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Colorado manager Bud Black recently likened outfielder Charlie Blackmon to a Renaissance man in some respects because of his broad range of interests. If the cleat fits … Blackmon, a Dean’s list college student who holds a degree in business administration with a focus on finance, has spent time recently studying habitat management to better understand and maintain a piece of recreational property he owns. But this is baseball season, and Blackmon made it clear during a week in which he made more franchise history that he is singularly focused on the Rockies after signing a $13 million contract in…

Carl Icahn has amassed a sizable position in hotel and casino operator Caesars Entertainment Caesars Entertainment Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports this morning. Renowned American businessman and billionaire Carl Icahn is well-known for his activism. He supports reforms to improve shareholder value and gains major interests in cheap businesses. Often, his strategies call for advocating smart asset sales, restructuring, or management changes. For instance, Icahn’s intervention in Apple Apple resulted in notable stock buybacks, hence raising Apple’s share price; his activity in Netflix Netflix saw a notable rise in the company’s market value. Through his…

Sudan is an African country with a rich history and multiethnic society. However, the government is intertwined with wars, perpetual conflicts, and even genocides.The current civil war in Sudan is becoming a dilemma, with various parties and factions looking to gain control. The country is also becoming intertwined with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Russia’s paramilitary force, the Wagner Group, in conflict with Ukraine’s special operations forces.Sudan not only represents continuous horrors and instability in Africa but is now slowly becoming a front for Ukraine and Russia.Ongoing Civil War in SudanGaining independence in 1956, Sudan is intertwined with numerous…

Shaun Maguire, a partner at the prominent venture capital firm Sequoia, announced he’ll be cutting a $300,000 check to Donald Trump — just minutes after the former president was found guilty of 34 felony counts. The timing, Maguire said, was not a coincidence.In a lengthy screed on X, Maguire, who said he voted for Hilary Clinton in 2016 and did not vote in 2020, outlined his reasoning — including a take about the “double standards and lawfare against Trump.”He also acknowledged that it may not be the most shrewd move for business.”I know that I’ll lose friends for this. Some will…

In the wee hours of Sunday, May 12, a fire broke out at the Marywilska 44 shopping center, one of Poland’s largest. The conflagration ultimately destroyed 80% of the complex, which housed 1,400 shops and outlets.This week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that it is “quite likely — that the Russian services had something to do with the Marywilska fire.” If true, the loss of a Polish shopping center by means of Russian arson would be shocking on its own. When viewed as one pixel in a larger picture of a sustained sabotage campaign against Western targets, the scale of the problem comes…

Investing.com — Many on Wall Street have given up hope for sooner rate cuts, but one analysts is bucking the trend and continues to bet on a rate cut as soon as July.  “Futures markets are pricing in about 3bps of cuts at the 31 July FOMC meeting. We think this is too low. In fact, a July cut is our baseline,” Steve Englander Head, Global G10 FX Research and North America Macro Strategy said in a recent note.  About 14% of traders expect the Fed to cut rates in July, according to , but Englander points to recent slowing in the…

With its latest earnings report, AI darling NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:) announced a ten-for-one stock split.  The split, which will be distributed at the close on June 7th, will give shareholders ten shares in exchange for each one share they own as of the June 6th record date.  The stock will start trading split-adjusted at market open on Monday, June 10th. The split raises the very real possibility that NVIDIA will be added to the (DJIA), with chip-laggard Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:) seen as the company it will likely replace. The Dow is a price a price-weighted index, meaning stocks with higher…

On online forums that have previously been linked to mass shootings, people are threatening violence and attempting to publicly identify the 12 New York jurors who on Thursday decided to convict former President Donald Trump. The calls for retribution began immediately after the verdict was announced. “Hope these jurors face some street justice,” one anonymous user on a pro-Trump forum wrote. Another suggestively asked, “Wouldn’t [it] be interesting if just one person from Trump’s legal team anonymously leaked the names of the jurors?” Anonymity is supposed to add a layer of protection for jurors doing their civic duty. Once reserved only for…

Top trending meme tokens Trump (MAGA), Turbo (TURBO), and the Bitcoin-based DOG-TO-THE-MOON (DOG) display robust bullishness, surging up to 30% within the past day. The altcoin defied the minor losses witnessed by large-cap digital assets. For instance, Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped 1.80% and 0.81% on their daily price charts. Moreover, the technical outlook suggests further upsides for MAGA, Turbo, and DOG. Trump token leads market recovery MAGA has seen wild fluctuations as the digital assets industry witnessed volatility. The themed altcoin plummeted by 35% on 30 May as the jury found former U.S. President Donald Trump guilty of faking business…

Many companies are pivoting to a new form of hiring that emphasizes applicants’ skills over more traditional metrics, such as education or years of experience, according to recent reports and data.The share of U.S. online job postings that list a specific requirement for employment tenure has fallen by 10 percentage points, to 30%, in the two years through April 2024, according to data from job site Indeed.Additionally, most job ads, or 52%, don’t have a formal education requirement, up from 48% in 2019, Indeed found. The data from Indeed says that mentions of college degrees have fallen in 87% of…