September, 2024

• 7 September

  There’s a major flaw in the stock market’s most bullish thesis

  

  iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI Money market funds won’t save the stock market from a painful decline, Bank of America says. A 25-basis point Fed rate cut won’t change the behavior of savers, according to the bank. If cash does leave money market funds, it won’t flow to stocks. The $6 trillion …

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• 7 September

  Can Police Prevent a School Shooting If a Threat Is Not a Crime?

  Officers are limited in their response to a possible threat of violence, but they are being trained to identify and monitor worrisome behavior earlier. Source link

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• 7 September

  Telegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activity

  

  A New York Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,000 channels found that the messaging platform has been “inundated” with illegal and extremist activity. Specifically, The Times found 1,500 channels operated by white supremacists, two dozen channels selling weapons, and at least 22 channels where MDMA, cocaine, …

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• 7 September

  Keep an Eye on the Sky: Don’t Miss the Imminent ‘Blaze Star’ Explosion This Month

  

  The past year has been littered with can’t-miss space phenomena: the solar eclipse and Aurora Borealis, for example. It isn’t rare to witness some cosmic events. Others, like Halley’s Comet or the Great Conjunction, are so rare that they only come along once in a lifetime. That’s why it’s such big news that …

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• 7 September

  ‘Room Next Door’ Claims Top Prize at Venice Film Festival

  The film, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, is the director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut. Source link

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• 7 September

  Saquon Barkley’s 3 TDs power Eagles to ‘sloppy’ win over Packers in Brazil

  

  SÃO PAULO — “It was sloppy,” DeVonta Smith said. And he wasn’t talking about caipirinha cocktails. He wasn’t talking about field conditions in a soccer venue in the first-ever NFL game in South America. No, the wide receiver was stating what was visible as the Philadelphia Eagles debuted their revamped …

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• 7 September

  1 Growth Stock Down 16% That’s Just Begging to Be Bought Right Now

  

  When it comes to the technology industry, many of the high-profile storylines this year have revolved around something related to artificial intelligence (AI). There is one notable exception, though. For the last few months, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has been bogged down by disastrous PR following its errant July …

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• 7 September

  Harris Targets Trump on Abortion in Latest Campaign Ad

  The ad, which will run in several battleground states, comes as a growing share of voters say that abortion is their top issue. Source link

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• 7 September

  How Do You Solve a Problem Like Polestar?

  

  The all-electric sibling of Volvo has a new CEO, new models landing, and a new plant in South Carolina—but will this be enough to stop the EV brand’s decline? Source link

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• 7 September

  Large WHO-Backed Study Revives Cell Phone and Cancer Risk Conversation

  

  Almost as quickly as they became extensions of our own hands, cell phones, which emit low amounts of nonionizing radiation, started stirring up conversations over cancer risks.  In 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer listed radiofrequency radiation from cell phones as possibly carcinogenic based on …

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