Author: Angel City Editorial Team
If you still have doubts about the power of the big names in this market, Friday’s performance should put any doubts to rest. Meta Platforms rose $29.95 (5.8%), bringing its gains this year to more than 52.8%. Amazon rose $2.41 (1.2%), bringing its gains to about 31.6% in 2024. Alphabet rose $4.78 (2.5%), bringing its year-to-date return to more than 36.6%. Microsoft rose $6.79 (1.4%), bringing its gains to 24.8% this year. Apple rose $4.79 (2.1%), bringing its gains to 17.9%. These mega-cap tech stocks in the portfolio are just phenomenal gainers. Sure, chipmaker Nvidia is still adjusting to a…
We are now just seven weeks away from the big Week 0 showdown between Georgia Tech and Florida State. The Yellow Jackets and Seminoles will face off in the biggest game in college football in Week 0, which will air on ESPN’s College GameDay in attendance. A win over the defending ACC champions would put Georgia Tech on the map as a dark horse contender in the ACC. Florida State has been a double-digit favorite over Georgia Tech since the lines first opened, with most sportsbooks having the Seminoles as favorites by 13.5 points. Currently, FanDuel Sportsbook has Florida State…
Olu Omodunbi, chief economist at Huntington Private Bank, told Craman Countdown that the jobs report points to a slowdown in the labor market. The U.S. labor market has returned to the “tight but not overheated” conditions it was in before the coronavirus pandemic plunged the economy into turmoil, the Federal Reserve said in a report to Congress on Friday. The report said the labor market “continued to rebalance through the first half of the year,” adding that “labor demand eased as job vacancies fell in many sectors of the economy, but labor supply continued to increase, supported by a surge…
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Farmers markets are a great way to support local producers, and the Tahlequah Farmers Market is once again taking part in an annual contest run by an organization that aims to celebrate farmers.The contest, called America’s Farmers Market Celebration, is organized by the American Farmland Trust to highlight the important role farmers markets play in communities, according to the organization’s website.AFMC will be awarding $15,000 in prizes to the nation’s top farmers markets this summer. Voting begins June 1 and ends July 31. In addition to cash prizes, the top markets will receive coverage in national and local newspapers. “We’ve…
Google’s AI research institute, Google DeepMind, has published new research into training AI models that it claims will accelerate both training speed and energy efficiency by an order of magnitude, delivering 13x performance and 10x power efficiency over alternative methods. The new JEST training method comes at a time when debate is heating up about the environmental impact of AI data centers.DeepMind’s technique, called JEST (Joint Example Selection), stands out from traditional AI model training techniques. While typical training techniques focus on individual data points for training and learning, JEST trains based on entire batches. The JEST technique first creates…
Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.France’s anti-far-right league is moving to block the rise of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in snap parliamentary elections that have left the euro zone’s second-largest economy in limbo over who will be the country’s next government.According to preliminary estimates from four pollsters, the RN, which had hoped to secure a majority in the National Assembly, may have been pushed down to second or third place by a surge in support for the left.Projections by Ipsos, Ifop, Opinionway and Ellerbe suggest that the…
For Caroline Li and Collin Wang, moving in together after eight months of dating was a combination of coincidence and urgency.Last fall, Wang, 28, was finishing up his final year of medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles when he discovered mold in the two-bedroom apartment he shared with his roommate. He had to move immediately but struggled to find a new place to live.”It was really hard to find something that was reasonably close to campus and affordable, and it was right in the middle of the semester,” said Wang, who had hit a three-year cap on…
Downward angle icon. Downward angle icon. People protest against overtourism in Barcelona on July 6, 2024. JOSEP LAGO/Getty Images A group of more than 150 activists rallied in Barcelona on Saturday to protest against overtourism. Footage shows protesters squirting tourists with water pistols and yelling, “Go home.” Barcelona has been fighting overtourism, which locals blame for the rising cost of living. Protesters took to the streets of Barcelona, blaming mass tourism for rising rents and making the city “unlivable”.Several thousand protesters, including more than 150 groups, marched through Barcelona on Saturday, multiple media outlets reported.Pictures showed protesters holding signs reading…
SPANISH FORK — Driving past Clegg Auto Shops around Utah County, you might easily think it’s just your average auto shop.But Clegg Auto sets itself apart from other car dealerships, and nearly every other company in the country, through a unique business model that empowers every employee, from cleaners to managers, and gives back.But the story of how the business got to this point can be traced back to the 1950s, when Clegg Auto started as Clegg Car Care in Orem, said Clegg Auto CEO Kevin Clegg.Clegg Auto CEO Kevin Clegg receives the American Fork Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 New…