrol's Stand-Alone Credit Profile (SACP) while adjusting its global credit rating

BOGOTA, Colombia, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. (BVC: ECOPETROL, NYSE:EC, the ", Company", ) informs that on June 27, 2025, the credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings downgraded Ecopetrol's global credit rating from BB+ to BB and maintained the negative outlook. This action is aligned with the downgrade of the Republic of Colombia's sovereign rating on June 26, 2025. Additionally, the agency affirmed Ecopetrol's Stand-Alone Credit Profile (SACP) at bb+.In its report, S&P stated that Ecopetrol's global rating was adjusted in line with Colombia's sovereign rating and remains capped by it, due to the Company's significance in national revenue generation, its status as a government-related entity, and its role in the country's energy transition. The negative outlook on Ecopetrol reflects the sovereign's outlook.Regarding the stand-alone rating, the agency expects Ecopetrol to maintain its leverage ratio (debt/EBITDA) between 2.0x and 2.5x, with an EBITDA margin close to 40%. S&P also positively highlighted the Company's 2040 ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-28

'Sleepless nights': Search for Michelle Bernstein Schultz continues | On the Record

Michelle Bernstein Schultz disappeared in 2022 and three years later, her family still has no idea why she left without her personal belongings and totally out of character. FOX 10's Justin Lum reports.

2025-06-28

Moody's Affirms Ecopetrol's Global and Standalone Credit Ratings

BOGOTA, Colombia, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. ((BVC: ECOPETROL, NYSE:EC) (the "Company" or "Ecopetrol") announces that the credit rating agency Moody's has affirmed the Company's global credit rating at Ba1 with a stable outlook. The agency also confirmed Ecopetrol's standalone rating at b1.Moody's stated that the Ba1 global rating reflects Ecopetrol's position as Colombia's leading oil and gas producer, as well as its significant power transmission business in Colombia and other Latin American countries.The aforementioned factors support a global rating that is three notches above the Company's standalone rating, including the backing of the Colombian government through the gradual phase-out of fuel subsidies, as well as the reduction in accounts receivable related to the Fuel Price Stabilization Fund (FEPC), both of which have contributed to strengthening the Company's liquidity.Regarding the standalone rating, Moody's highlighted the strength and stability of the Company's cash flow, further supported by its power transmission subsidiary (ISA) and midstream ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-27

Researchers find 'surprise' in new mortgage delinquency data

While consumer distress in auto and personal loans also picked up, the pace of growth among mortgages was atypical, Vantagescore's monthly credit gauge said.

2025-06-27

Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act’s preventive-care mandate

The challengers argued that members of the Preventive Services Task Force were improperly appointed because they were not approved by the Senate.

2025-06-27

Ticker: Fox News and NewsNation Reveal July 4th Coverage Plans

CBS News becomes the first U.S broadcast network to have a reporter in Tehran, Iran.

2025-06-27

Americans reined in their spending last month - CNN

Americans reined in their spending last month CNNCore inflation rate rose to 2.7% in May, more than expected, Fed’s preferred gauge shows CNBCGloomy Americans cut back on spending as inflation ticks higher CityNews HalifaxUS Fed's preferred inflation gauge picks up as tariff effects loom France 24Key U.S. inflation gauge rose last month while Americans cut back on spending CTV News

2025-06-27

Tesla fires longtime insider as Europe slump deepens

A slide in Europe puts fresh pressure on Musk’s team.

2025-06-27

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac revamp JV as fintech venture

The two government-sponsored enterprises are repositioning Common Securitization Solutions to align with priorities set by their regulator and President Trump.

2025-06-27

Squaremouth Highlights the Most Common Travel Disruptions Ahead of Fourth of July Holiday

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- With a record breaking 72.2 million people expected to travel during the Independence Day holiday period, travelers should expect bustling airports and busy roads. Squaremouth, the nation's largest travel insurance comparison service,...

2025-06-27

AP Business SummaryBrief at 10:45 a.m. EDT

Supreme Court OKs fee that subsidizes phone, internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas

2025-06-27

How to Use Apple Cash

This digital payment card for iPhone users makes it easy to make a purchase or send money.

2025-06-27

Graham Breaks With Trump Over Iran Strike Effectiveness: 'I Don't Know Where The Enriched Uranium Is'

Graham Breaks With Trump Over Iran Strike Effectiveness: 'I Don't Know Where The Enriched Uranium Is' President Trump is not going to like this. After getting out of a classified Senate briefing on Thursday, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's first words to the press and to the American people were that he "didn’t want people to think the problem is over, because it’s not" - in reference to the Trump-ordered B-2 bomber strikes on Iran's main nuclear and enrichment facilities."The real question is, have we obliterated their desire to have a nuclear weapon," Graham questioned. "I don't want people to think that the site wasn't severely damaged or obliterated. It was. But having said that, I don't want people to think the problem is over, because it's not." "I don’t know where the 900 pounds of enriched uranium exists, but it wasn't part of the target set for several years," Graham was quoted in the NY Times as saying.He did try to voice acknowledgement of the official White House position, perhaps trying to keep the peace with Trump, saying "They are obliterated today but they can reconstitute."The NY Times summarizes of where things stand, "There is confusion also about where the stockpile was originally. Mr. Trump has suggested it was at Fordo. Others have said some was at Natanz."And further the Times writes, "The International Atomic Energy Agency has said the majority of the stockpile was at Isfahan, where Iran had reactors and other nuclear facilities that used the uranium. And some experts have suggested Iran has dispersed the stockpile."Meanwhile, we recall President Trump's words given to our White House correspondent just one week ago..."People have to be very careful with what they say, because their mouth can get them into a lot of trouble," he responded when asked about Graham and Pompeo being on the ground in Ukraine possibly sabotaging efforts at peace.“People have to be very careful with what they say, because their mouth can get them into a lot of trouble”— Donald Trump, about Lindsey Grahampic.twitter.com/MDKIjk2786 https://t.co/oO7bpupg3M— Liam McCollum (@MLiamMcCollum) June 26, 2025A number of Democratic Senators after their classified Iran briefing also had similar reactions to Graham."I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the program," Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut told reporters. "The president was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated. It is certain that there is still significant capability, significant equipment that remain." "You cannot bomb knowledge out of existence — no matter how many scientists you kill," Murphy added. "There are still people in Iran who how to work centrifuges. And if they still have enriched uranium and they still have the ability to use centrifuges, then you're not setting back the program by years. You're setting back the program by months." Israel claims to have assassinated at least 14 Iranian nuclear scientists during the nearly two-weeks of bombing and sabotage operations against the Islamic Republic.Top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, said following the intel briefing, "Listen, I hope that is the final assessment. But if not, does that end up providing a false sense of comfort to the American people?" Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had this to say: "What was clear is that there was no coherent strategy, no end game, no plan, no specific, no detailed plan on how Iran does not attain a nuclear weapon."Again, Trump isn't going to be happy to see Graham siding with the Democrats on this one. But Fox too has been very skeptical, as have other conservative as well as independent outlets. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/27/2025 - 10:45

2025-06-27

Amazon is selling 'comfortable' $19 noise-reduction earmuffs for just $9, and it has 13,000+ perfect ratings

"These earmuffs are extremely comfortable to wear, and they reduce the noise significantly!"

2025-06-27

‘60 Minutes’ correspondents demand CBS News make Tanya Simon executive producer — or face ‘revolt’: report

All seven of the show’s correspondents reportedly urged Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks to officially name Tanya Simon as executive producer.

