“This government doesn’t give a damn about working people,” Farage, whose party topped the polls in local elections last week, said in a video on X. “The Labour Party have this time, in a big, big way, betrayed working Britain. This deal is truly appalling.”
“If you go to a movie theater, is there going to be differential ticket pricing? If it’s a film that has a tariff slapped on it, are you going to pay more as a consumer for that film? The whole principle of going to a theater is you just pay a single ticket price,” says […]
If public markets sour, there should be plenty of opportunities in private markets, especially beyond traditional direct lending, according to the CEO of Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board, Deborah Orida. She said the board may shift money from public markets into private credit assets like infrastructure, which should prove especially resilient if inflation picks […]
Analysts and pundits have said repeatedly in recent years that shale fields in the US, the world’s top oil producer, are poised to peak. Yet, the industry has proved them wrong by innovating and driving output to fresh records year after year. So the assertion by Diamondback — the Permian’s top pure-play shale producer — […]
Following Hutchins’ death, the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was sentenced to prison for involuntary manslaughter. First assistant director David Halls was sentenced to probation after pleading no contest to negligent use of a deadly weapon. Involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin, a co-producer on the film, were twice dismissed, in 2023 and again in 2024.
Tuchler says the turmoil around tariffs has landed him in a maddening “game of chicken,” in which he can only guess what his import-tax bill might be when it actually comes due. His e-commerce site just placed an order from China for “literally $80,000 worth of stockings,” Tuchler says. “Or is it going to cost […]
Buffett, the 94-year-old architect and face of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that the gathering would be his last as head of the company he built from humble beginnings into one of the world’s most valuable enterprises. A few feet away, Greg Abel, the energy executive long seen as Omaha’s crown prince, wasn’t even aware his […]
Meanwhile, the US is weighing a potential easing of restrictions on Nvidia Corp. sales to the UAE ahead of a visit by President Donald Trump slated for mid-May, which could boost the UAE’s chances in the regional AI race. The US leader plans to stop in the UAE during a visit to the Middle East […]
In Laval, Que. on Saturday, energy development played a central role in a leadership debate focused on the province’s economy. Karl Blackburn, former president of a Quebec employers group, said he would send a “clear message” that the province is ready to consider oil and gas projects “in a geopolitical world that has completely changed.”
— Blue Chip Stamps: Buffett and Munger, Berkshire’s former vice chairman, took control of Blue Chip in 1970 when the customer rewards program was generating $126 million in sales. But as trading stamps fell out of favor with retailers and consumers, sales steadily declined; in 2006, they totaled a mere $25,920. However, Buffett and Munger […]