Starting in the 2026-27 season, more English Championship teams will be able to dream of reaching the Premier League after the EFL (English Football League) announced an expansion of the promotion playoff system. How Premier League promotion currently works Under the current format, the top two teams in the Championship are automatically promoted to the…
Eurozone retail sales slipped -0.1% mom in January, falling short of expectations for a 0.2% increase. Looking at the breakdown, spending on food, drinks and tobacco rose 0.3%, providing the only notable source of support. However, this was more than offset by declines in other categories. Non-food retail sales (excluding fuel) dropped -0.2% in Eurozone,…
The Berkshire boss said in a CNBC interview Thursday he would use his entire $15 million after-tax salary (his salary is $25 million for 2026) to purchase shares of the company he took over in January each year for as long as he is in charge. These purchases, which he said would take place yearly…
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney has officially found his next project, with Netflix ordering a new series from the creator. What do we know about the Heated Rivalry creator’s new show on Netflix? According to a new report from THR, Tierney will head up a new series that centers around Alexander the Great and his…
Key Points Nvidia has been a dividend payer for over a decade. Chinese automaker BYD is now the world’s No. 1 shipper of battery-electric vehicles. Meta Platforms distributed its first dividend payout in early 2024. 10 stocks we like better than Nvidia › The investing strategy of famous investor Cathie Wood and her Ark Invest…
It’s once again good to be a value investor. After a rough couple of years, the segment of the stock market is back to outperforming its growth counterpart. Loading audio narration… Bill Smead — who co-manages the Smead Value Fund (SMVLX), up 6.75% this year — has long been betting on such a switch. In…
The Middle East conflict has continued to disrupt the soccer calendar, with a Saudi Pro League game being postponed and the Spanish football federation (RFEF) raising concerns to UEFA over the staging of their women’s World Cup qualifier in Turkey. The SPL confirmed that Thursday’s game between Al Kholood and Al Qadsiah had been rescheduled…
March 5, 2026, 11:48 a.m. ET The next launch, which has no official date, is expected no earlier than March from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This upcoming mission will deploy large commercial broadband satellites for AST SpaceMobile into low-Earth orbit. Founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin competes with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the commercial spaceflight market….
Rebecca Lo takes a look at the wine trends shaping French restaurants in Hong Kong, finding increasingly experimental lists and a fervour for fresh whites, as Bordeaux fails to enchant a younger generation of sommeliers. On a rainy Tuesday afternoon in early March, Bistro du Vin geared up for its official opening the following day….
One of the biggest events in the tech fan’s calendar is Mobile World Congress, and MWC 2026 this year was chock-full of phones as you’d hope. Over several days, I tested about 30 different mobiles, to see what’s new in the smartphone world and what might hit our list of the best smartphones in the…