2025-06-27

China's May industrial profits slip back into sharp decline - Reuters

China's May industrial profits slip back into sharp decline ReutersChina's industrial profits plunge 9.1%, steepest fall in seven months CNBCChina’s Industrial Profits Plummet as Trump’s Tariffs Hit BloombergChina’s Industrial Profit Declined in May WSJChina industrial profits slide as trade war uncertainty sets in Financial Times

2025-06-27

Gold heads for weekly loss as Middle East truce saps demand

Gold headed for its second consecutive weekly loss, after a ceasefire between Israel and Iran dented demand for havens.Bullion edged lower early in Asia to around $3 315 an ounce and was down about 1.5% for the week. The precious metal has generally been confined to a narrow trading band this week, except for Tuesday when it slumped as the Middle East rivals honored a ceasefire agreement after almost two weeks of warfare.

2025-06-27

UK auto production for May slumps to lowest level since 1949 as Trump tariffs hit hard

The U.S. and China have further confirmed the details of the trade agreement reached by both sides earlier this month in London, according to a statement released by China’s Ministry of Commerce Friday afternoon.China will review and approve the export applications of items under export control rules, while the U.S. will cancel a range of existing restrictive measures imposed against China, a spokesperson for the ministry said in the statement.The statement came after U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday at an event in the White House that both sides had signed a trade deal, without providing further details.This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.

2025-06-27

MGI ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH NEGEDIA: ENHANCE GENOMIC SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES AT THE SERVICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND PRECISION MEDICINE IN ITALY

In the study of rare diseases and precision medicine, understanding gene expression in the spatial context of tissues is essential. High-throughput sequencing and STOmics technology will enhance biological and molecular understanding of various pathologies. MILAN, June 26, 2025...

2025-06-27

Informal mining boom is biggest fear for Peru's copper investors

The biggest threat to Peru tapping more of its giant copper deposits is rising informal and illegal mining activity, according to the head of the country’s main industry association, SNMPE.Peru has slipped to third in the global copper-production ranking and last year posted its first decline in output in five years. This year it should be able to get back to growth, albeit slightly, and reach a record 3.4 million metric tons by decade-end, according to Julia Torreblanca, SNMPE’s President.

2025-06-27

Watch: Stars arrive in Venice for Jeff Bezos wedding - BBC

Watch: Stars arrive in Venice for Jeff Bezos wedding BBCKim Kardashian Rocks Statement Shades as She Arrives in Venice, Plus Ashanti, Mariska Hargitay and More People.comLauren Sánchez’s First Bridal Look? Schiaparelli Couture VogueI run a souvenir stall in Venice. The real chaos is coming from protesters, not Jeff Bezos' wedding. Business InsiderAt the Bezos-Sanchez wedding: Kim Kardashian, Leonardo DiCaprio and Oprah join the $50-million festivities in Venice CNN

2025-06-27

Bill Gates Says He Knows For A 'Fact' That More Children Will Die Due To US Health Aid Cuts And He's Taking The 'Proof' To Congress

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates has once again expressed his concerns about the impact of continued U.S. cuts to global health aid, warning that these reductions could lead to an additional 8 million child deaths by 2040, citing a study.What Happened: Sharing his Gates notes on X, formerly Twitter, Gates said he has worked in global health for over 25 years. “At this point, I know as much about improving health in poor countries as I do about software.”He then highlighted concerns about the consequences of slashed funding for health initiatives. “So when the United States and other governments suddenly cut their aid budgets the way they’ve been doing, I know for a fact that more children will die.”See Also: Mark Zuckerberg Warns Of ‘Serious Disadvantage’ As China’s Data-Center Blitz Could Let DeepSeek Leapfrog US AI LabsWhen the United States and other governments suddenly cut their aid budgets, I know for a fact that more children will die. ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-27

