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Stocks hit a rough patch after the Club’s March Monthly Meeting as Wall Street grappled with increasing odds of higher-for-longer interest rates. The S & P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 3%, respectively, from the close on the March 27 meeting day through Tuesday’s session. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite experienced a more-than-4% loss during the period. The losses would have been steeper if not for the strong start to this week. On Monday, the S & P 500 and Nasdaq snapped six-day losing streaks and followed that up with additional gains Tuesday. The sell-off had dragged…
In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot.Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in questions and requests like “What’s the weather this week in New York?” or “Write a poem about two dogs living in San Francisco.” The assistant will come up with responses immediately, such as “The corgi was short, with a butt so wide, the lab was tall, with a tongue that would glide.” You can also instruct Meta AI to produce pictures — like an illustration of…
Read more news stories here The Colburn School and the American Viola Society (AVS) has announced the 24 live-round competitors for the 2024 Primrose International Viola Competition. The 24 live round competitors were chosen from a pool of 156 applications received during the pre-screening round that closed in January 2024. The competition will take place at the Colburn School, 17 to 22 June 2024. The 24 competitors come from all over the world, representing 12 countries. The average age of participants is 24, with the youngest aged 16 and the oldest 30. They are as follows: Leslie Ashworth (Canada,…
Freelance websites take the pain out of one of the many struggles side hustles and small businesses … [+] face: marketing and acquiring clientsgetty You’ve researched the market demand. You’ve discovered that you have a high-income skill and you’ve found a way to monetize your expertise. The business infrastructure is all in place, and now you’re ready to accept paying customers for passive income, or take on gigs. But now comes the all-important but dreaded question: How can you find clients to begin with? Launching out into the unknown and starting a side hustle for the first time is often…
Victor Lee is the president of Advantage Unified Commerce. He began his career in PR and transitioned over to promotional marketing, then to digital marketing in the early 2000s. Through this time, he was able to experience first-hand the speed of change and innovation which has allowed him to lead corporations efficiently. Throughout his career, he has held titles at Hasbro as senior vice president of Digital Marketing, RXBAR as their CMO, and most recently with DTC startup, Kin Insurance as CMO. Have you noticed a plethora of issues plaguing traditional agencies when it comes to marketing the CPG and grocery industry? Perhaps that’s why for the first…
Cutting costs has been a necessary mission for millions of homes across Australia, but some cutbacks are potentially dangerous.The Australian’s National Editor Dennis Shanahan says Treasurer Jim Chalmers is in a very difficult position as there is “clearly” more “bad news” coming for the cost-of-living. “Jim Chalmers really needs to take a leaf out of Peter Costello’s first budget in the Howard government,” Mr Shanahan told Sky News host Peta Credlin. “That got a bump but it was not a sugar hit. “While Jim Chalmers is saying things … clearly there is more bad news coming. “He is saying there…
A 4-1 victory over Jordan in the final game of the group stage on Sunday helped Indonesia finish second in group A with six points, above Australia and only one point behind host Qatar.As this is Indonesia’s first appearance at the U23 Asian Cup, newspaper Hankook called the upset “an event that shocked Asian football.”Sports website MK Sports noted that “Indonesia are the lowest-rated team in group A but they overcame all predictions.”Xports News said coach Shin had become a national hero, with Indonesia fans chanting his name at Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium and also on social media.”Indonesia cannot stop…
Breadcrumb Trail LinksLifeTeam Canada women’s beach volleyball athletes will be hitting the sand in style thanks to a Vancouver-based company.Published Apr 23, 2024 • 2 minute readMelissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson from Volleyball Canada star in the campaign for Left On Friday’s Team Canada collection. Left On FridayArticle contentTeam Canada women’s beach volleyball athletes will be hitting the sand in style at the 2024 Paris Olympics thanks to a Vancouver-based company. Left On Friday revealed the uniforms for the players, which include sporty bikini tops, cropped tees and low-rise bottoms in white and red with a touch of deep burgundy. Created…
Telco’s generative AI offerings will come in three US drink style sizes: M, L and XL Deutsche Telekom (DT) confirmed it will be offering Business GPT as an enterprise licence available in M, L and XL with modular functionalities at a fixed price. The tool for generative AI was specifically developed for business customers and is operated on the telco’s own cloud infrastructure with data storage in Europe. DT is using prepaid quotas, so companies have “full control” over their expenditure. According to the teclo, they can increase or decrease the number of allocated usage rights as required. This is ideal…
Investing.com– Most Asian currencies rose slightly on Wednesday, as weakness in the dollar offered some relief to regional markets, although underperformance in the Japanese yen persisted despite fears of government intervention.The greenback retreated further from recent five-month peaks this week on some soft purchasing managers index data. But persistent bets on higher-for-longer U.S. interest rates and anticipation of more key economic readings kept traders largely biased towards the dollar. Yen weak as USDJPY heads towards 155 But the Japanese yen saw little relief from a softer dollar, with the pair trading near 34-year highs and in sight of the 155 level. The yen…
