The U.S. stock market is charging higher at an astonishing pace. Since March, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) had advanced 16%, while closing higher in nine straight weeks. And the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) has advanced 25%, its largest two-month return since 2002. Yet the stock market is vulnerable. Treasury yields spiked in May as…
Tiger Brokers reported a 17.5 per cent year-on-year jump in first-quarter operating profit in an announcement on Tuesday, without any mention of the looming punishment from China’s securities regulator over alleged unlicensed cross-border trading services. Tiger Brokers said its operating profit rose to US$47.6 million in the three months ended March 31, while revenue climbed…
MADRID, June 2 – Lamine Yamal has spent the last two years treating football’s age records like training cones, with the 18-year-old swerving past them with a grin, a drop of the shoulder and that wicked left foot Spain hope will be fully loaded at the World Cup. The Barcelona winger may be the most…
Berkshire Hathaway‘s new CEO Greg Abel started off the week with a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and then followed that up Monday with a $10 billion stock investment in Google’s parent company. Abel also hinted that he may depart from Warren Buffett‘s longtime hands-off operating model by consolidating Taylor Morrison with Berkshire’s existing site-built homebuilding…
Today’s ESG Updates China Raises Millions in Green Bonds: China attracted strong investor demand for its latest green bond issuance, with Asia-Pacific buyers accounting for 80% of orders alongside broad international participation. The proceeds will support projects focused on clean energy, pollution control, and climate change mitigation. Factories in Europe Suffer from Iran War: Europe’s…
CHINESE CITIES can look like a tableau of bold colours as delivery drivers on scooters—some yellow, orange or blue—zip through traffic bearing cargo to waiting customers. It is in the distant outskirts that the colours come to a rest. Amid the warrens of buildings, drivers rent cheap rooms, parking their scooters in the narrow streets…
Tourists wearing Qing dynasty costumes visit Prince Kung’s Mansion on National Day, the first day of China’s eight-day Golden Week holiday, in Beijing, China October 1, 2025. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo BEIJING – On the stone steps leading up Mount Tai, one of China’s best-known peaks, hikers can book and pay for “climbing buddies” to walk…
Key Points Nvidia became the world’s biggest company last year, reaching beyond $4 trillion in market value. This other AI player recently saw its market value explode higher, though it still remains smaller than Nvidia. 10 stocks we like better than Alphabet › Nvidia reached a major milestone last year. The artificial intelligence (AI) chip…
Launchpad gives developers more flexible ways to reach users and drive distribution across the mobile ecosystem AUSTIN, Texas, June 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DT (NASDAQ: APPS) today announced Launchpad, a unified app distribution platform designed to support modern app discovery and distribution across devices, apps, and direct install experiences. As acquisition costs rise and app…
Mark Scott is a contributing editor at Tech Policy Press. Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy of the European Commission. Source The European Union has long relied on foreign suppliers for some of its most critical technologies, from semiconductors to artificial intelligence. On June 3, it will lay out plans to…