Cancer Patients Recover By Taking Repurposed Anti-Parasitic Drugs

Cancer Patients Recover By Taking Repurposed Anti-Parasitic Drugs Authored by Huey Freeman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Joe Tippens never planned to discover a potential remedy that he credits with saving his life and thrust him into the spotlight among notable cancer survivors. The 67-year-old businessman told The Epoch Times he just wanted to beat a type of cancer with an extremely low survival rate.Illustration by The Epoch TimesIn August 2016, Tippens was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer with a fist-sized tumor. After undergoing chemotherapy and radiation five times a week in Houston, the large tumor in his left lung was eliminated. However, Tippens said the treatments came closer to killing him than curing him.When he returned home to Oklahoma after the New Year, he received devastating news. His oncologist told him he had zero chance of surviving for more than a few months.“In January of 2017, my PET scan lit up like a Christmas tree and I had wide metastasis everywhere, including in my neck, bones, pancreas, and liver,” Tippens said.Finding a LifelineFacing a prognosis of three months to live, Tippens heard an intriguing story from a veterinarian he knew: A scientist with terminal cancer reportedly cured her lab mice and then herself using fenbendazole, an antiparasitic drug.The story was the beginning of what eventually became the “Joe Tippens Protocol.”Fenbendazole, used for 30 years to treat intestinal parasites in animals, has not received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for human use, meaning doctors cannot prescribe it for people. However, with a terminal diagnosis and nothing to lose, Tippens decided to try it alongside his conventional treatments.Tippens found that Panacur, a trade name for fenbendazole, was sold over the counter at outlets that carry veterinary medications.Starting in the third week of January 2017, Tippens began taking the canine medication, Panacur, 1 gram per day for three consecutive days per week. After four days without the medication, which contains about 222 milligrams of fenbendazole per gram, he would repeat his three-day routine. Three months later, Tippens was cancer-free.His protocol also included Theracurmin, a form of the active compound in turmeric, and CBD, an extract of cannabis which does not cause intoxication.Scientific Support and MechanismsDr. William Makis, an oncologist and cancer researcher based in Edmonton, Canada, has studied Tippens’s approach and treats cancer patients worldwide, primarily through telehealth.“I’ve had several patients declared cancer-free after doing the protocol for a number of months,” Makis told The Epoch Times. “What made [Tippens’] situation so powerful is that he cured himself of a cancer that is very aggressive—small cell lung cancer—and he had a terminal diagnosis.”According to Makis, the family of anti-parasitic drugs that includes fenbendazole, mebendazole, and albendazole works well—scientists have found at least 12 ways the medications can fight cancer.The effectiveness of the drugs stems from key similarities between parasite and cancer cells: both have the capacity for autonomous survival and proliferation, resistance to cell-death pathways, and the ability to circumvent the host immune system.Anti-parasitic drugs appear to fight cancer through multiple mechanisms:Boosting protein called p53: P53 is a tumor suppressor protein that helps kill cancer cells.Blocking glucose uptake: Cancer cells depend on sugar for energy and growth.Disrupting microtubules: These cellular structures are crucial for cell division of cancer cells.Affecting mitochondrial function: Depletes cellular energy, increases oxidative stress, and blocks a critical pathway that regulates cell growth of cancer cells.Researchers at the Stanford University Medical Center have reported several case reports, using fenbendazole to cure Stage 4 cancer cases, Makis said. The series of case reports was published in 2021 in SciTechnol, an online, London-based publisher of scientific journal articles.A thought-provoking review citing animal studies published in 2024 in Anticancer Research Journal concluded that fenbendazole affects energy metabolism—mainly by increasing the levels of p53 and affecting pathways that control sugar uptake. It ultimately starves cancer cells and causes them to die with minimal harm to normal cells. The researchers concluded that fenbendazole’s effects on energy metabolism “could lead to significant advances in cancer treatment.”Some preliminary research also suggested potential anti-cancer mechanisms for fenbendazole. A study published in Scientific Reports in 2018 by researchers in India found that fenbendazole “may be evaluated as a potential therapeutic agent because of its effect on multiple cellular pathways leading to effective elimination of cancer cells.” Specifically, fenbendazole interferes with microtubules involved in cell division.A 2016 study published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications found that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug approved for human use, shows promise against glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer known for treatment resistance. The drug kills glioblastoma cells and inhibits blood vessel development. In laboratory and mouse studies, ivermectin triggers cancer cell death and significantly reduces tumor growth.Recent research has shown that a combination of fenbendazole and diisopropylamino dichloroacetate, a compound used to treat hepatitis, has shown some anticancer properties in cell cultures and animal studies. Combined, the drugs kill lung cancer cells more effectively than either drug alone.Makis has found that combining fenbendazole with ivermectin can increase the protocol’s effectiveness.“When you combine them, you go from attacking cancer in a dozen ways to attacking cancer in two dozen ways,” Makis said. “I have found it very reasonable to include both of them in protocols if there is pre-clinical research that each of them has an effect [on] that particular type of cancer. Whenever you have a specific cancer, I want to look at the body of research to see if there is a proven effect of either ivermectin or fenbendazole for that type of cancer. If there is, then I share that research with my patients.”Makis has treated patients with various cancers—from common types like breast, prostate, colon, and lung cancer to rarer forms such as cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer) and sarcomas (soft tissue cancers). “I’ve had several patients declared cancer-free after doing the protocol for a number of months,” Makis said.Although Makis has been recommending ivermectin and fenbendazole for cancer treatment, he acknowledges that many doctors refrain from this practice.Doctors are very hesitant to help cancer patients with repurposed drugs because of repercussions from the medical boards, Makis said.“On the other hand, you have doctors who are willing to help patients with repurposed drugs but no experience with oncology,” he said.When asked whether he recommends that cancer patients consult with an integrative physician who approves of those treatments, Makis said it is good for a patient to have a relationship with a doctor who has experience with oncology.“It depends on the physician’s background,” Makis said. “Some doctors have extensive experience, after seeing cancer patients for many years.”Patient Success StoriesDonna Leland, 64, a show host on the national Moody Radio Network, was diagnosed with Stage 3 cervical and endometrial cancer in April 2023. She underwent a hysterectomy but declined the recommended chemotherapy and radiation.“I had seen the outcome for other people who had gone that route,” Leland told The Epoch Times. “Some had gotten all cleared, but then the cancer came back. I know it diminishes your own immune system’s ability to fight off disease.”Leland told the doctor she did not want those treatments and asked for another option. But she was offered nothing else.“I knew there had to be a better way than to fry everything. I just said, ‘I’d rather die than fry.’”Leland began taking fenbendazole and ivermectin. She also found support from Terry Harmon, a chiropractor and functional medicine physician in Kentucky.Harmon says more than 100 of his patients have reported positive health benefits from using fenbendazole or ivermectin.“The reason so many people are finding success is twofold,” Harmon told The Epoch Times. “It is addressing infections. It helps the body heal and get stronger. There is research showing this combination helps the body’s ability genetically to kill cancer and prevent cancer from growing and spreading.”Leland said she had confirmation of the effectiveness of these alternative treatments from studies on ivermectin, fenbendazole, and other anti-parasitic drugs. Mebendazole is another anti-parasitic drug that both Makis and Harmon recommended as an effective cancer treatment.One year after her hysterectomy, Leland said she is healthier than she has ever been, partly because of her continuing use of anti-parasitic drugs for preventive purposes.“After being checked every three months for evidence of cancer, my oncologist continues to declare me cancer-free.”“I feel like I’m 20 years younger,” Leland said. “God has been faithful to lead me on this journey.”Global ImpactThe Tippens Protocol has achieved significant international reach, particularly in China, where a translated blog has garnered more than 20 million views. This has led to an estimated 70,000 followers of what’s affectionately called the “Uncle Joey Protocol.”Despite opportunities to monetize his discovery, Tippens has refused all financial gain.“I have had search engine experts who have told me I could monetize this blog to the tune of $25,000 to $30,000 per month,” he said. “I can’t do that for a simple reason: I have hundreds of people who have told me the reason they believe me and trust me is because I am doing all this and not monetizing it. The second I monetized it, I would be just another guy out there hawking product out on the Internet, trying to make money.”Tippens warns about fraudulent Facebook pages that falsely use his name to sell substandard drugs.Regulatory and Medical ChallengesThe FDA confirmed that it has not approved “drug products containing fenbendazole for use in humans,” said Lauren-Jei McCarthy, FDA press officer, in a statement to The Epoch Times. It has not gone through the rigorous testing and clinical trials required for drugs intended for human use. Fenbendazole is approved by the FDA as an antiparasitic drug for use in animals. It is commonly used to deworm dogs, cats, horses, and cattle.Ivermectin, while FDA-approved for human use against parasitic worms, is not approved for cancer treatment. Health care providers may prescribe ivermectin to fight cancer as a repurposed medication. Both medications are available without prescriptions and are routinely purchased for veterinary use.Makis, who has been at the cutting edge of advocating for holistic treatments that include the repurposed drugs, said he believes we are in a revolutionary era of effective cancer treatments.“This is the first time in several generations there is a strong movement for true medical freedom, to allow for exploration of treatments that don’t benefit any big company,” he said.Serious side effects from fenbendazole and ivermectin are rare, Makis said.“I have seen moderate side effects, which include unpleasant visual symptoms, some dizziness, and fatigue,” Makis said.Tippens is encouraged by ongoing research into other FDA-approved drugs that might be repurposed for cancer treatment.“Because of my story, I think there are other efforts in research in the anti-parasitic category,“ Tippen said. ”There are seven sister drugs to fenbendazole. One medical group has used mebendazole in their protocol. I think I’ve started at least opening people’s brains to something.” Tyler DurdenThu, 06/26/2025 - 22:35

2025-06-27

CNBC Daily Open: Wall Street is tuning out the noise and catching rays

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said he is “all in” on OpenAI, with its planned investments in the company reaching about 4.8 trillion Japanese yen ($33.2 billion). “I think that OpenAI will be listed eventually and, in my belief, will become the most valuable company in the world,” Son said at a shareholders’ meeting. He revealed he had wanted to be an early investor in OpenAI but ultimately lost out to Microsoft.SoftBank is “all in” on OpenAI, CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday, as the Japanese tech giant looks to realize its vision of “artificial superintelligence.”This year, the Japanese multinational conglomerate has been increasing its investments in OpenAI and participating in joint ventures such as the $500 billion Stargate project. According to Son, SoftBank is now “all in” on the artificial intelligence company, with total planned investments in the company reaching about 4.8 trillion Japanese yen ($33.2 billion), despite it being unlisted and unprofitable.“I think that OpenAI will be listed eventually and, in my belief, will become the most valuable company in the world,” Son said. He added, however, that it “takes bravery to invest” in such a company. As it turns out, Son has long held that conviction. During the shareholders’ meeting, he revealed that before 2019, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had asked him if SoftBank would invest $10 billion into the company.“I said, yes, I would ... I was serious because I had financial resources thanks to Vision Fund’s performance. But obviously, Sam talked to other potential investors, and eventually, they picked Microsoft,” he said. Microsoft ultimately inked the deal, which made it the exclusive provider of computing power for OpenAI’s research, products, and programming interfaces for developers. However, Microsoft lost its status as OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider at the start of this year.And that relationship now appears to be on rocky footing. According to recent reports, Microsoft hasn’t approved an OpenAI restructuring plan that would turn it into a more conventional for-profit company.Touching upon the reports, Son suggested that Altman should have chosen SoftBank, not Microsoft, as its initial partner, though he noted that SoftBank was smaller at the time and that Microsoft had its global supply chains, technical talents and brand value to offer. SoftBank has previously stated that it could reduce its portion of its $30 billion investment in OpenAI’s latest funding round in March to $20 billion if it doesn’t restructure into a for-profit entity by Dec. 31.However, on Friday, Son said that his conviction on OpenAI has only grown stronger and that SoftBank will continue to deepen its relationship with the company, regardless of what happens with Microsoft. Artificial superintelligencePart of Son’s belief in OpenAI stems from his desire for SoftBank to be at the center of “artificial superintelligence,” which he has described as AI that is 10,000 times smarter than humans. Son said on Friday that he wants SoftBank to become the biggest platform provider for this ASI within the next decade, serving as the “organizer of the industry in the artificial superintelligence era.” He added that SoftBank’s partnership with OpenAI, along with British semiconductor company Arm, which SoftBank acquired in 2016, would be essential to those plans.Other major AI-related investments that SoftBank has made this year include an acquisition of U.S.-based chips designer Ampere for $6.5 billion. Bloomberg News reported last week, citing people familiar with the matter, that Son is also considering establishing a $1 trillion industrial complex in the U.S. that will develop AI.

