Today, during NBCUniversal's annual technology conference, One24, the company revealed a slew of features coming to its streaming service Peacock ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics in July. The most notable feature to be launched on Peacock is multi-viewing, which allows subscribers to watch up to four simultaneous matches at once. Along with picture-in-picture mode, many sports fans agree that multi-view has been one of the greatest advances in sports streaming technology in years, as it provides a more convenient way to follow multiple games at once rather than constantly switching streams. The company also announced a new interactive “Live…
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Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he arrives at a Manhattan court trial in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James against him, his adult children, the Trump Organization and others in New York City, US, October 4, 2023. Mike Segar | ReutersDonald Trump should have pledged real estate he owns as security against a $464 million business fraud judgment if he had not been “genuinely unable” to obtain an appeal bond for that amount, the New York Attorney General's Office said in a lawsuit Wednesday.AG's lawyer Letitia James wrote that Trump…
Open Editor's Digest for freeRula Khalaf, editor of the Financial Times, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.Raiffeisen Bank International on Wednesday abandoned a planned sale of risky bank debt after a “negative market reaction” to a report that the United States was putting pressure on the Austrian group over a deal with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.The Bank of Vienna has been selling €650 million worth of “extra tier one” bonds, a class of debt designed to withstand losses when institutions run into trouble, and has received more than €1.6 billion in demand from investors.But hours before the bonds…
Hinterhouse Productions | Digital Vision | Getty ImagesSavings accountsHigher rates mean that consumers have to pay more to service their debt, but it also means that banks pay higher bonuses to savers. It's one of the positive aspects of the current rate environment, said Ted Rossman, senior credit card analyst at Bankrate.“There has also been notable stability at the top of this market,” Rossman said. “The highest savings rate now is 5.35%.”This higher rate is well above the national average for savings rates overall, which was just under 0.6% over the past two months. But even this overall average is…
Stocks rose Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at a 23-year high and maintained its forecast of three cuts before the end of 2024. Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq Composite It rose 0.2% and 0.3%, respectively. the Dow Jones Industrial Average He added 80 points or 0.2%. The Fed left interest rates unchanged but said it plans to cut interest rates three times before the end of the year, confirming its previous forecast last updated in December. However, the central bank has indicated that it needs greater evidence that inflation is falling to initiate those cuts.…
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it will leave interest rates unchanged, delaying the possibility of a rate cut as well as any relief from higher borrowing costs.Overall, expectations have been growing that the Fed is implementing a soft landing, but this offers little solace to Americans struggling with high-interest debt.“Now there may be fewer interest rate cuts on the horizon after hotter-than-expected inflation reports sent a message that we are moving in the right direction, but we are not there yet,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at the Bank of England. Bankrate.com.For consumers, this means “a very slow…
This is a comparison of the FOMC's statement on Wednesday with the statement issued after the Fed's previous policy-making meeting in January.The deleted text from the January statement appears in red with a horizontal line through the middle.The text that appears for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.Black text appears in both statements.Zoom in on the icon. Arrows point outward
mexico city — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday condemned a Texas law that would give state authorities broad powers to arrest foreigners suspected of crossing illegally from Mexico into Texas.After a day of reversed court decisions that left the law in effect for only hours, the Mexican president called the Texas law “dehumanizing” and “anti-Christian.” He declared that Mexico would not accommodate Texas officials for the return of any immigrants to Mexican territory – a position that calls into question how the state law would be enforced if approved by the courts.“We will not accept deportations… from…
Hello and welcome to working on it.In the UK, we've had endless rain followed by slush, slush, slush all winter long – a difficult situation that also accurately sums up how many people currently feel about work. Now that the nights are longer and the flowers are in bloom, will we be active? The clay of Hampstead Heath requires interventions like never before I find a lot of surveys on worker sentiment confusing and confusing, but a concrete statistic from the big jobs report from KPMG/The Recruitment and Employment Confederation shows that February saw the fastest rate of contraction in…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Signet Jewelers – Shares fell 11% after the jeweler issued first-quarter revenue guidance that beat Wall Street estimates. The company said it expects revenue to range between $1.47 billion and $1.53 billion, while analysts polled by FactSet expected $1.61 billion. Chipotle — Shares rose 6.4% to an all-time high after the Mexican fast-casual chain announced that its board had approved a 50-to-1 stock split. The plan, which was shared with the public on Tuesday, is expected to take effect in June if Approved by shareholders. Deutsche Bank also raised its price…