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Stock market today: World shares fall after bond market returns to Wall Street

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — World shares slipped Friday after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street after a respite from big market moves.Germany’s DAX lost 0.5% to 15,271.76 and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.7% to 7,066.30. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged 0.8% lower, to 7,396.25. The future for the S&P 500 gained 0.2% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.3%.European Bank President Christine Lagarde and the head of Germany’s Bundesbank were due to speak later Friday in updates on the likely direction of EU monetary policy after the ECB kept its key interest rate unchanged late last month after 10 straight increases following a broad decline in inflation to 4.3%.In Asian trading, the Hang Seng in Hong Kong dropped 1.8% to 17,203.26 and the Shanghai Composite index slipped 0.5% to 3,038.97.A financial services business of China’s biggest bank, ICBC, said it was hit this week by a ransomware attack that reportedly disrupted trading in the U.S. Treasury mark...

Oramed: Q3 Earnings Snapshot

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ORMP) on Thursday reported a loss of $3.2 million in its third quarter.On a per-share basis, the New York-based company said it had a loss of 8 cents._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on ORMP at https://www.zacks.com/ap/ORMPSource

Data Doctors: 4 ways to get calendar spam

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

Q: How are spammers putting things in my calendar without my knowledge?A: Spammers and scammers are constantly on the prowl to find new ways to get to us and the open architecture of most calendar programs is a growing target.A standard known as iCal or iCalendar (not to be confused with Apple’s former iCalendar application) is a universal media type that makes exchanging or sharing calendars and scheduling events easy.This provided interoperability between all digital calendars no matter what operating system or device it’s being used on so when someone sends you an invitation, you don’t have to add it to your calendar manually.A possible hazardous result of calendar spam is malicious links within the details, trying to lure you to a dangerous site or an attached malicious file.Numerous methods are being used to exploit this convenience feature, so understanding them can reduce your chances of being victimized.Email InvitationsDepending on which calendar program you’re using and ho...

James Maddison out of England squad because of ankle injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Tottenham midfielder James Maddison has been withdrawn from the England squad for the upcoming European Championship qualifiers because of an ankle injury.The playmaker was injured in the first half of Tottenham’s 4-1 loss to Chelsea in the Premier League on Monday.Spurs confirmed on Friday that Maddison “will remain at Hotspur Way for rehabilitation with the club’s medical staff.”England hosts Malta on Nov. 17 and plays in North Macedonia three days later. The Three Lions have already qualified for next year’s tournament in Germany.Tottenham plays at Wolverhampton on Saturday. Ange Postecoglou’s team trails league-leading Manchester City by one point.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Player of the Week: Dominion’s Keira Van Voorhis

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Keira Van Voorhis of Dominion High School in Sterling, Virginia.(Courtesy Jodi Van Voorhis) This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Keira Van Voorhis of Dominion High School in Sterling, Virginia.(Courtesy Jodi Van Voorhis) Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week’s WTOP Player of the Week is Keira Van Voorhis of Dominion High School in Sterling, Virginia.Currently a sophomore at Dominion, Van Voorhis picked up three varsity letters during her freshman year, competing in track, field hockey and lacrosse for the Titans.Even though she’d never played field hockey and didn’t own a stick ...

WTOP’s Beer of the Week: Great Raft Rindstone Life IPA

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

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Craig Ferguson reflects on ‘Late Late Show’ en route to Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

It’s been nearly a decade since he signed off from CBS’ “The Late Late Show” in 2014, but Craig Ferguson still loves making us laugh.The former late-night comedian brings his “Fancy Rascal” standup comedy tour to the Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in West Virginia this Saturday night.“I actually named it after my Jack Russell dog,” Ferguson told WTOP. “What you have to do when you’re choosing the name for a tour is choose something that’s not going to annoy anybody, and I think ‘Fancy Rascal,’ I can’t imagine anyone being annoyed at that for some reason, but maybe, we’ll find out. … That being said, I don’t want to elevate anyone’s expectations: the dog will not be on stage!”Just because he’s called into our D.C. radio station, don’t expect him to make any political jokes.“I made a decision about six years ago that I would no longer do any politics on...

Picasso masterpiece depicting his young mistress sells for $139 million at auction

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

(CNN) — A Picasso masterpiece entitled “Femme à la montre” fetched more than $139 million on Wednesday, becoming the second most valuable work by the artist ever sold at auction.The 1932 oil painting took center-stage at a two-day event at Sotheby’s in New York, at the sale of late philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau’s private collection.The piece, which measures 51¼ x 38 inches (130 x 96.5 centimeters), depicts Picasso’s lover and “golden muse” Marie-Thérèse Walter, who featured in many of his portraits.According to the auction house, the portrait is from one of the most prolific years of the Spanish artist’s career, which was the subject of an entire exhibition organized by the Musée Picasso in Paris and London’s Tate Modern in 2018.In a statement announcing the sale in September, Julian Dawes, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist & Modern Art for the Americas, said: “Picasso’s ‘Femme à la Montre’ is a masterpiece by every measure. Painted in 1932 — Picasso’s ‘annus mirabilis’ — it ...

The driest place in North America has sprung to life with lakes and flowers after Hurricane Hilary

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

(CNN) — California’s Death Valley is the hottest place in the world and the driest place in North America. But two months after Hurricane Hilary’s epic rainfall, parts of the national park look more oasis than desert.Parched ground turned to ponds, wildflowers are in bloom in remote areas and a salt flat is now a massive lake. The salt flat-turned-lake is an exceptional but fleeting sight to behold.“It is definitely a rare and special event,” Death Valley park spokesperson Abby Wines told CNN, only happening roughly once a decade.It’s all because Hilary unloaded a year’s worth of rain, 2.2 inches, on Death Valley in just 24 hours on August 20 – the wettest day in the park’s history. Until then, the park had never recorded more than 2 inches of rainfall in a single day, according to records that date to 1911.The parched desert soil couldn’t absorb the excessive rainfall fast enough, which triggered flash flooding. The torrent of water washed away trails and much of everything else in...

Coral spawning season brings hope for the Great Barrier Reef

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:02:51 GMT

(CNN) — For a few days in the southern hemisphere every spring, the world’s biggest and most famous coral reef explodes. This is coral spawning season – a time when the Great Barrier Reef creates the next generation of corals.In fact, as some scientists explain it, it’s when the whole reef has sex.This year’s coral spawning began on November 2. During this period, different species of corals release sperm and eggs, which meet each other on the water’s surface and form coral polyps.But this isn’t just about witnessing an interesting natural experience. Coral spawning, which happens ahead of the southern hemisphere’s summer, gives clues about the health of the 133,000-square-mile (345,000-square-kilometer) reef.“The annual coral spawning is not only one of the most extraordinary natural phenomena on the planet,” says Anna Marsden, managing director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. “It provides us with an opportunity to fast-track world-leading research to safeguard its future fro...