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MISSILE warfare has erupted in the Middle East. On Jun 13, as the bombs began to fly, S&P 500 futures fell by 1.6 per cent. But as the hours passed, the stock market steadily climbed. The index has now recovered to around 6,000, a hair’s breadth from an all-time high.Such movements reflect a new market mantra: “Nothing ever happens.” The phrase emerged from the depths of 4chan, an online forum, more than a decade ago, and has become a popular meme among youngish investors. On the face of it, the saying seems wildly out of place in an era of…
UnitedHealthcare , Kaiser Permanente and other major U.S. health insurers say they want to make it faster and easier for patients to obtain care.Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade association that represents the health insurance industry, announced Monday that some of its biggest members are taking steps to streamline “prior authorization” — industry jargon for the process by which health care providers obtain approval from patients’ insurance carriers to deliver care.Prior authorization requests can be time-consuming for doctors, resulting in frustrating delays for patients in obtaining essential medical care. According to a survey from the American Medical Medical Association, physicians’ offices…
Published Mon, Jun 23, 2025 · 09:46 PM[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indices opened subdued on Monday (Jun 23) as investors awaited Iran’s possible response to US airstrikes on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, sparking fears of a broader conflict in the Middle East.The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 28.3 points, or 0.07 per cent, at the open to 42,178.55. The S&P 500 rose 1.8 points, or 0.03 per cent, at the open to 5,969.67, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 20.4 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 19,427.007 at the opening bell. Reuters Share with us your feedback on…
ROME — Greenpeace on Monday joined the smattering of protests in Venice against the upcoming wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez.A half-dozen protesters unfurled a giant banner early Monday in St. Mark’s Square reading: “IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX.” Local police quickly folded it up and took it away.The demonstration followed other anti-Bezos initiatives last week including a banner draped from the San Giorgio bell tower, one from the lagoon city’s famous Rialto Bridge and posters plastered up around town complaining about the upcoming wedding and the effects of…
CHICAGO — Three dozen police captains pair off in a Chicago conference room to play a game: They must start a sentence with the last word their partner used.Many exchanges are nonsensical, full of one-upmanship using difficult words and laughter. But the improvisation game eventually makes sense.“What we are trying to do, is get you to listen to the end of the sentence,” says Kelly Leonard, wrapping up the improvisational exercise. “If my arm was a sentence, when do most people stop listening? Always the elbow! But then you’re missing everything that goes after… and sometimes that’s critical information.”The police…
Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons Finding the balance point between creativity and discipline is trying to bottle lightning especially when your office space is the living room, kitchen table, or garage corner. For Hrishikesh Hirway, the creative genius behind Song Exploder and seasoned remote worker, creativity is not an ephemeral muse but merely him. He explains creativity as that which pleased him most as a child, a way to craft his own island within a world that sometimes didn’t share his inclinations. Image Source: Bing Image. License: All Creative Commons But as anyone who’s ever tried to…
After all the wheeling, dealing and drafting this offseason, NFL teams have sparked volumes of words, both written and spoken. But sometimes one word says it all. So as the league breaks for the summer, we’re assigning one word to encapsulate what each team has done over the past several months. And we explain why each word sums up where each franchise stands going into the 2025 season. Here’s the breakdown:Atlanta FalconsMishandled: The Falcons could have a big problem if Kirk Cousins is still on the roster come the regular season. What happens if 2024 first-round pick Michael Penix Jr. struggles, and…
[BEIJING] Singapore and China on Monday (Jun 23) inked four agreements on cooperation in areas such as training and knowledge exchange, in a ceremony witnessed by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and Chinese Premier Li Qiang. This was on the first full day of PM Wong’s introductory visit to China, which is from Jun 22 to 26. One memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on Monday will see the joint development of legal talent. Under the MOU, trainees nominated by Singapore’s law ministry and China’s justice ministry will attend postgraduate law programmes in each other’s law schools. They will also take part in courses conducted…
NEW YORK — Taylor Mac does not set out to bite the hand that feeds in a new play satirizing cultural philanthropy. The MacArthur “genius grant” recipient claims to be “just trying to get some lipstick on it.”Set at a not-for-profit dance company’s gala, “Prosperous Fools” invites questions about the moral value of philanthropy in a society denounced by the comedy as “feudal.” A boorish patron goes mad trying vainly to wield his lacking creative capital and thus confirms the choreographer’s fears of selling out to a sleazy oligarch who represents everything his art opposes. The show, written by Mac…
LONDON :Oil prices oscillated on Monday, touching a five-month high before erasing most gains as oil and gas transit continued on tankers from the Middle East after U.S. airstrikes against Iran at the weekend. Brent crude futures were up 16 cents, or 0.2 per cent, at $77.17 a barrel by 1307 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 14 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $73.98. U.S. President Donald Trump said he had “obliterated” Iran’s main nuclear sites in strikes over the weekend, joining an Israeli assault in an escalation of conflict in the Middle East as Tehran vowed to…