2025-06-27

New doc features RIINO’s electric rail system and its future in mining haulage

Sudbury-based RIINO has officially released a new short documentary – produced in collaboration with CBS and Acumen – spotlighting behind the scenes of RIINO’s fully [...]The post New doc features RIINO’s electric rail system and its future in mining haulage appeared first on Canadian Mining Journal.

2025-06-27

Turkish Farmers Pioneer XAG Agricultural Drones for Water-Smart Practices

GÖNEN, Turkey, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Turkey is grappling with a significant water challenge: 186 of its 240 lakes have vanished in just 60 years. This ongoing environmental pressure has driven innovations among local small and medium-sized farmers. In Gönen, the nation's rice...

2025-06-26

Two First Nations setting up encampment near proposed bridge to Ring of Fire

A political decision one thousand kilometres from Jeronimo Kataquapit’s home in a remote First Nation near James Bay set the course for his summer. Now, the 20-year-old from Attawapiskat First Nation, his father, mother and older brother are headed upriver in two 24-foot freighter canoes on a 400-kilometre journey to “reassert First Nations’ presence” near [...]

2025-06-26

NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare

Rapidly growing healthtech startup has majority of its backing from Canadian investors.The post NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare first appeared on BetaKit.

2025-06-26

Reports of coming layoffs swirl at Microsoft as workers worry they’re next

SPOKANE — Microsoft employees aren’t getting much time to take a breath between layoff rounds as thousands could be let go in early July, according to news reports.

2025-06-26

Three Cheers for Jerome Powell - Barron's

Three Cheers for Jerome Powell Barron'sTrump's war against the Powell Fed has taken another political turn CNBCExclusive | Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell WSJInvestors on Edge About a Potential Shadow Fed Chair The New York TimesTrump versus the Fed The American Prospect

2025-06-26

College graduates face toughest job market in more than a decade as hiring slows

It suggests businesses are holding off on hiring new workers because of uncertainty.

2025-06-26

Silver Elephant Closes First Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement raising Gross Proceeds of $172,000

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 25, 2025) - Silver Elephant Mining Corp. (TSX: ELEF) (OTCQB: SILEF) (FSE: 1P2) ("Silver Elephant" or the "Company") announces that, further to its news releases dated June 11, 2025, it has closed the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") raising gross...

2025-06-26

ACEN and UPC Renewables break ground on over 500 MW of new renewable energy projects in India

MAKATI CITY, Philippines, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ACEN, in partnership with UPC Renewables, has commenced construction of two major renewable energy projects in India: a 420 MW solar farm in Rajasthan and a 120 MW wind farm in Karnataka. These new developments mark a significant step forward in ACEN and UPC's strategic expansion into one of the world's fastest-growing clean energy markets. Slated for completion by early 2027, the projects are expected to generate a combined 1,158 GWh of clean electricity annually, enough to power around 241,000 homes and avoid over 876,000 tons of carbon emissions ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-26

Firm outlines audit into IEDC operations over past 3 years

Many on the new nine-member board introduced at Wednesday's meeting are business owners, like the governor.

2025-06-26

Rove Pest Control Joins Forces with Greenix Pest Control

OAKDALE, Minn., June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rove Pest Control, a trusted name in pest management known for its commitment to exceptional service and customer understanding, today announced that its Madison, Wisconsin operations have been acquired by Greenix Pest Control,...

2025-06-26

Optiva Inc. Announces Results of Annual Meeting

TORONTO, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Optiva Inc. ("Optiva" or the "Company") (TSX:OPT), a leader in powering the telecom industry with cloud-native billing, charging and revenue management software on private and public clouds, today announced that Patrick DiPietro, Lee Matheson, Simon Parmar, Robert Stabile, Barry Symons, and Birgit Troy were elected to the Company's board of directors (the "Board") at the Company's annual meeting of holders of common shares held earlier today (the "Meeting"). In addition, a resolution was carried at the Meeting to re-appoint KPMG LLP as the auditor of the Company and to authorize the Board to fix the auditor's remuneration.

2025-06-26

Mars' acquisition of Pringles' maker triggers EU alarms - DW

Mars' acquisition of Pringles' maker triggers EU alarms DWMars’s $30 Billion Takeover of Kellanova Comes Under In-Depth EU Investigation WSJUS FTC says Mars' $36 billion Kellanova deal is not anticompetitive ReutersMars' $36 billion Kellanova deal may lead to price hikes, EU regulators warn Yahoo FinanceMars $36 Billion Kellanova Deal Waved Ahead by US Regulator Bloomberg

2025-06-26

ISIS-Inspired Drone War Plans Leaked From US National Security Council

ISIS-Inspired Drone War Plans Leaked From US National Security Council Authored by José Niño via Headline USA,According to leaked documents, British and American academics advised the U.S. National Security Council to encourage Ukraine to adopt ISIS-style drone tactics against Russian railways.In a report published by investigative journalist Kit Klarenberg for The Grayzone on Monday, Project Alchemy, a secret academic-intelligence cell whose mission was “to keep Ukraine fighting” by imposing “strategic dilemmas, costs and frictions upon Russia” was revealed as the network allegedly behind these plans.The academic recommendations were delivered to Colonel Tim Wright, who served as the Biden administration’s Director for Russia at the National Security Council from August 2021 to July 2022. The proposals came from three key drone experts within a broader Ukraine Working Group composed of “approximately 60 experts hailing from states throughout NATO” who sought to “assist Ukraine’s defense (short of deploying combat forces).”Zachary Kallenborn from George Mason University’s Schar School advocated for “two-stage attacks like ISIS did frequently” on Russian railways, recommending Ukraine “break the track, and wait for the engineers to come to fix it, then use the drone to kill them.” An unnamed Durham University researcher identified as “M.E.D.” cited Islamic State’s “innovative” use of drones as documented in a July 2018 West Point paper, suggesting commercial drones could be “modified via a simple drop mechanism... to serve as effective munitions delivery platforms.”Dominika Kunertova, formerly of ETH Zurich’s Center for Security Studies and currently directing drone warfare research at the Atlantic Council, recommended targeting “anything that uses” railroads as opposed to the infrastructure itself.These academic blueprints proved prophetic when Ukraine launched Operation Spider Web late last month conducting bold drone attacks inside Russia that killed seven people and injured more than 30, including two children.The timing proved particularly significant as these attacks took place “on the eve of scheduled negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.”Ukrainian forces subsequently destroyed a Russian fuel train late last month using a DJI Mavic III drone, one of the specific models Kallenborn had recommended for modification.The attacks continued through this month with Operation Spiderweb 2.0, demonstrating how the “British-born strategy has heavily influenced the thinking of Kiev’s increasingly desperate military.” Tyler DurdenWed, 06/25/2025 - 22:35

2025-06-26

FEMA is not a ‘replacement for insurance coverage,' risk management expert says. Here's why

