When we think about our health, we often focus on our skin, gut or immune health—but how often do we stop to think about the health of our bones? “We all have them,” says Jacqueline Klunk, M.S., RDN, LDN, an outpatient dietitian at UPMC Shadyside. She dove into the importance of bone health during her…
At its user conference in San Francisco this week, GitHub introduced a new AI tool designed to let developers build applications in natural language. Called GitHub Spark, the AI tool creates micro-apps called sparks, which can integrate AI features and external data sources without requiring any management of cloud resources. Spark uses a feedback loop…
Starbucks headquarters at Starbucks Center on July 3, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.Image: David Ryder (Getty Images) Starbucks (SBUX) has warned its corporate staff that failing to work in the office three days a week could lead to termination. The mandate is part of the coffee chain’s “standardized process,” set to launch in January, according to…
Competition between the United States and China appears inevitable, but the result of next week’s presidential election will determine whether Washington’s tactics are “coarse” or “refined”, a leading academic has said. Vice-President Kamala Harris has a better chance of winning the election, Jin Canrong, vice dean of the school of international studies at Renmin University,…
Opinion·The Daily Beast Opinion: Forget the Polls Showing a Dead Heat. Kamala Harris Will Win Kamala Harris is going to be the next president of the United States. On January 20, 2025, she will become America’s first woman president, America’s first woman of color to be commander-in-chief and America’s first person of Asian heritage to…
Coco Gauff hopes holding the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia can “open doors”, though she admits she had reservations about the event in Riyadh. The WTA Finals, which involves the top eight singles players and doubles teams, take place in Riyadh from November 2-9. Previously tennis greats Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova have publicly criticised…
These fast-growing companies may build you a nest egg down the road. Any investor can find monster winners in the stock market. The important thing to remember is that Wall Street can be slow to award excellent growth stocks the valuation they deserve. But if you persistently buy shares of high-growth businesses, you are almost…
Tesla’s (TSLA) recent stellar earnings performance, marked by a remarkable 22% single-day surge that added nearly $150 billion to its market value, has thrown the electric vehicle (EV) market back in the spotlight. www.barchart.com The company’s Q3 2024 results easily exceeded expectations, with earnings per share reaching $0.72, significantly beating analysts’ estimates of $0.58. Most notably,…
Warren Buffett speaks during the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on May 4, 2024. CNBC Warren Buffett sold another big chuck of his Apple stake, downsizing Berkshire Hathaway‘s biggest equity holding for four quarters in a row. The Omaha-based conglomerate held $69.9 billion worth of Apple shares at the end of September,…
With the weeks running down on 2024, Chinese policymakers are already in a position to declare “mission accomplished” on their (almost) decade-long Made in China 2025 project. Despite headwinds including major tariff hikes by successive US administrations, the worst domestic housing slump in modern times and an increasing fragmentation of the global economy into competing…