With frothy corners of the U.S. stock market under duress as investors grow concerned about the economy and the threat from inflation, Wall Street bulls are finding little solace in the one area that’s been unshakable for two years: megacap tech. The seven behemoths that powered a 54% surge in US stocks over two years […]
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Photo: Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images My favorite genre of Donald Trump sound bites are the ones in which he obviously has no idea what he’s talking about but keeps plowing forward regardless — the verbal equivalent of posting through it. A classic of the form came when he went on-camera in the wake of Hurricane
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Photo: Rob Griffith/AP Photo The third search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has begun, 11 years after the plane practically vanished. On Sunday, a ship belonging to the American maritime-survey company Ocean Infinity arrived at a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed. It then deployed a trio
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The luxury yachting sector is proving to be solid and expanding, with steady growth even after the pandemic crisis. Thanks to operational improvements and effective production management, the main shipyards increased capacity and deliveries during the crucial 2021-2023 period, consolidating the industry’s margins. Growing Demand and a Market Driven by the Supply Gap The luxury
LIFE SCIENCE JOBS: A city-run internship program to encourage life science job growth has placed 1,000 students since it launched seven years ago, the Economic Development Corporation said Tuesday. Since 2017, the city has placed undergraduate and graduate students in paid internships at pharma and biotech companies, digital health firms, research organizations and various startups,
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Photo: The Andy Archive, Andy the Goose LLC On the morning of Sunday, October 20, 1991, in the south-central Nebraska farm town of Hastings, Leo Stohler walked through Chautauqua Park, an open field surrounded by clapboard houses, wafting a metal detector over the dewy grass. Head down and following an indistinct crackle, he suddenly stumbled
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A revised commissary contract the Adams administration said would protect Rikers Island detainees and their families from excessive charges has instead locked in many prices that are substantially higher than those at local stores, a survey by THE CITY shows. Under a provision of the revised contract carried over from the original signed during the
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The City Council’s finance chair wants to solve the mystery of how many of Mayor Eric Adams’ hires are funded by agency budget lines — fearing it may “exacerbate” hiring issues at pivotal city agencies. The letter, sent Feb. 18 by Councilmember Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) and shared with THE CITY, asks budget director Jacques Jiha
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Looking at the “different flavors of career politicians” running in the Democratic mayoral primary, “I didn’t see anyone who could be independent of the machine that runs this city,” said former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. So he entered the race himself “to try and bring my party back to the center.” https://feeds.fireside.fm/faqnyc/rss?whitneytilson In a
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“Noah is my Osiris. He will live forever through his work. My assignment is to gather these parts of my love and protect them,” Karon Davis said upon returning from the opening of Noah Davis’s most extensive retrospective to date at the Barbican in London (February 6 – May 11, 2025). The show, following its
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