The Trump Organization has removed a reference to the recently-announced T1 smartphone being made in America. The T1’s webpage now has a reference to “American-Proud Design.” The website says the device is “brought to life right here in the USA.” When the T1 was initially announced, experts told CNBC the device would likely be made in China.The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag.A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, which is owned by U.S. President Donald Trump, nevertheless maintained the handset would be made in the U.S.This month, the Trump Organization introduced the T1, a gold-colored device set to retail for $499. At the time of the announcement, a banner on the homepage of the company’s website said: “Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1 Phone’ is available for pre-order now.”The reference to where the phone will be produced has been completely removed. The change was first noted by The Verge.The T1’s webpage now says the phone has “American-Proud Design” and is “brought to life right here in the USA” — though it’s unclear if that means it will actually be manufactured in America.When the T1 was initially announced, experts told CNBC the device would likely be made in China by a local third-party company. The U.S. does not have an advanced supply chain to manufacture smartphones. Even if it did, many components would still need to come from overseas.However, in a statement to USA TODAY, Trump Mobile Spokesperson Chris Walker, said that “T1 phones are proudly being made in America.”“Speculation to the contrary is simply inaccurate,” Walker said.The language about manufacturing location is not the only thing that has changed on the T1 website. Some of the features and specs of the device have also been updated.In the initial announcement, the Trump Mobile website said the T1 would have a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen. That has now been reduced to 6.25-inch AMOLED display. A reference to the device having 12 gigabytes of random access memory (RAM), has also been dropped.It’s an unusual move for a smartphone company to change the specs of a device after it has been announced.CNBC has reached out to the Trump Organization about the changes in language regarding the device being manufactured in the U.S., as well as amendments to the phones specs.Trump has made reshoring manufacturing in tech a key priority. While his initial attention was on getting semiconductor manufacturing capacity built up, the White House leader has turned his sights on smartphones. He has also poured scrutiny on Apple‘s supply chain, urging the iPhone maker to manufacture its flagship handset in the U.S.

2025-06-26

CNBC Daily Open: Funny how the S&P 500 is teasing a new high amid uncertainties

H&M has faced several consecutive quarters of soft sales, as it has struggled to close a widening gap with rivals Inditex, Shein and Temu. Revenues at the world’s second-largest clothing retailer dipped year-on-year to 56.71 billion Swedish krona. The company did not provide specific detail on the impact of trade tariffs, but said it was closely watching the situation.Swedish clothing giant H&M on Thursday reported weaker-than-expected sales in the fiscal second quarter but pointed to an uptick in demand to kick-start the summer season.Revenues at the world’s second-largest clothing retailer dipped year-on-year to 56.71 billion Swedish krona ($5.99 billion) in the three-month period to May. 31, slightly below the 57.01 billion Swedish krona forecast by LSEG analysts. In local currencies, sales were up 1%.Operating profit totaled 5.9 billion Swedish krona over the quarter, in line with expectations.Shares were up 5.2% by 8:07 a.m. London time.CEO Daniel Erver said that the quarter’s results were “negatively affected” by higher purchasing prices from a more expensive U.S. dollar and higher freight costs.The company noted, however, that sales in June were expected to increase 3% in local currencies as demand shows signs of picking up over the summer months.“The negative external factors that increased the costs of purchasing for the first half of the year are turning positive for the second half of the year,” Erver said in a statement accompanying the results.H&M, which counts the U.S. as its second-largest single market and heavily depends on production in Asia — notably China and Bangladesh — did not provide specific detail on the impact of U.S. trade tariffs, but said it was watching the situation.It nevertheless noted cautiousness among consumers in current “uncertain times.”“The company is closely monitoring developments in global trade and trade restrictions. With good flexibility in the supply chain and through the pricing of the customer offering there are opportunities to adapt the business to changed conditions,” Erver added.It also flagged 200 store closures scheduled for 2025, primarily in established markets, and 80 new store openings, largely in growth markets.The fashion retailer previously reported a slow start to the year, but pointed to an annual uptick in sales in March.H&M has faced several consecutive quarters of soft sales, as it has struggled to close a widening gap with Inditex-owned rival Zara and fend off increased competition from lower-cost retailers, such as Shein and Temu.U.S. tariffs and weak consumer confidence have nevertheless become a drag for the retail sector more widely, with Inditex earlier this month posting weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and a slower start to the summer amid broad economic uncertainty.Retail and consumer goods emerged as the most distressed sector in Europe, according to a new report from law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, which cited tight credit conditions, cost inflation and weaker consumer demand among pressures on the industry.This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.

2025-06-26

First Nordic Announces Annual General Meeting Voting Results

TORONTO, June 25, 2025 /CNW/ - First Nordic Metals Corp. ("First Nordic" or the "Company") (TSXV:FNM) (FNSE: FNMC SDB) (OTCQB:FNMCF) (FRA: HEG0) is pleased to announce the results of the Company's Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "Meeting") held on June 25, 2025. A total of 49,884,492 common shares were represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting, representing approximately 18% of the votes attached to all outstanding common shares of the Company as at the record date. All the matters submitted to the shareholders, as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated May 22, 2025, were voted in favor. The number of directors elected at the Meeting was seven (7) and the directors will hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders or until their successors are elected or appointed:DirectorVotes For% Votes ForVotes Withheld% Votes WithheldTaj Singh42,922,10590.23 %4,646,4699.77 %Adam Cegielski46,183,058Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-26

Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights - Variety

Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights VarietyIn a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors NPRThe Anthropic 'Fair Use' Copyright Ruling Exposes Blind Spots on AI Bloomberg.comMeta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors The GuardianAnthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Ars Technica

2025-06-26

Trump Organization scraps ‘made in the USA' tag for its gold T1 smartphone

The Trump Organization has removed a reference to the recently-announced T1 smartphone being made in America. The T1’s webpage now has a reference to “American-Proud Design.” The website says the device is “brought to life right here in the USA.” When the T1 was initially announced, experts told CNBC the device would likely be made in China.The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag.A spokesperson for the Trump Organization, which is owned by U.S. President Donald Trump, nevertheless maintained the handset would be made in the U.S.This month, the Trump Organization introduced the T1, a gold-colored device set to retail for $499. At the time of the announcement, a banner on the homepage of the company’s website said: “Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1 Phone’ is available for pre-order now.”The reference to where the phone will be produced has been completely removed. The change was first noted by The Verge.The T1’s webpage now says the phone has “American-Proud Design” and is “brought to life right here in the USA” — though it’s unclear if that means it will actually be manufactured in America.When the T1 was initially announced, experts told CNBC the device would likely be made in China by a local third-party company. The U.S. does not have an advanced supply chain to manufacture smartphones. Even if it did, many components would still need to come from overseas.However, in a statement to USA TODAY, Trump Mobile Spokesperson Chris Walker, said that “T1 phones are proudly being made in America.”“Speculation to the contrary is simply inaccurate,” Walker said.The language about manufacturing location is not the only thing that has changed on the T1 website. Some of the features and specs of the device have also been updated.In the initial announcement, the Trump Mobile website said the T1 would have a 6.8-inch AMOLED screen. That has now been reduced to 6.25-inch AMOLED display. A reference to the device having 12 gigabytes of random access memory (RAM), has also been dropped.It’s an unusual move for a smartphone company to change the specs of a device after it has been announced.CNBC has reached out to the Trump Organization about the changes in language regarding the device being manufactured in the U.S., as well as amendments to the phones specs.Trump has made reshoring manufacturing in tech a key priority. While his initial attention was on getting semiconductor manufacturing capacity built up, the White House leader has turned his sights on smartphones. He has also poured scrutiny on Apple‘s supply chain, urging the iPhone maker to manufacture its flagship handset in the U.S.

2025-06-25

NFTE Expands Partnership with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's G-Unity Foundation to Empower Young Entrepreneurs

New York, NY, June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) today announced the expansion of its partnership with Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's G-Unity Foundation. Initially launched at the 2024 NFTE Entrepreneurial Spirit Awards Gala, this collaboration is dedicated to equipping young people with the entrepreneurial skills and mindset they need to thrive in today's competitive world. The expanded partnership centers around a series of NFTE summer BizCamps operated in conjunction with the G-Unity Business Lab. These camps are designed to cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs through hands-on learning experiences and community engagement. "This is about opening real doors for young people," said Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, founder of the G-Unity Foundation. "When I was growing up, I had to navigate everything on my own. These camps provide the tools, mentorship, and confidence they need to take charge of their future — and that's life-changing." In partnership with the Inner City Entrepreneur Institute, the first of four BizCamps launched in Shreveport, Louisiana, earlier this month. This initiative is part of the G-Unity Foundation's broader commitment to community redevelopment in Shreveport, aimed at fostering new businesses and enhancing the local quality ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-25

Powell: Waiting to see what shows up in measured inflation - Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading Tools

Powell: Waiting to see what shows up in measured inflation Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading ToolsWatch Fed Chair Jerome Powell testify live before Senate banking panel CNBCThe Fed Chair repeated that the US economy and labour market remain in a solid position FXStreetFed Leaders Signal Patience In Rate Changes As Tariffs Loom FinimizeEUR/USD Consolidates Ahead of Fed Chair Powell Testimony FOREX.com

2025-06-25

Lakeland Capital Welcomes 2025 Summer Interns

CHARLESTON, S.C., June 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lakeland Capital, a Charleston-based private, multifamily investment company active in select East Coast markets, is pleased to welcome Margaret Cover and Michael Smyth to its 2025 summer intern class.Margaret and Michael will support several ongoing initiatives across multiple functions, gaining hands-on experience along with invaluable insight into the overall multifamily investment and management business. Throughout the program, they will work alongside Lakeland Capital's leadership team and receive structured feedback during weekly touchpoints. The summer internship program culminates with Margaret and Michael delivering a set of actionable investment and operational recommendations."Our internship program provides a unique pathway for aspiring real estate professionals to cultivate critical skills through an immersive experience," said Alexander R. Westra, managing partner at Lakeland Capital. "We are delighted to welcome Margaret and Michael ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-25

Wine and spirits company fined $40K for paying Ontario retail stores to promote its products - CTV News

Wine and spirits company fined $40K for paying Ontario retail stores to promote its products CTV News

2025-06-25

Wine and spirits company fined $40K for paying Ontario retail stores to promote its products - CP24

Wine and spirits company fined $40K for paying Ontario retail stores to promote its products CP24

2025-06-25

Oil Jumps on Significant Crude, Product Inventory Slide

Crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 5.8 million barrels during the week ending June 20, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The drop brings commercial stockpiles to 415.1 million barrels, roughly 11% below the five-year average for this time of year. Crude prices were trading up ahead of the report. The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday had estimated a 4.277-million-barrel drop for the week ending June 20 after analysts had estimated a much smaller 600,000-barrel...

2025-06-25

Western Canada holds potential to become a 'critical minerals processing behemoth,' expert says

Cites new reports that looked at nine metals and five regions where opportunities exist for major projects

2025-06-25

$100 Invested In This Stock 20 Years Ago Would Be Worth This Much Today

Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) has outperformed the market over the past 20 years by 3.48% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 11.91%. Currently, Take-Two Interactive has a market capitalization of $44.42 billion. Buying $100 In TTWO: If ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-25

MarketsandMarkets' 360Quadrants Recognizes Top Startups and SMEs in the PFAS Filtration Quadrant Report 2025

DELRAY BEACH, Fla., June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- 360Quadrants has released its latest PFAS Filtration Startups/SMEs Companies Assessment, 2025, recognizing key players, including both global giants and emerging innovators, for their excellence in market presence, product innovation, and business strategy. The report highlights Mineral Technologies, Inc., Aquasana Inc., Newterra Corporation, Eurowater, Aqua-Aerobic System, Inc. Hydroviv, Saltworks Technologies, Inc., Aclarity, Inc., Aquagga, Inc., and Onvector LLC, among the top companies, are actively shaping the future of the PFAS Filtration Startups/SMEs Companies Assessment.The evaluation leverages 360Quadrants' proprietary methodology to map competitive positioning across 7,000+ micro markets within 10+ industries, enabling decision-makers to make strategic, data-backed vendor choices.Company Highlights in the PFAS Filtration Startups/SMEs Companies Assessment:Mineral Technologies, Inc. is a global leader in water treatment technologies and solutions, operating through two main business segments: Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions. Within the Engineered Solutions segment, the company provides advanced treatment solutions for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). A key offering in this area is Fluoro-sorb adsorbent, a proprietary and NSF-certified product designed for the effective treatment of various PFAS compounds. This versatile solution binds a broad spectrum of PFAS contaminants and is suitable for diverse removal and remediation applications. It can also be used to manage contamination at its source through methods such as Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) and In Situ Stabilization and Solidification (ISS).Aclarity, inc. is a leading player in the water technology sector, offering a comprehensive PFAS destruction solution under the brand name "The Aclarity Octa." This groundbreaking system is the first full-scale PFAS destruction technology to be deployed globally. The Aclarity Octa utilizes a proprietary electrochemical process to effectively break down and eliminate PFAS contaminants. This advanced approach goes beyond traditional removal methods ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

2025-06-25

Manitoba senior loses $2M in crypto scam - Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba senior loses $2M in crypto scam Winnipeg Free PressManitobans being warned after senior loses $2M in crypto scam CTV NewsBrant County resident loses $18,500 in cryptocurrency scam: OPP Brantford ExpositorPolice sound alarm over rash of five-figure 'cryptocurrency fraud' cases lfpressVictim loses $18.5K in cryptocurrency scam: OPP The Spec

2025-06-25

WTI Crude Prices Edge Higher After Across The Board Inventory Draws

WTI Crude Prices Edge Higher After Across The Board Inventory Draws Oil prices edged higher this morning after posting the biggest two-day decline since 2022, as traders assessed the Iran-Israel ceasefire and the API report overnight that pointed to another drop in US crude stockpiles.“There is no longer any real fear of the conflict spreading,” said Arne Lohmann Rasmussen, chief analyst at A/S Global Risk Management. “With Trump’s comments on Iranian oil exports, downward pressure on oil prices is likely to continue.”APICrude -4.28mmCushing -75kGasoline +764kDistillates -1.03mmDOECrude -5.84mmCushing -464kGasoline -2.08mmDistillates -4.07mmThe official data confirmed API's reported big crude draw and products also saw major inventory drawdowns last week...Source: BloombergTotal US crude stockpiles dropped to their lowest since January...Source: BloombergDespite a small 237k addition to the SPR, Crude stocks fell for the 5th straight week...Source: BloombergUS crude production pushed modestly higher last week as the rig count continues to slide...Source: BloombergWTI Crude prices inched higher after the report following two days of carnage...Source: BloombergThe OPEC+ alliance is due to hold discussions on July 6 to consider a further supply boost in August. Tyler DurdenWed, 06/25/2025 - 10:43

2025-06-25

Beverage Sales, Volume Trending Positive As Summer Heats Up

Non-alcoholic beverage sales are trending upward in the two-week period ended June 14, as volume rose and pricing dipped, according to the latest NielsenIQ data analysis by Goldman Sachs Equity Research.

2025-06-25

Editor Daily Rundown: Socialist Wins Democratic Primary In New York City Mayor’s Race

SOCIALIST WINS DEM PRIMARY IN NYC MAYORAL RACE ... Socialist On Brink Of Leading Center Of American Capitalism, Cuomo ConcedesSocialist Democratic New York Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is ahead in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor, which was held on Tuesday.

2025-06-25

US stocks hang near their record as Wall Street takes a breath following two big days

Traders appear convinced that the ceasefire means few disruptions to the oil market, which would have raised prices and cut into profits.

2025-06-25

Europe has huge defense supply chains, strong government demand is key to sustain investment

Joerg Wuttke from DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group discusses Europe's plan to increase defense spending to 5% GDP. He says to spend 1.5% in that 5% on related spending such as infrastructure and software is a smart move given the expanded definition of dual-use.

2025-06-25

Big Decisions Remain As Supreme Court's Term Approaches End

Big Decisions Remain As Supreme Court's Term Approaches End Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times,The Supreme Court has already released major decisions for the 2024–2025 term, but some of its most consequential could still be in the making.So far, the justices have ruled on religious liberty, gender-related issues, environmental policy, and a case with a large impact on the vaping industry. Yet, more opinions are coming—ones that, among other things, could help determine parents’ rights, funding for abortion organizations, and whether and how much lower court judges can block presidents’ agendas.Here is a breakdown of what to expect as the term comes to an end:Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide InjunctionsFrom President Donald Trump’s first term to his second, presidents have encountered a spike in judges’ orders that block presidents’ agendas on a nationwide basis. These nationwide injunctions have provoked concerns about the nation’s separation of powers and whether the judiciary is being gamed by political activists.Three of these injunctions have targeted Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship, which is a major portion of his immigration agenda. While the justices could weigh in on the constitutionality of Trump’s order, they will likely focus, at this point in litigation, on whether judges are exceeding their authority with such orders.U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices in May that nationwide injunctions exceeded the power granted to judges under Article III of the Constitution. That article allows the federal judiciary to hear “cases” and “controversies,” a provision that some say means that judges’ orders should affect only the parties before them in court.It’s unclear how the court will rule. The justices seemed divided during oral arguments on May 15. Regardless, the decision could alter the balance of power in the federal government for generations to come.Sex and Gender in School LibrariesThe court is expected to weigh in soon in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The case is about whether schools should be able to require children’s participation involving storybooks with controversial content about sexuality and gender.A group of Christian and Muslim parents sued Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, alleging that requiring their kids to hear storybooks without an opt-out on these topics burdened their parents’ exercise of religion under the First Amendment.Part of their argument cited a Supreme Court precedent known as Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972), which said parents have a constitutional right to direct the religious upbringing of their children. Among the cited content in the current case is “Born Ready,” a book with a transgender character named Penelope who identifies as a boy.The school district said that allowing children to opt out was not feasible and that its actions didn’t violate the First Amendment either because it wasn’t coercing children by exposing them to certain content.During oral arguments in April, the Supreme Court seemed inclined to rule in the parents’ favor but could see some dissent.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, for example, asked how the county was burdening parents when they didn’t have to send their kids to public school. “You can put them in another situation,” she said. “You can home-school them.”Age Verification for Porn WebsitesAmid an explosion of online pornography, states have attempted to intervene to prevent health-related harms to young people. One such law from Texas has offered the justices an opportunity to analyze how regulations on pornography may or may not conflict with the First Amendment.The Texas law requires pornographic websites to verify the age of their users. A porn industry group, known as the Free Speech Coalition, alleged that the requirement was too broad and therefore violated the First Amendment.The coalition initially won in district court, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allowed Texas’s age verification requirement to proceed. It said the requirement was rationally related to the state’s interest in protecting minors from pornography.The Free Speech Coalition told the Supreme Court that the Fifth Circuit should have applied strict scrutiny. Under that standard, governments have to show that their laws are not overly broad and serve a compelling state interest.Planned Parenthood and State Medicaid FundsPlanned Parenthood and abortion are back at the Supreme Court. But this time, the case focuses on how much money the abortion provider gets through Medicaid.In 2018, South Carolina’s government decided that abortion clinics enrolled in the program were unqualified to provide family planning services and shouldn’t receive funding.Planned Parenthood and a patient sued, arguing that the federal law establishing Medicaid allowed recipients to choose their providers. During oral argument on April 2, the Supreme Court weighed whether the law created an enforceable right for recipients to sue if they didn’t have access to the provider they chose.Obamacare Panel on Preventive MeasuresA separate, health-related case focuses on a panel set up under Obamacare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, to recommend preventive care for insurance to cover. The legal issue the Supreme Court is reviewing is less about particular recommendations and more about the structure of the Preventive Services Task Force.A company known as Braidwood Management sued, alleging that the task force’s members had to be appointed by the president. They cited a provision of the Constitution known as the Appointments Clause.When the case, which was initiated during the first Trump administration, reached a federal appeals court, Braidwood won on that point. The Supreme Court reviewed the issue after the Biden administration asked it to intervene. The current Trump administration continued the legal defense of the task force. Tyler DurdenTue, 06/24/2025 - 22:35

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Congress' ‘big beautiful' bill proposes new Medicaid work requirements. Here's what to know

New Medicaid work requirements proposed in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” may prompt millions of Americans to lose coverage. Individuals ages 19 to 64 would need to work at least 80 hours per week to be eligible for coverage, unless they qualify for certain exemptions. Here’s what experts say about the proposal.Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmerican flags are displayed on the lawn of the National Mall with the U.S. Capitol Building in the background on June 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that is making its way through Congress may put millions of people at risk of losing access to Medicaid.One reform that may prompt that loss of coverage — the implementation of new work requirements — was included in both the Senate and House versions of the bill.In 2034, about 4.8 million additional people would be uninsured based on work requirements in the House Republican budget bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan legislative scorekeeper.More from Personal Finance:Health-care cuts in GOP budget bill prompt medical debt: ReportSenate tax bill includes $1,000 baby bonus in ‘Trump accounts’‘SALT’ deduction in limbo as Senate Republicans unveil tax plan“There’s no question that millions of people will be harmed,” said Allison Orris, senior fellow and director of Medicaid policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.Overall, 16 million individuals may be uninsured by 2034, according to CBO, based on the combined effects of the House Republicans’ budget bill on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage; the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits tied to the ACA; and a separate rule proposed by the Trump administration targeting ACA marketplaces.‘Big beautiful’ bill includes Medicaid work requirementsThe House and Senate versions of the “big beautiful” bill would impose federal work requirements on Medicaid for the first time.Per the House and Senate proposals, individuals ages 19 to 64 who apply for Medicaid or who are enrolled through Affordable Care Act expansion group would need to would need to work or participate in qualifying activities for 80 hours per month.Adults may be exempt if they have dependent children or have qualifying circumstances such as medical conditions; however, “exemptions don’t always work, and people could lose coverage anyway,” Orris said.Medicaid work requirements proposed in the House bill would cut federal spending by $344 billion over 10 years, representing the legislation’s largest source of Medicaid savings, according to KFF, a nonprofit provider of health policy research.Current law prohibits basing Medicaid eligibility on work requirements or work reporting requirements, according to KFF. “Many people on Medicaid, if they’re able to, are already working,” said Robin Rudowitz, director of the program on Medicaid and the uninsured at KFF.However, some states may implement work requirements if they receive approval through waivers. Georgia is currently the only state with a Medicaid work requirement. “Several” other states have recently submitted waiver requests to put such requirements in place, according to KFF.Arkansas previously implemented Medicaid work requirements. However, estimates have shown while more people became uninsured because of that policy, there were not meaningful increases in employment, according to Rudowitz.Senate work requirements would include some parentsThe Senate version of the bill introduced a “harsher” take on the work requirements that would apply to some parents, Orris said. The Senate calls for limiting parental exemptions to those with children ages 14 and under, rather than all parents of dependent children as the House proposed.Individuals who apply for Medicaid coverage would need to meet work and other requirements for one or more consecutive months before they apply. Eligibility redeterminations would be conducted at least twice per year to ensure enrollees still meet those requirements.The Senate version proposes capping the look-back period for showing compliance with work requirements to three months, which on net may be helpful to people, Orris said.If an individual is denied coverage or disenrolled because they do not meet the Medicaid work requirements, they would be ineligible for subsidized marketplace coverage.The Senate bill also allows for a longer timeline for states to comply with the Medicaid work requirements. The chamber’s bill would give states the ability to ask for a good faith waiver that would give them an additional two years to come into compliance with the provision, or until the end of 2028, rather than the end of 2026 in the House version.

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CNBC Daily Open: A truce is to be celebrated — but it doesn't promise peace

This is CNBC’s live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets.Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed Wednesday, as investors weighed a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, as well as fresh commentary from the U.S. Federal Reserve.There is growing optimism that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump will likely hold.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was flat, closing at 8,559.2.South Korea’s Kospi climbed 0.15% to end at 3,108.25, while the small-cap Kosdaq fell 0.34% to end the trading day at 798.21.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.39% to 38,942.07, while the Topix closed flat at 2,782.24.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index climbed 1.46% and mainland China’s CSI 300 rose 1.44% to 3,960.07.U.S. futures are near flat. Futures tied to the broad S&P 500 index ticked down 0.1%, as did Nasdaq 100 futures. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures lost 26 points, or 0.1%.Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday the Fed was committed to keeping inflation in check and would likely keep rates steady until there’s more clarity on how tariffs might affect prices.Powell said policymakers were “well positioned to wait to learn more about the likely course of the economy before considering any adjustments to our policy stance.”Overnight stateside, the three major averages closed higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 507.24 points, or 1.19%, and closed at 43,089.02. The S&P 500 gained 1.11% to end at 6,092.18. The broad market index is now about 0.9% away from its 52-week high. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.43%, settling at 19,912.53. The Nasdaq 100 added 1.53% for a record close of 22,190.52.— CNBC’s Lisa Kailan Han and Brian Evans contributed to this report.Reserve Bank of Australia expected to cut cash rate in July, says CBAThe Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to cut its cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.6% in its July meeting, Commonwealth Bank of Australia wrote in a note after the release of Australia’s inflation data.The monthly consumer price inflation in May came in at 2.1%, below the 2.3% estimated by economists polled by Reuters.“A benign monthly CPI print in May and a steady labor market allow the RBA to move the cash rate back to neutral at a relatively swift pace,” CBA economists wrote, adding that they also expect a follow-up 25 basis points rate cut in August.“Today’s monthly CPI print capped off a flow of data that should provide comfort to the RBA that a swifter return of the cash rate to neutral is both manageable and needed,” the economists said.— Lee Ying ShanChina tech stocks rise as Beijing approves most new games this yearShares of gaming firms NetEase and Tencent rose Wednesday after China’s gaming regulator approved 158 publishing licenses in June, the largest number this year.The National Press and Public Administration said in a notice late Tuesday that it granted over a hundred new game licenses to the likes of Tencent, Baidu, NetEase and ByteDance, including a dozen imported games.NetEase’s shares listed in Hong Kong rose as much as 1.6%, extending gains of about 1% in its U.S.-listed shares. Moves in Tencent shares were relatively muted, rising as much as 0.6%. But its over-the-counter shares in the U.S. were up 1.97% overnight, according to LSEG data.Shares of the gaming developers had taken a beating when Beijing enacted an 18-month freeze on game license approval until early 2022.Since then, the number of licenses has been on a steady rise.The number of new game licenses rose to 1,416 in 2024, near the level seen in 2020, and is expected to match or exceed 2019’s level this year.— Anniek BaoAustralia’s inflation rate hits 6-month low as food inflation softensAustralia’s monthly inflation rate came in at 2.1% in May, hitting its lowest level since October 2024.This was lower than the 2.3% expected by economists polled by Reuters, and also down from the 2.4% in April.Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed that food and housing inflation also softened from the month before, while transport prices continued to decline.— Lim Hui JieOil prices climb over 1% after two sessions of declinesOil prices climbed over 1% in early Asia hours Wednesday after two sessions of declines stateside.U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 1.34% to $65.23 per barrel, while global benchmark Brent was up 1.28% at $68 per barrel as of 9.18 a.m. Singapore time.This comes after oil prices tumbled for a second day Tuesday, as the market bet that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran would hold and the risk of a major crude supply disruption had faded.While there has been a brief recovery, the sharp decline in oil prices indicates the “continuing dominance of bears in the market,” said Alex Kuptsikevich, FxPro’s chief market analyst.—Lee Ying ShanChina doubles down on promoting yuan as confidence in U.S. dollar takes a beatingChina is devising more ways for foreign institutions to use the yuan, as international confidence in the U.S. dollar falters.The moves aim at challenging the greenback, experts said, even as the U.S. dollar remains by far the world’s predominant currency. The timing is favorable as the U.S. dollar index has tumbled more than 9% this year — while the offshore yuan has strengthened more than 2% against the dollar.“China appears to be accelerating its de-dollarization efforts, though progress remains uneven,” said Dan Wang, director of Eurasia Group’s China team.Overseas investors looking to diversify away from America and hedge against U.S. assets are also boosting the yuan, said Ning Sun, senior EM strategist at State Street Global.Read the full story here.—Lee Ying Shan, Evelyn ChengStocks close higher, oil tumbles for second straight dayStocks closed higher on Tuesday while oil slid, with investor appetite for risk growing on the heels of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.The S&P 500 added 1.11% to finish the session at 6,092.18, while the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.43% to 19,912.53. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 507.24 points, or 1.19%, to close at 43,089.02.Oil tumbled 6%, extending a slide from Monday.— Brian EvansThe Federal Reserve will have enough weak economic data to cut interest rates by September, says Pantheon MacroeconomicsJoshua Roberts | ReutersThe Federal Reserve building is seen before the Federal Reserve board is expected to signal plans to raise interest rates in March as it focuses on fighting inflation, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 26, 2022.A weakening in the labor market could give the Federal Reserve ample ammunition to cut interest rates in the fall, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics senior U.S. economist Oliver Allen.“The FOMC’s hesitation to commit to a particular course on monetary policy is understandable given the big uncertainties that remain around tariffs and their economic impact,” Allen wrote on Tuesday. “But we think the evidence of a marked deterioration in the labor market will be stark enough by September to convince the Fed to resume easing policy, despite lingering worries about inflation.”— Brian EvansThere could be more declines ahead for oil, says Piper Sandler Oil prices could slide further if the current range of $64 per barrel to $65 is breached, according to Piper Sandler. “The overnight news of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran resulted in Oil retreating further to $64-$65, and testing new support at last week’s breakout point,” chief market technician Craig Johnson wrote wrote in a Tuesday note. “If it fails to hold here, then a further decline below $60 is likely.” — Brian Evans

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Elizabeth Warren Says The Tax Break For Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is So Bountiful Under Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' That $35 Copay From Each American Won't Still Match It

On Tuesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed Meta Platforms, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:META) alleged tax windfalls under President Donald Trump's new legislative package, saying the benefits far outweigh what ordinary Americans could ever contribute.What Happened: Warren criticized a provision in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that she says offers Meta a massive tax break."If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn't be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill,'" she posted on X, formerly Twitter.The U.S. population is estimated at 342 million, according to the Census — a number that, as Warren pointed out, wouldn’t be enough to offset the tax break given ...Full story available on Benzinga.com

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Federal Reserve’s Bowman says rate cut should be on table in July

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Americans’ optimism about the economy faded as Iran tensions escalated - CNN

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